Multiple categories

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Has anyone attempted to configure Pixelpost to assign multiple categories to one image? Is this just a matter of adding an extra field to the SQL database, and also to the admin panel?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I'd also like this!

I am sure, this is not just another field in the tables and our chiefprogrammer must modify a lot of the script...

I think most Blog-Software offers categories and many users want to attach one image or topic to more than one category, but I never met one where this is realised...

do you know one? would be interesting

[pixelpunk]

This is close to the "most-wanted" so I'll fix that up.
What I have trouble deciding is if I just should settle with categories, or remove categories and introduce keywords instead.

Oh the decisions, and it's saturday!

// punk

[Anonymous]

Wordpress has a tree structure for categories which is nice. It allows for quick navigation through content -- i.e., if you categorize your photographs by camera, or lens, speed of film, etc., etc, or all of the above. Keywords would let you do the same thing but it's limited if you would rather use them as a taxonomy.

[blinking8s+]

Id like to devide my images into 3 main categories

b&w/color

35mm/digital/medium format ect

sports/portrait/events/nature/blah/blah/blah

and maybe allow each image to have the option of being in a 2nd main category...like it might be a good event photo but taken at a sports venue...so it should go in sports and events or something

but I have yet to think up the best way to add this in

right now im still pretty cool with one main category, its when i get to like 500 + images when i see this feature being needed the most

[Anonymous]

I have a Canon system and I'd like to categorize my entries by camera, lens, and by film -- and possibly by genre. For digital I'm pretty much set. I wrote some code which determines the type of lens used by fishing data out of the EXIF headers, but for film I have to add some text into the comment field.

Different ways of classifying entries isn't cool. Pixelpost with multiple categories would be the best Christmas present this year

As I read these entries, I get the impression that some of you mix the photoblog with a private archiving system... :cry:

as very often, technique is fascinating, but: for whom do you make this photogblog? For you and your system of categorizing? or for the visitors to whom you want to present your photos?

Please: think about your "Zielgruppe" (= german), your targeted audience:

why do you need categories?

to easy the reception of your photos, the navigation in your blog, but: Photos are not only technical things.. your photoblog should not be a technical shop where you find the exact spare part for your motorbike


a photoblog is a combination of aesthetic, impression, attitude and personality...

do you think your audience is so much interested in different sorts of film or lens apertures? Who will scroll through a photoblog searching for shots with 125 / 2,8??????

just my 5 cents, but please: think in the manner of the audience and find out how to attract them, not to bore them!

:?

There is an ongoing discussion at blog.photoblogs.org about reasons for publishing a photoblog, and I was very astonished about the lack of reasons for doing this.

I cite some;

- A great way to document your life
- It's easy, cheap and interesting
- No difference if you're beginner or professional
- Great for feedback and response.
- A reason to get out of bed each day!

so I think there is a problem in general:

what is reason for a photoblog? Why we do it?

I I know my reason then I can think about navigation, categorizing etc.

I think (and got the impression) that most of the photobloggers just miss one point: they produce communication, they show something, they want visitors,

so there must be a presentation for the audience, it is not one-way thing, just for me

or do I miss something :roll:

[pixelpunk]

When I think about the categories I don't include the blog itself, that is chronological, one image per page. Push button to move back.

Categories are mostly good for the archive, and will come in handy when visitors browse an archive of 200 images of great variety. Perhaps the visitor got hooked on the main blog of a black&white? Hit black&white and browse all those entries.

That's my view, and I think we need it. I want keywords because you can set them up however you like (toplevel and sublevel categories are not as flexible) but that is also the problem I have. How to make it browseable/selectable for the visitor to the archive.

// punk

[blinking8s+]

Originally Posted by pixelpunk

When I think about the categories I don't include the blog itself, that is chronological, one image per page. Push button to move back.

Categories are mostly good for the archive, and will come in handy when visitors browse an archive of 200 images of great variety. Perhaps the visitor got hooked on the main blog of a black&white? Hit black&white and browse all those entries.

That's my view, and I think we need it. I want keywords because you can set them up however you like (toplevel and sublevel categories are not as flexible) but that is also the problem I have. How to make it browseable/selectable for the visitor to the archive.

// punk

agreed...pixelpost isnt old enough for this to be realized yet, but when we start having a lot of images it makes browsing though them A LOT easier