Comments on: Add Random Gallery Photo Block

By: Blog bằng Tiếng Việt » Create a new plug in: “Photo at SideBar” to show a 75X75 photo

Wed, 25 May 2005 14:30:27 +0000

[...] The example that is closest to what I want: size of photo and description on th ebottom is this: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/02/add-random-gallery-photo-block/ Research the method to create a plug in from the beginning.

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By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:26:49 +0000

To all other friends who might be looking for the answer to this issue:

The problem is that Gallery *requires* the random block to be included via HTTP. It can’t be included as a direct file.

include(”http://your.site/path/to/gallery/block-random.php”)

That way gallery works as an external system to WP. No worries about definition overlapping at code level.

By: LcF

LcF — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:09:16 +0000

I would advice you to make a new installation and do as I recommended.

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:51:24 +0000

I fixed
“PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent”
by turning on the “output buffering”. It speeded up my page loading speed as well. That was a surprise.

These error in original code remains:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _() (previously declared in D:\root\dynamic\wp-includes\functions.php:6) in D:\root\dynamic\gallery\lib\lang.php on line 465

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:06:22 +0000

Hey man, guess I did my changes in different way since the very beginning. Whenever I need to refine something, I use Dreamweaver MX instead. But results are the same as template editor. System prints out the error message above. I have found no spaces, new lines, or other garbage before an opening < ?php tag or after a closing ?> tag.

It’s interesting that the “block-random.php” worked on your system out of the box with any error.

Best.

By: LcF

LcF — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:36:25 +0000

I don’t understand why do you need to call a function in Gallery?!
Login Wordpress admin, goto Presentation > Theme Editor. From there, select your template and click “Sidebar Template” and add the following code to include random gallery block:

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:14:31 +0000

Hey LcF, thanks for the quick response.

I am running Gallery 1.4 and WP 1.5. The match seems problematic. Whenever I call a function in Gallery, system prints:

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at D:\root\dynamic\wp-content\themes\default\index.php:5) in D:\root\dynamic\gallery\lib\lang.php on line 342 PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _() (previously declared in D:\root\dynamic\wp-includes\functions.php:6) in D:\root\dynamic\gallery\lib\lang.php on line 465

It seems some hacking of the original code is needed to get these two program to work together.

Cheers.

By: LcF

LcF — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:11:40 +0000

@allan: I am not using block-random-enhanced. I use the block-random comes with Gallery.

No, you do not add the include code into function.php, add the code into your wordpress template(sidebar) instead.

Example:

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:41:53 +0000

Hi LcF, how did you get the block-random-enhanced to work?
As soon as I put “include(’gallery/block-random-enhanced.php’);” into function.php, the block_image shows up on top of the page. I tried to locate to my sidebar. Nothing works.

I added a div ID in block-random-enhanced.php, echo “

“. That did not help neither.

It seems like the “include” can only be added to the beginning of function.php.

Using:

function get_header() {
if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/block-random-enhanced.php’) )
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/block-random-enhanced.php’);
else
load_template( ABSPATH . ‘gallery/block-random-enhanced.php’);
}

does not work neither.

Cheers.

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:39:03 +0000

Yup true, unless you can give an id or class to your li tag, e.g.

. Then for your CSS you dodiv#sidebar li#rand-photo img { padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; }

By: LcF

LcF — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:15:52 +0000

Thank you, David.
But now all images in sidebar have border..

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:37:21 +0000

Actually I think you don’t need to assign a class to the img tag. All you need to do is to add the following CSS:

div#sidebar li img { padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; }

That should add a gray border around the photo. Just change the padding, border width and colour to suit. Just a small warning – results may be funny if your code is not valid XHTML