Documentation lacking -features not explained well
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d-girl
Joined: 2008-01-05
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Posted: Sat, 2008-01-05 22:20
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I need help. I have this plug-in integrated, but the documentation on how to use it is severely lacking. 1) I create a post, and insert a picture, but the thumbnail doesn't do a "pop-up' window, despite there being a thing in the options stating "pop-up". I do not see a choice in the "insert" via the WPg button, stating "insert thumnail/or fullize and link via pop-up". is this feature not availble? I do not want to link to the gallery or the image in the gallery; just the image in a pop-up window. 2) how do i get the random image in the Word Press page? |
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I believe the popup window you are talking about the G2 Image Selector Icon which is the last icon in the Tinymce Editor Toolbar. If you cannot find it, click on the Code Tab and look for the WPG2 Button. If you can find that button and it all works then most likely you have some other Wordpress plugin that is preventing the WPG2 plugin from inserting the button. (More Buttons, Advance Editor etc)
As for the documentation, I agree it is not completed, I just not had the time to personally finish it off and no one else has stepped up to help me finish it off.
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Wordpress / Gallery2 (WPG2) Plugin, , WPG2 Documentation, WPG2 Demo
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I think you're misunderstanding, the pop-up window, I thought it was feature of the plugin, to display the image in a pop-up window. within the editing or writing of the post. I do not want to link to the gallery or the image in the gallery; just the image in a pop-up window, when someone clicks on the thumbnail or the full size image found within the post.
[img]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4554/wpg2windowix7.jpg[/img]
Also, WP no longer has an "Advanced Editor"
Also, how do you add the Random image to the Wordpress main page within the sidebar?
And how do you get the sidebar from the WP settings to display on the WPG2 page?
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Actually WP has a number of advance editor options but that is another topic for discussion.. I think the feature you are looking for is lightbox which will display a picture in a "popup" box which is what I use on my Blog.
Regarding your Sidebar questions, please read -> http://codex.gallery2.org/Integration:WPG2_Operations_-_Sidebar
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I have lightbox turned on in the WPG2 options, yet I get no lightbox.
However, I want to refrain from using the lightbox, since its a dhtml window. I rather just have a normal html pop up window. How would we get it to do this?
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Regarding your lightbox, you need to enable the lightbox script and enable lightbox for blog/sidebar photos. I am sorry but WPG2 has no feature to support a popup HTML window as this is no longer W3C HTML valid.
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What would be invalid with W3C HTML for a pop-up window when its being called by a java-script or similar?
How can we change it so that it doesn't use the lightbox? I REALLY do not like the functionality, feel and look of the lightbox feature.
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I do not disagree with you regarding lightbox, the next .03 release which I am starting will use slimbox instead which is a heck of a lot nicer than lightbox.. As a suggestion, instead of using lightbox, write a Javascript that would detect the rel=lightbox tags that WPG2 inserts and translate them to a openwindow() effect.
WPG2 3.1 will better handle this as it stores the open window effect in the WP Metadata, but it is still in early alpha stages.
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How do I do that? Sorry my extent of jS IS COPY AND PASTING
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Unfortunately I do not really have a good grasp of JS so I am not the person to help you. Maybe Kirk when he comes back from Holidays might be able to suggest some good code.. You might also try google for the concept and cobble something together..
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