This post describes PhotoQ 1.6.5, an update for PhotoQ 1.6. For a full description of PhotoQ please see the main post.

What if you decide one day to add a watermark to all your published photos? What if your site design changes and you have to resize all your published photos? If your blog only contains a handful of photos, no big deal. But what if you were really creative and published hundreds or even thousands of photos? In this case, having a future-proof solution is vital as adapting things by hand is no longer an option.
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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..”.

This update of the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin fixes issues with the automatic posting functionality under PhotoQ 1.6.

Please make sure that after you upgrade to PhotoQ 1.6.1, you also copy the updated “wimpq-cronjob.php” file from the “photoq-photoblog-plugin” folder to your WordPress root folder, overwriting the existing one if present.

Additionally, this update brings two new features related to automatic posting via cron jobs:

1. One invocation of the cron job can now post multiple photos at once if you check “Use settings of second post button for automatic posting.” under “Settings->PhotoQ->Further Options->Automatic Posting”. If checked it will use the same settings as for the “Second Post Button” when posting via the cronjob which you can also set under “Further Options”.
2. You can now add all photos in the FTP upload folder automatically to the queue when the cronjob runs. This is useful on a fully automated site where you have some mechanism to automatically upload photos to the FTP directory, and you want its content automatically posted. Photos are in this case posted with only the automatic titles, the default category and no tags or descriptions. To enable this feature you need to check “When cronjob runs, automatically add FTP uploads to queue.” and FTP uploads need to be enabled and configured as well of course. Also make sure that PhotoQ has write permissions to the FTP directory, otherwise it is not able to move the photos from the FTP directory to the queue but it will only copy them and reattempt to move them again the next time the cronjob is executed.

Note that adding to queue runs before posting when the cronjob executes. So if you enable both of the above features and configure the first one to post the entire queue, whenever the cron job runs it will immediately post the whole content of the FTP directory to your blog.

For a full documentation of PhotoQ describing all its features please refer to the PhotoQ page.