Overview

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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Tags: Fotografie, Photoblog, Plugin developement, Wordpress, YAPB, Yet Another Photoblog

Four Hundred Seventy Nine Replies

17. September 2011, 12:58
Comment by Christian

Many thanks for building this plugin. Finally I had the chance to switch from my old pixelpost install to a more modern WP+YAPB setup.
- 7. November 2011, 22:28
  Comment by Johannes
  
  Lol! Pixelpost and its code base at that time once was one of my kickstarters for the developement of YAPB! Didn't knew the project is still alive!
3. October 2011, 06:36
Comment by wordpress tutorials

Great plugin, and i'll be having a look at it for sure! And you're spot on, that's the main danger with free accounts of any nature... who really owns the data? I still worry about that with my gmail...
9. October 2011, 21:27
Comment by Lev

I believe that Node.encoding = 'multipart/form-data' for IE is obsolete and misleading: modern versions of IE work with standard Node.enctype = 'multipart/form-data', but fail without it as jQuery.browser.msie does not check the IE version number in tpl/edit_form_advanced_javascript_injection.tpl.php
Thank you!
- 7. November 2011, 09:26
  Comment by Johannes
  
  Thanks for your feedback! I didn't concluded that file upload is broken since IE8+ ... and i'm not using Microsoft Browsers at home. Fixed in YAPB 1.10.1
14. October 2011, 22:36
Comment by Andrew

Hi, I'm facing problems with thumbnail creation. Is it automatic?
I upload my image but no thumbnail is created yet.

Please help me.

Thanks
2. November 2011, 18:00
Comment by philippe

Hello Johannes,
There is a problem when IE is used to upload a picture : the post is published, but without the picture. The picture does not show up in the uploads folder.
It works fine with other browsers.
You can check that at www.lavieengris.com (you need to register to publish a photo). If needed I can send you the admin login.
Thanks for your help
Philippe
- 7. November 2011, 09:16
  Comment by Johannes
  
  Hi Philippe - Thanks for your feedback: Seems the upload works 'til IE7 - And i'm usually not using Microsoft Browser thus not noticing the error. I'll take a look what i can do about it.
- 7. November 2011, 09:30
  Comment by Johannes
  
  fixed in version 1.10.1
  - 10. November 2011, 13:01
    Comment by philippe
    
    Great ! Thank you.
6. December 2011, 01:53
Comment by Jean

Hi! there is a problem- I installed and activated the plugin but I can find the option-page where I need to configure the plugin,any suggestions?
- 22. January 2012, 00:23
  Comment by David
  
  Same issue. Where is the YAPB Options Page. I've looked in every WP menu as well as everything on the widget page. Have googled for days, no luck. I know it's me and it's probably obvious but I just don't see it. Please help.
  Thanks,
  D
  - 22. January 2012, 10:23
    Comment by Johannes
    
    uHi David -
    
    The Options Page may be found (as for most plugin option pages) under Settings in the WP-admin menu.
    
    br from Salzburg,
    
    - johannes
15. December 2011, 21:45
Comment by Rosemary Senjem

Under screen shots on this page, all I see is a short code for nextgen gallery.
7. January 2012, 18:37
Comment by Greg McClean

Hi,

Please help ....

Have just downloaded and clicked active on the Yet Another Photo Blog plug in, my website has stopped working with the following message, will not load or allow me to access anything:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_userdata() in /homepages/37/d395752492/htdocs/Wordpressinstall/wordpress-3.3/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/user-access-manager/class/UserAccessManager.class.php on line 1881

Many many thanks
- 8. January 2012, 23:19
  Comment by Johannes
  
  According to the error message, you have a problem with the plugin user-access-manager - Please try to rename the plugin dir and this message should disappear.
  - 10. January 2012, 01:26
    Comment by Jan
    
    Hi Johannes,
    
    first of all let me thank you for your great work in YAPB development. I'm using your plugin for a while (just now on WP 3.3) and yesterday decided to activate User Access Manager plugin to protect some portion of my site against public access.
    
    However I received the same error message as Greg mentioned. When I googled around, I found couple of reports where people mentioned incorrect compatibility between YAPB and UAM plugins.
    
    I'm not an expert on plugins development and therefore I would like to ask you if you could advice what's going wrong that these two plugins don't work together. Some forums say that the problem is in YAPB, some that UAM should be blamed.
    
    Could you give us your opinion what could be wrong and if there is any workaround to make them both working together?
    
    Many thanks for your answer and great work,
    Jan
    - 10. January 2012, 13:58
      Comment by Johannes
      
      That's a timing problem of Alex, the plugin creator of User Access Manager (UAM).
      
      I released a Bug Workaround with version 1.10.6 - and contacted Alex with a concrete hint how to fix the problem.
      
      Hopefully Alex will release a fixed version soon since i assume that there may be alot of other plugins having the same problem with UAM.
      
      Have fun with the new release and br from Salzburg!
      - 10. January 2012, 16:00
        Comment by Jan
        
        Hi Johannes,
        
        thanks a lot for your support and amazing turnaround in releasing of new version of your plugin. I will definitely give it a try. I also noticed you released a comment on Alex's blog with request for a fix.
        
        Many thanks, Johannes!
        
        Take care and good luck,
        Jan
- 10. January 2012, 14:00
  Comment by Johannes
  
  Hi Greg - Please update to YAPB 1.10.6 so you have a working photoblog until Alex releases a fixed version of User Access Manager.
12. January 2012, 12:48
Comment by Ulf I

Hi!
Nice work of yours. I´m a beginner to the world of WP. How do I find the`configuration menu´? Is it compatible with WP 3.3.1
I appreciate if someone got time..
Thanks
13. January 2012, 12:49
Comment by Bjoern

Dear Johannes,

I have just installed your plugin and it all works "fine" so far. The only thing (quite a deal buster) is that the thumbnails are not generated. The images is rel to lightbox correctly, but the thumb is not showing on the blog page. Any idea how to fix this ?
- 13. January 2012, 16:58
  Comment by Johannes
  
  Hi Bjørn -
  
  If you present an url i could have a small look. a common problem is:
  
  # image to big for php internal gdlib (have a look at imagemagick and YAPB thumbnailer options).
  
  have a look at the image url - if it's a path to the YapbThumbnailer.php with parameters, call this url directly and have a look at the error messages (if any)
  
  br from Salzburg!
13. January 2012, 18:41
Comment by Bjoern

here you go: www.lauen.eu
Check the Blog Menu , i leave a post there for you "At the Top".

Danke Dir.
Hab mal ein paar Jahre in Tirol gewohnt :-)
13. January 2012, 19:17
Comment by Bjoern

Ok. I guess i am getting there. The permission for the yapb_cache changed while uploading. Made a new directory and assigned 777. Now the thumb is generated, but I can not open the image in lightbox.

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