I would like to use a couple of the BWS plugins, specifically Gallery and Portfolio but they are not working with Montezuma due to the Virtual Templates. When you create a new page and try to set the template to Gallery or Portfolio via BWS instructions it overrides Montezuma's Virtual Template system and really messes up the format of the site, rendering it useless. Is there a way around this?

a link to the plugin would be helpful

Originally Posted by juggledad

a link to the plugin would be helpful

http://bestwebsoft.com/plugin/gallery-plugin/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gallery-plugin/

you are right, it doesn't work with Montezuma. It also doesn't work with Atahualpa since the plug in developer's template is assuming that all themes will be coded the exact same way (a bad assumption) - I downloaded a couple other themes and tried them and it also messes up the looks of them.

A simpler solution might be to find another plugin. There are lots of image plugins.

If you really want to use this one, the iframe doesn't work for you, and you know or are willing to learn some PHP, then there is an advanced solution. You could run the ugly page through some string functions to strip out the offending code, then put just the code you want into your page.

This thread can give you some options on how to include PHP in a MZ site.

This post will give you some ideas about extracting good content from an ugly plugin.

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. If anyone has any suggestions of gallery/portfolio plugins that work like the BWS plugins do I would appreciate if you share those with me. I will continue my search.

Originally Posted by jlee0409

I would like to use a couple of the BWS plugins, specifically Gallery and Portfolio but they are not working with Montezuma due to the Virtual Templates. When you create a new page and try to set the template to Gallery or Portfolio via BWS instructions it overrides Montezuma's Virtual Template system and really messes up the format of the site, rendering it useless. Is there a way around this?

There's one I use (but not everybody likes it). I had a similar problem with another plugin, and my workaround was to put the page generated by the plugin into an iframe, then put that iframe into another page that I could format with MZ. Unless somebody does a view source, they'll never know you did it.

You might have to edit the plugin code to remove a few things such as the header and footer, and maybe a sidebar, but I find that's usually easier than trying to add MZ formatting to a plugin.