March 12, 2010 Have you been disappointed with a lack of photo album functionality for BuddyPress? A new plugin is here to help you, and yes, it’s compatible with BuddyPress 1.2. Check out the BuddyPress Album+ plugin from Francesco Laffi. This is big news for the BuddyPress community, as many users have been eagerly awaiting this functionality and older plugins have not been updated for 1.2.
BuddyPress Album+ Features
- Users can upload picture to their albums, and they can add title, description, choose privacy option (public, visible to members, visible to friends, private) and enable/disable comments for the pic. Users can edit and delete their pictures.
- Admin can set limit for picture upload total count, to enable/disable privacy options and limit for each of them, if description can be empty, pic per page in the default query.
- For each upload pic will be generated a thumb and a middle size pic, admin can set thumb size, middle size and if original file should be kept.
- Site admin can edit or delete any picture. They can also hide pictures to members without deleting them.
- Pic comments are connected to a pic activity, so enable comments for a pic also post an activity for that pic, disable comments also delete the activity, delete the activity also delete and disable comments.
- Templating should be easy as the pics template class works in a way similar to the wp posts template.
Now please don’t get your panties in a wad, but you’ll have to manually configure this plugin in the wp-config.php file with constants that are written in the beginning of the bp-album-core.php file. The developer is working on an admin page and that will be added ASAP. This plugin does not work with BuddyPress versions older than 1.2.
Features in consideration for future releases include albums for groups, an admin panel, object caching, a command to delete all options, database table and files, widgets, multiple albums, and several other exciting options. Head on over to Francesco Laffi’s site to check out his plans for the plugin, request features, or get support.
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This is great news, the more multimedia gallery options in wordpress the better. However, it baffles me that most gallery applications do not include licensing metadata options. It seems to me that this is one of the most important aspects of a posting any kind of media online these days, and it should be easy to integrate a simple Creative Commons license generator in such a plugin. I would hope for that in a future update. Great work!
There are now two developers working on this plugin. We have just added an admin panel to the plugin. Version 1.4 has been released to the WordPress plugin repository and is ready to download. Enjoy!
Nice plugin. Does it also support the latest buddypress version in standalone WP or only with WPMU?
@Werner
Yes! :) I’m using WPress 2.9.2 and Buddypress 1.2.2.x and it’s flawlessly active :D
The wordpress plugin repository “ate” part of our version 0.1.4 upload last night, causing out-of-date files to be downloaded by some users. If you’re having problems, just download version 1.5 and they will be instantly fixed.
All of the discussion, debugging, and support for this plugin is being done on our WordPress forum.
Come join us!
http://wordpress.org/tags/bp-album
latest version has an admin panel. just installed :)
Hi there
@Sara – Is it possible too force BP Album + to load pictures with ajax-jQuery without refreshing the page? Something like Facebox or Fancy box…etc?!!
Sepehr – do you mean like lightbox style / modal window loading? Please clarify. I haven’t worked with BP Album much but might be able to figure it out. Will be checking out this plugin again for an upcoming project.
Sara – Yes , Facebox and Fancybox both do something like lightbox
Hello,
I am running wordpress 3.0 and buddypress 1.2.4.1.When I upload and attempt to activate plugin, I receive following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/USERNAME/public_html/SITENAME/wp-content/plugins/bp-album/includes/bp-album-classes.php on line 219
When I FTP delete plugin folder, everything is back to OK. Beside buddypress, I have activated BuddyPress Ninja and GD Star Rating…current theme is Fishbook (BuddyPress BuddyPack) 1.2… Please help!!!
oh yes, and I use sr_RS language for both WP and BP…which is why i set database to UTF-8 from swedish or whatever was default in mysql…Can enyone tell me what’s so wrong with my site towards this album plugin? Everyone else seams to enjoy it !
Hey, I’m using b album+ and using the command to show images in a users profile page….. however, when someone clicks on them it takes them to the album component. I would really like to enable the command with lightbox – any ideas ….?
Command is ‘do_action( ‘bp_album_all_images’ );’ for some reason it got filtered
How can i create multiple albums ? I don’t see a button for “create an album” ?
Thanks.