For some live demo and examples check out the sub categories, sub stats, tags or any single posts at the Fan-tas-tic! Inspiration Galleries: click on the Google Buzz button and see what the buzz is about!

As you may have noticed from de demo above I’ve got my social sharing and bookmark stuff also outside the loop, which makes this a bit trickier than it should.

That’s why my code is centrally in the functions.php of my WordPress theme. And here’s how full code behind the Google Buzz button looks like:

Let’s dissect the code for a quick analysis.

The URL

Line 1 contains the URL you want to buzz; the variable $share_link is the URL you want to pass through. You can replace this with the_permalink() if you are on a single post page.
I use the Buzz button also on other pages than the single post page. Therefore I need to use the following function in the functions.php:

function ftt_get_currenturl(){ return 'http://'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; }

The title

Line 2 contains the title we want to buzz: although you can use the_title() when on a single post page, I use wp_title(), because I use the Buzz button also on other pages.

The thumbnail

Line 3 contains the actual image we want to buzz, along with some optional text.
Already somewhere above this you should have the following statement to get the proper thumbnail for the current post (when on a single page) or the last thumbnail/post on the page, which should be satisfactory too:

$thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'thumbnail');

The Result

That should do the trick! Now, when you click on the Google Buzz, you should get something like this:

You can play around and adjust stuff to your liking. Let me know in the comments, whether this works for your (gallery) site.

UPDATE

Note that something is messing the code displayed in this post! Maybe because I’ve just upgraded to WP 2.9.2!?
So I had to resort to screenshots…

Eos Divine Protection

Red Sonja

Flight of the Dragon

Angel and Demons

Dungeons & Dragons: Legendary Boon

Budapest – Fantasy landscape

The God of Hellfire

Fusion

Purple Mage

Black God’s Kiss

Once you’re at fan-tas-tic.com don’t forget the rate the images you think it’s FTT!

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It took me longer than foreseen, but after a couple of different approaches there is a final alpha version of my fan-tas-tic project. Although still in a alpha stage, I think a soft launch with this post is a logical move prior to a beta version: behold FAN-TAS-TIC! User Generated Galleries.

WTF is FTT!
FTT! is actually designed and developed as a pure personal project: a fantastic image gallery, with ‘fantastic’ covering the genres science-fiction, (heroic) fantasy/sword & sorcery, gothic, horror, anime and the quality of the art self displayed at the gallery.

So…yet another gallery?
Supervisually yes…it’s nothing more than just another gallery.

However some of the features what should make FTT! really unique compared to other galleries are:
Banner blindness prove:

• All sponsor/ad banners are blended in the design, so the users are ‘bothered’ as little as possible
• The banner spots are randomly generated to minimize the ‘blindness’ effect
• Also the single post banner is very visible, yet blended

Quality of the content:

• Advanced user submission form (to be moderated by admin for ‘quality control’)
• Only fan-tas-tic images are approved; no doodles here!
• All images are categorized, tagged and archived and are available via the statistics
• All uploads have (if available) a link to the original author and gallery and/or the source of the image

User friendly UI:

• Any image can be rated (and is automatically ranked)
• Also the less rated and low rated images are highlighted (randomly or via related posts)
• Different kind of archives are present: monthly, yearly, per category or per uploader/submitter
• Most and least rated post are relative to the current tag, category of the single post
• Simple navigation (sub)menu’s showing all submenu
• Statistics: Overview of the last rated images and the highest, lowest, most and least rated images

I’ve also left some additional features out, which were time consuming to implement…maybe they’ll make it in the next version

Still to do…
Although I need to work some details out and have to do a lot of code cleaning and optimization and the GUI is somewhat Spartan, the site is live and is ready to be (alpha-)tested.

Feedback?
Any constructive feedback for this alpha-version is welcome in the comments below…

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As stated in my post Setting goals for 2009 I’ll try to post only about the projects I’m working on…from now on. And I have to admit it’s hard not to blog, rant or rave about anything else.
Because there is actually a lot to blog, rant and rave about. For example this blog now has reached a Pagerank of 2 in 3 months, but so did my sleeping site Uppedd.com, which never had any content at all…and this is a big mystery to me.

The first post of 2009 year is a ‘fan-tas-tic’ one. Well, actually it’s about one of my projects called ‘Fan-tas-tic’ and a although the name may suggest otherwise it’s actually a quite humble project: a ‘fan-tas-tic gallery’ powered by WordPress.

Yes, I am aware that there are already hundreds of (CSS) galleries (like these lists of examples: 36 + 74 + 115) and a lot of free WordPress themes to make your own. However they all lack some essential features for the visitors and for the administrator.
I’ll come back to these features in another post, when I’ve got the full feature list of my own gallery complete.

In the mean time you should also check out some of the galleries above for inspiration and figure out which features you think they lack and leave a comment. If I can, I might just implement it in my ‘Fan-tas-tic Gallery’ theme.

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