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A small photoblog application that’s a no-brainer to set up and use - this is truly for anyone wishing regularly to post their photos on the web like a blog. It is very heavily geared towards photobloggers and comes with a set of features that caters to photobloggers needs. In this article, I will try to explain main Pixelpost features and installation procedure.

There are a plethora of software for the literary minded out there, far fewer for the visual person who want to set up a photoblog. Pixelpost is wholly and fully geared towards photoblogging. If you want to write, this is not for you. If you want to shoot, then this is something to have a look at. Installation procedure bellow.

Main features

* Simple installation and setup
* Works out of the box
* Automatic Thumbnailing, Crop tool added
* Editing and deletion of entries
* Commentsystem
* Refererlogging
* Templatebased design - you can do it too!
* Basic templates are valid CSS and valid HTML
* Browse the archives using thumbnails
* RSS 2.0 feed + ATOM feed - included
* Exif data using EXIFER 1.5 - you got it
* Clever calendar
* Full Unicode (UTF-8) support
* clever language support
* Password recovery
* More than one image a day
* Multi-category support

Installation procedure

Before you start with installation, you must find web hosting with (at least):

• Sufficient Webspace: for PixelPost takes only 400 KB, but for your images you will need much more.
• Apache Webserver or Windows IIS (Apache recommended)
• PHP, version 4.3.0 or higher
• PHP with GD-lib (compiled with JPG-support), required for thumbnails
• MySQL version 3.24.58 or higher
• Before you start with installation you will need a MySQL database. If you have no MySQL Database running, create
  a database first (or ask your hoster to do it for you). You can use Phpmyadmin for this operation.

To install PixelPost, it is necessary to check whether your webspace supports these requirements and to have the following MySQL-database-informations at hand before you start to install:

• name of the database-host (if you test Pixelpost on your local machine, you can use localhost as database host.
• database username
• database user password
• database name

If you don’t have these informations, ask your hosting provider to provide you with these informations. Usually info about your hosting is on the contract.
After you find this information, download Pixelpost from HERE.

Extract archive to your local computer and use FTP to upload all content to your hosting place. Be sure to upload all files and directories from the archive. Keep the directory structure as it is.
Set permissions on images and thumbnails directories to 777 (CHMOD 777). Now open pixelpost.php file (located in /includes/) and enter the database information there:

$pixelpost_db_host = “localhost”; // database host, (if you test Pixelpost on your local machine, you can use localhost as database host.
$pixelpost_db_user = “replace_me”; // database user
$pixelpost_db_pass = “replace_me”; // database user password
$pixelpost_db_pixelpost = “replace_me”; // database

Save the file before closing and go to http://www.yoursite.com/where_you_installed_pixelpost/admin/install.php and follow the online instructions.
p.s. where_you_installed_pixelpost is an optional directory. For example, if you uploaded Pixelpost files and directories in pixelpost directory on your hosting space, you will need to go on http://www.yoursite.com/pixelpost/admin/install.php.

Now all you need is to follow the instructions.

Screenshots:
Installation and administration screen (http://www.yoursite.com/where_you_installed_pixelpost/admin/index.php):

Finished Pixelpost installation:

More about Pixelpost you can find on this LINK.