Kenneth Holland
Active member
Let me add from my last reply Cory that the example I gave you may be too cumbersome for my users. It might be better to go with a simpler, more streamlined approach.
PhotoPost Pro and XenForo integration
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Let me add from my last reply Cory that the example I gave you may be too cumbersome for my users. It might be better to go with a simpler, more streamlined approach.
Cory Booth
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Ken,
Sorry I was only helping to explain what I thought the differences between a Gallery and Album were.
There are only two options I have on my plate...
Currently useralbums and the long awaited Galleria which should be (based on the lead in comments) a very powerfull full featured gallery system.
I was told there would be an importer for Galleria if you start off using UserAlbums... So that's what I am doing now...
I have users posting with the UserAlbums with the hope soon for Galleria and it's importing abilities.
Kenneth Holland
Active member
Gotcha.
Question: Are the photos on your forum searchable? This is the one thing I'm trying to figure out if I can make happen with my forum.
BGL
Well-known member
No but I'm still looking at because it has "factory" CMS, Gallery and Mobile version which XenForo does not.
BGL
Well-known member
So what did you use in place of the IPB Gallery?
Kenneth Holland
Active member
I hear you...but this software is useless until I figure out the gallery dilemma...not saying I can't...but so I haven't.
optrex
Well-known member
I have no gallery at the moment other than a forum where people upload their pircutes. Because of the way lightbox works you can scroll through the images in a user topic call "membername gallery" quite well. I will use that until XF makes a supported gallery.
My IPB had a gallery due to people posting images in topics. They stopped posting pictures in gallery as it didn't integrate properly. We revert to XF and people started posting pictures again. Same thing happened with our photo comps - interest dropped until we reverted to XF.
It boils down to the fact members are vain and they want to know people are viewing their pictures and are commenting - this is more visible in a post than it is in a crap gallery implementation, so it works better.
Kenneth Holland
Active member
Hi optrex,
I just bought XF and am going through it and what you posted here may work for me the way you explained it.
Does "membername gallery" get created automatically? I'd like to see an example of this. Is it on your site?
Ken
optrex
Well-known member
no it doesn't get created automatically. You have a forum called photos or member galleries and a topic is created by the member, they call it what they like, but you could ask them to use a naming convention, i.e optrex's gallery
in the example here http://www.nzbees.net/forum/threads/few-old-photos-of-my-hives.411/
there are 39 images across 6 posts. You read the topic with the thumbs and the comments and the member gets likes etc just like a normal post, so they are used to the interface and its integrated already with the rest of the site ie alerts/likes/replies/search.
But here is the important bit, when you view the 39 images you get to see all of them in lightbox. You get the forward/back arrows or you can jump to a thumb using the strip across the bottom of the page. Its sort of galleryesque
Unfortunately on this example you need to register to see the actual images, but standard view of the lightbox feel is as you get here.
in the example here http://www.nzbees.net/forum/threads/few-old-photos-of-my-hives.411/
there are 39 images across 6 posts. You read the topic with the thumbs and the comments and the member gets likes etc just like a normal post, so they are used to the interface and its integrated already with the rest of the site ie alerts/likes/replies/search.
But here is the important bit, when you view the 39 images you get to see all of them in lightbox. You get the forward/back arrows or you can jump to a thumb using the strip across the bottom of the page. Its sort of galleryesque
Unfortunately on this example you need to register to see the actual images, but standard view of the lightbox feel is as you get here.
BGL
Well-known member
How do they get the image from their computer into the Xenforo forum message?
BGL
Well-known member
Doh! Just noticed that was one of the options.
Actually, that really serves my purpose for members being able to post pic with their messages. Sorry for the big pic...testing it.
BGL
Well-known member
I use the thumbs, but you've found that too
Yes. Killed the big pic and just the thumb. Never saw the direct "Upload File". That will work fine for my members.
Steff
Active member
This is an old thread and since PhotoPost has seemingly vanished and maybe closed down, I thought I would add a screen shot of how easy it was to migrate to Xenforo Media Gallery, how great it felt to be in a secure gallery that was professionaly coded and felt like the darkness has lifted from my cummunity. I lost my community through poor scripting of the gallery and all I had in the end were spammers.
Thank you Xenforo for free me from that and giving my members a chance to enjoy (without feer) the use of an exceptional gallery software
Thank you Xenforo for free me from that and giving my members a chance to enjoy (without feer) the use of an exceptional gallery software
Brandon Sheley
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Was this one of the built in importers?This is an old thread and since PhotoPost has seemingly vanished and maybe closed down, I thought I would add a screen shot of how easy it was to migrate to Xenforo Media Gallery, how great it felt to be in a secure gallery that was professionaly coded and felt like the darkness has lifted from my cummunity. I lost my community through poor scripting of the gallery and all I had in the end were spammers.
Thank you Xenforo for free me from that and giving my members a chance to enjoy (without feer) the use of an exceptional gallery software
What gallery was it imported into?
One of the sites I manage will be moving from vb to xf and they have photopost and would like a solid was to ditch photopost.
Steff
Active member
I had VBGallery on a VBulletin 4.xx and that was imported in to Xenforo Media Gallery (the only core gallery for Xenforo). The importer comes with the Xenforo Media Gallery and is a synch to use. Just make sure that you close your gallery and forum before importing and it's always best to back up first.
In my opinion it is a bit slow at importing, but that said it is very thorough indeed.
There is also A VBulletin importer as well that is equally as good and that also comes with Xenforo.
My only advise would be (other than what I've already mentioned) is that you will be prompted to save the logs when importing. These are important and I renamed mine gallery log (when I was importing the gallery) and forum log for the forum.
I believe there is also a script on Xenforo to deal with any redirection so that you don't lose any SEO once you've moved to Xenforo. Here is a link to Chris D redirect script
It's a real breeze you'll love the gallery and the solid structure
Brandon Sheley
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I manage a site that has vb garage and photopost.
I was wanting to move vb garage to the showcase mod and it looks like that'll be no issue. I need something to import from photopost and this thread came up when I searched earlier.
I was wanting to move vb garage to the showcase mod and it looks like that'll be no issue. I need something to import from photopost and this thread came up when I searched earlier.
