Lately, I mentioned that I am building a Photon Universal Binary plugin for iPhoto, which, previously, enables iPhoto to simply upload the tracks as single-photo posts, which kinda sucks because I always blog photos in batches. I also mentioned that I had a problem uploading my photos using Wordpress, and my guts tell me it’s an XML-RPC thing. Luckily, I remember that Wordpress accepts XML-data without the excess header telling XML version is 1.0. Now, it works for Wordpress, and hail the great power that is open source (for I now am able to edit things inside Photon).
Now my problem is how should I modify it in such a way that I don’t have to recode it from scratch? Well, the good thing about the Photon architecture is pretty extensible, so I was able to add a few features that could ease out blogging a batch of photos. In fact, this blog post is made using the plugin.
All I can say now is… enjoy the screenshot tour of the newly-improved Photon (which could get head to head with Wordpress Export iPhoto Plugin). You can download the latest version here: iPhoto ‘08 – compatible Photon fork.
Select the photos you want to include and try changing their comments to serve as captions
Write the file’s description to serve as photo caption. Make sure that the “Append to existing Description” checkbox is unchecked to be sure of its contents.
After editing all photo descriptions, export using the “Weblog” tab. If you choose to combine all photos in one post, provide a title and a “Prologue” text.
If you’re not sure of how your blog post should look like, click “Settings” from the Export Box, and select the “Entry Creation” tab.
If you always want to compile the selected photos as one, check the lower checkbox for single-posting.