After almost two full years since the last update, we’re very pleased to announce we’ll be releasing DM Albums™ 3.0 this weekend.

There are some major changes in store for this round:

• The DM Albums™ presentation layer has been replaced with a full javascript/css album, powered by Galleria: fast loading, fully mobile-compatible, and streamlined fullscreen and lightbox capabilities.
• Appearance fully customizable through CSS
• Disappearing captions bug has been resolved
• Captions, links, and album titles are all moved into the wordpress database
• The backend DM Album Management system is largely left unchanged

Thanks for everyone’s patience and support over the past few years. Our team’s time has been severely limited, but we’ll make every effort to support the influx of support requests that are sure to come with such a substantial release.

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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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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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DM Albums™ 2.4 has been released. This release adds two often-requested features and one major security update.

The security update the resolves the download vulnerability documented here. Thanks to the team at nDarkness.com for their continued efforts in making our products more secure.

The release also includes two new features: a drag-n-drop photo sorter that allows you to change the order of the photos in your album in a drag-n-drop interface (shown below) as well as the ability to add a link to the main photo in DM Albums.

Thanks to everyone for their support and Happy Holidays from the DM Development Team!

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