Thanks to the community for their feedback and input, we are ready to issue a service release on DM Albums, version 3.1.3. The following items are addressed:

• Bug fixes, including elimination of WordPress Admin issues (DM Albums™ was breaking some WordPress Admin tools), dm-albums-external.php is now working, and various miscellaneous ui tweaks.
• Re-introduction of Direct Download option
• Improved IE8/9 support (requires a theme with a valid doctype definition)
• DM Albums™ Admin Panel options allowing to choose a JQuery inclusion approach: Google JQuery library (default), deregister and replace the standard WordPress JQuery library, or Manual where the JQuery library is not loaded by the plugin and is instead loaded by the theme, giving more control to the user.

Note: In order for DM Albums™ to work in an external configuration, several libraries need to be included in (preferably) the header of the document. The new function dm_loadjavascript is provided for this purpose.

<?php

include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . “/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums-external.php”);

dm_loadjavascript();

dm_printalbum(“/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/preview/”);

?>

For anyone having trouble with the 3.x release, the previous version is still available here.

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We had a user ask a question regarding some customization. DM Albums™ previously allowed for adjusting thumbnail height, but that has been removed for this release. This is pretty easy to adjust, though, and I thought I’d share the instructions:

Thumbnail size:
In javascript/galleria.php, change line 26 to have whatever size you want:

    $size_thumb = "&width=60&height=40";

But changing the thumbnail height will screw up the positioning of the caption, so you’ll need to change the bottom: value in galleria/themes/classic/galleria.classics.css

    .galleria-info {
    width: 100%;
    bottom: 60px;
    left: 0px;
    z-index: 2;
    position: absolute;
}

This will place the caption at the right height. You’ll have to mess around with this a little, but whatever the height is of the thumbs plus 20 should do it.

Caption font size:
In the same file, you can also adjust the font of the caption:

.galleria-caption{
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    bottom: 0px;
    padding-top: 10px;
    text-align: center;
    background: #000000;
    color: #dddddd;
    font: 11px helvetica,sans-serif !important;
    font-weight: normal !important;
    opacity: 0.5;
    z-index: 1;
    filter: alpha(opacity=50);
}

Permanent Navigation Hints
As for making the image navigation hints permanent, just add the following line after the idleTime: 2000 line at line 76 of javascript/galleria.php:

idleMode: false,

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After almost two full years since the last update, we’re very pleased to announce we’ll be releasing DM Albums™ 3.0 this weekend.

There are some major changes in store for this round:

• The DM Albums™ presentation layer has been replaced with a full javascript/css album, powered by Galleria: fast loading, fully mobile-compatible, and streamlined fullscreen and lightbox capabilities.
• Appearance fully customizable through CSS
• Disappearing captions bug has been resolved
• Captions, links, and album titles are all moved into the wordpress database
• The backend DM Album Management system is largely left unchanged

Thanks for everyone’s patience and support over the past few years. Our team’s time has been severely limited, but we’ll make every effort to support the influx of support requests that are sure to come with such a substantial release.

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First of all, many thanks go out to the users in the community helping to make DM Albums™ a popular plugin. The increased usage and requests for support will only serve to make DM Albums™ a better plugin, and we greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback.

While DM Albums™ is still officially supported, Productions unfortunately does not have the bandwidth to respond to the requests at the moment.  So, with that, we invite any developers in the community to contribute their time to help DM Ablums become a better product.

The main features that require support are:

1. Assistance in expanding WAMP support and other configuration problems reported by users with the DM Album Manager
2. EXIF caption storage
3. In-line caption editing
4. Custom Stylesheet support

Please contact us if you’d like to contribute.  You will be credited in the code and we will also put a notice on the site that credits the developer as a Productions Supporting Contributor.

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Through help from the community, we have been able to improve support for DM Albums™ on Windows-based PHP installations such as WAMP.  The resolution may also alleviate problems experienced by users on non-Windows based PHP installations, so if you have had trouble in the past, this release  may help you as well. Please report any further problems or successes you have in the comment section or email the developer.

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