WP-SmugMug
I’m putting the finishing touches on WP-SmugMug, a plugin for WordPress that integrates — you guessed it — SmugMug RSS feeds into your WordPress Posts and Pages. Activate the plugin, specify the RSS feed url for your SmugMug album, and your images appear as thumbnails at the bottom of your post!
By default the images will be sorted according to their EXIF capture dates — thankfully this information is embedded in the album RSS feed. If you don’t want your images sorted, you can specify a custom field to prevent this on a post-by-post basis. Finally, the CSS and HTML is fairly customizable from within WordPress’s Administrative Panel, meaning you don’t have to dicker in the plugin code if you don’t want to.
The Backstory
The genesis of this plugin goes way back to 2000 when I remade tow.com from a site feature made mobile computing software into a personal website. The word blog hadn’t become mainstream, and I was calling the site a digital journal. Up until now, I had a variety of PHP scripts to display images that I had manually processed using iView and Photoshop. It wasn’t the most efficient way of getting things done, but it was something I was familiar and comfortable with. Nearly two years ago, I migrated much of the site content to WordPress. One of the holdovers from the old site was the photo gallery code.
With this plugin, things are much easier. Numerous applications exist to get my photos uploaded easily to SmugMug, including PictureSync, SmugExport (Aperture Plugin), and SmugMug’s new web-based uploader. WordPress, of course, makes it a snap to blog. Now, with WP-SmugMug, I have the best of both worlds!
You can find some more information about WP-SmugMug in my new WordPress Projects page.
- Download WP-SmugMug (Version 1.0)
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
Sweet, I’ll be trying it out shortly. I wrote an Aperture plugin for SM also, davidholmes.org/aperture-to-smugmug.
David
January 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Sweet!! Had it up and running in 5 minutes. Great job. Haha Filckr is toast. Question: any way to limit the number of images it shows?
January 21st, 2007 at 10:38 pm
FYI, you should be able to specify the # of images in the feed URL using the parameter ImageCount.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Hey, is there anyone else that’s not getting the plugin’s CSS information to apply to the photos fed in by the RSS feed?
Also, was wondering if anyone has the image’s caption (input at the gallery page on smugmug) feeding into the pages the plugin is feeding?
Thanks.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
James - I am working on another release of the plugin, which will display captions and have editable css in the plugin file itself (instead of via the database as it is now). I’ll send you a version via email to test.
February 10th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
The plugin was very easy to install but my images appear in a vertical line down the left of the post. Can you give me some tips on styling the thumbnails and images to appear like you have them in the screenshot above (Eric’s Birthday Party).
thanks!
Leslie
February 11th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Can you send me a screenshot of what you’re experiencing? Does this appear in all browsers or just one in particular?
February 15th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Hey, Adam, Was wondering if there was a new release for WP 2.1 (or if that was necessary?)
Thanks.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Hi, great plug-in, I really want to use it instead of G2WP, but I have some issues… First, all the thumbnails are ultra-tiny. Like FARRR FAARRR too small… And they go down the blog length a ways, then break into my right hand bar… I am using K2… I don’t know… I am keeping the page as it is, as I doubt anyone will think to look into an aside… http://www.nosteamshovel.com/2007/02/13/portraits-2/
March 31st, 2007 at 7:20 am
Does this work with Wordpress 2.1?
I am not seeing the pictures (just placeholders).
thanks
April 13th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Having trouble getting this working in WP 2.1
Any news if compatible
thx and regards
April 15th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Hi! I have tried this on my site but nothing new shows up. Here’s what I did.
* I downloaded and then uploaded the plugin.
* Activated the plugin with no trrouble.
* Went to my latest post and added a custom field called “wp-smugmug” (without the quotes.)
* Set the value of the field to the URL: http://detayls.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data= 2702270&format=atom03
* Saved the post with no alteration to the text in the post.
Nothing appears. My WP is version 2.0.2 and I am using the K2 theme.
Do I have to refer to wp-smugmug in the text of the post in some fashion?
Did I miss a step?
Thanks.
David
April 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
David:
Can you try using the rss format instead of the atom03 format?
-adam
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Adam,
I changed the reference to:
feed://detayls.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=2702270&format=rss200
It doesn’t seem to help. Do I have to refer to wp-smugmug in the text of the post in some fashion?
Thanks,
David
April 24th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Let me send you a pre-release version of the plugin. It’s working on my end.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Hi Adam,
I’m not seeing images either. I’m on wordpress 2.2.
Do I need a newer version?
Thanks,
-Peter
February 13th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Hi, love your wp-smugmug plugin.
Is there a way to combine this plugin with a “light-box” effect, such as offered using this plugin: http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/wp-shutter-reloaded/
I’d rather have the pictures pulled into the post by wp-smugmug open up “light-box”-like instead of redirecting the viewer directly to the album.
Is that workable?
thanks!
February 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Very good idea. I’ll have to check this out when I’m back from China.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:04 am
This is very interesting! Can I request you to share a sample code that can be inserted into a post on wordpress (i.e. the exact way in which to put the wp-smugmug in the post)? Thanks!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am
It’s happens automatically if you have the wp-smugmug and wp-smugmug-options custom fields set. The next version of WP-SmugMug will offer more customizability. Timeframe is probably in the next two months.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
hey adam, sorry for being slow here. i installed it in the right directory (copied it there that is). Now what should I insert into a post for the images to show in the post?
More specifically, I could translate this first step into the exact action. What will be the code to insert a custom field… thanks!
1. Add a custom field with the name ‘wp-smugmug’ in any post or page
2. Enter the RSS feed URL as the value for the custom field
February 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Custom Fields are entered at the bottom of the Write > New Post screen, right about the Delete Post button.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
it worked this time. i guess i did not know what a custom field is.
however, i seem to be able to get the images only on the page where the entire post is displayed. is it possible to get, like say, four images, in the main blog page?
btw this rocks!
February 18th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Right now, this is how wp-smugmug works. The next version will offer more customization.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
is it possible to increase the size of the thumbnails? i tried changing what was 170px in the options but that only seems to change the frame size (fewer columns effectively, but delivered the same size image).
February 19th, 2008 at 12:00 am
The thumbnail URLs are sent from SmugMug. All SmugMug images share the same filename, with the only difference being the last few characters. For instance:
http://tow.smugmug.com/photos/116855244_sPfjP-Ti.jpg
http://tow.smugmug.com/photos/116855244_sPfjP-Th.jpg
http://tow.smugmug.com/photos/116855244_sPfjP-S.jpg
http://tow.smugmug.com/photos/116855244_sPfjP-M.jpg
etc. The next size up from Th is S, which is pretty big.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:07 am
quite true.
however, i checked out their flash (shizam) slideshow and i could specify the max height and width of the images and they seem to scaling the images. even their random.mg function appears to scale the images well.
you think they might scale here as well? i basically was wondering if one could create a clean album look in a WP post that looks kind of like this. (http://picasaweb.google.com/FlorianUSA/Texas)
February 19th, 2008 at 11:02 am
We’ll see. Again, you’re free to modify the code yourself. I’ll be working on a new version of wp-smugmug with additional features in the coming months. Right now, I’ve got to get ready to leave the country for the next three weeks!
February 19th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Nice. Well have a great time. I wish I could adapt the code (very rudimentary understanding) — but then it looks quite good as it is. So thanks!
April 27th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Someone mentioned Lightbox support.
SmugWP (see my link) supports Lightbox, browsing of protected and non-public galleries (to insert from), and CSS styling. It also supports a Gallery ID Confirm/Redirect, something similar to what DigiProofs does.
Check it out.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Hi,
I use Wordpress MU for building up my site right now; I activated the plugin on my photo blog, but it didn’t work (see link). on my other “normal” wordpress blog it worked fine. Is it a problem with the MU template? (I use the standard one). should I add some sort of “call” line in the code?
thanks a bunch in advance!!
cheers
May 24th, 2008 at 2:20 am
oops - as ironic as life, after I posted this i somehow got it to work :). thanks for the… inspiration :). cheers,
June 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Will this plugin work in a wordpress.com site?
June 14th, 2008 at 5:54 am
Cool, nice post, this blog is great.keep the god job!
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