FAlbum
I finally installed FAlbum, Elijah Cornell’s plugin that integrates Flickr galleries into WordPress. It makes fabulous galleries; see how good my own galleries look.
Unfortunately, installation is a bitch. No matter what I did, I just could’t get friendly URLs to work, and attempts to troubleshoot it just broke the damned thing, again and again. So my advice for you is, if friendly URLs aren’t happening, don’t fight it.
Here’s how I got FAlbum’s galleries to look like my chosen theme:
Make a copy of the theme’s
page.php(for some themes, you could copy theindex.php).Rename this copy
falbum-wp.php.Replace its entire
<div id="content">element with the FAlbum code.Ftp this page up to your theme’s directory.
Here’s how I created a Page called Photos that links to the FAlbum galleries:
Install the Redirectify plugin.
Create a WordPress Page called Photos; in its Custom Fields, set the
redirectmeta field to the valuehttp://coopblue.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum-wp.php(naturally, your domain and blog location would be different)
That’s it. I hope this helps someone successfully install FAlbum. My only request: if you are handy with hacking mod_rewrite rules, I’d appreciate it if you could look at mine. I want to change them manually in order to get my friendly URLs to work.
Tri Nguyen FAlbum
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How to get FAlbum to Work
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Initially, I couldn’t get my friendly URLs to work either, but I did this, and it worked out:
First of all, I changed the friendly urls select-bar to true, and then I clicked save.
Then, after a refresh, there’ll be some error code at the top.
However, I just went down, and changed the “wp/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum-wp.php” to “/photos/”. It worked fine for me.
by Wan Zafran — 7th Sep, 2005, 5:40 am
@Wan, I followed your instructions . . . and it worked. Thank you. The “/photos/” path was at the bottom FAlbum Options page all along. However, the plugin’s own instructions should point this out more clearly. Thanks again.
by Tri — 7th Sep, 2005, 1:44 pm
Gee… I can’t make it work by no means! I keep getting different kinds of errors saying that there’s no such file as “long path I don’t even recognize/falbum.php” whatever. I guess I’ll try it the way you did it in your post.
by Fanelian — 20th Sep, 2005, 8:14 pm
“Replace its entire
<
div id=”content”> element with the FAlbum code.”
Which Falbum code are you referring to? wp-falbum, er.
by April — 11th Oct, 2005, 11:03 am
make sure the rewrite code for FAlbum in your .htaccess file is ABOVE the wordpress rewrite conditions and magically it should all work out with the “friendly urls”
by Flo — 7th Jan, 2006, 4:56 am
Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh. Nothing works. I am so fed up with WP – i dont think i can continue. Nothing but nothing works.
by AJ — 17th Jan, 2006, 6:06 pm
AJ – I got stuck on this too. Make sure that the path to the directory is from the root of your server. I have my wp install under a subdirectory called ’sideone’ so I had to make the URL root /sideone/photos/
I misunderstood and sent it from the wp install root the first time with /photos/ and the whole thing cacked.
by Lisa McMillan — 18th Jan, 2006, 2:43 pm
thanks, I couldn’t get it to work either. Changed the address and BAM!!
now… anyone been able to get the commenting to import from flickr? Not just the # of comments but that actual comments themselves??
I’ve checked the falbum forums and noticed one thread referring to code in line 785 – however my code doesn’t match either the before or after they have described, though my version is 6.04
by scott lenger — 30th Apr, 2006, 5:25 pm
also, the ‘my own galleries’ link in your post is broken
by scott lenger — 30th Apr, 2006, 5:27 pm
@Scott, thanks for the heads up on the broken link.
This post needs updating generally, since others in this thread have pointed out better ways to make friendly URL’s work in FAlbum. Also, in recent versions, the plugin’s Options page is much clearer on setting an appropriate path.
by Tri — 14th Jun, 2006, 2:47 pm