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.
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Found your plugin from wordpress support page. Thank you very much, this is exactly what I am looking for. I have a question though, is it possible to make the thumbnails link to the photo picture. Thanks.
Thanks albert for testing this for us
Would you be kind enough to tell me which kind of blogging tool, were you using?
Also, I am planning to do a WYSIWYG version of the post thingy, much like MarsEdit, but iPhoto-centric… so you could decide whether to make thumbnails out of your pictures or not. But for now, I suggest you edit it on serverside instead. Besides, I still have my day job to finish (I’m the developer of Bandwagon clients), so updates might take a little longer
I am using wordpress 2.2.
no problem, this is already a much quicker way for me to upload the pictures anyway. I’ll check back for any update that you might have. Thanks.
Can I ask you a favor? Can you spread the word about this plugin so we could have more ideas coming in for this project? Thanks.
I get a server-error 500. The categories are fetched but no photo upload is possible.
Also it hangs my iPhoto. Are there any directions on how to Blog Id and Access Point although they seem to be OK.
Can you tell us what is your blog type (if it’s wordpress, movable type, etc.) and your blog URL? The Blog ID value is usually 1.
Me wrong.
I used my weblog address + xmlrpc.php for Access point and 0 as blog id and that was OK. I did just NOT enter anything under the tabs entry creation and image upload. After I did that all worked OK!
Great tool!
Now i’m gonna b(ack)log 2 months
I use WordPress
I’m using iPhoto 6 and have installed the Photon. I successfully create a new post, but images don’t get uploaded nor does the text for the post. All I get is the blank post.
Any thought? Thanks! I’ve been trying to get this working for awhile now…
OK… here’s the deal…
Can you click on the “Settings” button on the blogs dropdown, and then, create an empty blog? A bogus blog perhaps… just press the “+” sign down the list. Then click on the tab called “Entry Creation” and click the blog where you wanna post your photos. If the dropdowns under the “Use:” region appears, then you can edit the picture sizes…
Lemme know if this works.
I finally got around to looking at the thread we created on MacNN and I found this blog! I was wondering if you would keep up some kind of support for MT. Particularly I am running MT 4.01 and though Photon gets the categories correctly, it cannot seem to post. It shows the “Exporting…” pane, but just seems to hang there. No entry gets created in MT either. If there is a log file I can pass that along. Otherwise, I am unsure how to figure out where the error is occurring. Anyway, thanks for the help!
Hi MT guys!
Before I make another blogpost about fixing a bug for other blogging tools, can I ask you guys to test it and send me emails if they do work or not? Your messages will be much appreciated. The new build is in the downloads link.
I attempted the new build and get to “Exporting… Photo 1 of 1″. It just hangs like this and I am unsure if it is even communicating with MT.
Alright, I now get “Server Error: 1″. Does this help? Thanks.
I forgot that I erased the logs…
Anyway, maybe I’ll just have to set up a MT blog somewhere in my server then…
Thanks for the input, BTW…
Also, were you trying the “one post per picture” or the “one post for all pictures” feature? I suddenly realized i had no idea what I was fixing.
The one post per picture
. Also, could I make a recommendation? Turning off the section of the sheet with options for one post if the checkbox is not clicked? Or better yet put it in the first window, so that the user can access both styles easily. Thanks… for a project like this, I would be glad to give all the help I can.
I’m using iPhoto 6.0.6 and MT 3.35. I have managed to get photon to work irregularly for 1 photo (i.e. not reliably) – multiple photo uploads seem to hang after 1 photo is uploaded. I’m also trying 1 post per picture. Thank you for breathing new life into photon plugin – its very much appreciated.
Hi again.
I tested a new build using an MT blog. It turns out that it somehow works. If it seems to be hanging, try cancelling and re-export. I know this behavior is not Mac-ish, and I’m working on it.
Here is the MT site where I tested Photon: http://mt.jofell.com/blog
The MT site I am using is v4.0.1. I will test this for more blog types.
BTW, the new build I was talking about a while ago can be downloaded from this site’s download link in the sidebar.
I grabbed the latest version (and am running MT 4.0.1) and gave it a go. If I click Cancel and then once again try exporting, I am, almost immediately, given the usual error of “Server Error: 1″. Is it possible to find out what exactly the error might be so that I can find out if the problem really is on my end? Thanks!
Instead of clicking cancel on the export window and then immediately trying to export, try backing all the way out to iPhoto’s main window then select export again. As has been pointed out – for whatever reason this seems to work.
Thanks for the input guys. I’m figuring out what’s causing the weird UI behavior, and also thinking of recoding the entire thing. Hopefully, no offense to the Daikini Team, and I really appreciate them open sourcing this thing, but the code seems to be so all-in-one, and everything seems to be handled in one object. Anyway, hope I could make this by the end of the month, so please do watch out for this.
I’m using mt 3.35 and iPhoto ‘08. Every time I try to connect it says:
Photon could not fetch the category listing for “fassn8.com/blog”. The server replied “Invalid login”.
Is this a permission thing? If so where should I check? Thank you in advance for all the work you have done on this plugin!
Hi Jason.
I just replied to your “other” email just a while ago. Anyway… I also got that error with MT, and the password that I was using in iPhoto was not the real password I should be using.
In MT, click to your profile editor (the one that says “Hi, ***”), and from there, you’ll see at the bottommost the Web Services password set to you by MT. I dunno the details why they separated the Web Services Password from the User Login Password, maybe for security reasons, but basically, they are two different passwords.
Lemme know if this works. OK?
I am now thinking if I should create a forum out of this
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BTW, you can click the “Reveal” link to reveal your Photon password (which is really bad, IMO), and you can edit that password by changing what’s inside the “password field” under the “Web Services Password” form.
And where are the installation instructions. I can’t figure out how to install the content folder.
I’m using WP 2.3 with iPhoto 6.0.6 and Photon v1.2 — When I submit to the server, it always says “Photon could not fetch the category listing for “…”. The server replied “Bad login/pass combination.”.”
Hi Mark.
Have you really checked your username password being your Wordpress account’s username and password? Do you also have posting capabilities for that Wordpress blog?
My setup is not working anymore. Is it the latest iPhoto update?
One problem I found earlier was while posting utf-8 text. This gives an error and creashes iPhoto.
For now I’m stuck with server error 500 and again an iPhoto crash.
I am having the same hang problem with MT. However, if I cancel and re-export a few times it eventually works.
Good enough for me!
Thanks for continuing this great plugin, I was lost when I upgraded to ‘08!
hi,
i’m using leopard, iphoto 08 and installed yor great plugin. I set up account info… nnow it publish the post, but not the photo! just the post.. title, text and so on… but no photo… why?
I am using iPhoto ‘08 in OS 10.4.11 on MacBookPro and installed Photon as described but it is not showing up in the Export window.
I do not know where to find my blogid or access point. I am using wordpress and iphoto 09, i have the plugin up but i just need these bits of information???
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