WPG2 Work Around

Finally got a random picture from the Gallery2 appearing in the side block. Here’s the workaround.

1. Activate the ImageFrame plugin in Gallery2. This is required so that you can setup the sideblock in the WPG2 plugin in WordPress.
2. After you set-up the SideBlock – you must deactivate or Uninstall the ImageFrame plugin in Gallery2 – otherwise it will complain about a certain template being not found and prints debug messages. There is a bug in ImageFrame and still not fixed. The downside of doing this is that all the frames in the main Gallery2 site will also disappear. For now – I’ll live with that.
3. You can also use the WPG2 Image Tag in the blog now.

Actually – choosing a WPG2 optimised theme like the dKret2 for WordPress adds a random image by default. But I notice that dKret2 does not respect the image alignment set by non-wpg2 tagged images. (See the Nielsen Community Day blog – this was written with the image aligned right but was forced to align left in this theme).

The annoying part is having to continually activate/deactivate the ImageFrame to set anything in the WPG2 settings. This will be the case until the the plugin is fixed on a release. For now – I’ve given up trying to get an embedded Gallery going. The “Gallery” in the navigation bar is also not working even after I have editted the .htaccess to redirect to my https://www.rommelpascual.com/gallery2 – another headache as this means WP is not doing any URL re-write properly. Sometimes, a WPG2 link will also appear in the navigation bar. This will happen only if you have set G2 to appear within WP in the plugin settings. But – since I’m using a Carbon Theme in G2, the result of embedding this theme into WP does not look well. I need a WPG2 friendly G2 theme – which I have not been able to find.

In conclusion, WPG2 3.0.2 is still a bit buggy to be useful. Unfortunately, it’s my first install and I can not really rollback to WPG2 2.1. For now – I’ll wait for the next release.

22 April 2008: WPG2 and WordPress are now working well in this site. These are the release levels:

1. WordPress 2.5
2. Gallery2 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
3. WPG2 3.0.2

Surprisingly, even the Lightbox that comes with WPG2 plays well with SWF Scripts which has dogged my site when browsing using the Internet explorer.