Title: Phototools: Basics
Author: jondor
Published: <strong>May 28, 2018</strong>
Last modified: May 8, 2019

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# Phototools: Basics

 By [jondor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jondor/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/phototools.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/phototools/)

## Description

Phototools replaces the default activity widget on the dashboard by three separate
widgets with thumbnails.
 It’s mend to use with the other “phototools” plugins like
geo2wp, exifwidget etc. The “published recent” and “publishing soon” also have links
too view the post and to the edit screen. The “Recent comments” shows the thumbnail
of the parent post. the number of items in the list is settable between 1 and 30.

Besides this it implements a few extra’s:

 * turn on/off support for shortcodes in widgets, supporting the shortcodes in the
   other phototools plugins
 * turn on/off a general taxonomy “photogroup” to group photo’s in any groups you
   like
 * Fuzzy dates on/off. Makes the postdates in the activity widgets more “humanlike”.
 * Rich photo info https://www.schemaapp.com/tools/jsonld-schema-generator/Photograph/)
 * /latests option to redirect to the latest posts on your blog. For example: [Example: https://gerhardhoogterp.nl/latest](https://gerhardhoogterp.nl/latest)
   will show your the latest photo I posted.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * “published recent” and “publishing soon”
 * [[
 * “Recent comments”
 * [[
 * The settings screen.

## Installation

 1. Upload `plugin-name.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. go to the media list, filter on “unattached” and check out the menu and the bulk
    pulldown.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Phototools: Basics” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jondor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jondor/)

[Translate “Phototools: Basics” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/phototools)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/phototools/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/phototools/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/phototools/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/phototools/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release

#### 1.1

 * Fixed timezone issue

#### 1.2

 * Stupid mistake, forgot to change a hard link to my site to a get_site_url() so
   it works for other too..
 * added rel=””noopenener noreferrer” to external links with _blank
 * added a “photogroup” taxonomy to group photos together for “purposes”. I have
   some ideas to make use of this.
 * Implemented “fuzzy dates” incl. and on/off toggle in the settings. If on, dates
   postdates are presented like “in 4 weeks” or
    “a minute ago”. The close the postdate
   comes, the more accurate it will be. “In a moment” is less than a minute. The
   mouseover always has the exact date and time.
 * added rich photoinfo to the page.

#### 1.3

 * added “latest” option. you can turn it on/off in the settings and define your“
   latest” string which will be used in the url.

#### 1.4

 * Fixed a minor compatability issue

#### 1.5

 * Added a widget with the latest posts and an icon sized thumbnail form the image.
   Users with edit privileges can click the edit icon.

#### 1.6

 * fixed a stupid mistake

#### 1.7

 * Screwed up the difference between dates in days.
 * some minor adjustments

## Meta

 *  Version **1.7**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/)
 * Tags
 * [dashboard](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[phototools](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/phototools/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/phototools/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jondor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jondor/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/phototools/)

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