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I probably should be working on the 2.7 upgrade, but instead I started looking at photo gallery options other than Gallery2. It is just too slow. There is too much of it I don’t use as well. I think I have settled on zenphoto. It seems to work pretty well, with out the feature creep that Gallery2 has. I figured I would convert the annieandchris.net site to that.

It got me thinking though about how I might integrate it with WordPress. After seeing the tantan Flickr plugin, and how well it works, I figured that there must be a plugin for zenphoto. Well, no. Not really. There are a couple that will let you show pictures in the sidebar. And Trung’s presszen looked promising, but it didn’t seem to work. I started taking a look at the code for the tantan Flicker plugin, and saw how he was able to take control of a URI to insert his own code in with the current wordpress theme. I stripped out the relevant stuff, and got it to work. This is the code.

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function parse_query(&$query) {
	$query->is_404 = false;
	$query->did_permalink = false;
}
function request($query_vars) {
    $query_vars['error'] = false;
    return $query_vars;
}
 
function cww_template() {
	get_header();
	echo '
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<h2>Zen Integration</h2>
</div>
';
	get_footer();
	exit;
}
 
define("CWW_ZEN_BASEURL", "/blog/test");
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], CWW_ZEN_BASEURL) === 0) {
    status_header(200);
    remove_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
    add_filter('request', 'request');
    add_action('parse_query', 'parse_query');
    add_action('parse_request', 'parse_query');
    add_action('template_redirect', 'cww_template');
} elseif (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'/', CWW_ZEN_BASEURL) === 0) {
    header('location: http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'/');
    exit;
}
?>

I think that I may take a go at pulling in the zenphoto albums in a plugin, and see how it goes. I like how you create plugins in WordPress, and it is kind of fun poking around. It was frustrating for the longest time when I was trying to get it going, and I was getting the body of the blog showing up at the bottom. I finally realized that I needed to ‘exit’ the script to prevent the loop from happening. You would think you could override a WordPress function to prevent that instead.

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