As of May 30, 2007 most weblogs do not offer an easy way to upload and display multiple images into a blog post. Browsing for photos one by one is the name of the game. Well “homey don’t play that” is what I have to say. There is no way I’m going to upload 50 different pictures from my weekend trip to the volcano one by one. I spent about an hour; no that’s a lie. I have spent several hours already hunting around for some plug-in for service that will solve my problem. I found some plug-ins and services that came close to what I wanted but always came up short in the end. So I decided to paste it as a project on the photo Gallery 2 website forum hoping that I can hire someone to customize that online photo gallery software. Here is the link to the project:
$ copy album HTML plug-in | Gallery
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have you tried using picasa? i did a quick search on wordpress and picasa and found a bunch of plugins. i use picasa and a custom plugin for my galleries at chrisholland.com.
are you gonna get photos up on this thing? i think it would be enhancing. speaking of which, i needed you to send me a pic so i can mention your blog on my site.
I spent another hour or so looking around at the different picasa plug-ins available and wasn’t able to find anything. The problem is that I want my images to be mixed up with the text from my blog post. I want people to scroll vertically down the page looking at the images and reading the descriptions. Here are some of the benefits of this method:
The images and descriptions are actually embedded into the HTML.
The images and descriptions would be included in the XML content feed.
The images and descriptions would be indexable by Google.
The images and descriptions can be mixed with the actual blog post.
You could easily move around the images and descriptions within the blog post to add content above, in between or below the images.
Other cool things that could be done to make it more useful:
when you go to copy the HTML from the gallery you could: change the image size, modify embedded CSS properties such as border, padding, descriptions style, etc. once you have the images looking like here on your weblog you would click the “copy HTML” button. You could also modify the order in which images are shown. You could also individually select which images would be shown using checkboxes.
The plug-in would not be limited to WordPress; the code that it would produce would work anywhere on the Internet.
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