After some 4 months of late-night slogging and going through my entire collection of swear words several times, I got my photoblog or photoblog up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
It is based on Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign templates<\/a>. They are really beautiful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why you should check this out? When you can’t use this. Getting it to work is another different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can install the templates and the associated plugins, about eight of them. Alternatively, you can use the Photo Gallery plugin<\/a> made by Bryne Reese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This post covers the installation of the Photo Gallery ver 1.7 on Movable Type ver 3.3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The installation portion is quite easy, just follow the instructions and ftp the folders into your web server. Configuration of the plugin is slightly tricky. The photoblog you should specify a different path. Do not make it a subfolder in your current Movable Type blog. The pathname to specify should be the pathname in your mt-check.cgi output. Edit to show the new path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if mt-check.cgi reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \/home\/hsphere\/local\/home\/yourname\/yourdomain.com\/cgi-bin\/mt<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n change to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \/home\/hsphere\/local\/home\/yourname\/yourdomain.com\/photoblog<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n To post new entries in your photo blog follow the plug-in documentation to use the special link to load the file. You cannot use Movable Type standard “Create New Entry” form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n plugins\\PhotoGallery\\templates\\meta\\templates\\general-php<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n 2. If you are getting “Permission denied” errors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Error making path ‘\/test’: mkdir \/test: Permission denied at lib\/MT\/FileMgr\/Local.pm line 107<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This is due to the wrong path entered for your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. If you are deleting your blog and get “Can’t locate object method”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Permission denied.Can’t locate object method “id” via package “MT::Callback” at lib\/MT\/App\/CMS.pm line 3937.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It is Movable Type’s way of telling you do not have enough permission to delete. Logout and login as an admin to delete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. The Photo Gallery plug-in has two types of templates, PHP and HTML. When switching from HTML to PHP, you need to disable\/delete index.html in most of the folders or you will not be able to see the latest updates. After some 4 months of late-night slogging and going through my entire collection of swear words several times, I got my photoblog or photoblog up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4617,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. It protects your images
\n2. Your pictures are kept in galleries and they are in turned linked up at the index.
\n3. You tag description with your photos.
\n4. Beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Storage space. For every picture you upload, it generates another image and a thumbnail. So space may become an issue.
2. It is easier to use Picasa et al, export to html function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Troubleshooting Photo Gallery plugin<\/strong>
1. You should see something similar to this<\/a> even there are no pictures loaded. If it is a blank page, user PSPad <\/a>to check the templates files are in DOS format. The templates are located:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next, I will cover how to do a mass or bulk import of multiple pictures into Movable Type. For now, I leave you with this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"