Did you ever have to fiddle around with countless custom fields to have your images displayed in your favorite WordPress photoblog theme? With PhotoQ 1.8, stuff like having to manually enter the correct URL into the correct custom field becomes a thing of the past. In PhotoQ 1.8, theme support through views has been completely reworked and made so flexible that it now works with virtually any WordPress theme there is. Further, a convenient auto-configuration option allows you to setup PhotoQ to work with your favorite theme without, well, configuring anything.

Here is the list of highlights of this major update of the PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin:

• Use any theme you like together with PhotoQ, thanks to the new “freeform” view option
• Zero-configuration presets for some of the most popular photo themes
• Theme authors can easily generate presets for the users of their themes

At the same time the iQ2 Photoblog Theme has also been updated, there is now an option to add a static front page. For a full list of changes of both PhotoQ 1.8 and iQ2 1.2 as well as for upgrading instructions, read the rest of this post. For a complete documentation and installation instructions, please check out the main PhotoQ page.

I am still looking for translators for PhotoQ and iQ2. Right now, they are both available in Chinese (Hongkong, Taiwan), English, French and German. If you are able to help with a translation into any other language, just drop me a line. Any help is highly appreciated.

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PhotoQ 1.7 makes managing your WordPress photoblog easier than ever. With this major update of the PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin, several long-awaited features finally see the light of the day. Here is a list of the highlights:

• PhotoQ learns your language – it now supports internationalization
• Run PhotoQ on your server without giving users admin rights thanks to the new support for WordPress roles and capabilities
• Handling of EXIF metadata has reached a new level of flexibility. PhotoQ can even automatically generate WordPress tags from your EXIF metadata.
• Editing published photos has been considerably improved and simplified. You can now change published photos with only a few clicks.

At the same time the iQ2 Photoblog Theme has also seen some significant improvements. For a full list of changes of both PhotoQ 1.7 and iQ2 1.1 as well as for upgrading instructions, read the rest of this post. For a complete documentation and installation instructions, please check out the main PhotoQ page.

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These small updates of PhotoQ 1.6 and iQ2 should bring back some of the functionality that got lost during the update to PhotoQ 1.6.3. Thanks for the bug report Tim.

Bugs fixed:

• PhotoQ default authors and default categories now work again.

Further, there is now a forum at http://www.whoismanu.com/forum/. Please use it for all bug reports and support questions from here on. Thanks.

Here it finally is, the long-awaited update of Photoq. PhotoQ 1.6.3 should make the nasty bugs with WordPress 2.7.1 and disappearing photo data a thing of the past. Sorry to all of you who have been waiting for this for a long time and thanks to Andrew Bird and Arclight for reporting the bug. Usually, I am quicker with updates but this time I just had too many things going on at work and I couldn’t take care of this earlier.

Here is the complete list of changes for PhotoQ 1.6.3:

• Makes PhotoQ compatible with WordPress 2.7.1.
• PhotoQ should now also work on IIS Servers.
• Large parts of the option handling were refactored.
• PHP4 object handling was refactored.

At the same time I also made a small compatibility update to iQ2. If you use PhotoQ and iQ2, please update both.

There are two small updates available, one update for PhotoQ and another update for iQ2. The updates remove a bug in their interaction. You only need to update if you are using both of them and have errors saying something like “cannot redeclare class..”.