Using Wordpress authentication in Zenphoto

Author einar | 08.08.2007 | Category code, wordpress, zenphoto

In a previous post I talked about how to integrate ZenPhoto into Wordpress. After I had done that for my own site I still wasn’t happy. I didn’t like the fact that I had to use seperate logins for Wordpress and ZenPhoto, I wanted this to be as integrated as possible. So I figured out a way to make ZenPhoto ask Wordpress for authentication credentials. In other words, if you’re logged into Wordpress, you’re also logged into ZenPhoto. This makes the user/password in the ZenPhoto config file meaningless. Here’s what you have to do to get this working: Read More…

Integrating ZenPhoto into Wordpress

Author einar | 06.08.2007 | Category plugins, wordpress, zenphoto

ZenPhoto is a great image gallery written in php that I use on another page I have. It has a great admin interface and themes that are simple to use. I wanted to integrate it into a Wordpress blog so I looked around on the net and found a great article about it by a guy named Steffen Rusitschka. It explains how you can get your ZenPhoto gallery to look like your blog by including some Wordpress pages in your ZenPhoto theme. The article is at http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2006/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/.

His method works great but there were a few things that bugged me about it. Read More…