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.
