I don't really know how it all works and how the coding for the exif data works. Is it possible to use photos from a url and still get the exif data? I've been putting my photos on Photobucket to save money on storage with my server, it would be a pain to change all my photos over, of couse I could just leave it and start from here on in with the plugin.
More info on this would be appreciated!
kristarella Wrote:I don't really know how it all works and how the coding for the exif data works. Is it possible to use photos from a url and still get the exif data? I've been putting my photos on Photobucket to save money on storage with my server, it would be a pain to change all my photos over, of couse I could just leave it and start from here on in with the plugin.
More info on this would be appreciated!
Hi Kristarella -
I understand your problem and appreciate your wish to use images from external sources.
Imho, the main idea of a photoblog is that you upload your images to your site instead of using photo communities, file serving services, etc. where your legal rights on the images are always restricted or lessened in some way.
So YAPB doesn't support uploading/using images to/from another location right now although i could imagine an option that allows to upload images to another ftp space you have access to.
On second thought this would cause serious performance problems with the thumbnailer service since it would have to get the images over HTTP every time a thumbnail has to be generated... And this takes time and drives away impatient visitors.
I'm sorry that this may cause a lot of work (and maybe money expenses for a bigger web host) on your side - But i don't think it would be wise to include such a feature in YAPB without programming much infrastructure to outsource image thumbnail generation and exif data extracting to other hosts (Sounds interesting although).
Sorry from Salzburg,
Johannes
I understand. Thanks for the quick reply.
This looks like a great plugin and I will probably start using it when I have a chance to change things around.
Cheers,
Kris.
I must say I am looking for the same thing. I use photobucket to store my photos that I link to various forums. The nice thing is that I do not have to have 50 people downloading the images from my home machine (where I host my own web site), I do not have to have the personal bandwidth to deliver the images.
Photobucket creates it's own thumbnails, so they would not need to be created by the plugin. So far I am using a tool to create a 'photo page' when I want a small gallery, then search and replacing to point the html to photobucket. That is painful, but I guess it will have to do....
Doug