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Photos-For-You.com update (30 of 1373 or so.)

2011-09-22T14:46:00.002+01:00

Now that I am uploading new photos in some sort of coherent order, the 'Related Posts' plugin is making a lot more sense than it did before.

e.g. on the following post:-

Mushroom

It is suggesting similar photos that were most recently uploaded.

The only problem with a lot of the photos that I have tagged after uploading is that, quite often 'blank and white film' photos are all that is shown in 'related photos', as they just happened to be uploaded more recently than the colour photos.

I'm not sure the best way to get round this, apart from possibly changing it so that it only shows colour photos as default. Must think about it for a while...

Probably the best thing to do is show related photos from the category the current post is in e.g. if the current post is in the 'Colour Photos' category - then show related photos from the 'Colour Photos' category etc. (Must shuffle off now to read up a bit more on how to do this type of thing on Wordpress)...

Update - rather than doing a new post - after much consulting of Wordpress and php reference materials online - here is what I have hacked together into my single.php file in order to show related photos depending on which category the current photo is in (I'm sure there is a more efficient way to do it - but it seems to work so far):-

<div style="margin-top:-10px">
<?php
//for use in the loop, list 12 post titles related to first tag on current post

$category = get_the_category();
$firstcategory = $category[0]->cat_ID;

//if first category in array is photos then take next one, needed for Sepia photos for example
if ($firstcategory==3){
$firstcategory=$category[1]->cat_ID;
}

$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);

if ($tags) {
echo '<strong>Related Photos</strong><div style="clear:both;">';
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
$args=array(
'cat' => $firstcategory,
    'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=>12,
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
   );
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);

if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <div style="float:left;width:130px;height:132px;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;margin:0 3px 5px 0;padding:3px;font-size:11px;line-height:13px;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php

//the_title();

    echo yapb_get_thumbnail(
      '<div>', // HTML before image tag
      array(
        'alt' => 'Photo thumbnail', // image tag alt attribute
        'rel' => 'lightbox'                      // image tag rel attribute
      ),
      '</div>',               // HTML after image tag
      array('w=130', 'h=130', 'q=90'), // phpThumb configuration parameters
      'thumbnail'             // image tag custom css class
    );
?>
</a></div>
      <?php
    endwhile;
}

}
?>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;">

Total time take = approx 3 hours.

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Fuji HS20EXR and Duracell rechargeable batteries (2450mAh)

2011-09-19T10:59:00.006+01:00

I have to say that I am really really impressed with how long these Duracell Batteries lasted for.

They lasted for over a month, and while I didn't use the camera every single day, I did take over 500 photos, 5 minutes of video, and used the built in flash at least 20 times....

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Wasps.

2011-09-17T10:50:00.000+01:00

I spent some time playing around with the Macro and super macro modes on the Fuji HS20EXR - and I eventually got some half decent photos of a wasp :-

Wasp 8

Wasp 7

Wasp 6

Wasp 4

Although Wasp 4 was taken with a big smudge in the middle of the lens - and I couldn't work out why there was a total lack of sharpness to it... (Duh!).

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Photos-For-You.com update (29 of 1373 or so.)

2011-09-14T22:37:00.000+01:00

I've finally got round to adding a single post, along with some actual text underneath the photo...

The photo isn't very good (due to my incompetence with the new camera) - but at least it's different from the sort of moon photos that you normally see :-

Photo Of Moon With Craters (but only at the edges)

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Photos-For-You.com update (28 of 1373 or so.)

2011-09-14T22:34:00.000+01:00

Aha - database is back up again...

Phew!

Maybe now is a good time to look into making a proper backup of a Wordpress site...

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Photos-For-You.com update (27 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-14T22:32:00.000+01:00

Error establishing a database connection...

Doh!

I new things were going too smoothly....

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Photos-For-You.com update (26 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-12T14:00:00.000+01:00

After much faffing around.

I finally found the following post :-

http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-show-related-posts-without-a-plugin/

And plucked up the courage to merge some YAPB code and the above and add it to my single.php file to get YAPB thumbnails appearing on my 'Related Posts'.

Here is what it looks like now :-

How it decides on which posts are related, and how is displays the thumbnails and titles isn't quite perfect yet, but I am 90% happy with this!

Total time spent = approx 1 hour. (Should have done this yesterday and saved myself 4 hours of messing around - but you live and learn...)

For anyone else who is struggling to get YAPB thumbnails coming up in the related posts automatically - here is what my single.php file now looks like :-

<?php
/**
* The Template for displaying all single posts.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven
* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
*/

get_header(); ?>

        <div id="primary-post">
            <div id="content" role="main">

                <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

                    <nav id="nav-single">

                        <span class="nav-previous"><p><?php previous_post('%', '<< Previous Post - ', 'yes'); ?>    <?php next_post('%', '>> Next Post - ', 'yes'); ?></p></span>
<?php sharebar(); ?>
                    </nav>

                    <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'single' ); ?>

<?php
//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
echo '<strong>Related Photos</strong><div style="clear:both;">';
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
$args=array(
    'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=>6,
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
   );
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <div style="float:left;width:120px;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;margin:0 6px 6px 0;padding:3px;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title();

    echo yapb_get_thumbnail(
      '<div>', // HTML before image tag
      array(
        'alt' => 'Photo thumbnail', // image tag alt attribute
        'rel' => 'lightbox'                      // image tag rel attribute
      ),
      '</div>',               // HTML after image tag
      array('w=120', 'q=90'), // phpThumb configuration parameters
      'thumbnail'             // image tag custom css class
    );
?>
</a></div>
      <?php
    endwhile;
}

}
?>
<div style="clear:both;">
                    <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

                <?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

            </div>
        </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

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Photos-For-You.com update (25 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-12T09:39:00.001+01:00

'Related Posts' plugins for Wordpress are a great idea. Especially so when we are talking about photos and finding similar photos without having to search for them.

Bearing this is mind, I installed

Related Posts Thumbs
Auto Post Thumbnail

I then had to generate all the post thumbnails which took the best part of an hour or so (which didn't work - which is my fault as I failed to understand the difference between a post image and a YAPB image)

For about the fifth time since I started this project, I wished that I was good php programmer, as I would have hacked the plugin to use YAPB to generate the post thumbnails properly... But I'm not. So I didn't...

So currently I am stuck with displaying a static image in 'related posts' e.g.

If I could get image automatically inserted from YAPB, I would be really thrilled with this set-up, as (obviously) the 'related posts' are generated automatically. On my last photo web site www.irishviews.com I had a similar section at the bottom of each page - but each related link and thumbnail had to be inserted manually into the html of the page, which was a major pain in the arse!

Total time taken = approx 6 hours! (and about 5 hours of that wasted as I didn't fully understand what I was doing).
(If I had a 'featured image' on each post it would have taken a maximum of one hour)

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Photos-For-You.com update (24 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-11T16:40:00.001+01:00

Rather than mess around for 5 hours with css files trying to get the site to look right on smart phones (well, my Android phone at any rate) - I installed the latest version of WP Touch for Wordpress, and here is what http://photos-for-you.com/ now looks like on my Samsung Galaxy S :-

It's not perfect, it is an improvement, and it'll do rightly for now until I can think of something better...

Time taken = approx 30 minutes.

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Photos-For-You.com update (23 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-10T16:21:00.000+01:00

I now have 566

Infrared Photos

uploaded.

Of course, I cheated by just running a Paint Shop pro script on all my photos. Unfortunately the process took a lot longer than I anticipated because the majority of photos that had been processed in this way looked *awful*, so I had to spend to spend a fair bit of time going through the > 1,600 photos, and deleted more than 1000 of them before uploading. Most of them are far from stunning - but what do you expect for free?? :-)

Time Taken approx 2.5 hours.

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Photos-For-You.com update (22 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-09T12:10:00.003+01:00

It was a bit rubbish that on the home page, all categories were shown e.g. you would get Albert Clock, Albert Clock Black & White Film, Albert Clock - Sepia listed one after the other.

So how to show only the posts from the 'Colour Photos' category as default?

Solution found at

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-show-only-one-category-on-front-page

Of course, as default in Wordpress Admin, there seems to be no way of actually seeing what the category number is, so this required yet another plugin :-

http://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25-plugin/

Just so I could see which category number I needed to specify in the code.

Once I found that out it was just a very simple modification of /wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/index.php

Thanks to all who contributed information and the plugin above!

Time taken - approx 30 minutes.

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Photos-For-You.com update (21 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-08T21:15:00.003+01:00

Changed my mind about the massive 'Sepia' and 'B&W' icons at top right of home page. Made them smaller so the first 300x250 AdSense ad would be 'above the fold' on most screens anyway...

I also think it is nice that Google saw fit to show a 'Make Money From AdSense' advert on my web site ! :-)

Time taken - approx 30 minutes.

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Photos-For-You.com update (20 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-07T08:37:00.000+01:00

It's a while since I looked at the web stie on my Android phone - but when I did... DOH! :-

Just goes to show - when you are mucking around with CSS files - you really need to know what you are doing!
I might just install one of the mobile plugins for Wordpress to get round this - but last time I did this on one of my other sites, the AdSense ads disappeared which I don't think I could live with...

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Photos-For-You.com update (19 of 1373 or so..)

2011-09-06T15:52:00.001+01:00

Can I just say again - how much I am loving using Wordpress in conjunction with YAPB and YAPB Bulk Uploader to upload batches of photos? (Have I mentioned how cool it is before?) :-

I just love watching hundreds of photos upload themselves while I do other things....

By the way - all the photos shown above are courtesy of BVI Holidays.

To view all the British Virgin Island Photos available by clicking on

British Virgin Island Photos.

Time taken - approx 2 hours.

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Photos-For-You.com update (18 of 1373 or so...)

2011-09-03T19:34:00.002+01:00

I have finally found the time to go through all the photos/posts on http://photos-for-you.com and made a half decent stab at tagging everything (well, it's 90% done at any rate).

Wordpress makes this job a lot easier than it should be by allowing you to bulk edit posts i.e. add multiple tags to multiple posts as the same time (nice).

So here is my tag cloud so far :-

I'm not a huge fan of tag clouds - but it will let people find what they are looking for more easily when using either the 'search' option or the 'filter by category and tags' option. I should also help a bit with SEO (I think).

Time taken approx 6 hours (so far).

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Photos-For-You.com update (17 of 1373 or so..) AdSense Earnings For August 2011

2011-09-01T11:50:00.000+01:00

I was going to show you all a nice little graph of earnings - but there's no point - there has only been a total of £0.08 or approximately $0.12 earned during the whole month of August!

Yes, that's right - it'll not be long now before I can give up my day job :-)

There has been a lot of page views but 99% of these page views have come from myself by the looks of things..

On the positive side - I have noticed that one or 2 photos have started to show in Google Image Search already which is more quickly than I expected (never underestimate the power of half decently set up Wordpress site to rank well).

e.g.

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Photos-For-You.com update (16 of 1373 or so..)

2011-08-25T16:28:00.002+01:00

The Footer is definitely going to be the tallest ever seen on the internet :-)

It's not finished yet, but once I've finished cramming every available widget in there it'll be taller than a lot of the actual pages!

Time taken - approx 1 hour.

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Fuji HS20EXR Image Quality.

2011-08-24T15:41:00.006+01:00

Image quality is not as good as I was expecting in a lot of situations - but it's definitely OK in most situations.

For reference here is a full size crop of a photo of a chimney taken in good light from about 40 metres away at ISO 200 which is quite challenging for any camera to get right (really light chimney, really dark roof tiles):-

Considering the camera costs less than half the price of an equivalent (cheapish) zoom lens for a DSLR - I think you would have to be pretty happy with this shot.

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Donkey Photos

2011-08-23T14:02:00.002+01:00

Donkey Photos

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Hoverfly Photos

2011-08-23T13:53:00.000+01:00

Hover Fly Photos

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Photos-For-You.com update (15 of 1373 or so..)

2011-08-23T10:17:00.005+01:00

After much more messing around - I think I have the final (for now) layout, search options and filter options on http://photos-for-you.com (time taken approx 4 hours):-

For anyone else thinking of setting up a similar photo web site using Wordpress, here are the plugins I'm currently using:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cat-tag-filter-widget/
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/
http://www.gab.ro/post-sorting-reloaded/
http://bueltge.de/wp-suchen-und-ersetzen-de-plugin/114/
http://devgrow.com/sharebar-wordpress-plugin/
http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-wordpress-captcha.php
http://www.canhaswebsite.com/super-search
http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
http://joost.reuzel.nl/about/plugins/
http://johannes.jarolim.com/yapb

Now all I need to do is sort a proper 'Blog' page and get tags assigned to every single photo on the site, sort out a decent footer, and add thousands more photos...

Time taken - approx 4 hours.

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Photos-For-You.com update (14 of 1373 or so..) All Photos Now Genuinely FREE!

2011-08-22T14:56:00.003+01:00

I've had a change of heart about charging for commercial use of any of the photos on photos-for-you.com

Great as fotomoto is a service, I've decided to disable it for now so, *all* photos are FREE to use for anyone (commercial and non-commercial) at least until I can build a decent level of traffic at any rate.

Time taken - approx 20 minutes.

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Forest Stream Photos Added

2011-08-22T14:42:00.000+01:00

Forest Stream

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New Photos Added

2011-08-20T09:31:00.000+01:00

Castle Hill, Ardkeen.

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Photos-For-You.com update (13 of 1373 or so..)

2011-08-18T09:05:00.002+01:00

I also have installed a very nice Wordpress plugin called

Cat + Tag Filter

Which you can see near the top right of the screen at

http://photos-for-you.com

This allows you to browse through specific categories and/or tags without having to specify a search term (which is nice).

After installing this plugin though, I cam across a strange problem where some of my thumbnails were not being generated and others were. When I tried to view the thumbnail image directly in my browser I got a message saying I couldn't view it as the image was corrupted! This caused me a fair bit of head scratching, until I *think* I finally tracked the problem down to it being a strange bug with YAPB where (with my installation at any rate) it doesn't seem to like it when you specify slightly different thumbnail sizes for different page types in the YAPB options. Anyway, I set all the image sizes to be the same on all page types and (touch wood) the problem seems to have gone away.

Total time taken - approx 2 hours (would have been 15 minutes if the strange problem with the thumbnails had not cropped up).

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Make Money From Photos & Adsense.

Photos-For-You.com update (30 of 1373 or so.)

Fuji HS20EXR and Duracell rechargeable batteries (2450mAh)

Wasps.

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Error establishing a database connection...

Doh!

I new things were going too smoothly....

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Fuji HS20EXR Image Quality.

Donkey Photos

Hoverfly Photos

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Photos-For-You.com update (14 of 1373 or so..) All Photos Now Genuinely FREE!

Forest Stream Photos Added

New Photos Added

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