Dyle’s Blog

Gallery2 <-> Wordpress Desaster

Man … the integration of gallery2 and Workdpress is disastrous! I wasn’t able to get it integrated with ease. Three things which are pretty annoying:

a) Wordpress UI is just ridiculous. It’s really bad. Sure, one got the task of adding menu items by installing plugins. But on the other side this is not the first piece of software confronted with that task. Next it is not intuitive, e.g.: take the head line “Write Manage Design” on the left and “Settings Plugins” to the right. Ok … “Manage” vs. “Settings”? Huh? Obvious? No. That’s pretty confusing. So configuration and setup is basically trial & error.

b) Theme/Wdiget/WPG2 is … buggy. OMG! Didn’t found a theme capable of runing all these. Not to mention, I didn’t get aware of the fact I have to use a widget-enabled theme in order to get WPG2 to run … and then I only could view either a configurable sidebar (Calendar, Search, …) OR WPG2 Sidebar but not both!!! Huh?

c) Gallery2 support for multisites is ridiculous. Permalinks? No.

For short … Gallery2 <-> Wordpress Interaction does prevail a lot of … “optimization potential”. It’s buggy and frustrating.

I’ll organize my photo presentation in the blog in a own page … not tool driven but in full control of my hacking capabilities …

edit: Ok managed running permalinks on the multisite gallery2 installation … somehow … However, WPG2-Tags still are broken and I can’t use them. I’ve create a page “Dyle’s Fotos” whth hard-coded tags

There should be a better software out there …