I have made a new homepage for FlashBox (let’s say it’s 80% ready).
Well not exactly..
It’s a new feature in WordPress 2: you can choose a template which will be used for Pages.
So in fact I’ve made a new template.
Whateva: I’ve started with the documentation of FlashBox.
The new homepage is a start, and soon there will be some post about Usage instructions, faq, todo/request, competition, etc.
thumbnails, or something similar so you can skip a couple images in a gallery
Read xml
Read FLV
Read MP3
autoplay / slideshow
resize big images
Flash 7 plugin (nice to have) as minimum requirement, FlashBox uses now Flash 8 plugin which should cover about 94% of the users (source Adobe)
If no Flash plugin is available (or not the correct version) there should be a possibility to view without Flashbox
A button in tinyMCE the default wysiwyg editor
Visible notification form the activation of FlashBox
Posible to activate FlashBox without ‘rel=”flashbox”‘ – tag
note: A good example is the slideshow from flickr.com.
Requests
There was no specific place to place requests.
And now there is, so I collected the requests I already got and placed it here:
emre
Congratulations on your new plug-in! While it looks great, I have to say you have more competition than you realize. The newest breed includes Slightbox (23KB) and Litebox (3KB).
While size is no longer an issue, I can think of one area where you can pull ahead: ease of installation. All the others require modifying the code to add a REL attribute to tags. If you can make yours work without modifying any code, it will be the first choice of many people.
Veel bedankt!
Answer: This is a possibility, but I think should be an option which can be activated.
Hardy
Thanks man, good idea to build up something smaller than most of the other photo-plugins for wp. What i always miss, is a solution to show iptc-Data. Woud be nice to put this feature into the plugin. But good work for now.
Hardy
Answer: I think it’s possible to do this. The PHP JPEG Metadata Toolkit by Evan Hunter. I have to perfect the Flash first before I introduce another feature. But this was also a though of mine, but not this extensive (I had never heard of iptc-Data)
Thx for pointing this out to me!
Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.
If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, follow step one but additionally include a group name between square brackets in the rel attribute. For example:
The display:none will make the whole block (div) disappear for the viewer but, it will still be “visible” for the FlashBox code. In html it will look like this: