DM Albums™ WordPress Plugin
DM Albums™ is a powerful WordPress plugin based on an online Photo Album tool called DM PhotoAlbums™. DM Albums takes full resolution photos and automatically builds thumbnails and allows browsing of the photo album in-line with your post, meaning your visitors can view the entire photo album without leaving your post. Once you follow the simple configuration to set up and customize the look of DM Albums™ in WordPress, simply upload full-resolution photos to a directory on your web site, and link to it in your blog post - DM Albums™ will do the rest, even allowing administrator users of your blog to add captions to the Photo Album - directly through the blog post (as long as they're logged in).
Of course, you don't have to use DM Albums™ in a blog post. With just a basic understanding of HTML, you can use it on any website simply by copying and pasting a few lines of HTML into your webpage.
DM Albums™ uses AJAX to provide smooth interaction while viewing the photo album. DM Albums™ is different from other photo management applications in that it strives to provide the highest-resolution photos possible to the user. Simply upload full resolution images to your web site, point DM Albums™ at the directory they are located in, and DM Albums™ does the rest, scaling the photos to the perfect size to fit the user's screen. As if that's not good enough, it also caches that size of the photo on the server in case it needs to use that size again. The next time it needs to scale the photo, it doesn't automatically go back to the original, full-sized photo; it will find the photo in the cache that has the nearest size bigger than it needs and scales that one instead, improving performance and lightening the load on your server.
New in version 2.0, DM Albums™ also includes a full WordPress Album Manager which allows you to uload and manage your ablums directly through the WordPress editor.
DM Albums ™ Demo
This demo provides a sample of configuration options available for the plugin. When installed on your server, you have full control over all the options and can fine-tune every detail - from sizing to color scheme. To adjust the appearance of the demo, change the options in the Appearance sidebar, and click "Update". To go back to the original appearance, click "Reset".
DM Albums™ WordPress Editor Panel Screenshots
Usage
There are three ways to use the DM Albums™ Plugin in a blog post:
Photo Album Prefix.
When using the photo album prefix (as defined below) followed by a link to the DM Albums™ Application (as defined below) in a blog post, the prefix and link will be replaced by the DM Photo Album.
Example: Photo Album: Demo Photo Album
Example Code: Photo Album: <a href="{album url}">Demo Photo Album</a>
[album:] Syntax.
Simply type [album: {album url}] in your blog post and the photo album will be inserted into the post at that point. This will usually be the direct URL to your photos, or to one of the photos in your album: [album: http://yourdomain.com/path/to/albums/]. It may also be the URL to your photo album including the Album Application (as specified in the DM Albums admin panel) plus the currdir parameter: http://yourdomain.com/path/to/album/application.php?currdir={path}.
[album:] Syntax with parameters (for advanced users).
DM Albums™ uses defaults you set up to control how each album looks. However, you can customize the look of any DM Albums™ by using parameters. When using the [album:] syntax, pass the parameters using a pipe-delimited name=value list. Simply type [album: {album url}|width={width}|height={height}|etc...] in your blog post and the photo album will be inserted into the post at that point using the parameters you specified.
Supported Parameters: controls={true,false}, autoplay={true, false}, thumbnail_location={TOP, BOTTOM}, thumbnail_size={NUMBER}, thumbnail_padding={NUMBER}, captions={0,1}, photo_count={0,1}, caption_height={NUMBER} , photo_padding={NUMBER}, title_prefix={ANY STRING}, left_margin={NUMBER}, right_margin={NUMBER}, top_margin={NUMBER}, and bottom_margin={NUMBER}.
Installation
To install, simply download the zip file below, upload it to your WordPress plugins directory, and unzip the file there. Then log into your WordPress Admin and activate DM Albums™ (listed as DM-Albums) in the Plugins panel. After that, you can configure DM Albums™ by clicking the link "DM-Albums" in the WordPress Options panel. For more information on how to install WordPress Plugins, visit the WordPress Codex.
Download DM Albums™
We are interested in any way you think we can make DM Albums™ better and easier to use. Please send any and all feedback or questions to development@dutchmonkey.com.
Donations
DM Albums™ is available free of charge. However, donations are appreciated in order to help fund continued development and support. Please click the link below to donate via PayPal.
