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Hi all,
I’m looking for an image gallery plugin of some kind. The organization that I’m in is celebrating 75 years, so I’m trying to digitize all of the pictures that we have. Ideally it would do the following:
* Different albums for different events / grouping of pictures
* Let each photo have an explanation associated with it
* Allow people to find photos based on dates(e.g. a slider that you can put dates into, so a minimum date of 2010 and a max date of today)
Does something like this exist? Wikipedia sometimes has galleries that have features similar to the above but I think they’re all somewhat manual to create. I’d like to keep everything inside of WordPress if possible to keep things simple.
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I’m wrestling with image organization, also. Don’t know if this idea will work but right now, because of how WP organizes images into time and date, if you don’t want to rely on a plug in that if they go belly up leaves you high and dry, is to use taxonomoy.
Note; not my original idea, I read someone saying they do this for their commerce site and I’m improvising and adapting the idea. Anyway, I’m still trying to suss out if this will even work. Maybe it’ll help you.
So I read about enforcing naming conventions for image-files, which I already do. A commerce example is . . .
* SKUxxxx-1024×768-left-side.jpg
* SKUxxxx-1024×768-top-side.jpg
* SKUxxxx-1024×768-right-side.jpg
* SKUxxxx-1024×1024-right-sideXCU.jpg
. . . and when you’re searching, the string SKUxxxx* it means all the associated images appear, yes? Works regardless of whether you add new images to the SKUxxxx two years later. So the ‘when’ no longer matters. Finding images is easy.
Similarly, for blog posts . . .
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×1024-female-files-nail.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×768-male-laughs.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×1024-male-falls-down.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×768-male-runs-1st-place.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×300-female-delivers-mail-into-mailbox.jpg
. . . and when searching within WP, search string *red-head-stepchildren* brings up all 5 images, yes? So two years later you edit the article and add three more images . . .
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×450-male-eating-burger.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×1024-male-achieves-A-grade.jpg
* BLOGPOST-red-head-stepchildren-1024×768-female-graduates-college.jpg
Point being, when writing the blog post about the antics of red headed stepchildren, if you enforce the name convention, then you immediately find all 5 original images for the article plus the 3 additional images making going back to edit the article and upload the new images easy.
Am I understanding this concept correctly? Is this workable? In your case, events are the BLOGPOST-string.jpg