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A Basic WordPress And Zenphoto Integration

Having installed both WordPress and Zenphoto, it is now time to see how to integrate the two. A bit of searching through the WordPress Plugin Directory and quick session on Google led me to the work of three people that would help me to accomplish a pretty damn good integration.

ZenphotoPress

The first step was to install the ZenphotoPress plugin by Alessandro Morandi found in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This awesome plugin provides shortcode support and a dialog in the WordPress editor for inserting images from Zenphoto directly into posts and pages. For example, here are a few shots I took at a big cats workshop back in March 2009:

The plugin gives a variety of options when inserting, such as whether to insert the image, it's textual name or custom link text. You can choose whether to link to the album, the individual picture page, a custom URL or even no link at all. Other options include such things as text wrapping and image size. In the example above, I have opted for thumbnail sized images linking to the main gallery page.