Comments on: Gallery2 Integration & H kits

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:34:17 +0000

The bridge writers sometimes only write for specific releases of the parent app. This means that you find those integration questions flooding their forums. Frustrating!

But you’re getting there. Every day I pop in and things look better.

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:57:26 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know whether the popup is theme specific or what, but there’s no easy way to turn it off other than editing the theme. I hope themes work better in WordPress than phpBB, which means as long as you don’t touch the core code you’re safe for the next upgrade.

I think I’m lucky that when I began tinkering with G2, the latest version rolled out (2.1). Together with an upgraded WordPress/G2 bridge module, it’s relatively painless to have G2 share the templates of WordPress. I did look at the G2 code to see if I needed to copy & paste some in so that I can grab some G2 album data, but with the way I’m doing it right now there is no need for that.
There’s more aesthetic work on the integration, mainly because I still have different G2 and WP themes, and the comment areas are unreadable 🙁 CSS are great until your styles collide like crazy!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:40:26 +0000

I see you’ve gotten rid of the annoying popup! Cool!

I feel your pain. When I was tinkering with Drupal a while back, I wanted to get a gallery integrated, and there were several forum posts and replies from both the Drupal people and Menalto’s Gallery people about it. The trouble was, G2 couldn’t share users, and the gallery uploads (from me) were tough to get into the daily stories. Drupal, not being a blog, was also a bit top heavy for what I wanted so I abandoned the project.

Needless to say, most Linux apps like G2 and WordPress, and their chief help desk people, are working at a feverish pace to get the code corrected for all these integrations. I assume you’ve copy/pasted some code from G2?

Anyway, I’m glad to hear that you’ve gotten much closer to satisfied with G2. I liked the interface and cross platform power myself, but since I don’t own a website anymore, my tinkering days are on hiatus.