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JSON Output for Pixelpost

While doing some recent work with the Flickr API and JSON I thought I could make a JSON object for Pixelpost pretty easily. WIth some relatively simple javascript, the JSON object will allow you to display your pixelpost photos outside of the Pixelpost framework. The object includes the title and descriptions of each photo as well as the urls to the thumbnail, fullsize image, and the link to the photo on your photoblog. You can access the object using http://yourdomain/index.php?z=json

Download the Pixelpost JSON Addon

Additional Parameters:

• number – number of images in JSON object.
• category – category id to pull images from.
• tag – tag to pull images from.
• tags and category parameters cannot be used simultaneously.

Example URLs:

• http://yourdomain/index.php?z=json&number=10&category=4
• http://yourdomain/index.php?z=json&number=20&tag=portrait

Examples

• http://blog.kevincrafts.com/?z=json – JSON output
• http://www.kevincrafts.com/json/ – Using the JSON object on another webpage

Free Texture Pack Download – Industrial and Grungy

I’ve been working on photographing a bunch of textures this week that I found around my home and office.  All images are available for personal or commercial use. Includes 17 images. Each image is 2000 pixels wide.

Download Texture Pack

Here’s what’s included:

Download Texture Pack

Music Site Redesign

I redesigned my music site today. I had taken a self-portrait the other day and was thinking if I could use the photo for anything. After doing some post processing on it I thought it might look good on my music site. The site has a bunch of the songs I’ve written over the past 8 years which you can listen to and download.

Visit music.kevincrafts.com

Pixelpost Addon: Pixelpost2Twitter

This addon send your posts to your Twitter account. Posts can be sent when uploaded (don’t use this for future posts) or you can pick from any of your posts to send to Twitter.

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Installation:

1. Put admin_pixelpost2twitter.php in your addons folder
2. Go to the addons menu in the admin area – this will install the Twitter configuration table
3. Go to the options menu and click on ‘Twitter Options’
4. Enter your Twitter email and password and click ‘Configure’

Use:

1. When posting a photo at the current time, click the ‘Twitter this photo’ checkbox – don’t use this option for future posts
2. or… Click on the ‘Twitter this photo’ link from the Images menu

Pixelpost Addon: Multiphoto

This Pixelpost addon allows the display of multiple images (10 at a time) instead of single images.

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Instructions:

1. Put the _multiphoto directory in your addons folder and turn on the addon in your Pixelpost admin panel.
2. Create a new html template file – you can name it whatever you want, such as multiphoto_template.html.
3. Put the tag <MULTIPHOTO> on this new template file.

Customization:

If you want to change the layout that this addon displays, you can edit the multiphoto_template.html file that is in addons/_multiphoto/multiphoto/multiphoto_template.html.

The supported tags in this file are <IMAGE_ID>, <IMAGE_NAME>, <IMAGE_DATE>, <IMAGE_NOTES>, <COMMENTS>, <IMAGE_WIDTH>, <IMAGE_HEIGHT>.

Use the Entrypage addon to make this the default page for your site.

Demos:

1. http://blog.kevincrafts.com/index.php?x=multiphoto
2. http://pixelpost.kevincrafts.com/?newtemplate=supaclean&x=archive - this shows a different layout as explained in the customization instructions above.

Future Development:

This purpose of this addon is to provide another way to chronologically display your photos. There are no plans to add sorting (by tag or category) options or to add additional photo info (exif data, tags, categories). It is similar to Flickr that shows multiple photos and you must click on the photo to get additional info.