I spent a few hours this weekend exploring the Gallery 3 RC2, which I’ve been really looking forward to exploring to see how much it had been developed. I’m very impressed with how clean and sleek the Gallery 3 system is, and very impressed with the import process from the old Gallery 2.
However it’s unfortunate for me that I’ve spent too long making Gallery 2 all sleek and integrated into my blog (with WordPress), and at the moment there isn’t anyone around that’s done the same hack work such that I can do without Gallery 2. By hack work, I mean that WPG3 does not yet exist. I’ve been using WPG2 to embed Gallery 2 into my WordPress blog, and it won’t work for Gallery 3. So for now, I have tombammann.org/gallery as the main photo gallery that just keeps on working, although I’m playing around with tombammann.org/gallery3 as a testing zone for Gallery 3. I’ve actually had to make the Photos page of the blog point to a non-embedded version of the gallery due to the Twenty Ten theme that I’m now using with WordPress 3. The text was out of alignment with the thumbnails when the gallery page was embedded into the blog – but this isn’t the fault of WordPress 3, but the fault of the actual theme. So to those running WPG2, don’t be afraid of upgrading to WordPress 3, providing you’re not going to change your theme.
I’m loving WordPress 3. I’m using the default theme of Twenty Ten that ships with WordPress 3, which you may notice has allowed me to insert the picture of Morven and I as the header of the blog. It was taken by our photographic wizard friend, Jame.
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Tom,
What Gallery Theme are you using? Your gallery setup is very clean and slick – I would love to get something like that going on my site.
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks Mark! The theme is Siriux, and I’m using Gallery 2.3.1: http://gallery.menalto.com/
I would highly recommend exploring using Gallery 3.0.1 (which you may or may not already be aware of), it is more efficient than Gallery 2, which often gives me resource usage issues with my shared webhost provider. Unfortunately though, all the plugins available with Gallery 2 aren’t yet available with Gallery 3 until someone codes them. You may be interested to browse the themese currently available for Gallery 3: http://codex.gallery2.org/Category:Gallery_3:Themes
The other catch with G3 is that there is no finished equivalent to WPG2 yet – but I am aware that very early releases of WPG3 are slowly becoming available. I tried it recently, but it didn’t work for me.
All the best,
Tom
Hey Tom, WPG2 was great and I feel your pain. I’ve been following the current projects of integrating Gallery 3 with Wordress. I am hoping that the next integration is done as well as WPG2. I guess we’ll both have to cross our fingers and support the project as much as possible.
Tom:
Have you looked at this? http://www.heiv.fr/projets/plugin-wordpress-gallery-3/
Tim