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1. 1
   on May 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
   aesqe Said

   The plugin will be released into the official repository within a month, I hope :)

   If you would like to see some other functionality included, please leave a comment here.

   Thanks!

2. 2
   on May 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
   sunny Said

   I would be nice if in the media library you coud sort, or filter by the media tags

3. 3
   on May 30th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
   aesqe Said

   @sunny:

   sure thing, that is a feature I plan to work on next week :)

4. 4
   on May 30th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
   Allan Said

   How can I download this plugin?

5. 5
   on May 30th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
   aesqe Said

   @Allan:

   The plugin will be available for download in a couple of weeks, I still have some bugs to take care of.

   In the meantime, if someone wants to beta test the plugin, please send me an e-mail at aesqe *at* skyphe *dot* org. I will e-mail you the plugin in its current state with some basic instructions on how to use it.

   It requires WordPress 2.7 or higher, but works best with 2.8 :)

   Thanks for the interest!

6. 6
   on July 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
   Sam Said

   The video demonstration doesn’t seem to be loading? still managed to watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJbx_cCc2k – great work!

7. 7
   on July 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
   aesqe Said

   Thanks, Sam, I guess “Viper’s video quicktags” didn’t reactivate after upgrade :)

8. 8
   on July 30th, 2009 at 11:19 am
   Mike Said

   So has this been release yet?? Emailing you nonetheless ..

9. 9
   on July 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am
   Mike Said

   Oh and it would also be nice to see these features added:

   - unattaching attachments from posts
   - re-attaching attachments to different posts
   - attach to multiple different posts (so I can us the same image across different posts/pages)

   I used to use a plugin called NexGen, and I implemented an image sharpening script upon thumbnail creation (because sizing images down blurs them and much detail is lost depending on the content of the image).

   I would like to implement it as a plugin for wordpress’s image upload and thumbnail creation process.

   Might be suitable to exist as an option within your plugin.
   If you’re interested.

   Cheers,
   // mike

10. 10
    on August 12th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
    oscar Said

    Hey, I would like to be a beta testes, where can i sing up?
    thanks!

11. 11
    on September 27th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
    gasgarage Said

    Hi, i would like to see this great plugin released soon.
    I dont really like wordpress options to manage galleries & post/page attachments.
    Your code is a big step forward.

    Thanks, gas

12. 12
    on September 27th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
    aesqe Said

    I’ve added an update on the top of this page, please be gentle, all :)

13. 13
    on October 11th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
    X-Tender Said

    got a small problem with the Plugin.
    wenn I try to add Images to my post he tells me that he added the images but i cant see them. when i open die media browser again i see the images I choosed puplicated with large numbers at the end “image.jpg (12432323)” e.g.

    i use WordPress 2.8.4.

14. 14
    on October 18th, 2009 at 2:14 am
    Maor Said

    I’ve just installed this plugin in one of my projects and it looks pretty good. Will be glad to continue testing it, due to the fact the nextGen plugin does kind of problems lately with cropping etc. That thing the gallery handling is directly inside the post/page editor, is just a great idea.

    Maor

15. 15
    on October 18th, 2009 at 2:25 am
    Maor Said

    By the way, when you will finish all the testing and release the plugin to the WordPress repository, I’ll also be happy to translate the plugin into Hebrew, so let me know.

16. 16
    on December 28th, 2009 at 1:12 am
    aesqe Said

    I’ve updated the plugin to version 1.1, but it’s still not done. See top of the page.
    Also, you probably won’t see any difference usage-wise, unless you’ve been playing around with gallery template files. Templates are now pure PHP without variable placeholders, for easier use and faster parsing.

    Thanks in advance to all of you interested in testing it out, I’ll add more features (as described at the bottom of the readme file) this week :)

17. 17
    on December 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
    aesqe Said

    @X-Tender: that’s perfectly normal.
    I was looking for a way to differentiate attachment copies from the originals, and this was the first thing that seemed OK to me – to add the post id in braces after attachment title.

    In v1.1, you can filter it using the “file_gallery_attachment_copy_title_extension” filter.

    (more about WordPress filters here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter)

18. 18
    on December 30th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
    aesqe Said

    V1.2 is available for download (see top of page for updates).

    If everything goes to the plan and no critical bugs are reported by next week, I’ll push the plugin to the official repository :)

    Please leave feedback if you decided to test the plugin!

    Thanks :)

19. 19
    on January 7th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
    X-Tender Said

    Hi,

    I tryed to create my own Tempalte but it doesnt appear in the template dropdown.
    Did I have to make some settings somewhere that it appears?

    X-T

20. 20
    on January 11th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
    Paul Said

    Great plugin! I was really looking for a way to put images from my library into a gallery.

21. 21
    on January 19th, 2010 at 12:44 am
    aesqe Said

    v1.4 is out, please upgrade and let me know if something isn’t right :)

    thank you!

22. 22
    on January 19th, 2010 at 11:44 am
    X-Tender Said

    Hi, thanks for the improvements.
    I’ve made a quick test and noticed something.
    When I add Images from my media archive then they get an addition number at the end of the Title (e.g. mypic (1008))
    Thats a little bit annoying when you use plugins like Lightbox and the Diggit always appear on the Bottom of the Image :)
    Also it is now double in the media archive with the diggit at the End, on other Images I used the file-gallery it is’nt so ..

23. 23
    on January 19th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
    aesqe Said

    @X-Tender: I’ve written in one of the comments above why that is so :)

    For now, you can filter the text that gets appended to attachment title using the “file_gallery_attachment_copy_title_extension” filter, but I’ll add this issue to the list of options in the next version, so you won’t have to filter it, but rather check an option on media settings page.

    if you don’t want any appendix on copied attachment’s title, paste this into your theme’s function.php file:

    function filter_file_gallery_appendix( $appendix )
    {
    return “”;
    }
    add_filter(“file_gallery_attachment_copy_title_extension”, “filter_file_gallery_appendix”);

24. 24
    on January 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
    Aldo Said

    Thanks for this great plugin!

    The option to load attachments from another post including the order would be great!

25. 25
    on January 29th, 2010 at 10:43 am
    ZGron Said

    Hi

    Also just tested your plugin, and it is indeed great !!

    But I think I’ve found a bug .. when I sort the images / attachments and save it, my complete page structure changes also? (my pages are also sorted by menu-order)
    Any idea what’s going wrong?

    Thanks, ZGron

26. 26
    on January 31st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
    ZGron Said

    Hi again,

    I found a solution to my ‘problem’… when saving the menu order it not only changes the order of the current post and attachment, but also all the others posts and attachments. The following changes in menu-order.php solved it for me!

    Change:
    $wpdb->query( “UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET `menu_order` = CASE `ID` ” . $updates . ” ELSE `ID` END” );

    To:
    $post_parent_id = get_post($ID, ARRAY_A);
    $post_parent = $post_parent_id['post_parent'];
    $wpdb->query( “UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET `menu_order` = CASE `ID` ” . $updates . ” ELSE `ID` END WHERE `post_type` = ‘attachment’ AND `post_parent` = ” . $post_parent);

    Cheers, ZGron

27. 27
    on February 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
    aesqe Said

    Hmm, that really shouldn’t happen and I couldn’t replicate it on my local test site, but I’ll take a look at it tomorrow.

    Thanks for the report and solution, ZGron :)

28. 28
    on February 1st, 2010 at 10:50 am
    ZGron Said

    Your welcome, perhaps this helps?:
    In the database all the other items (which were not sorted at that time) had their ID copied to menu_order.

29. 29
    on February 7th, 2010 at 12:29 am
    aesqe Said

    @ZGron please try this: replace `ID` with `menu_order` in the query, like this

    $wpdb->query( “UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET `menu_order` = CASE `ID` ” . $updates . ” ELSE `menu_order` END” );

    and please tell me if that works. I’d really appreciate it.

    It _should_ fix the problem :)

    —

    I’m working on 1.5, just generally going through the planned features list.

    It should be available here by next Friday.

30. 30
    on February 8th, 2010 at 1:57 am
    aesqe Said

    1.5 alpha is ready for testing, look up :)

31. 31
    on February 8th, 2010 at 10:15 am
    ZGron Said

    @aesqe, Nice one! Your fix works… so simple.

    Also just tested 1.5, its great, no bugs here!
    (only a very very small error in the layout, the menu items are not in one line, the last one is below the others)

    I also have a feature request… :-)
    I would love the additional option to output all the attachments as a list in my theme, and be able to turn off the insert as “a gallery” and “single files” options.
    This way i can design the gallery for example with CSS + Jquery, and I can give it a fixed place in the layout … and I still have your great interface with sorting / add / edit etc, and ease of use for my editors.

    Cheers, ZGron

32. 32
    on February 10th, 2010 at 12:00 am
    aesqe Said

    I’m glad it works, ZGron :)

    I’ll check the menu, been tweaking it a bit trying to fit the new button in there and avoid exactly that what is happening to you :D

    about your request,do you mean:
    a) just a list, all attachments found for that post without any parameters or
    b) a function that would do exactly what my plugin does with the [gallery] shortcode and all of its options, but without any formatting?

    if it’s a) – that’s easy and a couple of plugins do that already. if it’s b), I think I could break the main function into a few smaller, specific ones, and make that happen, yeah.

33. 33
    on February 11th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
    ZGron Said

    Hi aesqe!,

    I meant “A”!, and that’s exactly what I do at the moment … (using plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jr-post-image/).
    But I thought it would be a nice addition to your plugin, especially if the insert “a gallery” and “single files” options can be hidden.

    Are you taking it in to consideration? :-)

    Cheers, ZGron

34. 34
    on February 21st, 2010 at 5:56 am
    Fabio Said

    Your plugin is very useful, but unfortunately is incompatible with Wordpress Mobile Edition.

    Could you please fix this incompatibility?

    Thanks a lot

35. 35
    on February 28th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
    aesqe Said

    @Fabio – I’ll see what I can do about it, but my mobile phone is pretty basic and it can run only Opera Mini…

    —

    Well, I was hoping to release 1.5 beta today, but it’s already 10PM and I have to go to work tomorrow, so it’s time to wrap it up. I’ll try make it happen before next weekend :/

    anyways, this is what’s new:
    - caching of (almost) everything (oh, the speed improvement…)
    - generate list of attachments or media tags in your theme (as HTML, array, object or JSON)
    - save state of insert fieldsets and optionally disable them completely
    - some bug fixes
    - some CSS fixes

    what still needs to be taken care of:
    - implement all the new options on the media settings page
    - user capabilities re: attachment editing/deleting
    - content type filtering

36. 36
    on February 28th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
    ZGron Said

    Wow aesqe, that looks really promising!
    Can’t wait to try it …especially the new additions :)

    Cheers, ZGron

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