PanoPress allows easy embedding of 360° Panoramas & Virtual Tours created with KRPano, Panotour, Pano2VR & others using Flash & HTML5
Author: | Omer Calev & Sam Rohn (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 3.0.0 |
WordPress version tested: | 4.7.4 |
Plugin version: | 1.3 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 16-10-2012 |
Last updated: | 30-04-2017
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Rating, %: | 92 |
Rated by: | 16 |
Plugin URI: | http://www.panopress.org/ |
Total downloads: | 98 706 |
Active installs: | 4 000+ |
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Screenshots
PanoPress Basic Settings - Panorama size, preview button and PanoBox
PanoPress PanoBox Settings - PanoBox size, Style, and other options
PanoPress Advanced Settings - Custom Panorama upload folder, global viewer files, Flash wmode & other options
Upload Panoramas via FTP - Use FTP to upload Flash + HTML5 Panoramas, or upload single swf flash panoramas via the wordpress media uploader
Shortcode Button - use the [PP] PanoPress button in the WordPress editor to embed your Panoramas
Shortcode - or use the WordPress HTML editor to enter the code by hand
Panorama Preview - Display your Panorama with a "click to open" preview image
Panorama Display - Display your Panorama inline
PanoBox - Display your Panorama in PanoBox lightbox clone
Installation Instructions
- You can install PanoPress by either
- installing directly from your wordpress admin “Install new plugins” area and searching for PanoPress
- or download manually and copy the unzipped
panopress
directory into yourwp-content/plugins
directory
- Activate PanoPress through the
Plugins
page in WordPress admin area - Edit the options in
Settings
>PanoPress
as desired
How do I create panoramas for use with PanoPress ?
First, you must shoot and stitch a panorama, you will need a decent camera capable of manual exposure control, manual focus, and manual white balance setting, a solid tripod and a proper panoramic tripod head like from Nodal Ninja, and probably a good fisheye lens although fisheye is not required but it makes things easier – see the links below for tutorials on how to create a 360 degree panorama and more information on panoramic photography
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=15B8C737F69319BE
http://www.tilmanbremer.de/tutorials/
http://ivrpa.org
http://www.panoguide.com
After shooting your panorama, you will need to stitch it together using a stitching application like PTGui, AutoPano, or Hugin and then you must use another application such as KRPano, Pano2VR, Kolor Panotour or Panotour Pro, Flash Panorama Player & Flashificator, Saladoplayer or similar to create interactive 360° VR Panoramas with Flash or HTML5 for web display and use with PanoPress
PanoPress can also be used to embed panos hosted on websites like 360Cities.net, ViewAt.org, TourWrist.com, etc
How do I use PanoPress ?
- Install & activate the PanoPress plugin on your WordPress site
- Upload your Panoramas to your site via FTP
- Embed your Panoramas in posts & pages using the PanoPress shortcode
How do I use the PanoPress shortcode ?
Use the shortcode as below, accepted file types are .swf, .xml, .mov (qtvr) & .html
.htm, .php, etc as well as php queries like .php?=xx and similar file extensions will also work
Preview images may be .jpg or .png
Width & height are in pixels by default, or can optionally be specified as px, %, em, or other standard CSS units
Examples: 800px, 100%, 2.5em, etc, you may mix values like width=”100%” height=”400px”
Note that % width or height will be % of the parent css element, not nessisarily the entire page
File paths in shortcode are either relative to your panorama upload folder as set in panopress settings, or you may use absolute urls
‘[pano file=”path-from-upload-folder/my-pano/my-pano.swf”]’
‘[pano file=”my-pano/my-pano.xml” preview=”my-pano/my-pano.jpg”]’
‘[pano file=”my-pano/my-pano.html” preview=”my-pano/my-pano.jpg” panobox=”on”]’
‘[pano file=”my-pano/my-pano.html” preview=”my-pano/my-pano.jpg” width=”100%” height=”500px”]’
‘[pano file=”http://www.EXAMPLE.com/my-pano/my-pano.html”]’
See the PanoPress Instructions for more shortcode examples & info
1.3
- Security & compatibility updates.
1.2
- Add support for Pano2VR 4 tour.
- Improve CSS @media queries support.
- Add support for image & galleries in Panobox.
- Add HTML5 full-screen support for Panobox on mobile devices.
- Fixed mouse-wheel bug.
- Fixed PHP safe_mode bug.
- Fixed PHP allow_url_fopen bug.
- Fixed sub-folder tinyMCE editor box bug
- Fixed HTML5 full-screen KRPano and Pano2VR.
- Security & compatibility updates.
1.1
- Add support for CSS units in Panopress & Panobox, supported units: px|em|ex|%|in|cm|mm|pt|pc, the default unit is pixels.
- PanoBox will now resize itself when the window get resized or turned (panos only)
- Flash background color bug fix.
- CuTy location check added.
- Improve Android support.
- Update Google Analytics code.
- If using Panobox in fullscreen with wmode set to auto, pb well be dispalyed in window mode for better performance on large screens.
- Change ‘Use WordPress upload folder’ checkbox script, when unchecked, it will select the input text (not delete it).
- Admin CSS, disabled inputs now grayed out.
- Fixed krpano single swf dispaly (flash externalinterface bug).
1.0
- ‘No skin’ bug in iPad Pano2VR fixed.
- Internet Explorer 8-9 compatibility problems fixed.
- Spaces in file names support.
- ‘Only one active panorama per page’: when no preview image PP will play the first pano on the page.
- Panobox CSS improved.
- Add PP_FILE_TYPE_FILTERING flag in panopress.php, to allow deactivate file type filtering.
- Add support for trailing slash in URLs.
- Add Esc key press to close Panobox.
- Add link to settings in plugins page.
1.0b1
- PanoTour support.
- iPhone/iPad preview.
- Pano2VR HTML5 skin support.
- Support for remote server content.
- Mouse-wheel support.
- User CSS support.
- Flash window-mode customization.
- Play button removal option.
- Panobox multi-panos browsing.
- More Panobox styles & options.
- Google Analytics integration.
- “One-pano-per-page” control.
- New Settings panel.
- New JavaScript support library (TinyQ).
- Support for PHP’s “curl” when “allow_url_fopen” is disabled.
- Pano2VR HTML5 path issue (thanks Thomas!)
- ‘get flash’ error on iPhone/iPad.
0.9
- Panobox: a lightweight customizable built in lightbox clone.
- CuTy: flash support for QTVR files using Aldo Hoeben‘s CuTy viewer.
- CSS styling: customize panopress to match your site.
- ‘Please do not load this page directly’ bug on setting page fixed.
- PP now works on sites installed on subfolders.
- PHP version testing and reporting.
- File permission testing and reporting.
0.8
- Full support for Flash Panorama Player (FPP).
- XML checking and error reporting (admin mode only)
- Built-in notification will let you know when a new version is available.
- Better documentation.
- The ‘KRPano folder is now called ‘Global Viewer folder’ and can be used for FPP files as well.
- ‘WP media integration’ checkbox was removed, it is now permanently active, WP media upload allows swf file uploads through your web browser in addition to via ftp
- Fixed bug in image path with Pano2vr 3.0 multires folder.