Wordpress as Photoblog
After maintaining Sizzlers for quite some time … I was looking for a way to photoblog. While Wordpress is an excellent publishing platform, its definitly not a photoblog. Like many users who are in love with this application, I was looking for a way to customize wordpress as photoblog. Unfortunately, none of the options seemed viable. There is ofcourse Pictorialis, but its far too complex to customize. Although I am fairly decent at CSS, but wordpress things meant PHP scripts. Also it would require yet another WP install, which I didnt want to do.
Then the lazy bum which is me started to hunt for a plugin which will make a photoblog out of my Wordpress, there are many plugins and there are many available which convert a Wordpress to a Picture Gallery, but none to a Photoblog, leading me back to square one.
It was an obvious choice to go for PhotoBlogWares… PhotoBlogsWiki has a nice collection of such scripts. I also looked at the top favorites of PhotoBlogs.Org and found that most photoblogs are about the photo. With the world having a common resolution of 1024×768. I can afford a image 700px wide. I installed many a blogs on my local machine and tested quite a few, the ones which I liked most were: Birch, FolderBlog and Photoblogger, but the clear winner was, the one I am presently using: PixelPost .
Like WordPress, PixelPost has a very hasselfree install, and a short, sweet and heavy-ly customizable template. I got it up and running in no time.PixelPost is in essence a Photoblog script, nothing more, nothing less. Plus they have a nice little plugin which shows the latest thumbnail on my WordPress Sidebar, now thats what I wanted. My mainblog can go its way w/o hindering my photoblog visitors with text, and my main blog visitors also have an option to jump to the photoblog if they find it interesting…
And as the thumbnail on wordpress also updates daily, I can say that my Wordpress install is a photoblog too (technically 
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If you need help in installing PixelPost, then get in touch.
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July 23rd, 2005 at 12:18 am
I came across your post on developing a Photoblog with PixelPost. Being that you went through the process already, I would greatly appreciate it if you could guide me through a little problem I’ve come across.
All the necessary files are currently uploaded to my server. When I try to make a post, no images show up. On my Add Ons Panel I notice this below:
Guessed imagepath: /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-systemimages/
Configured Imagepath /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/
Image Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/images) - Thumbnails folder not writable!
You must set correct permissions on this folder or you will not be able to create any thumbnails.
Set the folder to chmod 777 (read, write and execute permissions for owner, group and world).
Thumbnails Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/thumbnails) -
Language Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/language)
Addons Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/addons)
Includes Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/includes)
Templates Directory: Does Not Exist (should be /home/binarypixel/binarypixel.com/cgi-system/templates)
The folder are in my server, yet it says that none of these directories exist. Do you have any idea why? Be well.
November 17th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Hi -
Stumbled upon your site and have new info’s about that since i developed a photoblog plugin, which adds PhotoBlog-Functionality to WP 2.x
If you’re interested: It’s located here:
http://johannes.jarolim.com/yapb
Greets from Salzburg,
Johannes