Development Updates

This page is to keep our customers up to date with any changes in recent, current,
or future updates. Please return to this page regularly for update status.

Note: Starting in August 2011, we are changing our approach to theme development
and updates! We’ve got a new team of developers, and we’re pursuing an “agile”
development approach that focuses on shorter, more frequent releases. Our goal is
to deliver an update every 1.5-2 months.

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Photocrati 4.3

Released December 8, 2011

THEME IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

• This release includes a major rework of our gallery display code that improves all our displays and resolves numerous idiosyncrasies and bugs.
• Aspect ratios options. Option to adjust aspect ratio of Slideshows and Filmstrips – great for those who shoot panoramic, square, or other aspect ratios.
• Completely new caption displays. You now have the option to change where captions display in Filmstrip and Slideshow galleries. Options include Top, Bottom, Top Overlay, Bottom Overlay, and Middle. Caption formatting and rendering is also improved, and Longer captions scroll automatically in Top and Bottom mode.
• Caption background style modified to be flush with background color of page when not using overlay setting.
• Captions auto scroll when description is longer than 2 lines.
• Image security. Tightened image security including drag and drop and right click protection.
• Fixed horizontal filmstrip thumbnail navigation arrows.
• Fixed extra characters like forward slashes, from rendering in gallery captions when using characters like apostrophes.
• Fixed gallery borders from being cut off in some cases.
• Fixed page editor displaying blank page in some cases.
• Resolved ’30 second error’ displaying in galleries in some cases.

Photocrati 4.2

Released October 13, 2011

THEME IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

• Introduced dramatic improvements for sorting and reordering images, including i) options to reorder all images in a gallery by filename, title, inverse filename, inverse title, ii) added numbered boxes for faster reordering of individual images in a gallery (an alternative to drag and drop sorting, and iii) improved drag and drop sorting for individual images.
• Added option to extend Photocrati image lightboxes to all regular WordPress images. This can be enabled, disabled, or added via class on an image by image basis. This also addresses the fact that Photocrati gallery scripts are incompatible with several existing WordPress lightbox plugins.
• Fixed stretching issues for blog style galleries that occurs in some cases in Internet Explorer browsers
• Introduced critical security improvements
• Adjusted gallery code for faster gallery load times. Previous fix to allow for graceful degradation of non-java enabled browsers was causing images to load twice for a given gallery.
• Improved IPTC imports for images coming from Lightroom.
• Fixed Google font previews that were not working in some browsers.
• Fixed formatting issues for captions, spacing, and slideshow controls in both slideshow and filmstrip galleries. Note we did not add an option to move captions from their screens on top of images to another location, but this is one of several priorities.

Photocrati 4.1

Released August 16, 2011

THEME IMPROVEMENTS

• Option to display controls on slideshows.
• Options to adjust aspect ratio for slideshow/filmstrip galleries.
• 3 New Lightbox Options for Thumbnail Galleries
• Add progress wheel for ‘Save Settings’ under Theme Options panel.
• Change page/post title to h1.
• Extend advance fonts to headings.
• Option to turn on/off caps and bold for title, menu, and headings.
• Option to center h1 tags.
• Add page template – no title, like home page
• Blog post meta style ‘turn off and on’ controls (while still being visible to search engines)
• Change storage of images from themes to upload folder under wp-content directory.
• Exclude eCommerce print sizes on an image by image basis & gallery wide.
• Add padding option to blog style galleries.
• Make sure that all files associated with old galleries are deleted when the gallery is deleted or the page is deleted.
• Adjusted top padding to be smaller  for slideshows.
• Add ‘Album – List’ option in ‘Add/New Photocrati Gallery’ window.

Bug Fixes :

• SQL injection vulnerabilities for most theme PHP files
• PayPal IPN script assumes Admin database ID to be 1
• Fixed e-commerce cart totalling 0 in IE & Chrome Browser
• Complete database Unicode support
• Purchase confirmation e-mail sent from the wrong address
• Shopping cart not cleared after purchase
• Fixed fatal error when upgrading to WordPress 3.2
• Make all menu items (including dropdowns) Uppercase by default
• Uploadify using unsafe permission check
• Pay Now button not working in IE7
• Deleting page w/ gallery, gallery still appears in album options
• Search results do not show full galleries (like other archives)
• Right navigation arrow on horizontal filmstrip missing on Blog Posts in some cases.
• IPTC import bug
• Re-work the gallery image source to load from the parent window instead of the iFrame for SEO purposes.
• Add the ability to include all foreign characters in gallery titles and descriptions and image titles and captions.

Photocrati 4.06 & 4.07 Important Security Patch!

Released May 2011

• !Important! Security patch for uploadify. If you haven’t upgraded already, please do.

Photocrati 4.05

Released April 13, 2011

THEME IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

• Lightbox for thumbnail gallery freezes if you click too fast in some browsers
• No foreign language chars in gallery names, album titles, captions. Also, no extra characters like apostrophes and ampersands allowed.
• Logos not uploading properly for some users
• Nothing happening when you import from Photocrati
• iFrame height issues – thumbnail gallery cropping OFF
• Padding issue below Blog Style gallery
• Allow for image upload with extra characters in filename
• Horizontal Filmstrip with large galleries, thumbnails jitter until all images are loaded
• Full posts not appearing when viewing tag archives
• e-Commerce & Album gallery forced to top and text to bottom
• Prevent drag and drop in Mac e-Commerce galleries
• Image Upload problems
• Page with Sidebar bugs (comments won’t turn off, sidebar wraps to bottom of content in some cases)
• Check why setting ‘expedited shipping’ set to 0 resolves shopping cart total at checkout for some users

Photocrati 4.0

Released February 2, 2011

NEW: ADDED ECOMMERCE FUNCTIONALITY!

New option to add ecommerce galleries. Ecommerce galleries will be similar to thumbnail galleries, except thumbnails will appear in a slide-style box, uncropped. Clicking add to cart will allow visitors to select print options with different prices. Will include shopping cart integrated with PayPal. Will include a range of options to customize the gallery, insert print options and prices, insert basic shipping prices. Cart will summarize order and totals, allow visitors to edit their order. Clicking Buy Now will take visitors to Paypal shopping cart for payment. Upon completion, photographer and buyer will receive an email with the order summary. This will NOT include automatic order fulfillment (i.e. automatic sending of images to an online print lab for printing. Photographers will need to fulfill their orders.

GALLERY IMPROVEMENTS

• ALBUMS. Ability to display “Album pages” with list of galleries.
• BORDER CONTROLS for images and thumbnails in all galleries.
• ON DEMAND LOADING OF IMAGES IN ADD/EDIT GALLERY WINDOW. Adjust the Edit/Create Gallery window to load nextgen or Photocrati galleries via AJAX on demand, not on initial page load. Currently, images are being preloaded which results in very slow load times for gallery windows.
• DELETE MULTIPLE IMAGES. Option to delete multiple images in a gallery via a checkbox.
• IMPORT IPTC DATA. Import IPTC field data when adding images to a gallery.
• MP3. Ability to load MP3 for each gallery on a page.
• OPTION TO DISPLAY FULL POSTS IN ARCHIVES / CATEGORIES.
• WHEN HOVERING OVER IMAGES, assigned title shows up rather than file name.
• VERTICAL IMAGES IN BLOG STYLE GALLERY. Allow vertical images in blog style gallery to have a maximum height even if they’re not the full width allowed (i.e. a setting that says display images at a maximum of 800 pixels tall and 800 pixels wide).
• BUG FIX. Fix display problems with thumbnail galleries in Internet Explorer galleries.

GENERAL THEME IMPROVEMENTS

• QUICK SET UP TAB. Add quick set up tab that guides people through setting up the theme to look like the demos. Includes 10 steps, with links to appropriate places in the admin area.
• FONTS. Add new set of advanced fonts for titles.
• PAGE COMMENTS. Option to turn page comments on/off.
• FLICKR ICON. Add Flickr to social media widgets.
• HTML and CSS validation.
• FOUNDATIONS FOR SINGLE COLUMN BLOGS THEMES. Place site in fixed width container. Ability to upload second background image that appears outside of main container on sides. Allows for completely new set of theme designs for 4.1.

Photocrati 3.1

Released October 21, 2010

THEME IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

• Ability to import entire NextGen Galleries.
• Automatically imports captions and titles when importing from NextGen galleries.
• Ability to import images from existing Photocrati galleries.
• Automatically imports captions and titles from when importing from Photocrati galleries.
• Option to turn off image cropping for thumbnail galleries galleries.
• Option to turn off image cropping for horizontal filmstrip galleries galleries.
• Options to control Slideshow timing controls.
• Three new Slideshow transition styles (Fade, Flash, Slide)
• Option to display full sized vs resized images (higher quality vs faster)
• Option to enable universal protection against right clicking on site

Photocrati 3.01 (RELEASED OCTOBER 2, 2010)

Released October 2, 2010

• Small-sized image resizing: Due to a glitch in 3.0, when you upload an image SMALLER THAN 960px wide (the width of Photocrati themes), a version of that image is being generated that is 960px wide. This means the image is being stretched. The stretched version is being displayed, with a sharp decline in quality. The upgrade leaves smaller images as they are, and displays them no larger than their original size. Once upgraded, users may need to re-upload or re-import from NextGen those images that are displaying with poor quality. Please note that for images larger than 960px pixels, a 960px version is still generated and displayed to fit our themes and improve your site’s loading speed. The original is preserved, but not currently displayed. In 3.1, we plan to offer an option to display either the full resolution original or the faster smaller 960px version, as you prefer.
• Minor fixes to menu alignment in some themes, as well as default font colors in footers of some themes.

Photocrati 3.0

Released September 30, 2011

• MAJOR RELEASE OF NEW GALLERY SYSTEM: PHOTOCRATI GALLERY. Replaces NextGen as primary gallery solution. Package directly into theme, not as plugin. Ability to add / edit / delete galleries. Four gallery styles (Slideshow, Thumbnail Gallery, Filmstrip Gallery, Blog Style Gallery). Ability to import NextGen images. Option panel for controlling thumbnail and image sizes. Images resize to fit sapce available (full width vs blog with sidebar, etc).
• MAJOR UPDATE: ABILITY TO SAVE CUSTOM THEMES. Users can now make customizations with options panel and save those changes as a custom theme that can be returned to at any time without losing changes.
• MAJOR UPDATE: NEW OPTIONS PANEL. New more intuitive options panel for choosing themes, customizing themes, and adjusting gallery and other settings.
• Improved alignment of text-based site titles.
• Added Footer Widgets to home page (plus option to turn on/off, and separate styling controls).
• New full controls for footer styling.
• When choosing to turn off dynamic styling, a new static style.css sheet is now generated based on current settings. If you reenable dynamic styling, make more changes, and then disable it, the static style sheet will automatically update.
• Fix: Google Analytics box
• Fix: Ability to add full html, including links to footer
• Fix: Remove “\\\” backslashes that appear in Custom CSS.
• Fix: Menu in Rangefinder.
• Fix: Allow people to turn on/off page comments.
• Fix: Add “clear:both” to heading tags in blog posts so text can wrap around images

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