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zpFocus 1.3 Released...

This is the fourth release of this theme. Please view the readme file to see what has changed.

Clean theme allowing the focus on the images, preserving image orientations in thumb, full, and slideshow display, and utilizing the great jquery lightbox script colorbox. jQuery Superfish plugin also utilized to provide a slick fading drop-down main navigation. ZenPage plugin ready - theme was built for the combination of ZenPhoto and ZenPage but can be utilized with ZenPhoto only as well.

View ReadMe File
Download zpFocus v1.3 (for ZenPhoto v1.3 [5606] )

License and Credits

zpFocus was designed and coded by gjr (http://www.blueskywebcreations.com) and released under the GNU/GPL v2 License.

Additional scripts and icons used by zpFocus:

• Superfish - jQuery menu plugin by Joel Birch
• famfam Mint Icons

Installation

1. Upload the .zip file to your zenphoto themes directory. Using cpanel file browser or similar, extract the .zip files contents.
2. Unzip the downloaded .zip file. Upload the zpfocus folder to your themes directory in your ZenPhoto installation.

In ZenPhoto administration, goto the themes tab and activate the zpFocus theme. To configure, navigate to Options>Theme to view and set the available options for zpFocus.

Things to Know...

• zpFocus has only been tested with the latest ZenPhoto version at the time of this writing - v1.3 [5606]
• zpFocus, although designed specifically for ZenPhoto with ZenPage, can be used without the ZenPage plugin.
• zpFocus has a pretty delicate layout which maintains the orientation (portrait vs landscape) of the original images. The themes layout would break horribly if the unknowing user were allowed to change the size and cropping of the images. Due to this the theme creates custom sized images and changing the image sizing and cropping in the theme options will have no effect.
• The colorbox script targets the original image uploaded. It automatically sizes the image to 90% height of your viewport. This is great for allowing users with different size monitors and resolutions to view your images differently. Realize though that if you upload humungous images that these will take a long time to load even though they are scaled down (vs ZenPhoto which creates a new resized image). Tip - using f11 in firefox, try bringing your browser to full screen while running a slideshow.