WordPress 2.5 out with a new admin interface. By default you have the possibility to choose between two color schemes: Classic and Fresh. Am i the only one disliking both?

To be honest: I can’t stand the fresh theme and could live with classic - But i don’t want to live with a theme - i want to like it. So thanks to the know how, explanations and sample code of planetozh i were able to create my little brushup:

Screenshots

Installation

1. Unzip the content of the zip-file into an empty directory
2. Upload the jp-admin-css-stylishblue directory to your wp-content/plugins directory
3. Activate the plugin
4. Go to your users panel
5. Choose the new Admin Color Scheme “Stylish Blue”
6. Enjoy!

Download Now

Like YAPB, JP-Admin-StylishBlue gets hosted on wp-plugins.org - So get the latest version here:

jp-admin-stylishblue on WordPress.org

Change log

It’s official - YAPB is BETA and downloadable. If you’re interested in turning your WordPress blog into a photoblog, just download the plugin and try for yourself. I think this approach to photoblogging is somehow unique - You can post photoblog posts, display thumbnails and EXIF data - And you’re still able to use the full potential of wordpress and it’s bunch of plugins.

Happy blogging and don’t forget: It’s still BETA and i’d appreciate positive and/or negative feedback very much!

Update: Since WordPress 2.3 you don’t need Jeromes Keywords anymore since WordPress offers tagging right out of the box. So my manager is deprecated also - if you use an older version of WordPress i encourage you to update immediately.

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Even if Jerome’s Keywords is a very, very nice and useful wp-plugin - I still missed something. How could i update previously entered tags without having to edit every single post?

The solution

The marvelous jeromes-keyword-manager (final version)

Features

These are the features i’ve been missing ever since i installed jerome’s keywords:

• Rename, Replace or delete tags easely - All posts get updated
• Find all posts tagged with a specific keyword
• Find all posts without tags

Screenshots

Language Files

Thanks to all contributors - Here’s a list of all language files i know of:

Changelog

• 2006-07-05 Final version finished and ready to be downloaded
  The final version features a SQL workaround which moves around a problem that can be found in the original jeromes-keywords plugin also.
  more info
• 2006-07-02 Version 3 ready to download
  Enhanced list: It now shows all other tags used in that posts
  Possibility to find all posts WHITOUT attached tags
  Full i18n-gnu-gettext support
  more info
• 2006-06-22 Version 2 ready to download
  Plugin now shows a list of all posts tagged with a specific keyword
  more info
• 2006-04-23 Release of original version
  Allows edit-, rename- and replace-operations over all posts
  more info

Installation

How do i install a wp-plugin? Instead of repeating the old rtfm phrase i’ll explain the veeery complicated way to install one:

1. Unzip the files into an empty directory
2. Upload the file and directory directly into the wp-content/plugins folder of your wp-installation
3. Go to admin panel / plugins and activate it
4. Enjoy!

Special Thanks

Special thanks for providing ideas, problem feedback, language files, etc. go to: Mike, Juice, PlasticDreams, Sterling and all that downloaded the plugin already - You make a little developer very proud ;-)

The Future

Since Jerome’s developing on version 2 of the plugin (currently beta), which will already contain a global tag management, this little plugin will be deprecated soon. Imho it’s already better to have it all in one plugin - And i’ve learned alot about plugin programming for my second WP-plugin-project: Yet another photoblog.

Happy Tagging!

It’s out in the wild. Convert your WordPress 2.x installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.

• FAQ
• Donators
• Download / Installation
• Ready to use templates
• Third Party Extensions /
  YAPB Hooks
• Adapting templates
• YAPB Template Functions
• Change log
• Forum

What is YAPB / What can you expect?

• A non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts wp into a easy useable photoblog system
• Easy image upload - All wordpress post-features can be used
• On the fly thumbnail generation - Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled from the template.
• EXIF data processing and output
• Self-learning EXIF filter - Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
• Full i18n-Support through gnutext mo/po files
• YAPB Plugin Infrastructure for extended functionality
• Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
• Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.

You’ll get a photoblog system based on wordpress - Decide if you want to post a normal Wordpress article or a photoblog entry. Be free to use all available extensions / plugins of the WordPress platform ;-)

3 Steps to your WordPress Photoblog

Screenshots

The idea

Why another photoblog system?

There aren’t many open source photoblog systems out there in the wild. I searched a long time and found only few. Evaluated all of them and decided to program one on myself, since none of them met my demands. I did that about three times - Every version was build up from the scratch. Every version was better and much more flexible. More cool and finally more proprietary.

Every time i saw a feature in another blog system that i wanted to have - i had to spend much of my rare spare time to design, program and integrate it into my own photoblog system. After implementing some features like captcha, ping and trackback, etc. etc. i decided that this was just a waste of time.

There already was a system out there having lot’s of features and a huge community: WordPress. Yapb is my try to build on a wide spread platform - And to get what i want - As a photographer and programmer.

Why not use services like Flickr, Deviantart, etc. etc. ?

Why hazzle with renting a suitable webhost, installing a photoblog software, configuring the whole stuff, eventually solve problems, searching and installing a cool theme, etc. etc. - If i can have it all (and more) with one click at Flickr, Deviantart, etc. etc. ?

I’m only able to give you a hint on my opinion why i don’t want to host my images on such a service. Fortunately, for the impatient among us, it can be told with only three (and a half) words:

It’s my image.

Post your image on a foreign server and you’ll never be exactly sure what rights you have on your own images until you’re a better laywer than the one hired by your prefered photo community. One nice example: Flickr was sold to Yahoo AFTER they had tens of thousands users and hosted millions of images. If you’re posting images to flickr right now - Do you EXACTLY know, what rights Yahoo currently owns on YOUR images?

If this is perfectly ok for you - Go on and use those communities! After givin away your personal data, you will have an account for free and no hazzle with setting up your own photoblog. There are thousands of users just waiting for you!

Technical spoken

Yapb integrates tightly into wordpress. Via Javascript DOM manipulation it injects several form additions into the standard wordpress post form. It provides additional data and functions to themes so that nearly every theme can be converted to a photoblog in virtually no time. Yapb doesn’t touch original wordpress code - It’s using it.

Support YAPB

Do you like YAPB? Do you use it regulary to show your photos or images? Did YAPB save you time? Or you just want to give something back for the time spent to create, maintain and support YAPB? Just Donate a little ammount so i may buy a good book, DVD, etc. or just pay some server traffic. Bigger ammounts (if any) will be invested in my photo equipment of course ;-)

Thanks alot from Salzburg!

There is a forum

Since this site is running with wordpress and i’m recently doing some plugin developement in my leisure time, i decided to create a page category on it’s own to give my work a little space on it’s own.

What’s this all about?

Seen generally, WordPress (german site) is a very multifunctional, extensible blogging platform. I chose to use it since my former website (based on pmwiki which i can highly recommend if you need a php-based wiki-system) looked more and more like a blog over the time. Recently i spent time on the following two main topics:

Plugin projects so far:

Jerome’s keywords manager

Since i’m using the fabulous jerome’s keywords plugin for a while now i decided to develop a little plugin which allows managing all previously entered keywords. This was a feature missing in version 1.9 and should be added in version 2.0 which is in beta right now. In the meanwhile you can download the management-extension right from this location:

Jeromes keywords manager project page with all infos.

Yet another photoblog

This little idea is my main reason why i started learning how to develop wordpress plugins anyway. Idea: Develop an extension which turns a wordpress 2.x standard installation into a full featured photoblog.

YAPB Project Page with all infos

Finally - My wp-plugin "Yet another Photoblog" goes alpha. What does that mean? Well - I’m programming on a photoblog-conversion Plugin for WordPress for a while now and a alpha version is installed on this site since this morning.

What is Yapb? What can you expect?

• A non invasive WP-plugin that converts wp into a easy useable photoblog system
• Easy image upload - All wordpress post-features can be used
• On the fly thumbnail generation - You can use multiple thumbnail sizes as you need them: Thumbnail generation is now part of the template
• Exif data processing and output

The idea
There aren’t many open source photoblog systems out there in the wild. I searched a long time and found only few. Evaluated all of them and decided to program one on myself, since none of them meet my demands. I did that about three times - Every version was build up from the scratch. Every version was better and more flexible. More cool and finally more proprietary.

Every time i saw a feature in another blog system that i wanted to have - i had to spend much of my rare spare time to design, program and integrate it into my own photoblog system. After impelenting some features i decided that this was a waste of time.

There already was a system having lot’s of features and a huge community: WordPress. Yapb is my try to build on a wide spread platform - And to get what i want - As a photographer and programmer.

Technical spoken
Yapb integrates tightly into wordpress. Via Javascript DOM manipulation it injects several form additions into the standard wordpress post form. It provides additional data and fnctions to themes so that nearly every theme can be converted to a photoblog in virtually no time. Yapb doesn’t touch original wordpress code. You can decide if you want to write a normal Wordpress Text-Post or if you want to post an image. etc. etc.

What’s next? Nearly all pics you see on this blog are posted over Yapb. Now it’s only a matter of time that a installable version get’s released.