John's Blog - Latest Comments in moving to wordpress

Re: moving to wordpress

D.D's Club — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:57:52 -0000

I prefer gallery one actually. My pictures get 3 million hits a month. The only thing is that Gallery 2 keeps crashing. It might be the size too, I have over 5,000 pictures of Sahnghai. The next thing is the bandwidth, when you get that much traffic it gets very expensive every month. Everyone like to see a what happens in Shanghai.

Re: moving to wordpress

Gen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:26:04 -0000

I've had a Gallery installation go bad on me. Lots of work wasted. Big PITA. That was before Gallery 2 but still...

I haven't found a solution I like. Paul's gallery exported from Photoshop looks nice, but how do you permalink to one image in that group of images?

Re: moving to wordpress

Adam Nash — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:11:51 -0000

Eric seems to have a pretty good solution going with his photos. Not sure how difficult it was to set up, but he regularly posts pictures, and then links to a site where you can order them developed.

- Adam

Re: moving to wordpress

Paul Kim — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:54:06 -0000

Ah, you just reminded me of another solution. There's a pretty easy Web gallery export function in Photoshop. This took me about five minutes to build. Here's what I did: 1) Select photos in iPhoto, copy and paste into a new folder; 2) Start Bridge (comes with PS) and run Web Gallery tool; 3) Pick a theme etc. and destination folder; 4) Transfer the destination folder as is via Fetch. Output gallery is here: http://www.numenity.org/kiddyland/.

Re: moving to wordpress

John Lilly — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:03:28 -0000

yeah, i came to the same conclusion yesterday -- the gallery experience really, really sucks. how is it possible that nobody has done a "wordpress for pictures?"

the flickr galleries are a little limiting, i'm finding -- i like the FAlbum stuff that rafael has done at rebron.org, but think i want something a little shinier.

maybe i'll have kathy just use iweb to publish to dreamhost, but that sorta sucks, too.

i'm starting to think that it'll make sense to use flickr for day-to-day photo posting, and then use something like i just put up here (http://www.chortling.org/china3/) for special albums (instead of what we have now, which is this: http://johnolilly.typepad.com/photos/17_months/index.html).

it's all a little more manual than i really want it to be, though.

Re: moving to wordpress

Paul Kim — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:53:58 -0000

Dude, Gallery is a serious PITA. I just installed it this morning. Wow. Way too much overhead in terms of configuration and a truly sucky upload experience. Maybe it's just the learning curve. I don't know, I spent about an hour with it this a.m. and have no desire to try it again.

Flickr is like butter compared to this. Way easier to configure albums and batch upload. The pro account there gets you unlimited uploads and storage. Downsides: it's $24.95/yr. You're locked into the look and feel of their galleries. No easy way to export your high res photos if you decide to leave the service.

Re: moving to wordpress

Rafael — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:19:35 -0000

Gallery would be my choice if it was easier to use. Makes much more sense to store photos on your own server. Flickr and the FAlbum plug-in is my set-up. Easy to upload photos and I'm not sure about integrating into your blog. May have spent way too much time figuring it out.

Anyway you go it's going to be aggravating.

Picasa is interesting and so is SmugMug. Write up what you decide if you end up evaluating the other ones.

I migrated from MovableType a while back. They're good about letting you import/export your data.