I started a photoblog a month back after being convinced by my good friend Francesco. The idea was to think of photography at least once a day and post a favorite image in fairly big size (900px). We both started liking the pixelpost framework a lot for its clean looks and ease of tweaking. So much so that we had to consider making it as a portfolio website as well. The obstacle to make pixelpost work like a static portfolio was the inability to view image sequences within a category or tag. In the browse page, you can see thumbnails under respective categories but the category information would be lost once an image is viewed large.
After a day of tweaking code I managed to pass the category and tag parameters between the browse and image pages. So under normal conditions without any specific category or tag it will behave like a chronological sequence, but if we pass a category and/or a tag they will be honored by the image navigation links. As an example, browse page that shows only images with tag=portfolio: http://joydutta.com/photoblog/index.php?x=browse&pagenum=1&tag=portfolio
This can now serve as my online portfolio page. If you click any image thumbnail, the tag will be passed so the image sequence will only be within tag=portfolio. For example, see the navigation links: http://joydutta.com/photoblog/index.php?showimage=16&tag=portfolio
If in the browse page with tag=portfolio you click on a category, the collection will be narrower as expected. Now, both the category and tag information will be passed on when you click a thumbnail and the resulting sequence will honor both. For example, see the thumbnail links: http://joydutta.com/photoblog/index.php?x=browse&category=3&pagenum=1&tag=portfolio
Pixelpost rocks.
#1 by Brian H. on March 19, 2010 - 6:28 am
Loved your photoblog, especially the image “Magic Hour.”
It’s awesome that you could tweak your pixelpost page. I’m trying to do the same with mine by using an addon but can’t get it to do anything. You make it sound so easy.
I’ll try to check back to your blog often.
Keep up the great work.
Brian
#2 by Danny on March 28, 2010 - 8:08 pm
Hey Joy,
I would love to read some of the coding used to get your photoblog to do that. I’m trying to do the same thing, but am having a hard time.
Danny
#3 by Timo on April 17, 2010 - 2:54 am
Hey Joy,
I also would be interested in seeing your code adjustments since I’d like to implement the same features (browse by categories and tags) to my pixelpost blog.
Would you mind publishing you work?
Best regards,
Timo
#4 by Martin Hack on July 18, 2010 - 7:55 am
Like the above I’d like to see your code. It woul be nice if you wrote an article about it.
#5 by lucian on September 6, 2010 - 11:16 am
Hello Joy
Can you share the tweak you did here?
I need this in order to transform my photoblog into a portfolio. I would really appreciate it