So, some of you might not exactly consider this to be "creative", but I've been creatin' so I'm postin'! =P
It's a WordPress plugin for making awesome Galleries for your site! It's not finished yet. I had hoped to be a lot further than I am right now, but I sort of decided to go a little overboard on some aspects of the admin panel. So That's what I'm going to show you right now.
Basically, there is only one admin panel where you can manage you galleries. But, when you want to manage the assets in a gallery, you can bring up a dialog that I am ever so cleverly calling the "Asset Manager". It has three functions: creating new assets, finding and editing existing assets, and selecting assets for the gallery. The last two aren't all that complicated, but creating assets has turned into something of a beast. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like after I drag-n-drop a few files from my desktop into it:
I've been working on the Asset Manager for about a week now, and I'm starting to get pretty tired of seeing it! But, it works really smoothly and makes me happy whenever I try something and it works =P
Also, notice the tab at the top that says "Upload Image". See how it has a radio button on it? That's because there are actually more tabs. There is one for grabbing images off the web, there is a different one for uploading images that used a file selector (rather than drag-n-drop) and there is also one for grabbing videos from video providers! However, when you drag-n-drop images in from your computer, uploading it becomes the only option, short of deleting it and creating a new one.
I decided to post here mostly because I got a little bored of working on it, and I thought I might be able to help my motivation if I kept a log of sorts. I'll be posting more in the future. If you want to follow along, that's cool, but I understand, it's a gallery wordpress plugin - not the most exciting thing in the world!
Also, I just wanted to mention, because I thought it was kind of funny. For the first time ever, one of my projects managed to crash chrome! I opened up the task manager and my page was using up a gig of memory! I had a slight memory leak with the image preview... whoopsies!
It's a WordPress plugin for making awesome Galleries for your site! It's not finished yet. I had hoped to be a lot further than I am right now, but I sort of decided to go a little overboard on some aspects of the admin panel. So That's what I'm going to show you right now.
Basically, there is only one admin panel where you can manage you galleries. But, when you want to manage the assets in a gallery, you can bring up a dialog that I am ever so cleverly calling the "Asset Manager". It has three functions: creating new assets, finding and editing existing assets, and selecting assets for the gallery. The last two aren't all that complicated, but creating assets has turned into something of a beast. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like after I drag-n-drop a few files from my desktop into it:

I've been working on the Asset Manager for about a week now, and I'm starting to get pretty tired of seeing it! But, it works really smoothly and makes me happy whenever I try something and it works =P
Also, notice the tab at the top that says "Upload Image". See how it has a radio button on it? That's because there are actually more tabs. There is one for grabbing images off the web, there is a different one for uploading images that used a file selector (rather than drag-n-drop) and there is also one for grabbing videos from video providers! However, when you drag-n-drop images in from your computer, uploading it becomes the only option, short of deleting it and creating a new one.
I decided to post here mostly because I got a little bored of working on it, and I thought I might be able to help my motivation if I kept a log of sorts. I'll be posting more in the future. If you want to follow along, that's cool, but I understand, it's a gallery wordpress plugin - not the most exciting thing in the world!
Also, I just wanted to mention, because I thought it was kind of funny. For the first time ever, one of my projects managed to crash chrome! I opened up the task manager and my page was using up a gig of memory! I had a slight memory leak with the image preview... whoopsies!
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