Photobloggery
Posted: Thu 14 July, 2005 Filed under: Photography 5 Comments »(Note : I’m going to I did leave this at the top of the page for a few days. There’s new stuff underneath, just scroll down a bit…)
I’m thinking about setting up a seperate blog (potentially held under a different site name) purely for photos. I like the design and ideas behind Chromasia, but I know he runs that on MT, which is a bag of worms I really don’t want to get into.
So, what I wonder is this : does anyone run a pure photoblog under WordPress? Or is it going to be easier for me to write some stuff myself in order to do it how I want? Or even just use a different CMS entirely? (I’m currently slightly edging towards the latter, if only because I’m a sad sod, and don’t have a problem with learning yet another piece of software)
Before flickr came along I used to run a wordpress photoblog using the ‘pictorialis’ hack. It worked exactelyu how I wanted to at the time.
I originally set up a separate photoblog (in MT) so that I could publicise it to family and colleagues more than my main blog. Although many of my family are now aware of mmofm, I still like having the separate photoblog – I overtly link from mmofm; there are links back from Under Developed. I think they reflect slightly different aspects of my personality.
I get exponentially fewer comments spam on Under Developed. I think that is because it has fewer links in-and-out. I don’t even have MT-Blacklist installed on it.
I have non-spiderable, non-linked bits for ‘family photos’, which is a bonus.
There’s always flickr, of course. I think you should consider writing your own CMS for the purpose. The basic display-photos-and-archives functionality could be done in an afternoon. You could then add extra features like comments, RSS and thumbnailing with ImageMagick in dribs and drabs.
Once it’s done, I expect you’d be able to find quite a market for its use.
Yeah, I’m kind of thinking about heading down the “write your own CMS” for it. At least that way it doesn’t fit in to the normal spammers methods etc.
Plus (and Jesus I’m geeky for even thinking this) it might be kind of fun…
I’ve heard pixelpost is good. I use MT and although it can be a right royal pain, I like it. But then I haven’t made the switch yet to Pixelpost – spam is a problem with MT and I hate that.