The Small PixelPost Developer Community
Posted September 22nd, 2008 @ 12:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
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.)).
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Posted 25 Sep 2008 at 1:52pm #
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?
Posted 25 Sep 2008 at 1:57pm #
[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.
Posted 26 Sep 2008 at 1:49pm #
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
Posted 26 Nov 2008 at 10:09am #
Very interesting. Is this "plugin that stops PixelPost from publishing "Next" and "Previous" links when you hit either end" addon for PixelPost available?
Posted 26 Nov 2008 at 12:27pm #
[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.
Posted 28 Nov 2008 at 9:52am #
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Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 2:19pm #
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.
Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 3:16pm #
[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.
Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 3:38pm #
🙄 I must have had a dyslexic moment there. I could have sworn I saw Denver somewhere on your site.