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OpenZoom WordPress Plugin
An OpenZoom WordPress plugin would be cool. Together with a stripped down WordPress template it would be easy to use WordPress as a cms wrapper for OpenZoom xrez images and then iframe the WP/OZ content in other publishing systems/websites.
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John,
Sounds great! My view on your points:
1.) I'll get in touch with the guy behind the port of deepzoom.py to PHP and ask if he wants to get involved. Nonetheless, it would be great if you could also have a look around for PHP talent interested in contributing. Even though I'm no PHP expert, I would have loved to pitch in but there's a reason I can't which I will share very soon.
2.) Of course I will happily take an advisory role and provide my knowledge as support. Additionally, as soon as we decide on a project name, I'll set up an official GitHub project.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Inappropriate?John,
I think I might have a bit of a different idea on how to integrate OpenZoom & WordPress. Nevertheless, I'm very much interested in finding out more about your idea. What exactly do you have in mind when you talk about CMS wrapper and an iframe solution?
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Daniel
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Inappropriate?One thing that should be fairly easy would be a shortcode-plugin.
You'd have to do the image-processing on your PC and upload the files to a special folder. In your post or page you could write something like [openzoom image="test.xml"] which would then be replaced by the zoomer.
Of course, you could also do the image-processing on the server. The disadvantage here is: the plugin would be very hard to install. I also believe that shared-hosting environments would not be able to run it.
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Inappropriate?If we look one year ahead WP will be merged with WPMU ( WP3.0 ) and there will be better support for custom content types.
This will make it possible to serve as many OpenZoom "projects" as you want from one single WP install. All thats needed is a plugin to make a easy GUI to add OpenZoom to posts/pages, and a CDN plugin to take the OpenZoom load of the server. If a stripped down theme is used WP may be used to wrap navigation, web 2.0 stuff, and copy to the OpenZoom images.
Then Iframe this into another static,or dynamic website, and adjust the theme to fit, and you have a publishing solution with a CDN with all other benefits WP may give, like tracking, ad-serving etc.
I dont know which route WP will take when it comes to custom content types but maybe it will be possible to have OpenZoom images as a content type ?
Fits step: A simple plugin, second step: Make it work with a CDN plugin, third step: custom stripped down themes. Then build on it collaborative, while waiting for WP 3.0 with WPMU merge and better custom content types.
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Inappropriate?John,
Wow, I'm impressed with your knowledge about the WordPress ecosystem and the upcoming changes.
Q1: Would you interested in working on this?
Q2: Is there anything I could do to support you?
Please let me know as it sounds quite exciting.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Inappropriate?This all available information. WP has an open development process.
Q1: Yes but I`m not a php coder, so first steps must be simple, and there should be a php developer in the "team". There are good tutorials on how to make a simple shortcode plugin, and step1 should be as simple as possible. The theme to go with it wil be more my kind of stuff.
Q2: Yep, provide all needed OpenZoom info on request when needed, and maybe setting the project up on github. It would be cool if the plugin was maintained together with the rest of the project, rather than living its own life.
Lets see if this thread recruits some people to collaborate with, and we may have a look at it in a weeks time. -
Inappropriate?John,
Sounds great! My view on your points:
1.) I'll get in touch with the guy behind the port of deepzoom.py to PHP and ask if he wants to get involved. Nonetheless, it would be great if you could also have a look around for PHP talent interested in contributing. Even though I'm no PHP expert, I would have loved to pitch in but there's a reason I can't which I will share very soon.
2.) Of course I will happily take an advisory role and provide my knowledge as support. Additionally, as soon as we decide on a project name, I'll set up an official GitHub project.
Cheers,
Daniel
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