Comments on: Christmas Site Updates

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:32:52 +0000

awesome. merry xmas to you too! Good old Gallery…. I know quite a few people still using it… I was too lazy to once Flickr happened though!

Take care xx

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:33:29 +0000

This one:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/matts-community-tags/

By: Htan

Htan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:49:16 +0000

After seeing this migration, i am planning to migrate mine too. My theme doesn’t show the hyperlinked previous and next thumbnail but managed to made it work after reading http://www.walkernews.net/2009/03/17/how-to-create-image-template-file-for-wordpress-theme-to-display-photo-gallery/

@Matt , I like your tagging thing for your pix. May I know what plugin you use?

By: Paul Gray

Paul Gray — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:53:07 +0000

Thanks Matt, has worked wonderfully and gives me something to play with now.

ta.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:48 +0000

That’s easy, use this snippet:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/f11c1be2a

Be warned though that it assumes that all attachments are public.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:31:21 +0000

If someone wanted to turn it into something that was useful for the general public, sure.

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:25:07 +0000

You Mean Like This One?

http://ma.tt/1999/11/gallery-seniorpics/i-aao/

Always LOVED that pic.

Hugs,
-E

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:23:38 +0000

Thank you for the comprehensive comment.

By: Bryan Villarin

Bryan Villarin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:52:41 +0000

Yes! He’s so rad.

By: Paul Gray

Paul Gray — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:03:43 +0000

Matt,
would love to know how to use this built-in functionality. I can follow the instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode but don’t see any way to display a random photo, like in your sidebar, or a page of random photos like your “more random” link.
I too have been using Gallery2, but am gradually moving images over to WordPress to keep everything in house. I don’t know how to write scripts so am glad I’m not moving 12 000 photos over

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:33:19 +0000

Merry Christmas!

Any chance of you making these scripts public?

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By: Michael Jung

Michael Jung — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:50:05 +0000

“to exclude the really old photos though, because they can be fairly embarrassing.”

Oh noe!

Don’t hide the truth of the past to look better in the present. The past is what made you.

WordPress, the peers, the scene, your friends, your parents, life changing events made you.

You know, the talk with Jason on ‘TWiST’, you had problems spelling a word, and Jason helped you out. And you literally make a geek move and joke about being used to ‘Press your Words’. I laughed watching that in that moment, but nobody else laughed (the audience).

For you in retrospect and that ‘after’ moment, you hoped some would get it, or at least Jason, but the reaction was very, well … … shallow. But that is what makes you and me and others alike. And who missed out on that, missed out on that. But as G.W. Bush mentioned in his last Press Event as President, history will judge [us]. And some journalists and historians will look at this video, or journalism students in 2050 will look it up to study who Matt Mullenweg was. The person, the entrepreneur and the leader.

Next please.

PS: We all sucked when we were ‘kids’. We had no style, no manners, blushed when approached by women, didn’t know hot to ask her out for a date.

Be proud of every day, you have your hands on the future of publishing. We, you, and WordPress and the blogger scene doesn’t have to hide what we did in the past.

Because what’s important is what we do right now in the present and in the future, tomorrow. And what do you think how we made it to here, without the past events and past releases of WordPress?

*Philosophical lesson slash rant over*

I hope you had some joyous merry xmas and I wish you, your family and close relatives, as well the whole WordPress crew, all the best for 2010. Health and success, reaching every milestone you set up.

Yours,
MJ.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:08:02 +0000

It’s all just built-in functionality.

By: Jayvie Canono

Jayvie Canono — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:08:07 +0000

Your senior pics album is still one of my faves.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:15:05 +0000

What is the component you are using to make the gallery display like this on the page? It looks nice. I wonder how I can set one up for new photos, right in WordPress.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:56:16 +0000

Merry Xmas I don’t really visit but your changes sound nifty.

By: David

David — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:31:52 +0000

I wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season. It’s Christmas Eve today, so we’ll be using it as an excuse for the day off and hopefully you can too!

Have a safe long weekend and may you be able to spend it (stress-free) with family and friends!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:57:37 +0000

I’m hoping to see your photos from WordCamp NZ at some point!

Here are some posts of my own from the event (kinda short as I didn’t take many photos during it):
http://ryanhellyer.net/2009/09/07/wellington-city-from-the-air/
http://ryanhellyer.net/2009/08/23/wordcamp-hangi/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:54:00 +0000

Blimey Matt! That’s one heck of a lot of photos!

I thought my personal blog was getting reasonably large (photo wise) but your 12,000 photos trumps my meagre upload habits many times over!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:41:27 +0000

I have about another ~5,000 from this year local on my computer that I haven’t processed or uploaded yet, but I’ll need to get on that if I’m going to make my resolution of 10k this year.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:40:34 +0000

That was a “photo shoot” my friend Thea did to get a senior photo for the yearbook.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:38:52 +0000

Yes that’s where we first met!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:38:06 +0000

I ended up writing several custom scripts to do it, I was coming from Gallery 1 so everything was in serialized objects in flat-files scattered around different directories, and some were corrupted or blanked out.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:34:06 +0000

Merry Christmas, Matt!

Impressive, an import of 12,000 photos.

Unfortunately, the pics from WordCamp Germany (Jena, 2009-02-15) are still missing.

Happy holidays for you and your family,
Nick