slideshow or picture album plugin

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:00 pm

Looking at hgoor's page I can see exactly what he's talking about. Whenever we insert an image with a title into an entry it gets wrapped into various div's which in most templates also means that we apply a clear:left or clear:right to make the div containing the image sit well with respect to the text surrounding it.

We could easily remove these styles from the templates but then this would cause even more confusion for the majority of new users, so we really need to take a moment to think about how best to upgrade the media manager so that users can select either a single image, or a small selection of images. I don't think upgrading the user gallery plugin is going to do this becasaue it doesn't have the ability to add a caption to images.

So, to satisfy hgoors query, and probably other users as well, the media manager needs to provide an option of either a single image with caption, or multiple images with caption, which would probably have to wrapped into a parent div so that text could wrap around the miniature gallery. Garvin, is this possible?

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:11 pm

When uploading an image into the media gallery, you get the choice to upload more that 1 and you then can upload all at once.

I can almost see how it would work somehow like that when you want to have more that 1 image in an article and then you have an option where you choose how to align /place them (i.e. all on one line, underneath each other etc...)

Off course I have no idea how difficult that would be and make it behave in a way that it works nice with all the templates out there..

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:16 pm

yes that would be very groovy!

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:21 pm

carl_galloway wrote:yes that would be very groovy!

And probably a lot of work too ...

Anyway: I appreciate you all looking into this idea... Be interesting to find out if it is feasible...

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:41 pm

Well, if we're wishing for how something like this might work it would be hard to do better than this at A List Apart

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:20 pm

d_cee wrote:Well, if we're wishing for how something like this might work it would be hard to do better than this at A List Apart

Very good! I always like that website!

virtex · Post by **virtex** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:16 am

just thought I would ask if it is possible to have serendipity_plugin_thumbnail.php have both the image + the text link beneath it. My site is http://www.websmuggler.com/blog2/index. ... %5D=thumbs you can probably see why I need a text link for that page.

thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:51 pm

Hi!

Garvin, is this possible?

Sadly I don't see how. It would be nice, I fully agree. But it would mean heavy JavaScripting or PHP regular expressions to detect those cases where multiple images are inserted or not.

Regards
Garvin