Oddball Update

While I already announced the opening of the Oddball Update Photo Gallery, I wanted to take a moment to announce today that I’ve already re-done it. Yeah…I decided that the Flickr service wasn’t for me. I always had an aversion to off-site storage of photography (I like to keep everything in-house on my own server and not rely on anyone else’s hardware), and on top of that, I quickly ran into the limits of my Flickr free account. While $25 a year isn’t much, there’s no point in paying it if I can roll my own solution that works just as well — for free.

So, I am now using Gallery2, combined with the WPG2 plugin for Wordpress that lets you integrate your gallery seamlessly with your weblog. It looks great, and provides near-limitless potential for hosting all kinds of pictures (my web hosting account now gives me access to 11 GB of storage).

The only caveat is that the WPG2 plugin isn’t 100% compatible with Wordpress 2.0 yet, so as such, while you are browsing the gallery, you might run across certain links or functions that, when clicked on, give you only a blank screen. If that happens, just hit your back button. This problem ought to be corrected in the next version of WPG2, which I’ll be installing as soon as it’s available. For now, simply browsing around and looking at pictures works fine. So enjoy! I’m already adding past photos from our collection, so keep checking back.

Categorized as Photography, Site