New version of PictPress
I have prepared a new release of PictPress. A lot has been rewritten, what has stayed the same is the basic approach, automatic generation of posts from a directory of images. A major change is that I now focus on creating a post per image instead of appending one page per image to a single post. A master post contains thumbnails that point to the various picture posts. The old functionality is still there but will not be further developed by me.
Overview of what is new:
- No need for .htaccess changes.
- Independent of rdjpgcom and exif_read_data.
- Resize either via ImageMagick or GD2.
- All program files stored in the plugin directory.
- Image files stored relative to the upload directory.
- All settings are now stored in the database instead of a config file, and can be adjusted through an edit form.
- A lot of the automatically generated strings can be configured.
- EXIF information can be included in captions etc.
- Template functions that generate a prev/next thumbnail for picture posts.
- Protection against image bandwidth stealing.
- Comment strings are left in the posts to see a bit of what PictPress has been doing (but this probably does not solve all of the debugging problems).
- Improved error checking in resize script.
For more information see the full description.
Update (15 sep): I updated the zip file to fix some typos, missing mysql escapes and add the new readme.html. Download is still at http://www.curioso.org/pictpress-0.99.zip