Description: Finn Rudolphs picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery. Digital animation for thumbing through a physical image stack.
Latest Version: 1.2 – Changelog – TO-DO
Author: Boris Glumpler
Requires at least: WP 2.7
Tested up to: WP 2.8-bleeding-edge
Download: Click here for the zip!
IMPORTANT: Please note that the use of ImageFlow for commercial websites is NOT for free. Have a look here for what exactly constitutes a commercial website. Licenses for commercial websites can be purchased here.
Check out NextGEN FlashViewer, another add-on for your NextGEN Gallery!
NOTE: If you have translated NextGEN ImageFlow into your language, then please send me the .po and .mo files and I will include them in the next release. Thank you!
Installation
- Upload all files except reflect.php to wp-content/plugins/nextgen-imageflow
- IMPORTANT: Upload reflect.php to your Wordpress root folder
- Activate the plugin
- Go to Gallery->ImageFlow and change the options to your liking
Update
- Delete the old files (don’t forget the old reflect.php in the root)
- Upload new files to the nextgen-imageflow folder using FTP
- Upload reflect2.php and reflect3.php to your WP root
- Check to see that everything works…
- Done!!
Usage
This one is fairly simple. There’s only one tag to use, so all you need to do is find the correct gallery ID, so it’s basically failsafe.
[imageflow id="1"]
Frequently Asked Questions
- I installed everything, but I don’t see any images. What am I doing wrong?
Check if you have uploaded reflect2/3.php to your Wordpress root folder (the directory where your wp-config.php file is in). - I set the thumbnails to be displayed by Highslide, but it doesn’t $%*&$§ work?
Highslide needs to be installed already. All the plugin does is include the necessary compatible files for use with Highslide. - My images don’t seem to get cached?
For the caching to work you have to use the NGG default paths, as NextGEN ImageFlow uses the same cache folder as NGG. So that would be wp-content/gallery/cache. - But I changed that path. What can I do?
Open reflect.php, go down to line 82 and adjust the path. Alternativley you can disable caching by setting $_GET['cache'] in reflect.php on line 33 to 0. - ImageFlow works perfectly on my posts, but not on my index page. Why is that?
According to the ImageFlow homepage you can only use ImageFlow once per page. An object-oriented version of ImageFlow may come in the future though. It is probably best to use ImageFlow below <!–more–> to avoid any problems. Also limit ImageFlow to one occurance per post. - Anything else I should know?
Well, now you can use a reflection with any image on your blog that is not part of your NextGEN Gallery. Instead of referencing the URL of your image you can now write something like this:src=”path/2/WP-root/reflect2/3.php?img=rel/path/2/image.jpg”.
The Future
Over time there will be more options available in the admin section and I am planning to add more effects to open images in as well as open the whole gallery in.
Bugs and other insects
If you encounter any problems, bugs or annoying mosquitos, please head on over to our forum and I will come running with my can of 100% deet…
Credits and Thanks
The idea for this plugin came from Martin Meier. He helped quite a bit with the testing as well, so thanks, Martin.
Danke, Boris, für das tolle Plugin!
Ich bin sicher, dass es auf breite Zustimmung stoßen wird (und ich bald nicht mehr der einzige, außer dir sein werde, der es in Wordpress laufen hat)!
Kein Problem, Martin. Sobald die Plugin Seite auf WP.org funktioniert, werden es hoffentlich mehrere Leute benutzen :)
Ach, die Exklusivität hat was! ;-)
Hi there, thanx for this great plugin.
I have done everything as described : uploaded the whole directory (except reflect.php) into the plugins directory, and then uploaded reflect.php to the root directory. After activating the plugin I tried a test-page and I can see that the images are loading, but the only thing I keep seeing is the loading.gif.
What can I try to get this to work ?
Marco, I would need to see a page with the problem. Are you using Highslide with it?
Hi there, I’ve made this page for you as an example :
http://www.marcovanveelen.nl/2007/10/14/studio-opname/
Tried with and without the Highslide…..
great plugin….thanks for the hard work…it is highly appreciated…..
Marco, try disabling Lightbox. So far I couldn’t get ImageFlow to work with Lightbox neither, so there seems to be some kind of conflict (I am working on that!). Apart from that I’m not really sure what could cause it. All images get generated, all files get included, it just doesn’t get displayed. Let me know…
Too bad. Disabled the Lightbox and it still didn’t work. I’ll keep coming back here to see if there is a solution to this.
Erst einmal danke für das tolle Plugin! Wird sicherlich guten Anklang finden wenn es bekannter wird :)
Mein Frage zu der Spiegelung für Bilder die nicht Teil der Galerie sind. Müssen die in einen bestimmten Ordner hochgeladen werden? Mich verwirrt etwas die URL zum Bild in deinem Beispiel.
Well, I found out it has something to do with the template (style ??) that I use. When I select the default Wordpress template, it DOES work. Now…..where to find what is bugging it ?
Marco, I’ll look further into it. Might be a few days. There are a few issues I need to work on, like how the images are displayed in feeds.
Cindy, die Bilder können sich irgendwo im Blog Verzeichniss befinden. Man muss als URL einfach nur den Pfad zu reflect.php angeben, dann ?img= anhängen, gefolgt vom relativen Pfad zu dem Bild, das angezeigt werden soll. Daran kann man noch &bgc= anhängen, gefolgt von einem hexadezimalen Farbwert, z.B. ffffff für Weiss. Das ist die Hintergrundfarbe der Spiegelung. So, jetzt hab ich hoffentlich alle Klarheiten beseitigt :) Freut mich, dass das Plugin gefällt, auch wenns noch ein paar kleine Probleme gibt :)
Danke, wieder was gelernt. Muss ich auch noch ausprobieren :)
Und wegen Probleme, da hat ich schon schlimmeres. Ich finde es dennoch top!
Marco, try to disable the plugins you have one by one. Then there is some Javascript in your body. Get rid of it and see if ImageFlow works. You should be able to find what’s causing your problems by way of elimination. If it’s a plugin, please let me know…
It has to do with the following code, when I delete it, it works. Now trying to find out what plugin it adds :
[code]
window.onload = function(){
document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div'))
}
[/code]
Well, that code wasn’t defined in a plugin, but solely in the header.php. I deleted it and now it works.
Only the Highslide doesn’t work, so I set that option to “none”…..
Maybe it’s hard coded in a theme file and not a plugin at all, Marco.
Looks like we posted at the same time… Anyways, as for the Highslide effect, it needs to be installed already. The plugin only includes the necessary compatible files needed to run Highslide… I’ll update the FAQs and the readme…
Thanx, I just downloaded and activated that plugin (had to rename the dir from “wp-highslide-image-viewer” to “highslide” ?? And now it all works.
Only get one exclamation mark saying there’s an error somewhere, but hey, it works for now ;)
To everybody having problems in Internet Explorer: I’m working on a solution, but I’m not a CSS genius, so please bear with me…
very cool plugin – i am working on wpmu, and it doesn’t fully work, just wondering if you had any previous fixes or alternate instructions for wpmu? thanks.