*********************************** ************INSTALATION************ *********************************** + Unpack and copy to your wordpress root directory. + Open index.php and edit the variables for the name of the gallery and sidebar location. If you want to have the thumbnails edit your ftp details. If you enabled the generation of thimbnails please leave [...] $ftp_web_root=""; [...] in most cases it should work unchanged!!! It's important!!! + Make directories and upload your photos into it. Do not upload those into the root of the wp-gallery. Now somehow make a link that will point to http://yourblog.name/wp-gallery wp-gallery automatically will scan for all the folders you made and will generate links to those as. NO NEED TO DO ANYTHINK ELSE!!! *********************************** ************INTEGRATION************ *********************************** + Add a page to your blog with the name "Gallery" or "Photoes" Add there a link that'll point http://yourblog.name/wp-gallery or add it directly to your wordpress template. Done? Go have a look... *********************************** ************CUSTOMIZATION********** *********************************** + Edit the template.html file, start.html and wp-gallery.css + Add some 's at the end of template.html.I left a comment there fot it. + Change the align side for img and image classes in gallery.css and width:; depends on your needs. + Here is the list of availabls tags: : the slideshow title from the heading.txt file. : displays path to the current slideshow. : navigation button to go back one image. : navigation button to go forward one image. : displays position in the slideshow e.g. "2 of 6" : information from the EXIF Comment field if it exists. : the image title if you used a pics.txt file. : output the thumbnails if the "thumbs" dir exists : this needs to go on the section of your template : displays start and stop slideshow link (SEE ) : displays the current image : Provides the next image name, used for preloading images. : displays the image file name : displays the list of the available galleries (folders) that can be accessed : displays the zoom link, it launchs lightbox! + Make a file pics.txt if you want to add some description to every picture you have in your gallery. It should look like: my_house.JPG;This is my house. NO BLANK LINES! A quick way to generate a pics.txt file with image names is to use the command prompt. ls *.jpg > pics.txt in *nix/linux dir /b *.jpg > pics.txt at a dos prompt in windows You will need edit this in a text editor to add the semi colon and desription. *********************************** ************iNFO******************* *********************************** + The gallery is based on PHPSlideShow v0.9 written by Greg Lawler, latest release at http://www.zinkwazi.com/scripts + The modification of it for wordpress was made by c00l2sv, latest release at http://e-stas.net/files/fc.php/1 + wp-gallery should run on any releases of wordpress. Tested on 2.01 2.03 2.05 succesfully! + Runs on php in safe_mode! + For security, you can only access directories within the same directory as the phpslideshow.php script... Additionally, you cannot browse the thumbnail directory with phpslideshow. + Updated on dec 2k6 by c00l2sv. Changed the template.html and wp-gallery.css + Added Lightbox v2.02 by Lokesh Dhakar http://www.huddletogether.com + Added automaticaly folders -> links to galleries generator. + Fixed some links + Made a better integration for wordpress themes. + Looks clearer and less code now. + Updated the README.txt *********************************** ************LICENCES*************** *********************************** + PHPSlideshow is relesed under the GPL. See terms of use at http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt + LIGHTBOX is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ + wp-gallery and the rest of xhtml and CSS are under the same terms of use. *********************************** ******DEDICATED TO WORDPRESS******* ********AND CREANGA CORINA********* ***********************************