Through help from the community, we have been able to improve support for DM Albums™ on Windows-based PHP installations such as WAMP.  The resolution may also alleviate problems experienced by users on non-Windows based PHP installations, so if you have had trouble in the past, this release  may help you as well. Please report any further problems or successes you have in the comment section or email the developer.

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We just wanted to post a quick update that we are aware that support requests are piling up at the moment that are not being responded to.  Your requests are important to us and we will respond as soon as we are able.  We are currently very busy with several projects running in parallel and as such our support bandwidth is limited.

Thanks for your continued support and thanks for your patience.  We assure you that we will get to your request.

Thanks,

Productions

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Well, the good news is that DM Albums™ seems to be picking up in popularity.  One of the great things about the open-source world and the collaboration it brings is that users give feedback, the developer(s) respond with support, bug fixes, or new features, and the product eventually becomes much better than it ever would have been just through isolated evolution.   Think Galápagos Islands: the weirdness of those animals out there, living according to their own specialized evolution is like software built in a vacuum.  Through your requests, this software has grown to meet a far broader set of needs than it was originally intended for.  I think that’s great.

The bad news is that through the growing exposure, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that DM Albums™ has a big, hairy problem when running on WAMP implementations.  We thought we were headed down the right path to WAMP righteousness and justice, when out of the blue, a user running WAMP revealed an implementation that was completely divergent to what we’d understood WAMP to be and what that meant for providing support on this system.

Here at Productions, we are LAMP people and we are in need of someone with expertise in WAMP and it’s many implementation possibilities to lend some assistance and help get WAMP support implemented in DM Albums.  If you have this background and are willing to donate your time, please contact the DM Development Team.  If you have managed to get the plugin running on WAMP, please let us know what you did so we can incorporate your experience into the knowledge base.

Thanks for using DM Albums, and thanks for continuing to influence it’s evolution.

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Dear Community,

We here at Productions have been working hard to respond to your requests to add features that you, our users, would like to see in our products. This is particularly true of DM Albums, which has grown from being a small embed-only album to being a tool that is fully integrated with WordPress, allowing for photo album management directly from within WordPress – giving uploading, caption editing, and even drag-n-drop photo sorting directly via the WordPress post editor. In addition to that, the DM Albums™ Options Panel allows you to customize the tool extensively, while the UI is CSS-driven, allowing for customization of the album’s appearance to fit your blog’s look.

If you like DM Albums, Productions would like to ask you to visit the WordPress forums and vote to have DM Albums™ become the standard photo gallery tool for WordPress 3.0.  Through the added support from the WordPress development community, DM Albums™ would benefit from a larger developer base, more formalized integration and better compatibility with all flavors and versions of WordPress.  This effort would also help bring in the development resources to implement the three most urgently-needed features: vertical thumbnails, a visual UI editor, and internationalization.

Productions would like to thank you for your support, for using our products, and for providing us with your feedback.  Without your support and ideas, the product would not have grown into the mature photo album management system that it is today.

Thank you, and we wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year.

Productions

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Productions has issued a service release for DM FileManager.  This release addresses several security issues, including a critical security vulnerability in DM Ablums.  Productions urges all users to upgrade immediately.

Again, thanks for the continued efforts by Safety at nDarkness.com for his security testing efforts and reporting.  We will be continuing to work with the nDarkness team on a security re-architecture and issue a point release in the coming weeks.

Download DM FileManager™ here.

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