First I’ve gotta say I love this plugin. I’ve been using it for about 6 months now, and I like how, it a completely automated way, it encourages my blog readers to check out my gallery.

I updated to wordpress 3.2.1 yesterday, and I was wondering, does all of its code work fine in WP 3.2 and above? It seems to work alright so far, but I’d appreciate you taking a look at it.

Jim

/httpdocs/modules/gallery2/modules/gallerytweet/classes/TwitterHelper.class

Goto line 65

Find:
$url = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(array(‘view’ => ‘core.ShowItem’, ‘itemId’ => $child->getId()), array(‘forceFullUrl’ => true)); // HTML page URL

Add:
$url = str_replace(‘amp;’,”",$url);

Basically, I have a site that showcases a bunch of products, each on its own page. In G2, each product also has its own album.

So what I want is for the widget to use the ID of the appropriate album on each product page, possibly from a custom field on the page called ‘ID’ or GalleryID or something.

Is there any way this could be possible?

If edit the plugin (wither threw WordPress or some other editer) at around line 41 you should fine

// Output the wigget to the browser
echo $before_widget.$before_title.$title.$after_title;
echo $file_contents;
echo $after_widget;

After “echo $file_contents;” add
echo $result;

so it looks like this:

// Output the wigget to the browser
echo $before_widget.$before_title.$title.$after_title;
echo $file_contents;
echo $result;
echo $after_widget;

That should display the URL of the page the plugin is trying to display, you should be able to copy and past that into your browser address bar. This way you can confirm that the plugin is giving WordPress the correct URL when asked.

If you have problems or break the plugin, you may always just delete it and redownload/install, so you mite as well have some fun.

Let me know how it goes.

wget http://www.thetavernbar.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External

Just to confirm it’s able to get the needed info from the server.

Any thoughts?

Sorry for any confusion. Yes redseasnapper and thetavernbar are on different systems. However, the tavernbar blog is trying to point to thetavern bar gallery which are both on the same server so WP does not need to contact an outside server. I only mentioned redseasnapper as I had no problems with that implementation. I will try the ip address and let you know what happens. By the way what is curl and how will I know if it is installed??

Many thanks

Duncan

Please let me know.

I have your plugin up and working on http://www.redseasnapper.com/blog i have tried to do the same for another site http://www.thetavernbar.com/blog but it just brings up a block in the sidebar with the Title and adds no code to actually load a picture? I have them both configured the same. Image block is configured in Gallery and putting http://www.thetavernbar.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External in browser brings up a random image…wordpress version is 2.9.1 on thetavernbar.com but 2.9 on redseasnapper.com this is the only difference I can see.

Please help….

Steffen

At this point I really don’t know what you should do. If you open the site back up to the world so the plugin will work, then the world will see your gallery, but it will not work with it locked down.

can I use your Plugin with a closed Gallery2. My Gallery can only viewed after a login and so your plugin did not show anything if i put http://–gallery2url–/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External at the Gallery2 URl field? What things should i put at the other fields (Image Block to use, Item ID etc.). Thanks, Steffen

Well, it works just fine, but it is inserting a special character code which is causing my images to not be shown.

When configured in the widget, it will trying to display the following:
http://—gallery-URL—/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22550&g2_serialNumber=2

When I remove the “amp;” and paste manually it works. What causes this plugin to insert that? The “amp;” is showing up after the “&” in the URL.

-Matt

Since you receive the same error when using the URL, that makes me think that it’s a problem with your Gallery2 install. Do you have the “Image Block” plugin installed on your Gallery2 install? You should see the option on the left hand side of your gallery2 admin page.

If it is on your main webpage, what do you get when you point your browser to?
http://--gallery2url--/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External
Where –gallery2url– is the value you put in the widget’s URL field. You should see the random image with the default options.

- fields display inline (not your fault, I know, but it’s not nice)
- the plugin generates in fact a widget which is stuff I don’t use on my WP (hard to handle)

Anyhow, thanks for your support.

If I look at your home page, it looks like your running 2.7, you should try to upgrade your site to version 2.8.4 again.

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in /path/to/wordpress/roaming/wp-content/plugins/wp-gallery2-image-block/wp-gallery2-image-block.php on line 11

Any idea why?
Thanks.