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.
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
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!
Technically 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 ;-)
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Comment by Kendrick
Great piece of plugin you've written. However, I'm experiencing a little bit of difficulty getting the image to display beyond the size of 600px width on a page. When ever I set anything larger than 600px, the aspect ratio of the image would not be maintained and the image would look distorted, seems that it always keeps to 600px. Please advise. Thanks :)
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Comment by Jordan McClements
Can I just send a payment directly to
paypal@johannes.jarolim.com
?
Comment by Johannes
Comment by Zahnärztin Heike Schilling Berlin Kreuzberg
Das Plugin wird uns ausgezeichnet helfen.
LG von den zahnfeen aus Berlin Kreuzberg
Comment by Simone
Danke für dieses tolle Plugin, perfekt für meine Kieferorthopädische Praxis in Berlin!!
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Comment by Johannes
Comment by Jordan McClements
I tried again there now (sent as a gift to friends and family - seems they now charge £0.10 for this) so you should get £19.90 shortly.
Thanks again for the great plugin.
Comment by Johannes
Thanks for the donation: Seems that by default, paypal asks if i want to receive the money if it arrives in a non-standard currency :P
If that reassurance mail lands in spam and gets ignored, paypal automatically refunds the ammount to the payer.
One never stops learning *g*
Comment by Asrul
i cant upload the picture.
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Comment by Stef
I am using the YAPB since years. Like it very much. But now, suddenly, it stopped working. The cache images created have only 0 bytes. It seems it's related with the GD2 library. My host provider tells me that they are using PHP 5.3.17. Do you have any idea what the reason, or better the fix, could be?
Thanks a lot for any help!
Comment by Stephan Petermann
many thanks for your great work. I have one question regarding the Grain template - I am not sure if its approriote to ask you about it.
When you click on a category in the mosaic screen you get a new selection,however of je go and look at the single images, this selection dissapears and you view the images in the 'original' order. Is there anyway to prevent this from hapening?
many thanks for your attention,
Stephan
Comment by Anand Sharma
Thanks for this wonderful - I have been using this for more than a year without problems, for showing off my photos!
However, since I updated to the latest version the day before yesterday evening, all my posts using YAPB are now showing YAPB image twice at the top of the post, and then the actual blog post appears! A sample is at:
http://goanand.com/blog/?p=981
I also tried downgrading 1.7.4 but still no luck - same behavior. And it seems like many users are having this issue:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-image-duplicated-and-displayed-above-header
Please please help!
Thanks!
Anand
Comment by jaro
I installed a new Wordpress3.5 site with your wonderful plugin. Everything works fine, but there seemed to be a problem with the RSS Feed as soon as I post an image.
Are you aware of this problem?
best regards
from the North of Germany
Jan
Comment by Peter
1) remove this line:
2) change the next two lines:
0 ) : ?>
<![CDATA[]]>
into these two lines:
post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
<![CDATA[]]>
3) do not forget to re-enable (in case you temporarily disabled it) the Settings/YAPB/Feed options/Embed images in RSS2 and ATOM feeds content. This can be found in your WordPress dashboard.
4) save the file to wp-includes/feed-rss2.php and additionally for now save in a safe location (offline?) location to put back in case of another upgrade prior to a definite fix (who?).
Regards,
Peter.
Comment by DeBing
can you please specify the lines which has to be changed, so RSS would work with the pictures? Because I think there were some lines removed in your comment.
Best Regards
DeBing
Comment by DeBing
the same file as Peter mentioned in line 43 (in my case).
Remove the following lines:
'
<![CDATA[]]>
<![CDATA[]]>
post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>'
And continue with removing the following block:
'
<![CDATA[]]>
'
So you should be left with the following line (between of the two blocks):
'<![CDATA[]]>'
Best Regards
DeBing
Comment by Stephan
YAPB is incompatible with Jetpack Stats. If using the two together and with automatic image insertion activated, double and triple images are shown.
There's also a topic about this issue here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-image-duplicated-and-displayed-above-header?replies=10
Kind regards,
Stephan
Comment by Johannes
I'm sorry, but there are a lot of plugin- and theme-authors out there having trouble with the (as it seems) poorly programmed Jetpack-plugin. Automattic doesn't seem to mind if any other plugins are installed on the target site just messing around with everything.
Me myself i'm not even able to install Jetpack without breaking any theme (including the default wordpress themes).
Br from Salzburg!
Comment by jaro
tks for the update of YAPB - the Feed is working now (at least with Firefox, not with Chrome), but still is not fully valid. I get something like:
This feed does not validate.
line 60, column 1: Missing enclosure attribute: length
regards
Jan
Comment by jaro
Vielen Dank nochmal für deinen Einsatz.
Gruß
Jan
Comment by mana
thanks
mana