Comments on: Shashin 2.3 Beta is Here

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:40:33 +0000

Hi Mike – yes, you can do that. Look for the function getHeadTags in Shashin.php. At line 674 you’ll see:

hideOnMouseOut: false

Change it to:

hideOnMouseOut: true

Other overlay options are described at:
http://highslide.com/ref/hs.registerOverlay

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:54:47 +0000

Hi Norman – a couple other people have reported this problem, but I’m not sure what’s causing it. Can you give me the Picasa URL of the album that fails to load?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:52:28 +0000

Hi Clarezoe – can you give me the Picasa URL for the album, the one with album key 7? Then I can test it.

By: Norman Liebold

Norman Liebold — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:54:23 +0000

Dear Mr. Toppa,
I use your wonderful plugin in some of my sites, but after the upgrade there is a problem, that I can’t fix. Sashin seems to be unable to read the picasaweb-rss-feed. If I give Sashin the username and add albums, it load three oder four albums, then it stops and givs the following error: “ShashinAlbum::setAlbumPhotos – Failed to read Picasa RSS feed for album.” In the head of the WP-Dashbord appears: “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/web46/html/hosting/wp-content/plugins/shashin/ToppaWPFunctions.php on line 444″ (Sorry for my bad english…)

By: clarezoe

clarezoe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:20:51 +0000

Hi,
I have created a page that shows all the albums and it works just fine except one album that shows nothing in the album. Here’s the link of the page http://fei2.co.cc/biji/album/langswitch_lang/en/ and the album key is “album_key=7″
You might see that it tells you something about the language, it is the language switcher I’m using in my blog, but I have deactivated it, still shows nothing.
I’ve tried to delete the page and recreated a new one, another failure. Then I made a post to show one of the photos in this album, it works. I also checked the album properties in Picasa, there’s no difference compares to others.

I have no idea why this happens. Could you give me any instructions to solve this?
Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:11:15 +0000

some of my photos are old, and quite small; some are from a ‘watch’ camera. thus, the toolbar obscures the picture. is there anyway to make the toobar ‘fade’ in highslide when the mouse moves off the photo?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:07:21 +0000

Hi Patrick – You can specify a sort order with salbumthumbs instead of album keys, like this:

[salbumthumbs=pub_date,2,y,n,left]

This will display all your albums sorted by pub date. The syntax is unchanged from previous versions. See here for all the details:
http://www.toppa.com/shashin-wordpress-plugin/#shashin7

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:51:08 +0000

I read through Mike’s (commenter) text above and I am in the same boat as him. I try to use the [salbumthumbs] tag and that is all I see on the page. I want a page that shows thumbnails for all of my sync’d albums and then when you click them, it shows that album. It worked in Shashin 2.2, but I can’t get the new version to do so. The instructions you provided above are for showing one specific album I think (noted by having to put in the album key). I think Mike is looking for what I was looking for. Again, I might be missing something though too. FYI, I also left a comment about the error I am experiencing.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:53:10 +0000

Hi Milan – I see what you mean. I designed the previous version of Shashin with your situation in mind. But I got a lot of complaints that the implementation was too complicated (and some WordPress themes would automatically show links to the page with the salbumphotos tag, which wouldn’t work when linked to directly). That’s why I simplified things in the new version. There’s no way to get the old behavior in the new version. If you don’t need the other new features in Shashin 2.3, you could switch back to your old version for now.

Something I might be able to do is add an option that would suppress all other content on the page when it reloads to show all the photos (that is, it would show the photos, but not show anything else that was on the page). I believe that would solve your problem. I’ll try that, and if I can get it to work, I’ll make a new release in about a week.

By: Milan Stosic

Milan Stosic — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:57:45 +0000

Hi Mike,

I’ve been using your plugin for almost a year and I’m really satisfied. You’ve done a great job!!!

Now a little problem to describe

I’ve instaled Shashin2.3 and found one small problem with my gallery page where I use [salbumthumbs] tag.

I have 37+ galleries at picasaweb and I made page on my website where I divided that 37 galeries in 2 parts, plus embaded some YouTube video (page is http://www.salsanis.com/galerija-slika).

One part is showing 35 galleris and second part is using 2 galeries. Problem is when I click on a gallery it opens in new page with thumbnails of that gallery, but I still can visit other part of page, plus YouTube embaded video (you can see it at my website).

Problem is that if I use [salbumthumbs] more than one time per page, I’ll have thumbnails of desired album as many times as I use [salbumthumbs] tag in that page (plus all other embaded content).

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue (I wouldn’t like to change my gallery page, but if I must I’ll do it).

Thanks. Regards. Milan