Projects, WordPress, Zenphoto Plugins and More

It’s incredible to browse some of the projects created by students at MIT especially those created by the Physical Language Workshop. All you need to do is go to their website and you will understand what I mean, as they have some pretty unique online applications there. One of their latest applications PictureXS is an interesting way of collecting and displaying anonymously submitted images. It got me thinking about ways of displaying my own photos as at the time I was coding the template for my Zenphoto gallery. In the end I decided to use another method of showing my gallery to people and so have been forced into thinking of other applications for this method.

In the past few days with the very limited spare time I have had I have been able to write two plugins for wordpress, one publicly available and the other being a similar system to PictureXS. The first plugin I wrote was Zenphotos of which more information can be gleamed here. Zenphotos is a pretty basic wordpress plugin for including the latest images uploaded to your Zenphoto gallery in the form of thumbnails. The plugin can be seen to be in action at the bottom of this page. My second plugin has just been called Photogabble->Images, because that is pretty much all it is. It’s a basic emulation of PictureXS while I experimented with methods the PLW used to present image data to the user, I shan’t be making that plugin publicly available as I can’t see there being any need for it, however I may write a similar plugin which instead of listing user submitted images, shall show images in wp-content/uploads. Not sure how much of a requirement there is for this, but it might be interesting to code, we shall see.