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I really like to follow your development and i raelly appriciate how transparent you’re keeping the developmet and how much your are listining to the demands of us users.

Keep it up this way!

I wrote a short user story:

1) An administrator: I would like to see all albums even if they set to private or not. I would like to hide pictures with inappropriate content. They shouldn’t be visible for site members anymore, but the owner should see them darkened out with a message overlaying the picture “This picture was removed due to inappropriate content” – something like this.

2) An anonymous user off the Internet: Should only be able to see the “public” pictures.

3) A logged-in member viewing their own profile: Should have an Main Menu Item “Albums” or even better “Photos” that shows all of his pictures and all pictures of his friends (newest Uploads on top – so they can easily discover whats new). There should be an “Upload Photos” button on this page (After clicking you will be ask if you would like to upload a single picture or if you would like to create an album). The Page should also hold a subnav with some Options as “Photos of my friends – Photos i’m tagged on – My uploaded Photos – Upload Photos”

4) A logged-in member viewing a friend’s profile: Should have an Main Menu Item “Albums/Photos” with all of the photos uploaded by “John Doe” and a subnav with “Photos John Doe is tagged on”.

5) A logged-in member viewing a stranger’s profile: Should have an Main Menu Item “Albums/Photos” with all public pictures the “stranger” uploaded.

I was also thinking of pictures uploaded to groups. I guess it should be enough if there would be an “Album/Photos” Menu Item in the mainnav of the group. This page should hold all group pictures and an “Upload Photos” button.

That should be enough for the beginning.

Group photos should just be an extension of your own albums. During the upload process you should have the option to add that photo to a group.

Why upload the same image twice?

Think flickr groups >> group pool. I think this is where your tagging method will come in to play.

You right 21cdb…I do think a dropdown would be helpful at the profile uploading screen to at it to a certain group pool. But yes, within the group it should also be possible to add straight to the pool.

Thank you for take part in the development of bp-album with your ideas and suggestion.

on group album: so you think it should not be possible to upload a pic only to a group (like on facebook)?

I committed a new version (0.1.7) that has no new features (they will come in the 0.2 version we are working on), it fix the problem described in the “plugin hall of shame” thread.

@xevo: yes it will be possible to disable new features. I understand that in a lot of sites some feature are unneeded.

@gpo1: share button is a feature that you can add in a custom template, it probably will never be added in the plugin.

My thoughts on the group vs profile pictures, sorry if I get rambling too much.

First, if I upload a picture, I want to ensure that I am explicitly recognized as the owner of that picture (I’m assuming that people are only going to be uploading their own works). It shouldn’t matter where I upload that picture on the site, it should always have a link into my profile. Since we don’t want to duplicate pictures in the site and having multiple URLs that point to the same content is considered bad, why not just always have pictures in linked in the user’s profile album.

As for groups. Yes, being able to upload directly from the group page is a nice idea. The tagging system previously described by you guys should be used here for sure. I think Flickr sort of makes it hard on this aspect because you can tag photos but you can also put photos into a group. That seems like an extra step to me. Use the tags to represent the group. For example, if you have a group called “The Photogs”, just tag all pictures uploaded from that group page with “The Photogs” (of course, make sure the user is aware of this and allow them to remove the tag if desired, etc.). This would require two things – your tagging system sort of needs to know all of the groups on the system and it then also needs to ensure people aren’t tagging their pictures with a tag that is also a group name when they don’t mean to (‘Are you sure you want to tag this picture to belong to the group “The Photogs”‘). Of course, this could allow users to ‘uncover’ hidden groups but I’m not sure that’s a big deal.

Coming back to the first point, picture ownership. At some point you’re going to have to add some way for people to assign a license to their uploads. Most sites can get away with something in their terms of usage that is a blanket statement but some will have to allow their users full control over licensing of pictures. Creative Commons (like Flickr) is easiest.

The reason I mention this is we’re talking about mostly public pictures on public websites.

Public vs private is also a concern when allowing people to tag their pictures or upload them to a group. If a picture is uploaded to a public group, it can’t be set as a private picture. If the group is private, does the picture have to still be public? There might be some interesting combinations.

And now for something a little different – Privacy.

A user should always have full control of their pictures. A user should also be able to permanently remove their username if it is tagged against a picture (like Facebook person tagging). Users should be notified when they are tagged in pictures and it might also be better to require them to approve themselves being tagged in a picture before the tag is visible publicly. Users should only be able to tag people who they are friends with. Maybe people who are in the same groups, but definitely not any random user on the site.

Awesome, foxly, thanks for the help with Links — did you let MrMaz know?

Hi,

I really like this plugin, one little thing I’d like is to have the order that images appear on the page reversed so that the last one uploaded appears first on the page.

Thanks.

@foxly – Whats the time frame on the next plugin update? Really looking forward to it!

First would like to say development team is doing a great job.

My feature requests are mostly for the user

1. ability to set a photo in album to Users profile photo(avatar). Or maybe a profile picture album like Facebook.So user can have multiple photos that they can set to their avatar.

2. ability to rearrange order of photos.Facebook allows drag and drop of photos. I believe they use java for that part.

3. Ability to Upload multiple photos. Most users who create an album will have multiple photos to upload.

An update from my installation:

I have waited for BP Albu to get on the “high five list” so I could update BudyPress and BP Album at the same time, finally when I saw that happened, I upgraded them both. What happened is that all of the images that had no existing comments had the commenting turned off, even though when you go to edit picture the form says the commenting is on. It is only after you save the form that you get the ability to comment on an image.

Also the quotes are being escaped in the titles (not sure about the descriptions) and you can’t save an image with a single or double quote as it returns an error.

I don’t know if these issues are known, I thought I’d better post them here.

On a side note, what is the best way to handle custom languages? I have made some changes to the default english translation just to rename some things e.g. pictures → images, etc. Now that I have upgraded my .po and .mo files are gone.

@dragonbabic

sorry I don’t understand the commenting issue, if you can describe how to reproduce it please open a topic here https://wordpress.org/tags/bp-album

for custom strings recently djpaul wrote this post on his blog http://byotos.com/2010/04/hijacking-wordpress-internationalisation/ . Hope it helps

@Gpo1: I guess thats something you have to do in your custom theme and not the plugin itself? Or what do you mean with “mobile friendly” ?