Lightroom gallery to wordpress? [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 10:45

Any ideas how i can get a gallery exported from lightroom onto my wordpress blog?

Do I upload it somewhere :s? I have no idea lol .

Thanks for any help :D

Ryan!

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 10:50

Some possible solutions here:
http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=24727

Google has quite a few hits under "Lightroom Wordpress" minus the quotes. Not sure if any will help.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:05

Hmm, it all seems not very effective ...

How about if I uploaded it to say 10GB (a web hosting company that give you 10GB free storage) then just have a link going off my site to that? (got this idea from Tobiah .. http://www.nutall.tobiahtayo.com)

Would this work? du think it'd be simple (I'm not bright when it comes to sites, IT and stuff lol!)?

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:18

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I use Zoundry Raven to compose my posts offline via WYSIWYG interface, dropping my images into the message body. When I upload/publish the entries, the images go to the server with the text. I'm just doing inline embedding though, not actual galleries.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:26

Basically I want to add the galleries so that I didn't have to upload everythiing to flickr then get the links from there and insert them into a post. I shot my friends 18th Brithday party and doing it this way was an absolute nightmare! I was thinking if I could add a gallery (even offsite) people could just write the filenames down and then tell me what prints they want.

I'm downloading Zoundry Raven now :)

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:31

If you just want to do some embedded pics, use Zoundry Raven (or one of a million other similar programs). It'll let you drag & drop your pics.

Alternatively, you can generate a gallery in Lightroom and have it upload it automatically to your server then provide a link to that on your blog, with a couple embedded as teasers. Kind of like I did in this post (http://blog.cdifoto.com/2008/06/08/colleen-greg-june-7-2008/).

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:36

Wooohoo! that's exactly what i'm loooking for, except I don't have a 'server' lol! would http://www.10gbfreehost.com/ be any good for that? just whilst I'm starting - and poor!

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:37

Well by server I mean wherever your blog is hosted.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:39

Wordpress?

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:41

Wherever your wordpress blog is located. If it's with wordpress, you'd upload your images there (I'm assuming they give you storage for images too). I have my wordpress blog hosted elsewhere though. Bluehost is a good spot as well...lots of storage, bandwidth, & cheap.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 12:55

Ahhh, didn't even know i could host it elsewhere ...

hmmm ...

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 13:16

You know you said that you can just dro[p images into the Zoundry Ravn, well I tried that, but when I view the post on my blod i just get a red X?

http://rtwphotography.wordpress.com/posts/

I know there's spelling mistake etc. I just typed it real quick...

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 13:26

Sorry I forgot to elaborate - you do have to configure Zoundry so it knows where the images are supposed to go. It's under Tools > Media Storage Settings. You don't have to use wordpress hosting for your pics...you can configure any FTP hosting account you want or even Picasa, Image Shack, LiveJournal, or RipWay FTP. If you want to use wordpress' hosting (if they even allow image storage), you'll have to contact them to find out how to set it up in Zoundry.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 14:26

Okay, so I needed some hosting so I set-up with Ripway ...

i'm trying to fill out the 'Media Storage' but can't figure out what I put under 'FTP Path' ?

I keep getting 'invalid post id' also, but thing has something t do with the above ...?

Any ideas?

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 16:32

Right I've done it! Literally took me all night lol.

I've uploaded it to Ripway and then linked off my site to rthe URL where the gallery is stored.

http://h1.ripway.com/rtwphotography/Gallery/index.html

Work for you?

www.rtwphotography.wordpress.com Then there's a link of the homepage :)

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 16:57

Seems to work fine.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:05

Sweeeet! It's funny ... I can't view the slideshow on my laptop ... but I can on my Desktop ... any ideas why that would be anyone?

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:07

Do you have flash installed on your laptop? If not, that'd be why.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:15

Yeah it's installed ... know tht because I can view youtube video's and people's flash site :s ?

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:15

Hmmm. Try reinstalling flash just to be sure. I know I've had glitches before and a reinstall took care of it, even though it was already there. I have no idea other than that.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:21

Should I uninstall first?

cdifoto

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:24

I don't recall if I did or not, but it probably wouldn't hurt.

Ryan W

5th of July 2008 (Sat), 17:48

Nothing ... GRR! Still not working!

So F*****G fustrating!

Ryan W

6th of July 2008 (Sun), 16:55

FFS! Now I can;t get the images into the posts ... I'm not even doing anyting differently! I just added a page using Zoundry :|

I'm inserting straight from the PC and then clicking publsh and it's not coming up with any errors and creates the page/blog but when I view it there's no image there? Which leads me to beleive that it's with the host/storage settings I've entered?

I'm getting very annoyed now! Any ideas? :)

Sorry to be a pain.

Ryan W

6th of July 2008 (Sun), 16:56

I just tried it again and it's working! WTF?

Perhaps it's Ripway?!

Sorry lol!