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Integrate Coppermine into WordPress. By Martijn van der Kwast, Matthias Jell and Jason Goldsmith.

These guys dissapeared too, web site unreachable ???

I didnt create the plugin the guys above did, but I saw quite a few people hunting for this plugin and few having configuration problems.

Well I found it through google after few days of reading and installed and it works.

In order for this plugin to work you have to have Coppermine Gallery installed on the same server as WordPress. However there maybe a possibility to use it from another server, but wouldn’t know how.

So the best way to make this plugin work it to have WP installed in root or a folder and then have Coppermine gallery installed within same folder. That way the configuration picks unp automatically.

How ever if you do have the Coppermine Gallery installed in a different directory on the same server, you can modify the path to the CCG in the file: coppermine-config.php

Under “Main” the very last part of the file, there is a line that says: require_once(‘$inc_path’ . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’);

in that line you can replace the ‘$inc_path’ with the path to your gallery, I used the physicall path provided by the server and it worked.

The rest Please Read Below From original README:

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Coppermine Integration plugin for WordPress
Current version: 3.11
Written for WordPress 1.5, 1.6/2.0 and Coppermine 1.3x and 1.4x
Author: Martijn van der Kwast <mvdkwast@gmx.net>

This plugin integrates Coppermine into WordPress.

Please see the plugin page for full information:

http://www.stilglog.com/wordpress-plugins/coppermine-plugin/

Of course, if you have downloaded this version, you might as well check it
out and give me some feedback !

New Features
————

Features
——–

- One-click insert system for recent pictures.
- Use menus to choose the alignment and the size of your pictures in your
posts.
- Image browser to select pictures from the whole gallery.
- Popup window to upload pictures without leaving the editor.
- Simple Template Tags to display your recent/random/favourite pictures in
your theme.
- Optional sharing of users.
- Search pictures from within WordPress.
- shadows

Requires
——–

- WordPress 1.5.1/1.5.2/1.6/2.0
- Coppermine Gallery 1.33-1.35/1.4.1-1.4.9
- A modern browser that understands CSS2 and javascript to insert images
in posts. (not required to view the posts)

Upgrade
——-

- Replace the plugin files with the newer ones from this package.

- Don’t forget to update the files in the coppermine directory.

- Load the configuration page once. (This will initialize the new options).

- If you modified your previous coppermine.css file, make sure you have
a backup version somewhere. Compared to 3.3 a lot of things have been
added, so you cannot simply use your old coppermine.css .

Quick instructions
——————

- You should remove or rename any previous version of this plugin before
you install.

- Extract the Zip file to a temporary folder.

- Copy the wp-content/plugins/coppermine directory to your plugin directory so that
you get a …/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/coppermine directory.

- Copy files to your coppermine directory:

+ if you have coppermine 1.3x, copy the files from cpg/1.3x/cpg/ to your Coppermine
directory

+ if you have coppermine 1.4x, copy the files from cpg/1.4x/cpg/ to your Coppermine
directory.

And by Coppermine directory, I mean the directory where Coppermine resides, not the
plugin directory!

- Go to Admin > Plugins, and follow the link ‘Go here to configure’ in the entry for
the Coppermine plugin.

- Configure your Coppermine connection settings and other options.

- Press ‘Save Settings’

- Go back to Admin > Plugins, and activate the plugin.

User Integration
—————-

This is optional. You will not need this in typical single-user setups. You will be
able to view, insert and upload pictures without it.

If you have Coppermine 1.3x:

- Replace the Coppermine files with the ones in
cpg/1.3x/user-integration

- Go to Admin > Plugins, and follow the link ‘Go here to configure’ in the entry for
the Coppermine plugin.

- Click on the Upgrade database link

For all versions of Coppermine:

- Activate ‘Integrate users’

- Logout from WordPress and login again. You should now also be logged into Coppermine.

You can now import all users at once, or let the users be auto-imported the moment they
login to WordPres.

Gotchas:

- You will only see your own pictures in the inserter bar. If you want to see everybody’s
picture, activate that option on the configuration page.

- Users will be created in Coppermine after the first time they login to WordPress unless you
click ‘import users’ in the coppermine-config.php

- For Coppermine 1.4x only: If you don’t activate password encryption in Coppermine, the
imported users will only be able to login to Coppermine through WordPress, not directly.

Search Integration
——————

If you’re using the Kubrick theme (default), you can put wp-content/themes/default/search.php
in your theme directory.

If you don’t you will have to read the online documentation.

More information
—————-

The official plugin page is:

http://mvdkwast.free.fr/stilglog/index.php/wordpress-plugins/coppermine-plugin/

Please see the website for a detailed description of the options/tags,
including screenshots. The documentation describes versions 3.x.

For questions and comments, please use the comments section.

License
——-

Coppermine Integration is
Copyright (c) 2005 Martijn van der Kwast <mvdkwast@gmx.net>

This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA