Until then, if you have comments or questions about the templates, use the contact form to send a message.

“If you want a description for a particular gallery, type the text as normal into the Category Description field.”

Note to self: reading technical stuff at 03:45 w/o caffeine is a bad idea.

@ Doug: Great job with the designs. Donation is on its way.

A simple question which I couldn’t find the answer in the docs or in the postings above – how do I add a gallery description?

Looking at the code I thought that it was entering in the Category Description field:

desc=Gallery Description

However, that doesn’t work even though it reflects the changes I make to the “title” key name.

I’ve seen other galleries able to use it so any advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

So, I went to the templates page and attempted to rebuild the RSS: Comments template (meta/templates/rss/t_rss_comments.xml) as well as the Recent Comments index page (comments/index.php) but received literally the same error message respectively:

“Build error in template ‘RSS: Comments’: Error in tag: Error in tag: Error in tag: You used outside of the proper contex”

“Build error in template ‘Recent Comments’: Error in tag: Error in tag: Error in tag: You used outside of the proper context.”

Save this problem, The photo gallery were fantastic :-) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What if I sell (dreams, dreams, dreams) a snap that was posted on my site using your template? Would that kind of usage be considered as breaking your license?

And as for the breadcrumb nav, I just added a description to the category, and somehow that fixed it. Thank you for your help. Now I can get things going.

tags around each thumbnail image, which you don’t want to happen.

Changing this setting will only affect all future entries you create. For any existing photos you already have entries in MT, you’ll need to go into each one, change the Text Formatting for that entry, and resave. After you’ve resaved all existing entries, do a rebuild ALL just to be sure all pages get corrected.

As for the spacing between the nodes of the breadcrumb nav at the top, not sure what’s causing that. Might want to check the template for that page (t_gallery.php) and make sure it didn’t somehow get changed, especially around that id=”path” section, which appears toward the end of the template code for that file.

If you check my site, the first page is normal and when you click on the gallery it appears to be normal. The problem occurs with the actual gallery page. The pictures are in their boxes but there is an extra white thing sticking out to the right of each picture. Also, the link line at the top is all scrunched together. If you click on one of the pictures, that page is royally messed up. With words jumbled on top of the pictures and the next and previous pictures being messed up. I’m not sure what to do. I know I installed everything properly, but I guess I must have missed something. please help. Thank you very much.

Thanks!

There seem to be a large number of differing photo formats/sizes that people are asking for CSS amends for however it seems to me there is an easy way around this.

Built into the templates is the ability to use an additional CSS file which can overwrite some of the default values. This is specified within the category description.

Would it not be possible to extract from the CSS all the values that relate to the size of the photos and have this linked as the additional CSS file? If the file was suitably commented it would be an easy way to amend the photo sizes. (i.e. This is the width of your photos, or this is the height + 20, etc) And I can’t imagine the photo sizes changing on anything less that a category/gallery level.

If my CSS skills were up to it I’d do it myself. I know its fairly easy to search the CSS for values of 480 or 360 however it seems there are other not so obvious values (due to padding/margins I suspect) that need to be changed. Anyone fancy having a go at doing this?

Congratulations for this incredible work. On my side, looks like there is a big problem between Photon 1.1.1 and Iphoto 6 running on my Mactel. I’ve installed the plug-in properly but nothing appears on my Iphoto export dialog box.

Any idea ?

Error in tag: You used an tag outside of the proper context.

MT 3.2 (Clean Install)

Thank you in advance.

Keywords don’t seem to be working for me. vert=true does nothing and neither does loc=london. I did a test of the loc keyword on the page below and if you check the source it seems to be adding class=”loc=london” (ignore that the pics aren’t london – just testing for now!

http://www.digitalknave.com/photos/egypt2005/gallery/

I’m also still having some problems with orientation as you will see from the slides.

THE GOOD NEWS IS…

I’ve written an MT plugin (my first) to make creating a whole gallery from scratch a little eaier for Windows users (although as its an MT plugin there’s nothing to stop Mac users using it too).

All you need do is upload your 480×360 pics and click on a link within the MT menu to create a new gallery. It will ask you for the location of and name for the gallery, then cycles through each picture automatically creating thumbnails for you and allowing you to enter a title description, keywords, etc. It can even strip basic information from the EXIF data – Exposure, Aperture, ISO and original date taken – if it exists.

I’ve got it working on my site but just want to double check it before releasing it. I’ll post a link on here when I do. (With current other work I expect it to be end of Feb/beginning of Mar).