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Introduction

The PhotoStack plugin for WordPress reads your PhotoStack RSS file and outputs the last few albums. The first picture of the album is used to identify each of the recent albums.

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PhotoStack Plugin for WordPress v1.01 (View Change Log)

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Installing the PhotoStack Plugin

Follow these instructions:

  1. Unzip photostack_v100.zip
  2. Upload the photostack directory to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  3. Login to your WordPress admin panel, click plugins, and activate the PhotoStack plugin.
  4. Add the following code to your sidebar template page: 
    <?php if ((function_exists('photostack')) && is_home()) { ?> 
    <div class="photostack">
        <h2><a href="http://www.sensoryoutput.com/photos/"><?php _e('Albums'); ?></a></h2>
        <span class="metalink"><a href="http://www.sensoryoutput.com/photos/?format=rss" title="RSS Feed for PhotoStack Albums">RSS</a></span>
        <ul>
            <?php photostack('http://www.sensoryoutput.com/photos/?format=rss','http://www.sensoryoutput.com/photos/',4,80,80,3600,'/path/to/cache'); ?>
        </ul>
    </div>
<?php } ?>
  5. Ensure that you properly replace the RSS URLs and the links to your PhotoStack within the code block. In addition, you will have to specify a location (/path/to/cache)for cached processing of the result, so that the RSS feed is not read over and over for each visitor.
  6. As an FYI, here are all the photostack() function parameters:
    • $rssURL : your PhotoStack RSS URL
    • $photostackURL : your PhotoStack URL
    • $albumCount : display this many albums
    • $thumbWidth : thumb width
    • $thumbHeight : thumb height
    • $cacheTime : cache results for this many seconds
    • $cacheDir : cache file location (you specify this, so make sure directory exists!)

Technical Support

As a first-year medical student, I do not have a great deal of time to work around specific issues. Please post your issues to the WordPress Forums » Plugins and Hacks. If you still have problems, you may send me an email to my Gmail address, which is kyle.rove at the usual Gmail.com.

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