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The Small PixelPost Developer Community

Coming from WordPress, the PixelPost developer community seems bizarrely tiny. There are a fair number of themes out there ((And despite the smaller number of developers, I think there may actually be MORE good-quality templates for PixelPost than for WordPress.)), but the add-ons and modifications are relatively few and far between.

An example of this "few and far between" is the Aperture plugin. It doesn't even save your choices - blog URL, username, password, and export choice between exports. You have to manually type it all in. I've posted a comment on the author's photoblog asking that he respond and offering to help him improve his plugin, but I've not yet gotten a response.

And earlier today, I wrote a plugin that stops PixelPost from publishing "Next" and "Previous" links when you hit either end. No such plugin to change this behavior existed - only one plugin of this type existed, and it simply looped the photos back around to the other side.

Of course, I could be totally wrong about this - after all, these impressions are based on about two days of experience ((Though when I was looking to do the Photo Battle Blog, and was looking for a plugin that allowed a user to vote for one image or another, I similarly came up dry.)).

9 Responses to "The Small PixelPost Developer Community"

  1. I took a look at PixelPost last night after seeing it here. I've been trying to find a way to add multiple photos at a time. Have you seen anything regarding that functionality?

  2. [quote comment="49839"]I've been trying to find a way to add multiple photos at a time. Have you seen anything regarding that functionality?[/quote]

    I think you might want to make use of the various "copy folder" type add-ons.

  3. Last I used Pixelpost, it required modifying core code, which I really don't like doing. I'd much rather add plugins to WordPress to accomplish the same goal, so...

    This plugin is good if you're looking to build a photoblog:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/

    And the built-in WordPress galleries are nice if you'd rather not limit yourself to one picture at a time:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode

  4. Very interesting. Is this "plugin that stops PixelPost from publishing "Next" and "Previous" links when you hit either end" addon for PixelPost available?

  5. [quote comment="51030"]Very interesting. Is this "plugin that stops PixelPost from publishing "Next" and "Previous" links when you hit either end" addon for PixelPost available?[/quote]

    I took your suggestion: you can get my plugin here. I even improved it.

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  7. Cool to see someone else in Denver using PixelPost. I'm a bit of a noob on the scene but seems like some solid potential is there.

    1. [quote comment="53928"]Cool to see someone else in Denver using PixelPost. I'm a bit of a noob on the scene but seems like some solid potential is there.[/quote]

      Who would that be? I'm in PA.

    2. 🙄 I must have had a dyslexic moment there. I could have sworn I saw Denver somewhere on your site.