RobbieMc
11-28-2006, 02:05 AM
After almost nine months of on and off tinkering with PixelPost, my wife has finally removed the "beta" from her photoblog and has begun treating it as her home page. We have received a lot of email since starting this from people asking for info on the template and the addons so I thought I would describe them here and then point people to this post. Here goes:
1) The template is based on the original "simple" template, customized a little bit, but not much really. I don't think we are prepared to share the templates outright, but the changes are pretty simple and we will not harass anyone who goes through the trouble of duplicating them.
2) The main addons used are:
a) GEOS Show Category (to limit image browsing to selected category);
b) Month Calendar (to browse by month on archives page);
c) Random Thumbs (to give random thumbs on "About" page);
d) Projects (to place thumbs from specific categories on separate page with descriptions - See "November Diary" on the site)
e) Buy from PayPal (to link the buy page wth the image clicked on).
(I wrote the Projects and Buy addon myself and have recently submitted the Buy addon for approval and distribution as an addon. The one on the site is a little more sophisticated than the one I uploaded because the one on the site involves new dbase fields that allow us to turn on and off availability for certain sizes. The version running the site also calculates the aspect ratio and returns the right measurements and price accordingly).
3) The language switch is the most significant change. While I tried to turn this into an addon, I had no luck, so it remains a hack of the core files. It includes hacks that: a) switch out different language templates (for static content), b) switch out the language files (for generated content) and c) switch out database entries (for database content). For now, a) and b) changes above are documented at the following post: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=3668. As for c), I am happy to share the hacked index and admin files for the dbase hack, but I can't support them.
4) The eCards are integrated via a separate php script that was bought from a guy in the UK a few years ago. I am still considering integrating it into pixelpost as an addon.
Sophie's site is at http://www.sophiepasquet.com. Feedback, both on the site design and the photography, is always welcome.
Rob
1) The template is based on the original "simple" template, customized a little bit, but not much really. I don't think we are prepared to share the templates outright, but the changes are pretty simple and we will not harass anyone who goes through the trouble of duplicating them.
2) The main addons used are:
a) GEOS Show Category (to limit image browsing to selected category);
b) Month Calendar (to browse by month on archives page);
c) Random Thumbs (to give random thumbs on "About" page);
d) Projects (to place thumbs from specific categories on separate page with descriptions - See "November Diary" on the site)
e) Buy from PayPal (to link the buy page wth the image clicked on).
(I wrote the Projects and Buy addon myself and have recently submitted the Buy addon for approval and distribution as an addon. The one on the site is a little more sophisticated than the one I uploaded because the one on the site involves new dbase fields that allow us to turn on and off availability for certain sizes. The version running the site also calculates the aspect ratio and returns the right measurements and price accordingly).
3) The language switch is the most significant change. While I tried to turn this into an addon, I had no luck, so it remains a hack of the core files. It includes hacks that: a) switch out different language templates (for static content), b) switch out the language files (for generated content) and c) switch out database entries (for database content). For now, a) and b) changes above are documented at the following post: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=3668. As for c), I am happy to share the hacked index and admin files for the dbase hack, but I can't support them.
4) The eCards are integrated via a separate php script that was bought from a guy in the UK a few years ago. I am still considering integrating it into pixelpost as an addon.
Sophie's site is at http://www.sophiepasquet.com. Feedback, both on the site design and the photography, is always welcome.
Rob