FAlbum plugin

I have been using the flickr album plugin by Ramon Darrow for my photo album but after some rooting around this afternoon I decided to switch over to FAlbum.
With a bit of help from Andreas Linde’s great walkthrough it was up and running in no time. This version looks to have nice admin plugin page which made linking to flickr easy as pie, plus it displays all recent photo’s even if they are not collated in sets.
After a few hourse tweaking and setting it all out I went back to modify some other pages and suddenly was faced with a 500 Server Error! What had just fallen apart?
I then spent a few hours getting to the root of the problem and found removing the .htaccess file for the root and removing permalinks solved it. Right turn permalinks back on; works. Turn friendly url’s on photo plugin on; works. Modify a page and save; 500 Server Error!
It turns out that the FAlbum plugin writes to the .htaccess file but in doing so erases the last #End WordPress marker so when you change a page and WordPress updates the .htaccess file it chokes on the FAlbum section. I manually added the WordPress end marker above the FAlbum being marker and so far it looks to be working ok.

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10 Comments So Far

  1. Gravatar Icon Boothby wrote on October 9, 2005:

    It’s good to know about that bug before I go ahead and install it. Thanks for the heads-up!

  2. Gravatar Icon Ka-Meng wrote on October 10, 2005:

    On a totally non-post related note, you bookmarked your own site on delicious?!? lol ;)

  3. Gravatar Icon Boothby wrote on October 10, 2005:

    A little egotism never hurt anyone. :)

  4. Gravatar Icon Adam wrote on October 11, 2005:

    it was a mistake, honest!
    I was at work and noticed some one had bookmarked this site, I did not recognise the username so was doing some random clicking….. arh crap it you don’t believe me anyway.

  5. Gravatar Icon April wrote on October 11, 2005:

    Hi there. Tried commenting yesterday but you never responded ((sigh)). I had the exact same problem, and had to rewrite over the .htaccess files, ugh. The only thing, is that there is still an error, and I can’t figure it out. I know this is a lot to ask, but if you ever get around to it, could you email me the code you used to get it working? I’m no coder, but I would really like for this to work correctly. Pretty please?!

  6. Gravatar Icon April wrote on October 11, 2005:

    Yep, there’s an error in IE on the bottom left of the page. Sheesh. I use firefox, but still.

  7. Gravatar Icon Adam wrote on October 11, 2005:

    Hi there April, sorry about that. I have to admit I’ve never even looked at this site in IE, maybe I should…
    With regard to getting the plugin working I really only followed the steps in the links above and then like you corrected the .htaccess file afterwards. I’m more than happy to send you my album page if required so you can check the code, to be honest I’m not quite happy with it just yet but we will see!

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  9. Gravatar Icon PANASONIC wrote on April 21, 2006:

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  10. Gravatar Icon Bush wrote on October 8, 2006:

    Very good site! I like it! Thanks!

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