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I manage a large website for a local camera club. We have 100's if not thousands of images that have accumulated over the years. We have just launched our new website and the highest pain part is posting the winners for each months competition. There is only 36 images posted, but to post those images using a gallery plugin and then adding captions to all of them is a time suck. Since all the images end up in Lightroom for organization and labeling purposes it would be great to just push a gallery out to the WordPress website and have it done. I don't mind having to go in and add some navigation to the menu, but it would be great if we could automate the gallery process with captions. You can take a look at what we are doing now, and I would like to replicate that as much as possible but I am of course more interested in the automation process so i am willing to make some changes if i need to.
I am also very interested in the Client Feedback plugin as we send these images out to judges each month to be scored. This too is a bit of a time suck and would love to be able to automate this as well.
From what I understand both of these items be handled via light room which would be fantastic. I am a bit confused on what I need to make all of this happen. Is there a base program I need to start off with for Lightroom and for Word press? Where do I start, where do I need to accomplish these tasks?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Houston
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Hi Houston,
since the last time you posted about this the CE4 version of CRG has been released.
The TTG galleries can be uploaded to WordPress sites, but not directly to WordPress generated pages or posts.
You can style the galleries in many ways but whether you can get it to match your existing WordPress site will depend on the design.
Probably the best way of integrating a gallery section in your existing site is to use Autoindex as the main page for accessing the galleries.
To better automate the process, also use the TTG Publisher plug-in.
So to do what you want, I'd suggest getting TTG CE4 Autoindex, TTG CE4 Client Response Gallery, and TTG CE4 Publisher.
(autoindex is optional, but it will allow you to visit a page and see thumbnail links to the galleries within)
There will be some server-side set up, but it's pretty easy to do. You can read more about that
here: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … tion_setup
here: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … stallation
and here: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … lery_setup
If you want your WordPress site to match the design of the galleries you'll create, you could also get TTG CE4 Theme for Wordpress and use it to create a new WordPress theme for your site.
Rod
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One last thing, If you notice, on the galleries i have set up on the Clubs gallery pages, there are 3 galleries set up for each competition, beginners, advanced, and Masters. Can this also be done with TG via Lightroom? I am also assuming that we can get the Captiosn to show up in this format as long as they reside in LR, is this correct?
Example:
3rd Place - Monochrome
Mission San Jose
by Jonathan Garza
Last edited by houston.brown (2015-02-21 02:49:24)
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the gallery page design on that page (with the three galleries on one page) is not possible with TTG galleries.
What you can have is a page (an autoindex page) that has links leading to a "beginners" , "advanced", and "masters" galleries.
You can configure the displayed metadata just about any way you want. There will be two lines to work with in both the gallery grid thumbnails and the large images. But even though there are only two lines available, you can concatenate metadata fields in each line. See this gallery demo: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/demos/01- … ery-basic/
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
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Hi Houston,
What you can do is set all of this up alongside your existing site. Assuming you're based on Wordpress, you can go along with this tutorial:
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku.php?id=ce4_102
For the purposes of this tutorial, CE4 Gallery and CE4 Client Response Gallery are interchangeable. Also, you'll want to skip those steps which are specific to our CE4 Theme for WordPress product (steps 6 and 7).
Also, I would recommend only using CE4 Client Response Gallery for your judges, and use CE4 Gallery for displaying the monthly winners gallery.
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