Having what I consider a significant issue with this addon...
Basically, I have added multiple albums to the gallery.xml file as I've read elsewhere on the forum to do..
The problems which all happen with NO CHANGES what so ever to the site, ie..no new image uploading, categories, admin changes...this just happens randomly with nothing having been changed....
1: When switching to grid view to select a different album, it sometimes only shows 8 of the 9 total albums listed in gallery.xml.
This is completely random. Reloading the page sometimes works, sometimes not to get all to show.
2: My gallery.xml contains the albums in the order in which I want them displayed. It would seem obvious that this is the way it should work but it does not. It random decides which galleries show. For example, with problem 1, sometimes it decides to leave off Product Shots and others it decides to leave off Artistic...etc. This is during refreshes with no other changes being made to pixelpost, or new images uploaded, or anything changing whatsoever.
In other words, it does not display them as listed in the gallery.xml, ever. And it never seems to display in the same order, it always changes with a cache clearing and refresh of the page.
3: As related to number 1 and 2, I want to display A SPECIFIC album first, not randomly, but it ignores the order of the gallery.xml so it never starts on the same gallery.
I am using this addon more or less as a portfolio slideshow. Or at least I would like to. The only solution I see at the moment is to delete all but one album and add only X number of photos from each category that album category. I would much rather be able to have only one area for a category/collection view on my site, and they display as a slideshow instead of thumbnails as in the Collections/browse archives viewing style.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Here is the code snippet from my gallery.xml...
<!-- this node contains the pixelpost MediaRSS based album Change the URL into the URL to your feed! -->
<albums>
<album title="Portfolio" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=15"></album>
<album title="Architecture" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=14"></album>
<album title="Artistic and Still Life" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=9"></album>
<album title="Copywork and Digitization" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=18"></album>
<album title="Events" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=7"></album>
<album title="Nature and Animals" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=8"></album>
<album title="Portraits and People" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=16"></album>
<album title="Product Shots and Commercial" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=10"></album>
<album title="Street" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=17"></album>
<album title="Vehicles and Vessels" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=11"></album>
</albums>