Forum Activity for @claygordon

Account Name / Member Name confusion (or is it just me?)

Installation and Configuration

Fabulous. I just did that. It goes on my tips and tricks FAQ for members as they make the switch.

Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

Installation and Configuration

Brian -

The sample size of emigrants right now is small so there are going to be biases. There are something like 9000 images on TheChocolateLife and close to 400 albums (galleries). My community uses them. The default is to show grids of images and then to arrange them into albums.

I think one of the reasons more people did not use the Albums is that the drag and drop to rearrange functionality really sucked and there was no decent way to create and manage galleries with more than about 16-20 images (one page's worth). If the Album functionality was actually decent more people would have used it, I firmly believe.

I managed to do it by appending "All" to the images:### button. It's a hack, I know - but it works for me.

One reason I want to encourage it, especially with the Lightbox function in JR, is that it's easier to create photo-heavy travel blogs as a Gallery than it is to embed a whole bunch of images in a blog post. In fact, I am not exactly sure how I would upload more than one image in a blog post using the version of the TinyMCE editor that's used. There is no inline upload image command.

I suppose I could add src as allowed HTML and that would enable people to embed images they'd uploaded to a gallery ...

Unless there is something I am missing about enabling inline image embedding in blog posts.

I just checked and all the images embedded in blog posts are served from Ning. Now that's going to be a lot of work to fix if it's at all possible.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:53:53PM

Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

Installation and Configuration

Right. Typing too fast.

But if I turn Group by Gallery off then I get the "all" listing with no way to display galleries - just a paginated listing of images. Unless I am missing something completely.

I can still create galleries, but if group by gallery is off there is no way that I can see to actually display and work with and in the galleries.

I need to have both - and it's the behavior Ningsters expect.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:41:02PM

Account Name / Member Name confusion (or is it just me?)

Installation and Configuration

You are right. I realized at the same time. This is the Gallery name on import.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:34:41PM

Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

Installation and Configuration

Brian-

Also, this is the Ningja skin and image import and there is the option to group by gallery or not. Other skins do not have this option.

Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

Installation and Configuration

Brian -

I want the ALL because Images is semantically different from Galleries. Images shows images. Gallery shows galleries.

When you click Images in the top nav you get a grid of images. It make little sense (to me) to have Image and Gallery in my profile nav result in displaying the same thing.

There's a paginate function on the image display in the top nav. I'd be happy to add that if you can give some good hints. I will be happy to share back the code to other ex-Ningsters who'd like to do the same.

Event calendar feature requests

Installation and Configuration


Brian - I am seeing the Attending button twice on event detail pages.

updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:24:37PM

Account Name / Member Name confusion (or is it just me?)

Installation and Configuration

Brain - in Gallery module.

Problem reappears.

updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:06:04PM

Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

Installation and Configuration

Brian - when you visit my dev site do you see it? I am working in a cloned skin with many modifications.

Yes, the two images have the same ID when editing ...

e.g., http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/gallery/detail/id=46

The id changes based on page refresh as the arrangment of images appears to be set to random.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:01:22PM

Event calendar feature requests

Installation and Configuration

Brian-

It's not the adding the fields that's the challenge for most of us ex-Ning users. It's the programming required integrate the fields into pages.

I've had lots of help that pointed me in a direction - and that would probably be enough if I were an experienced programmer. But I am not.

I can guess that an if would be required to test if there is an end date for an event, but that does not mean I could easily implement something that works - especially if I don't know what to test for.

That's one of the reasons I posted the entire code for modifying the images:### link on my profiles page. Might be trivial to the developers of JR, but for someone (like Strumelia and myself) coming from Ning the programming task is daunting.

I don't know the best way to answer this, but it is an issue for people migrating from Ning who aren't familiar with the codebase and the ACP.