Testing the highslide plugin

It works but it isn’t at all elegant. It isn’t easy to use. I can’t drop in images quickly. Lots of fuss.

Noticed feature to use Lightbox effect on all images. Testing that feature.

And it works well. But I prefer Highslide. Disabled. For now.

I somehow ended up at this website. It had this great way to display photos. I really wish gallery and more specifically the theme I use would make use of highslide. Lightbox was cool but highslide is better. Being able to move the images around is fantastic. F11 to make the thing full screen makes for a fucking cool gallery.

I won’t hold my breath. Gallery is undergoing a rewrite to version 3 with a goal of going back to the basics. 

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/ is where I first saw it. And my favorite use of it. My own gallery is very similar but viewing an image full size is just a lot more work.

http://highslide.com/

The WP automatic updateplugin is really really nice. Beats the fuck out of manually upgrading a WP installation. I didn’t even put it off. WP2.5 made HUGE strides in usability. WP2.6 was even a month early.

After putting off many a much needed WordPress upgrades, I finally bit the bullet and spent a few hours upgrading WordPress. I am now running the latest version of WP and a few of the plugins were updated automatically. That is one heck of a nice feature of the new WP. Wonder if it does that for themes… Even more useful is the new WP upgrade plugin. Makes upgrading versions a LOT easier. I will do it more often. Nothing seems to be broken.

Lightbox is broken.

lightbox

Now it is fixed.

After 2.5 months of waiting, Gallery 2.2 is released after the RC1 announcement.

About bloody time.

Upgrade installed and appears to work.

Now to wait another 2 months for the release…

Major version number. No obvious new features to show for it.

Alleged to fix some things.