Jeffrey’s “Export to Zenfolio” Lightroom Plugin

This plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic allows you to export images from Lightroom directly to your Classic Zenfolio account.

Note: this plugin is not compatible with Zenfolio accounts on their ProSuite, PortfolioPlus, and Portfolio plans. This plugin is compatible only with Classic Zenfolio plans.

This plugin works in Lightroom Classic, and older versions as far back as Lightroom 3, though some features depend on the version of Lightroom.

The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link (in orange) and installation instructions.

Please see the FAQ and known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.

When run in Lightroom 3 or later, there is full support for Lightroom's new Publish feature. See the manual for Publish to Zenfolio for details.

Availability

This plugin is distributed as “donationware”. I have chosen to make it available for free — everyone can use it forever, without cost of any kind — but unless registered, its functionality is somewhat reduced after six weeks.

Registration is done via PayPal, and if you choose to register, it costs the minimum 1-cent PayPal fee; any amount you'd like to add beyond PayPal's sliding fees as a gift to me is completely optional, and completely appreciated.

Note: a Lightroom major upgrade, such as from Lr10 to Lr11 de-registers the plugin in the upgraded version, so if you want to maintain registration, a new ($0.01 if you like) registration code is needed in the upgraded version. It makes for a hassle every couple of years, I know. Sorry. See this note for details.

For details on plugin registration and on how I came into this hobby of Lightroom plugin development, see my Plugin Registration page.

Version History
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20220510.344

Maybe fixed a collection double-creation bug.

20220309.343

Work around a bug in Lightroom 11.2 that causes publishing to get stuck. The workaround is to switch the view away from the collection being published. If the user does that switch manually, the bug goes away. This plugin update notices if the bug is being triggered, and if so, momentarily switches the view to the quick collection and back.

Removed a bunch of debug logging that was slowing down the LUA token.Newline

20220224.342

Work around a Lightroom "lua_gettop( L ) == 1" bug.

20220120.341

Added the WEEKNUM token, along with DAYNUM, weeknum, and daynum.

Whack-a-mole with PayPal's random changes.

20211219.340

Warn when PayPal seems to have given a bogus code in the web-confirmation page.

20211213.339

Replacing videos sometimes actually added instead of replacing.

20211122.338

It seems that Zenfolio can handle PNG uploads now.

20211020.337

Ensure all calls to Zenfolio use HTTPS -- some had been missed.

20210625.336

Enforce Zenfolio's limit on keyword length (200 characters or 400 bytes).

Fixed an issue with the {Newline} token, and added {Comma}, {Hyphen}, and {Space} for good measure.

Fixed a problem with filters on the {Keyword} token.

20210522.335

Things I learned today. 1) a recent change broke the plugin on Lightroom Version 2. 2) People still use Lightroom Version 2 (?!). 3) It's still possible to find a Lr2 installer download.

20210520.334

On certain network failures, report the "RayID" (a transaction ID) to the user, so that they can report it to Zenfolio.

20210515.333

Zenfolio has moved to all HTTPS connections.

Fixed that the Province template token did not respect the plugin-specific geo-privacy settings.

20210415.332

Added 'separated by' to the People token.

20210312.331

Added some special debug logging to help track down a keyword issue.

Reworked the Keywords token to better accept filters.

20210108.330

Added the ability to fetch image views at Zenfolio and display in a Publish collection

20210103.329

Added some extra debug logging to try to track down a problem.

working around 'constant table overflow' error

Added the ImageViewDirection and ImageViewBearing tokens.

20201103.328

Added the PF filter to turn typographic fractions into plain-ASCII fractions.

20201017.327

Updates for Lr10.

Added the SpeedKnots token.

Worked around an "unknown key captureTime" error.

Added the {PlusCode} and {GeoHash} tokens.

20200529.326

Handle the "All Except Camera & Camera Raw Info" metadata option WRT geoprivacy.

Some of the filename-related tokens could be incorrect in rare situations.

20200212.325

Fixed (I hope) a problem where republishing certain old photos would result in two copies at Zenfolio.

Work around a Windows bug related to canceling out of the registration dialog.

20191203.324

Added some extra debug logging to note whether the plugin is enabled.

20191112.323

Update for Lr9. I'm pretty sure that I had support for it in the previous version, but I'm pushing this out just to make sure.

20191011.322

Added the LensInfo template token.

Updated the Exposure token to allow customization.

More token work: added {Urls}, and updated {ISO} and {Copyright} to allow customization.

Added the {RelativeFolder} token.

20190810.321

Fixed the SST1 and SST2 tokens.

20190731.320

Updated the PublishCollectionName token (and CollectionNames and CollectionFullNames) to remove the MIRROR: prefix from the name that mirrored collections within my Collection Publisher plugin automatically get.

20190722.319

The plugin was incorrectly reporting a vague catch-all error when it could have been reporting a more-specific reason.

20190708.318

Added TempC and TempF to the template tokens that my plugins understand.

Added the TempC and TempF tokens.

Updated the keyword-related tokens to accept standard filters.

Work around a bug that sometimes causes plugins to be disabled when starting Lightroom via clicking on a catalog file.

Fix an "Unknown key: captureTime" crash.

Added the GPSCoords token.

Fixed a problem related to template tokens and photos without capture times.

Added functions uc(), ucFirst(), lc(), and lcFirst() to the LUA token.

20181209.317

Added the PEOPLE variable to the LUA token.

When not logged in, make it more clear what you're not logged into, and how to fix it.

Updated the alphabetical sort to be "sorta-smart alphabetical sort", whereby names that differ only by a number are sorted numerically. For example, "album2" properly falls between "album1" and "album3", but "album20" falls after. The former straight-up alphabetical sort put "album20" before "album3", which is ugly and unpractical.

Fixed a problem with the SpeedKPH token.

Finally figured out the “Assertion failed: packed” error.

20181020.316

Created a way to completely disable the fetching of photo comments from Zenfolio. Lightroom normally does this for every photo in a publish collection after every publish operation, and that overhead can be significant if you have many photos in your collection. If you never care about photo comments, you can now visit the Plugin Manager to completely disable the fetching and the overhead.

20181017.315

Make the template-editing window a big bigger in the caption editor.

20181015.314

Updates for Lr8 (Lightroom Classic CC Version 8).

Added the special PP() function to the {LUA} token.

Added hierarchical options to the Keywords token.

Try to work around a Lightroom bug related to photo timezones and how Lightroom handles accessing plugin data.

20181004.313

Added the 'nicknames' modifier to the {People} token.

Added the SST1, SST2, and SS3 tokens to the template tokens that the plugin understands.

Sometimes Lightroom loses the "Visit At... " link for a publish collection; dig harder to come up with it anyway.

20180905.312

Input fields that accept a location can now handle a What3Words code and a Plus Code.

Minor update for some error messages.

20180804.311

Try to avoid having unexpectedly-long error messages create too-big a dialog.

20180623.310

Note: this update doesn't address the "Service Unavailable" errors that many folks have encountered lately. That error is on Zenfolio's side, and seems to be unrelated to the plugin.

Fixed the album-create stuff to respect the "leaf-name only" setting.

Clicking on the version number in the Plugin Manager now copies version info to the clipboard

Updated the PublishCollectionName token to allow numeric arguments along the lines of the CollectionName token.

Added the folowing template tokens: {home}, {desktop}, {temp}, {pictures}, {documents}, IptcDateTaken

Added the 'PCH' variable to the {LUA} tag.

20180420.309

Fixed a bug when 'Token Examples' invoked in certain situations.

Added a bunch of token filters: F2D F2S F2X B2D B2S B2X S2X A2D A2S A2X

20180121.308

When encountering catalog corruption, present a better error message.

20171229.307

Added the {CollectionNames} and {CollectionFullNames} tokens to the data templates that my plugins understand.

20171207.306

Updated the Keywords token, and added the KWf function to the {LUA} token.

Updated Twitter support to allow 280 characters.

20171112.305

Lightroom on OSX 10.10 and prior can't work with web sites that enforce modern minimum security support. Zenfolio is starting to require that minimum support, so give affected users a more-informative error message.

20171019.304

Oops, more Lr7 stuff.

20171019.303

Updates for Lightroom 7

20170925.302

Better handle some character-encoding issues related to template tokens.

Allow the "If Exists" feature of template tokns to work with the PluginProperty token.

Update registration support to handle a stupid bug at PayPal that PayPal refuses to fix )-:

20170705.301

Better error reporting when trying to do something at Zenfolio that you don't have permission to do.

20170630.300

Fixed a bug introuded the other day in template tokens, related to Windows filenames.

20170621.299

Added the Newline template token.

Enhanced the FolderName token

Added the "only if it has a value" feature to template tokens.

20170407.298

When running into issues with Zenfolio, present more info that can be passed along to their support staff.

20170309.297

Added the following tokens to the template tokens that my plugins understand: Artworks, ArtworkTitle, ArtworkCopyright, ArtworkSource, ArtworkCreator, ArtworkDateCreated, ArtworkInventoryNum

20170211.296

When running into errors at Zenfolio, present some info that can be passed along to Zenfolio support.

Added "ISO8601Date" to the template tokens that my plugins understand.

20170117.295

Yikes, previous "fix" made some uploads fail.

20170117.294

Track changes in Zenfolio's third-party API.

20170109.293

Oops, yesterday's update caused all photos sent to Twitter to be marked as sensitive.

20170108.292

Retooled to use a new Twitter API, allowing photos not to take up any characters in a tweet.

Switch the log-sending mechanism to https.

20161207.291

When Zenfolio is having issues, try to report that more clearly.

20161128.290

Publish deletes were getting hung up.

20161116.289

If Zenfolio's servers had a meltdown and returned to the plugin a web page instead of the requested data, displaying the web-page code as the error message could cause Lightroom to crash, so don't do that anymore.

Got around a situation where Lighroom would crash duing an export of large images.

Better dialog real-estate managment for the meatadata section.

Added Weekday, Wday, weekday, and wday to the list of template tokens that my plugins understand.

Fixed a bug with the keyword tables in the LUA token.

20160730.288

Still battling some insidious errors hiding in there.

20160729.287

Try to get around some publish-collection corruption I've seen popping up.

20160728.286

Fixed the album-creation problem.

20160728.284

Added some debug logging to track down an album-creation problem.

20160715.283

Added the following tokens to the templates that my plugins understand: FileModYYYY, FileModYY, FileModMM, FileModDD, FileModHH, FileModMIN, FileModSS, FileYYYY, FileYY, FileMM, FileDD, FileHH, FileMIN, FileSS, {FilenameNumber}.

Some updates to support Lr2. Lr2 is sufficiently old that I will drop support for it soon.

Added the ability to repopulate smart collections.

Added Russian-langauge support for the People-Support {People} tag.

Fix to get around a Mac display issue with Lr6 on OSX.

20160307.282

Allow for username changes at Zenfolio. Also make sure that the "view at Zenfolio" link is correct for each published collection.

Added ChildOf and DescendantOf filters to the {Keywords} and {KeywordsAll} template tokens that my plugins understand.

Fixed a bug with the 'edit saved credentials' dialog.

Fixed how custom {People} formatting works with people keywords that have no birthday associated with them.

Try to avoid yet another place where Lightroom gets hung because it can't handle certain kinds of dialogs at the same time.

20151105.281

Update the status messages presented when creating a group from the Tools section of the dialog, to actually use the word "group" instead of "gallery".

20151019.280

Updated the Caption part of the dialog to show up to three lines of text, and the full text in the tooltip.

Added {SpeedKPH} and {SpeedMPH} to the list of template tokens supported by my plugins.

The {People} token wasn't working properly for some keywords without a registered birthday.

Updated Twitter support to better count lengths of tweets that include URLs.

20150818.279

Added the ability to have collections named just for the leaf album name at Zenfolio, rather than with the full hierarchical name.

20150529.278

Zenfolio changed how some of their back-end stuff works, and so the plugin needs to update Publish Services to match. This one-time change is done automatically the first time you edit a publish service, and should be invisible unless you have a lot of collections, in which case a dialog may pop up letting you know what's going on....

Don't report as an error if the network is down and you're just viewing a Publish Collection. When you view a collection, Lightroom asks the plugin whether the remote service is up, so as to make the comment-input box available or not. The plugin used to report a "retrying..." error if the network was down, but it should just do its check quietly in the background, so now it does.

20150517.277

Fixed the "SpecPeople:259: attemt to index al nil value" error.

Try harder to detect when Zenfolio is down for maintenance and report that instead of a generic error.

20150414.276

Video upload was broken for some users.

UI fix for OSX 10.9

20150223.275

Fixed an assert-failure bug that could happen when editing a collection's settings.

20150205.274

Adding the raw-upgrade option in the previous version caused a side effect of breaking most everything else for certain users. )-:

In the POODLE-vunerability dialog, display a raw URL of a page on my site that discusses the issue, so that folks can be independently sure that the dialog is indeed from me and not malware.

20150203.273

Add the ability to upload the master original along with an exported copy.

Updated the camera-name code to try to guess the actual camera model of Hasselblad H5D files, since in their infinite wisdom Hasselblad decided to encode three distinct models with the same internal code, making it impossible to know for sure what camera produced a given image file.

20150106.272

Fix to the date_diff() function supported by the LUA template token.

The Plugin-Extras dialog to resend metadata could allow the [Resend] button to be pressed when no metadata was selected, resulting in confusion.

20141211.271

Unlucky timing during an upload could cause an "Unexpected HTTP reply" error.

Added an "Export Location Override" section to the Publishing Manager dialog (when editing an existing publish service) that allows you to change the Export Location. I don't know why Adobe doesn't let you change it... it seems arbitrary.

Add a help dialog to the publish-services edit dialog to make it clear how to delete a publish-services collection.

Use a compressed view on the Plugin Extras dialog if the screen is not very tall.

When associating a previously-uploaded image to an entry in Lightroom, note the actual upload time (instead of the time the association was made) in the "Uploaded to Zenfolio" metadata.

Registration was broken on Lr2.

20141104.270

Plugin could block export with a "tweet text too long" even if the Twitter option was disabled.

20141030.269

Better debug logging of Twitter interaction.

Very long tweet text could break the dialog display.

Don't allow expert when we know ahead of time that the tweet is too long.

If twitter rejects a tweet (e.g. because it's too large), show the tweet and offer to allow the user to edit/resend at twitter.com

20141023.268

Added extra logging to debug why Lightroom might fail to render for export

20141019.267 Windows Only: Add a one-time check for the POODLE security vulnerability, and alert the user if it exists.
20141010.266 Better error reporting with the visit-collection item in Publish.
20140923.265 Added the LrMD5, LrLocalization, LrSystemInfo, and LrMath packages to the {LUA} template token.
20140922.264 When deleting from a publish collection, properly maintain the 'Uploaded to...' metadata field.
20140917.263 If we've got to bail on an upload due to a too-long title or the like, do so before the pixels are uploaded to avoid leaving an orphan at Zenfolio.
20140902.262 New build system
20140802.261

Updated the Twitter support to allow my plugins' template tokens in the tweet text.

Made the {GPSAltitude}, {Altitude}, and {GPSCoordinates} tokens subject to the geo-privacy settings like the other geo-related tokens.

20140731.260 Registration fix for Lr5.6
20140731.259 Added some debugging to track down some registration issues.
20140729.258 Previous updates broke support on Lightroom 2
20140720.257 More Creative-Cloud support.
20140715.256

Fixed an issue with Creative-Cloud revalidation.

20140712.255

Lr5.5 and later Creative-Cloud installs can now revalidate themselves if needed.

20140710.254 Sigh, had a bug in the Creative-Cloud support.
20140709.253 Oops, restore the create-a-gallery menu item lost in a recent update
20140708.252

Now supports Lr5.5+ Creative-Cloud Installs.

20140704.251 Sigh, introduced an error for some folks with the rebuild the other day.
20140630.250 Build-system update
20140613.249

Added date_diff() and raw_time_diff() functions to the special {LUA} token understood by the plugin.

20140605.248

Add a note to the Keyword options to highlight that only exportable keywords are considered

Set up the ability to reauthenticate to your Zenfolio account from the Publishing Manager dialog.

20140510.247 A missing 'automatic destination' could cause the plugin to crash.
20140509.246

Added new tokens to the template language the plugin understands: LrVersion, LrVersionMajor, LrVersionMinor, LrVersionRevision, LrVersionBuild, Location, CatalogName, CatalogPath, OperatingSystem, OS

Added new token filters: NS and LO

20140422.245

Fixed a bug in the "smoother revalidation" stuff recently added.

20140417.244

The {Empty} template token wasn't working properly.

Added a new "Location Privacy" section to the Exprt/Publish dialogs.

Updated the location-based tokens in the template language the plugin uses — City, State, Country, Location, Latitude, Longitude — to respect new privacy options in the Export/Publish dialogs, and in the resend-metadata dialog. You can override those options on a case-by-case basis with the evenIfPrivate filter.

Added locationIsPrivate variable to the environment available to the LUA token.

Added the "Recent Zenfolio Comment" custom metadata item, which holds the date of the most recent comment for a Published photo, in YYYY-MM-DD format. While in the "Published Photos" section of the Library Grid, you can set the Filter to "Recent Zenfolio Comment" and then scroll down to the end to see the most recent dates, and via that see the most-recently commented photos. It's a bit unelegant, but it's the best I can think of within the severe limits of Lightroom's plugin infrastructure.

Make the revalidation process smoother, especially for folks using Lr5.4 and later.

20140204.243

Enable a new feature internal to Lr5 for large exports that keeps the CPU from running too far ahead of the upload. Prior to this, Lightroom would go ahead and peg the CPU to pre-render all the images even if they weren't being uploaded at nearly the same speed. Now Lightroom pauses the behind-the-scenes rendering if it has gotten too far ahead of the upload.

20131106.242

A complete overhaul of the "Associate Images Automatically" code (in File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras). It's still a fragile process, but it might work a bit better now.

20131023.241

Added (to File > Plugin Extras) the ability to check the remote status to see whether uploaded photos are still there, and clear out data from the catalog when they are not.

Added keywords to the list of metadata that can be imported back from Zenfolio.

20131011.240 Gave the Publishing Manager UI some attention on Windows.
20130927.239

Added the “:EMBED” token filter to the template language.

20130926.238 Oops, fix a bug introduced in the previous update
20130925.237

Added a bunch of tokens to the preset templates supported: ExportFormat, ExportColorSpace, ExportBitDepth, ExportQuality, ExportSharpeningLevel, ExportSharpeningMedia, IpernityUrl, GoogleDriveUrl, and TumblrUrl.

The token-examples dialog had been broken. Also deprecated Folder and Path tokens in preference to FolderName and FolderPath tokens.

20130909.236

Work around a Lightroom bug concerning the determination of whether a photo is offline.

20130822.235

Added the ability to import titles and captions from Zenfolio back into Lightroom.

20130820.234

Made big updates to the "Export with Smart Previews?" section; you can now pick to be asked whether to export via Smart Previews, and can differentiate between when the Smart Previews are "good enough" for an export and when they are not. Moved to a more logical place in the dialog.

Fixed the KW/KWE tables in template tokens; they had been broken when using load for the script.

Moved the "Export with Smart Previews?" dialog section to a more-logical place in the order.

20130701.233

Work around a bug that causes the export-related progress bar to not show up right away.

20130629.232 Added an error report to aid in debugging why publish association might fail.
20130613.231 Better support for plugin revalidation.
20130612.230 Creating a new publish album could sometimes fail
20130611.229 Sigh, previous update for Lr5 broke things for the Lr5 beta.
20130611.228 Yet another Lr5 update
20130610.227 Better logging to try to understand catalog-write-access contention under Lighroom's hood
20130524.226 Apparently, a recent change broke things on Lr2, which some folks apparently still use.
20130520.225

Added the ability in Lr5 to export images even if the master image file is not available, so long as there's a smart preview available.

20130511.224 When creating a publish collection from the context menu, respect the publish service's flat vs. hierarchial naming setting.
20130501.223 Update for Lr5
20130412.222 Fix to the Twitter fix.
20130412.221

Can now have Publish collections renamed to match album names changed at Zenfolio.

Sigh, Twitter yet again made an unannounced undocumented change to their API that immediately breaks apps that have worked for years, and doesn't even bother alerting developers after the fact. Lord knows how many developers wasted how many hours trying to debug something that should have been announced on the developer's blog. Days later, it's still not announced there. Twitter is not worse than Facebook, but seems to be trying.

20130328.220 Fix for the registration system.
20130319.219

Export could crash if a too-big-for-the-remote-service video upload was attempted.

Fixed a possible plugin crash in Lr2 that might happen if the remote site's servers are failing.

20130311.218 Try to address a gallery-sorting bug.
20130220.217

Added support for some new template tokens: FlagStatus (requires Lr4.1 or later), and for Lr3 and later, a bunch of IPTC extended metadata: AdditionalModelInfo, CodeOfOrgShown, DigImageGUID, Event, ImageSupplierImageId, MinorModelAge, ModelAge, ModelReleaseID, ModelReleaseStatus, NameOfOrgShown, PersonShown, PlusVersion, PropertyReleaseID, PropertyReleaseStatus, and SourceType.

20130214.216 Small fix for Lr2
20130209.215 Update to handle new Twitter url-length settings.
20130206.214 Update the Twitter-related code to handle their new API. Their old API goes away next month.
20130129.212

Update to reflect Zenfolio's video-length limit of 20 minutes (it had been 15).

Abort on an attempt to create a gallery with a name more than Zenfolio's limit of 200 characters long.

20130119.211 Added the ability to set the gallery cover photo via Lightroom keyword.
20130115.210

Added the ability to use "automatic destinations" (the naming of target galleries based upon image metadata) in Publish. It's been in Export for years (as illustrated in this 2008 article on backing up to Zenfolio), and you must create the destination presets from Export, but you can now access them in Publish.

A lot of work on the upload datapath, making it more efficient and restoring the ability to retry the attempt on certain errors.

Added the ability to set the caption on a one-off basis by just typing it in, avoiding the need to make a preset each time.

20121203.208 Add a link to the FAQ for the "missing destination cookies" error.
20121109.207 Note when Zenfolio is down for system maintenance.
20121030.206 Could run into catalog contention while fetching new comments.
20121020.205 A recent optimization for Lr4 broke support for Lr2.
20121017.204 Plugin was blocking export due to DPX-video format in some cases where Lightroom didn't allow the format to be changed.
20121014.203 Added a help dialog when encountering the mysterious 'handle in the wrong state' error.
20121010.202 Fixed Twitter authentication.
20121009.201

Enhance the {EMPTY} template token so that it interrupts the squelching of superfluous joining characters.

Workaround for an "attempt to call field 'getProgressScope'" bug introduced in Lr4.2.

Disallow DPX-format video export, since that totally breaks things.

20121002.200 Fixed some UI-cuttoff in the Publish upload-destination dialog section, on Windows.
20120905.199

Added the ability to create new galleries directly from the Publish Service context menu.

Disable the "Also automatically add as collection" checkbox in the Publish-Dialog "Zenfolio Tools" section, when the type of thing being created is a group instead of a gallery. You can't publish to groups.

20120821.198

Updates to the environment in the {LUA} token (in the template tokens in my plugins) to include photoTime() and currentTime(), and other changes to match the updated docs at that link.

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20120820.197

Responding to further Zenfolio error-message changes.

20120808.196

Fixed a resend-keyword bug.

20120805.195

Zenfolio seems to be changing how they report errors, so this update tries to respond in kind, as far as I can tell.

20120706.194

Wow, it seems some people using Lr2 are still using very old versions of Lr2 that aren't up to snuff feature/bugfix wise. I don't want to support gratuitously old stuff, so I put a minimum of Lr2.6 to use the plugin.

Oops, a side-effect of recent changes caused the log to bloat with a binary dump of exported images. Fixed.

20120614.193

Twitter support now allows suppressing "Private" geoencoded locations in Lr4.1+

20120607.192 Very slow uploads in Lr4.1 could cause the new progress bar stuff to blow up.
20120602.191

New upload engine in Lr4.1 that greatly increases the efficiency of large uploads. In Lr4.0 and older versions, upload handling is inefficient and large uploads can crash Lightroom, but from Lr4.1 you can easily upload up to your Zenfolio account maximum.

With Lr4.1 and later, you also get an upload percent-complete report in the task progress bar, and the ability for upload cancels to take effect immediately.

Update to handle the Mac App Store version of Lightroom.

20120508.190 Yikes, Lr2 registrations were broken again.
20120430.189

Tweak for Lr4.1RC2.

Fixed the “photo too large to tweet” dialog message, which had been all garbled up.

20120426.188

Fixed a potential crash when processing some captions.

20120418.187

Handle a change to Zenfolio's API. According to Zenfolio, earlier versions of the plugin will cease to work on July 1, 2012.

Add the ability to reauthenticate Zenfolio credentials from within a publish service.

Enhanced the send-log dialog to hopefully make reports more meaningful to me, yielding, I hope, the ability to respond more sensibly to more reports.

Added to the template tokens supported by the plugin: {FullMasterFile}, {FullMasterFolder}, {FullExportedFile}, and {FullExportedFolder}.

20120418.186 (this version had an assert in Publish)
20120417.185 (this version had a "This file format is not supported or the file is corrupt." bug")
20120330.184 Update to handle 4.1RC
20120327.183 More graceful handling of videos whose pixel size is not known.
20120309.182 Had broken registrations in Lr2; Update to the debug logging to better track down timing issues that might arise.
20120303.181 One more update with the large-upload thing.
20120302.180 The recently-added "Lightroom doesn't handle large uploads well" check/dialog didn't play nice. Does now.
20120301.179 Oops, broke new logins in the previous big update... doh! Sorry. Fixed.
20120229.178

Lots more preparation for Lr4 (but still works in Lr2 and Lr3).

Lightroom's internal infrastructure doesn't handle large uploads well, and will most likely crash when trying to upload huge videos, so I've not added a warning and the ability for the user to decide when it kicks in.

Files that are offline are now detected before an export/publish begins, and if there are any, offers the option to abort the export, or just skip the offline ones. This is a lot more clear than the "dng_error_file_not_found" error you get from Lightroom if you follow through with an export attempt of an offline image.

20120218.177 Zenfolio seems to have changed how they handle image deletion... not sure whether they're having issues or it's an intentional change, but the plugin now handles it gracefully.
20120217.176

Discovered why "metadata that triggers a republish" wasn't reliable, and fixed it.

Attempt to prepare for changes Twitter has announced will take place in how they return information about server errors.

More on the march toward Lr4, including upheaval in the code to handle Lightroom APIs being discontinued in Lr4.

Bumped up the minimum Lr3 version to Lr3.5, to ensure we've got those bug fixes. Lr2 and Lr4 are still supported, of course.

Added the {AspectRatio} token to the token templates understood by the plugin, and added the Length=num filter.

20120114.175 More tweaks for Lr4b
20120112.174

Removed the “Re-mark as Published” button from the plugin-extras dialog in Lr4, because Lr4 now supports this natively.

Moved the Twitter code over to a new style of Twitter authentication, in hopes that it cures the authentication problems some people have been having.

Moved all access of Twitter to HTTPS.

Removed an obsolete reference to bit.ly from the Twitter help dialog.

Update for Lr4 beta: explain in the plugin manager that the plugin can't be registered in the beta.

20120106.173

The Lightroom bug referenced in the version note for 20110623.148 was fixed in Lr3.5, so I've removed the special workaround processing for that version and later.

Enabled export snapshot creation in Publish.

20111214.172

Zenfolio added video-upload support today, so I've updated the plugin to allow video.

Better error handling for video export, and for when images/videos exceed upload limits.

Warn about the need to update the list of albums if it's not been updated for a long time.

20111210.171

Updated how the Manual-association dialog is sized.

Had issues with the registration button sometimes not showing.

20111202.170

Added a system-clock check and reports to the user if the system clock is more than a minute out of date. An incorrect system clock can cause problems with various kinds of communication and authentication with some of my plugins, so I've just gone ahead and added this to every plugin.

When doing a plugin upgrade, offer the ability to flush all the old copies of the plugin.

Fix an "attempt to concatenate field 'user_id_string'" error that pops up at rare times.

Added some debug logging to try to track down a sizing problem with the manual-association dialog.

20111017.170

Include the account id (in addition to the full name that's already there) in the Publishing Manager login section, to allow multiple accounts associated with the same real name to be easily differentiated.

Also report how much storage quota is remaining, if on exists.

Reporting some errors can create a huge dialog box that can be difficult to close on OSX, so this update adds a [X] button in the upper right of the dialogs.

Gracefully report when Zenfolio replies with a "storage quota exceeded" error.

20111010.169 Added the ability to resend copyright when resending metadata.
20111008.168 Publish repopulation could fail with write-gate timeouts.
20111004.167 Plugin would crash in some cases while trying to process Twitter-related settings.
20110918.166 Now I'm seeing "Server Error" responses, so trying to handle that more gracefully as well.
20110914.165 Zenfolio seems to be having a spate of "service is unavailable" errors, which the plugin wasn't handling well. Now these errors are reported more clearly when the plugin encounters them.
20110910.164

Handle errors more gracefully when attempting to update online comments for photos that no longer exist.

Better general debug logging to help track down errors when reported.

20110903.163 Added {PluginProperty} to the template tokens used by my plugins.
20110901.162

Some internal optimizations to handle large number of sets.

20110819.161

Gave the Twitter tweet input UI some attention.

Twitter automatically replaces URLs with their own t.co urls, and the tweet-text character-counter now takes that into account, so pasting in urls of any length now "costs" a fixed amount (currently 19 characters for an HTTP url; 20 characters for an HTTPS url). The plugin no longer uses bit.ly.

Made it so that hitting ENTER while entering a tweet does not actually launch the export. This is a maddeningly-frustrating aspect of the Lightroom plugin infrastructure, but I've worked around it in a way that seems to work.

20110817.160

Updates the yesterday's changes to that Lr2 works as well.

20110816.159

Added the ability to include a photo when issuing a tweet via Twitter.

Gracefully handle when Zenfolio rejects HTML captions with a non-validation error.

20110814.158 The "resend metadata" operation, if not resending all data, could cause unsent fields to be wiped out at Zenfolio.
20110807.157 Fixed "attempt to compare nil with number" error that some users might have gotten in Publish.
20110729.156

Better reporting of networking timeouts.

The 'refresh list' button was missing from the upload-destination list when it was configured to be a popup menu.

20110712.155 Had a minor plugin-crashing boo-boo in the previous update
20110711.154 Really long captions could cause a stack overflow.
20110708.153 Fix the "Export:663" error some have gotten.
20110706.152 Still struggling with catalog-access issues that seemed to have materialized out of the blue (with a bug in Lr3.4??). This update addresses creating a new publish collection.
20110706.151

The manual-association dialog was too big for some screens... now it auto-adjusts depending on the screen size.

More on the catalog-access errors that some are getting with Lr3.

20110703.150 For Lr2, fixes a 'must be called inside withReadAccessDo' error I'd recently introduced. For Lr3, tries to address a similar error that seems to pop up in rare cases.
20110624.149 Present a better error message if image metadata (title, caption, etc.) exceeds Zenfolio limits.
20110623.148

There's a bug in Lightroom that causes it to sometimes include private keywords in exported copies. The plugin now detects these situations and alerts you to them, allowing you to avoid a privacy blunder.

20110614.147 Fixed the “Associate Images Manually“ functionality. Tweaked the authentication stuff to avoid having to re-upload the first image after a long absence by pre-testing the cached authentication token, and refreshing it if need be.
20110611.146 Workaround for a problem one user experienced.
20110607.144 Due to a mistake on my part, the plugin started building invalid urls for galleries at Zenfolio. This version of the plugin fixes it, but to make it manifest, you've got to click the "refresh list" button next to the list of galleries (in either the Export Dialog or the Publishing-Manager Dialog).
20110524.143

Better handle long album names by truncating at the beginning with '...', and having the tooltip be the full name.

20110521.142

Fixing some problems with Lr2 that the comment-refresh thing the other caused.

Fixed a bug that caused the export destination to not properly refresh in response to selecting a preset in the export dialog.

20110519.141

Added a new section to the Publish Service settings dialog, on whether to refresh remote comments (at Zenfolio back into Lightroom) automatically or only manually.

Fixed an obscure bug that caused new album creation to fail if it's your first interaction with the plugin in more than a day.

20110518.140

It seems Zenfolio dropped (or never had?) support for Width-related gallery sorting, so I've dropped that option.

Be more robust to errors during the gallery-creation process. Added more logging to try to debug a gallery-creation error.

20110511.139 Yikes, when I upgraded to a new Zenfolio API in March, I broke the image-association feature. Sorry. Fixed.
20110426.138 Fixed a bug in how some export errors are reported.
20110419.137 Wasn't properly issuing an error message when used with Lr3.0 and Lr3.2.
20110409.136

Fixed some plugin-crash asserts that some new users might get.

Added "select all" button to Publish collection list.

20110329.135 Oops, the button to refresh the list of galleries had inadvertently disappeared.
20110324.134

Added the ability to select which metadata items cause a Publish republish.

Added the ability to sort the album list in the Publishing Manger

Previous build was broken under Lr2, and some Lr3 installs.

20110322.133

Giving a try to a manual option to associate images already at Zenfolio with catalog photos. See “Associate Images Manually“ in the Plugin-Extras dialog (“File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras”).

Added the ability to create new Zenfolio galleries from within the publish manager.

Added a progress dialog to the “Re-mark as Published” operation, so that it can be canceled, and to make it clear that something is going on under the hood.

Fixed a bug whereby one couldn't export via preset to an account different from the currently-logged in account.

The list of upload destinations was sometimes getting cut off.

Internally, upgraded to the latest Zenfolio API.

20110125.132 Some ares of the code that talked to Zenfolio didn't properly handle reauthentication requests, but I think I've caught them all now.
20110121.131

Added “Re-Mark as Published” to the Plugin-Extras dialog (“File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras”). If you have published photos in the “Modified Photos to Re-Publish” grid segment, this moves them back to “Published Photos” without actually uploading anything to Zenfolio. You might use this after making what you know to be a metadata-only change that won't affect how the image is shown at Zenfolio.

Fixed a problem such that long album names caused buttons to become inaccessible in the export dialog.

Not sure what happened to the export dialog since I last checked it in Windows, but it was in need of some UI love.

20110116.130 Added Twitter support to Publish.
20110113.129

This version no longer works in Lr3.0 and Lr3.2 because many bugs have been fixed in Lr3.3: if you're using Lr3.0 or Lr3.2, please visit Lightroom's Help > Check for Updates to download the free update from Adobe. (The plugin also continues to work in Lr2.)

Added {CroppedWidth} and {CroppedHeight} to the template tokens used by my plugins.

Add a note of instruction to handle a (rare) situation where one needs to reauthenticate in the normal Export Dialog in order to get a Publish Service working again.

20101217.128 Updated Twitter support for Twitter's new API endpoints
20101124.127

Fixed a crash sometimes encountered while updating remote-account data in the plugin, fixing correctly the fix I added incorrectly in 20101112.125.

20101116.126

Check whether galleries at Zenfolio have been renamed from when publish-service collections were created, and prompt the user with a note that the renaming can be incorporated into Lightroom by enabling the “Forcefully rename current collections” option.

Replaced an ugly debug message that popped up when the plugin detected that a publish-service collection's related gallery at Zenfolio has been removed from Zenfolio, with a more user-friendly message.

20101112.125 Some users were suddenly getting an “Assertion failed(!)” error (it would happen in some situations when the internal Zenfolio access token would time out and the plugin would need to reauthenticate on your behalf). I haven't been able to reproduce the error myself, but this should fix it.
20101104.124

Publish was sometimes getting stuck in a 'not logged in' state, if you hadn't refreshed your account data in the plugin for too long a time. Not sure why I might have built it that way, but I took off the time limit so now it shouldn't get stuck anymore. Wish I understood why I'd put it in in the first place, though. )-:

Warn about the loss of metadata if the “resize to megapixels” option is used.

Fixes “Spec:343: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)” error some were getting

20100829.123 Made the revalidation process much simpler, doing away with the silly need for a revalidation file.
20100820.122 Discovered a bug in my plugin build system that caused horribly difficult-to-track-down errors in one plugin, so am pushing out rebuilt versions of all plugins just in case.
20100814.121

Added an interactive filter to the gallery list in Publish; it'll show up if there are more than 10 galleries. Only galleries whose names match all the (space-separated) terms in the filter are shown.

Added code to allow plugin revalidation after having been locked due to a bad Lightroom serial number.

20100726.120

Added the {KeywordsAll} template tag.

A few users found some photos to always be “stuck” as Modified photos in a Publish collection. I'm still not 100% what might be going on and can't replicate the issue myself, but this version of the plugin tries some things to hopefully alleviate the problem.

20100715.119 There was a bug on Windows that caused the warning about potentially-excessive JPEG quality settings to lock up Lightroom for an indeterminate amount of time. Only way I could fix it was to move the warning to the metadata management section (where it doesn't belong as much as it doesn't belong where it was before, but Lightroom doesn't let me put it where it should go, next to the jpeg-quality slider). This also allowed me to put it back into Publish.
20100715.118 Yikes, the JPEG-quality thing I added didn't play well with Publish. Removing it from Publish 'till I figure out a better way.
20100714.117

Egads, the list of albums in the Publish Service dialog was not sorted.

Did a lot of work to revamp the ability to tie in photos already at Zenfolio into your Lightroom catalog (and hence to populate a Zenfolio publish service), working around bugs in Lightroom. See the new publish docs for details.

The plugin has long remembered your export settings from Zenfolio export session to Zenfolio export session, overriding Lightroom's desire to always bring your recent export settings from non-Zenfolio exports. However, I had neglected to update the list of settings for Lightroom 3, so this is now corrected, and so the plugin now also remembers watermarking settings, file-renaming and photo-stacking, and DNG compatibility.

Clarified that the “delete all copies previously uploaded” option applies to, well, all copies previously uploaded, as opposed to some magic subset of copies previously uploaded that you might have fixed in mind.

Added a warning that blocks export when the JPEG quality is set needlessly high, referring users to my Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings. You can bypass the warning if you like, and hide it forever, of course.

20100702.116

Discovered some rare and complex bugs related to collection renaming, and (I hope) fixed them.

20100630.115

Finally pushing the new version out of plugin beta (where it has been for a couple of weeks), after eight months of oft-painful development. It's extremely complex under the hood, so now that it's getting wider user and additional bugs are shaken out, there will likely be frequent updates... please keep an eye on the version history when you update.

Here are the update details from when it was in beta:

20100614.107 — This version can be registered in Lightroom 3. It can run in Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3; it does not work in the Lr3 betas.

It uses my new registration system when run on Lightroom 3, which avoids some of the silly issues of the old one. Please take care to note the details on the registration page: use of this version (or later) of the plugin in Lightroom 3 requires a new registration code, even if you had registered some older version of the plugin.

This version has no Publish support... I hope to push that out soon, but I wanted to get out something that works in Lr3 ASAP.

Many, many changes under the hood.

Added some options to the Twitter <dest options> special code: add simple as an option to have it become just the name without quotes or other adornment; add short to par down the gallery name to just the leaf name. They can be combined, e.g. <dest short simple>.

Added some stuff to the LUA template token: a version of the standard os table (with date, difftime, getenv, es and time), and the standard Lightroom STK tables LrDate, LrPathUtils, and LrStringUtils). Also added a new functions TBL() (returns an empty table), ne(item) (returns true if the item is not empty), and nb(item) (returns true if the item is not blank; " " is blank but not empty, while "" and nil are both blank and empty).

20100624.108 — Discovered a nasty build bug; pushing a new version in case it affects this plugin.

20100625.109 — Yikes, shaking out some more build issues.

20100627.110 — Giving publish for Zenfolio a try.

20100628.111 — Had broken auto destinations.

20100628.112 — Various fixes, including handling virtual copies (created on images uploaded with this version or later).

20100629.113 — Lots of changes. Bolstered the separation between Publish and non-Publish exports. You can now publish comments.

20100629.114 — Lots more changes, especially related to auto destinations and replacing images. Identified that “Import Smart Collection Settings” does not work for Publish, and corrupts things. Don't use it.

20100323.106

Removed some LR3-related debugging stuff that's showing up now that LR3b2 is out. All plugin-related things should work in LR3b2 except Publish, which will likely change drasticly between now and when LR3 is actually released.

New when running LR3b2 is a new “Snapshots on Export” section, which is basically a built-in version of this new plugin.

Added new tokens to the templates used in my plugins: IfKeyword and IfExportedKeyword are supported for LR2 and later. For LR3b1 and later the very powerful LUA token, and for LR3b2 and later, a bunch of new localized date/time tokens. See the templates page for details.

20100315.105

Wholesale changes that attempt to honor the user's locale settings for numeric display (e.g. Europeans writing 3,14156 for pi). I've probably missed some spots, so let me know if you find some.

Added three new tokens to the templates that my plugins use, CameraName, IfGeoencoded, and Keywords. See the templates page for details.

20100226.104

Title presets weren't getting saved across LR restarts in some cases (for definitions of “some” meaning “all”, sorry).

Changed the semantics of the Places filter (in the tokens understood by the preset templates of my plugins) in two ways: if applied to a string value rather than a number, it works on the first number found in the string. Another is that you can now use something like Places=-1 to round to the 10s, Places=-2 to round to the 100s, etc.

20100205.103

Completely changed how the one-click upgrade applies the newly-downloaded zip file, in the hopes that it'll work for more people. Rather than unzipping over the old copy, it now unzips to a temporary folder, then moves the old folder out of the way and the new folder into place. Prior versions' folders are now maintained (with the version number in the folder) in case you want to revert a version; you may want to clear them out from time to time. Of course, it won't take affect until you try to upgrade after having upgraded to or beyond this version.

Caught a few more LR3b issues.

Fixed the {GPSAltitude} template token so that it should now actually work.

Oops, the upload date/time custom metadata items were swapped. Doh! With this new version, each catalog will auto-update to correct the issue the first time it's loaded. The format used for the date and time are restricted in LR2 to whatever I've chosen, but the first time you load the plugin in the real LR3 (whenever it comes out), the catalog will update itself again to write the dates/times in your user-customized, localized format.

Lots of updates to the Twitter support:

  • Better tweet-size estimates in line with recent processing changes at Twitter.
  • Added <title> and <caption> tags to the tweet-text template (they use the title/caption from the first image exported).
  • Added the ability to control whether to send a Twitter tweet with photo keywords.
  • Added the ability to geotag tweets with a static location, or with the geoencoded location of the first image. A static location can be specified with a latitude, longitude pair, a geohash, or a url from a mapping service like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. On the encoded side, geodata embedded in the image can be used, or the geodata maintained by my geoencoding-support plugin).
  • You can now configure the plugin to shorten URLs via your own bit.ly account, in case you want to track click-throughs yourself.
  • You can now specify that you want all URLs shortened. The default remains to shorten them only when required to get under the 140-character limit. You might, for example, want to forcefully shorten them all in conjunction with your own bit.ly account, for click-through tracking.
  • The plugin now goes to great lengths to report whether a tweet is accepted by Twitter. In their infinite wisdom, the folks at Twitter suddenly decided to start ignoring long tweets instead of truncating them, but (here's the brilliant part) they still report back to the plugin that the tweet was successful. Sigh.

    Furthermore, they might also ignore (yet report as successful) other kinds of tweets, such as those that are a repeat of a “too recent” tweet. Those crafty folks at Twitter implemented these changes more than three months ago, but in a truly cunning move, they still detail the old behavior in their API documentation, making no mention whatsoever about how their service now actually works.

    Only by doing a bunch of extra work can the plugin detect whether a tweet was accepted or ignored. If ignored, there's no way for the plugin to know why, so at this point it merely reports that the tweet didn't go through.

20100118.102 Added two new template tokens, {DaysSince} and {PhotoDaysSince}. They're a bit tricky, but could be useful.
20091230.101 Added a “Repopulate URLs” button to the Plugin Extras dialog, to allow correcting for the bug fixed in the previous push, and to correct for photos uploaded with old versions of the plugin.
20091230.100 Sigh, it seems 30,000+ lines of code are getting to be hard to keep track of, and I unintentionally removed the exported url from the custom metadata (from the 'At Zenfolio' item) a few versions back. This should fix it, at least for images uploaded from now. There are some more updates for Publish in LR3b, but it's very much a work in progress.
20091222.99 Fixed some issues with the metadata resend (in the Plugin-Extras dialog) when images had been exported to multiple Zenfolio accounts.
20091216.98 Figured out when the “AgExportSession.photoExportSequence is obsolete; use photoIdExportSequence instead” error was coming from. A bug in LR3 beta. I had to disable the export filter for the beta to avoid this.
20091215.97 Allow changing the font size of list of upload destinations. Those with long names might want to choose a smaller size to allow more text to fit on each row.
20091215.96 Debugging-log tweak.
20091214.95 Added the special {NOJOINERS} token to the Template Language understood by my plugins.
20091209.94 A few small fixes for LR3b, and tweaks to the extra-keywords stuff do tidy up repeated keywords in the display.
20091205.93 Minor internal debugging tweaks.
20091118.92 Added an {Altitude} item to the templates understood by the plugin. It's the numeric altitude in meters, as opposed to the {GPSAltitude} item which is a description of the altitude along the lines of 32.7 m. Also updated the Places filter so that it can be used on fields that merely begin with a number.
20091118.91 Added the ability to resend keywords/captions/titles via the File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras dialog.
20091023.90 A bunch of UI fixes for LR3b, such as fixing the scrollbar and the token-examples dialog.
20091022.89 Added a first draft of some rudimentary support for Lightroom 3 Beta. See this important note about plugin support in Lightroom 3 Beta and Lightroom 3, including future plans for features and my registration system.
20090916.88 Some UI tweaks earlier in the month had an unintended side effect of breaking the “choose destination at export time” feature. Sorry... fixed! Also, added some prose to make it more clear that the “create gallery” part of the choose-destination-at-export-time dialog is not part of the export process, but merely a tool placed there for the convenience of those wishing to create a new gallery just prior to exporting.
20090915.87 Fixed some keyword-related issues. First, due to a silly bug on my part, there had been an artificial limit on the number of keywords sent. Second, also due to a bug on my part, the keyword order was scrambled. The plugin now sends them in the order Lightroom provides them (which seems to be alphabetic). (Sorry to everyone who couldn't contact my server for the last few days... it had “issues”, that are now fixed.)
20090716.86 Sigh, Twitter engineers treat developers like a bunch of twits. Twitter just made a sudden, unannounced, and undocumented change to how they allow external applications like this plugin to connect to Twitter, breaking every external application out there. If a plugin follows the Twitter documentation, it will not work. I couldn't believe Twitter engineers could be so inexperienced or hostile (which?) the first time they pulled a stunt like this, but again? This is ridiculous... are there kids running the shop over there? If they do this again, I may just yank Twitter support from the plugins... it's not worth the frustration. For the time being, this push should fix things.
20090701.84

Enhanced the one-click upgrade stuff quite a bit, now detecting ahead of time when it will fail because the plugin is installed where Lightroom can't write (if Lightroom can't write to it, it can't update itself). I also added a progress bar, and now download in smaller chunks to avoid 'out of memory' errors on the larger plugins. Do remember that this new functionality becomes available after you upgrade to or past this version, when you then upgrade with it.

Fixed that during an upload of a single image, the progress-bar status didn't reflect when the image was being uploaded (it said “rendering...” the whole time).

Added a defensive error check: try to detect some of the weird error messages that the OS returns when a firewall blocks Lightroom from using the Internet. You'd be shocked to hear how much time I spend telling people “check your firewall and enable an exception for Lightroom...”. Hopefully this'll stem that stream.

20090616.83 Sigh, this upload-destination fiasco is a real pain. Maybe have it nailed down this time.
20090615.82 Some people are still having images uploaded to the wrong album, and I'm starting to think that it's a case of corrupt Lightroom preferences. I've looked at some logs and it seems to be a case of “this can't possibly happen” happening. I've added something in this version that kills some old information with prejudice.... if this doesn't take care of it, please send a log again (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right of the plugin manager), but I suspect my reply will be to ask you to blast your LR preferences file and start over.
20090614.81

Sigh, it turns out that a few days ago, Twitter suddenly changed authentication methods in a way that was guaranteed to break every strong-authentication application (such as this plugin). Sigh. This update handles the new authentication style, and includes better error reporting for the next time they pull a stunt like this.

20090605.80 Two bug fixes... fixed progress bar during upload, and fixed an “Access to undefined global” error that popped up when trying to clear uploaded-to-Zenfolio data via the Zenfolio-Extras menu.
20090605.79

Fixed the urls in Twitter tweets to be the public version of the url, not the private owner's version.

Added a couple of new custom metadata fields, “Zenfolio Upload Date”, and “Upload Time”. The former can be used in the Library Grid Filter to sort/select/filter by the date you uploaded to Zenfolio.

Because the new custom fields mean a change to the database, the first time you load this new version, Lightroom will pop up a dialog asking “Update catalog for plug-in?” to which you'll want to answer yes (“Update”). Then a progress bar will show up and, if you have a lot of photos in your catalog that had been uploaded to Zenfolio, will just sit there for potentially several minutes, looking stuck. Just let it work. For my catalog with 48,000 photos, it took about 5 minutes.

I'll add these to my Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor plugin soon, but for those maintaining their own viewer tagsets, these can be found at info.regex.lightroom.export.zenfolio2.uploadDate and ....uploadTime.

20090602.78

Well, here's something new: Twitter support. It may be a bit iffy, mostly because I don't use Twitter myself, so perhaps I've missed something about the culture in which it's used, but I've added something that allows you to send a tweet after a successful upload, with a mini template language that allows you to include a photo url or destination-set url in the tweet.

The plugin uses Twitter's new strong secure authentication, so you don't even have to tell the plugin your username or password. You authenticate at Twitter and grant the plugin application permission to send tweets on your behalf.

A note to fellow developers, who will feel my pain: in order to get this strong-secure authentication support working, I had to code up SHA-1 Secure Hash computation from scratch, in pure Lua... a horrid language, I'll remind you, that has absolutely no bitwise operations, or even integer support. No masks, no bitwise xors, no way to test bits or shift words or any of that stuff. As I coded it, I felt as if I were chiseling NAND gates from rough blocks of silicon.

I felt quite the achievement once I got it working, but only then realized that I also need to code up my own HMAC-SHA1 secure signature routine. It's less involved than the original SHA-1 stuff, but again, filled with bytewise xors. Fun stuff, in a very old-school way.

20090521.77 Sorry, another quick bugfix. It seems an internal change I made to try to get around a bug in Lightroom wasn't quite ready for prime time. Hope it is now.
20090521.76

Fixed a “loadstring” error some users got.

You can now use the scroll wheel with the scrollable lists (such as for the gallery list)... sort of. It works while the mouse is actually hovering over the scroll bar. That's the best I can figure out so far... it's better than nothing if you're a scroll-wheel user.

Added some new token filters to the preset templates used for things like extra keywords and image captions: They're listed in the docs, but include new items like UCFirst capitalize first character of the item, or LC to lower-case the entire item. For example, if you want to include the city as an extra tag, but prefer your tags to be all lower case, you might use {City:LC} in the extra-tag dialog.

20090519.75 Fixed an album-creation bug I introduced in a previous version.
20090518.74 Somewhere along the way the plugin stopped updating the progress bar as it worked. I've restored it, so now you can see it inch along as the uploads complete. I also included some stuff to communicate with the next version of my Metadata Wrangler plugin help coordinate a canceled export. Unfortunately, if you cancel an export, Lightroom does not tell filters like the Metadata Wrangler, so it blindly continues trying to process images that will not show up. I've added some hooks here to help the next version of the Metadata Wrangler detect a canceled export and not complain. It's imperfect, but I'm hoping it'll help.
20090510.73 Added a link in the Plugin Manager to the plugin's update-log RSS feed.
20090509.72

Added items to the title/description presets: SmugMugUrl, FlickrUrl, and PicasawebUrl. If you have previously uploaded this image to one of those sites with my plugin that uploads to those sites, you can refer to that copy of the image by reference. Using the tag alone, e.g. {FlickrUrl}, it becomes the raw url, or nothing if the image wasn't previously uploaded. Using a =text argument inside the tag turns it into a link with the given text, e.g.

    See the {FlickrUrl=photo at Flickr}.

becomes:

    See the <a href='...'>photo at Flickr</a>.

if the url is known. If the url is not known, the tag is replaced with nothingness, so you might want to include an "|..." fallback section, such as:

    See the {FlickrUrl=photo at Flickr|"photo at <a href='http://myname.flickr.com'>my Flickr site</a>"}.

The entire double-quoted part after the "|" is used when what comes before ends up being empty. In this case, that double-quoted part is some text that includes a link to a Flickr user's home page (you'd want to put yours, of course). So, if the url isn't known, the entry becomes

    See the photo at <a href='http://myname.zenfolio.com'>my Flickr site</a>.
20090429.71 Fixed a bug that could potentially crashed the plugin while editing caption/title and auto-destination presets.
20090425.70 Tweaked how the plugin tries to update itself during the one-click upgrade process, to hopefully get things working for those few Windows users that have never had it work. Crossing fingers. We'll see.
20090422.69 Fixed the caption preset stuff to disallow editing of the built-in caption presets, and added a note to that effect in the preset editor. I also reset the 'None' preset to an empty value, just in case it had gotten edited in a prior version of the plugin. Sorry it took so long to get around to this fix.
20090422.68 A few minor housekeeping updates: the 'enable enhanced debugging' checkbox in the Plugin Manager now turns on logging of all web traffic. It'll be useful if I ask you to send a log, but you probably want to leave it turned off during general use. I also added an icon to the registration page to reinforce what plugin is being registered.
20090403.67

Corrected the photo-date related items in the preset templates to properly use the dateTimeOriginal metadata field, rather than the edit-time dateTime field. It now uses the first of the following that it finds with a value: dateTimeOriginal, dateTimeDigitized, and dateTime. This bug was reported to me long ago, but I let it slip through the cracks, sorry.

Added scroll-one-line arrows to the top and bottom of the scrollbars, to allow fine-grained control of scrolling very long lists. (I've been programming for almost 30 years, but this is the first time I've ever built a graphical scrolling system from scratch, so I may be a bit slow on the uptake at times 🙂 )

20090329.66

Turns out that there's a bug in Lightroom that causes login names to be rejected if they can't actually fit in the input box that's presented when trying to log into a second account. To get around this bug for the few who run into it, I've made the box as wide as I can... I hope it's sufficient.

20090325.65

Big UI changes in some areas. I've cobbled together a way to add what appears to be a real scrollbar, so I've replaced the kludgey scrolling solution I had before. It seems to work okay.

I also changed the “Token Examples” dialog from paging to use the new scroll stuff.

It now reports a proper error if you try to upload an image with a copyright that's longer than Zenfolio's 100-character limit. I really should do this in a pre-export scan so that it's issued right away (prior to LR rendering all the images), but I doubt many will actually run into this, so I'll not bother with it for the time being.

20090313.63

It seems that PayPal doesn't give everyone a “Unique Transaction ID” in the registration confirmation mail; some people get a “Receipt Number”. So, the registration dialog now accepts that as well.

I also removed the “Resolution value to record in metadata” control in the Metadata Management section. That had dated back to a time when the resolution setting was not available in the standard “Image Sizing” section of the export dialog, and I forgot to remove my custom one when the standard setting appeared. It was sort of silly having two controls for the same thing, sorry.

The resolution setting is still utterly meaningless unless you use it to actually compute the pixel size of the image (that is, if you have the “resize to” setting to something other than “pixels”). Once the image has been created, it's just a hint about how you intend it to be rendered when printed, but it has exactly zero impact on the quality that can or can't be achieved when printing.

20090310.62 I've added a popup dialog that appears the first time you install this plugin that explains how to activate it from the Export Dialog. It's currently not very “discoverable” (in UI lingo), and it leaves a lot of people befuddled. I hope this helps to stem the flow of “I can't get it to work” messages I get each day. I've begged Adobe to tweak the UI to make it more clear in the future.
20090305.61 Fixed a bug that caused the plugin to crash (and stay crashed across Lightroom restarts, even!) when deleting the caption preset that was actually chosen for the caption.
20090303.60 If there's an error calculating the automatic destination for a photo, now actually reports that error instead of just crashing
20090302.59 Fixed a bug that could cause the plugin to crash when using the File > Plugin Extras
20090228.58 Updated the caption stuff to handle newlines and <br> better. Also fixed a bug that caused a plugin crash if my server couldn't be reached during registration.
20090224.57

NOTE: you may need to restart Lightroom after installing to this (or a later) version from the previous (or an earlier) version. Please try a restart if you get an error the first time you try to use the plugin.

As per the ongoing discussion on my blog, with this version this plugin moves over to a “donationware” model, in which the plugin remains free, but registration eventually becomes required (and an eventual donation hoped for 🙂 ).

For details, see Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement. (For info about what drove this decision, see What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work?)

The plugin no longer expires, and correspondingly, I will not pay much attention to reports of bugs that have already been fixed, so please check your version and the version history before submitting bugs or feature requests.

There was a lot of internal upheaval in the code, so I expect that some boo-boos my surface. If something breaks for you with this version, please let me know, but until I fix it, feel free to revert to the previous version.

Several fixes and enhancements in this release: It can now track multiple Zenfolio logins, and you can easily switch between and among them. There have been a lot of UI tweaks to make things look more natural (but Lightroom's plugin infrastructure still places great restrictions on what can be done, so it's not like it's smoothly polished yet). It now has more robust error reporting in the face of network problems. Also, caption handling has been fixed... it use to break when there were ampersands in the caption.

20090129.56 Small housekeeping update for the new locales supported by Lightroom 2.3. Added more info to the debugging log when an export operation begins, to help diagnose any subsequent problems with the export.
20090126.55 The new scrollable-list stuff didn't deal with ampersands very well... things should be better now. Also added tooltips to the list items so that the full text can be read even if the display is cut short, although ampersands may appear in duplicate (or quadruplicate, depending on the OS)... it just wasn't worth the effort to get ampersands right in the tooltip.
20090119.54

Okay, so I spent the entire weekend working on my own scrollable-list control from scratch, because the built-in popup menu is just not very easy to work with when one has a lot of galleries. I didn't have much to work with, and the result is a bit wonky, but it's much more usable when the list is long, so I'm throwing it out there. If you don't have a long list of export destinations, you can revert back to the original via the “configure list appearance” button. With that button you can also change how much of the list is shown at once, to suit your personal preference.

20090116.53 It turns out that the automatic upgrade stuff doesn't work if the plugin folder has been renamed from its original. That should generally not happen, but it's possible, so the plugin now checks its own location reports the issue to the user if it finds it.
20090115.52 Added more debugging-log stuff to the 'Upgrade Now' button action, to try to understand why it doesn't work for some people.
20090115.51 Added a 'click here to change the export destination' note to the masthead image, because some new users are confused how to change export destinations.
20090110.50 Added a checkbox in the Plugin Manager to turn on enhanced debugging (more stuff in the plugin's debugging log), and added a button in the same place that sends your log to me. Particularly for “the upgrade button doesn't work” and “error while uploading” type issues, this should be useful for debugging.
20081228.49 My preset dialog (for caption presets) was a bit wonky and didn't update itself when a preset was added. Fixed that. Also, in the export dialog proper, the example text next to the preset dropdown didn't auto-expand as the preset was changed. Fixed that, too.
20081224.48 The “Extras” item in the File menu had stopped working. Works now.
20081223.47 Bumping back the expiration date.
20081208.46 Fixed a problem that sometimes caused errors during login/authentication, or after logging out.
20081204.45 Try to work around a fairly rare Lightroom bug that sometimes causes large exports to fail with the note Whoa, exported image doesn't exist after waitForRender by pausing for a few seconds to see whether the image shows up. If not, then you still get the error and the export fails.
20081127.44 The counting of previous uploads (for the All/Update/New of the Upload Destination section) was not working right.
20081125.43 Another fix for a bug that had disabled plugin presets (for captions, etc.)
20081124.42 Perhaps fixed a problem whereby the “Upgrade Now” button didn't work for some Windows users. We'll see whether it works when those users upgrade from this version to whatever version is next.
20081123.41 Fixed a plugin crash when using the plugin's built-in preset system.
20081122.40 No problems from the upheaval recently, so pushing back the expiration a bit.
20081117.39 Oops, wouldn't let you log in / authenticate if you weren't already. Doh. Fixed.
20081117.38 No new functionality in this version, but a huge upheaval in the underlying code to repair an unfortunate design choice I made early on in the development that had limiting consequences I'd not foreseen. There are likely bugs introduced in this version, and as such, it has a short expiration date to encourage updates as those bugs are reported and fixed. If you do run into an error, please send (via email) the log referenced in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager. Thanks.
20081113.37 Fixed yet another list-of-upload-destinations bug. There are sure a lot of edge cases here.
20081111.36 Fixed a crash that happened sometimes when there are not yet any preexisting destinations at Zenfolio.
20081104.35 Perhaps squelch a spurious error dialog
20081103.34 I don't know what's causing the slew of networking problems that have been reported, but I've gone ahead and added a retry mechanism. It'll retry operations that failed due to network problems indefinitely, but you can cancel out of the retrys if you like. If the problems are some kind of flakiness on the machine (somehow introduced in LR2.1???) this may allow operations to complete.
20081031.33 Now works properly with the shadow GPS data maintained by my geoencoding plugin.
20081024.32 Added an option to not add Lightroom keywords as metadata when uploading images. This allows you to not send any keywords if you also have them stripped from the image itself, such as when enabling the “Minimize Embedded Metadata” option, or when stripping keywords with my Metadata Wrangler. This applies only to keywords in the Lightroom library that are marked for export; those not marked for export are never sent. (Also related, recall that due to a Lightroom bug, images in a catalog upgraded from Lightroom 1.x with Lightroom 2.0 lost the ability to export keywords until a fix is applied.)
20081022.31 Addressed (and perhaps even fixed) a bug introduced in the previous build.
20081021.30 Small update so that a stuck background version check does not disable the plugin. Added the ability to put the “select at time of export” item at the top of the destination list, as had been requested a few times. Added some items to the template language that had inexplicably been missing: {HH}, {MIN}, {hh}, {min}, {ss}.
20081015.29 Internal change to the user-agent string that the plugin sends when uploading, to better conform to web standards. Added back the ability to set the print size via DPI and inches/cm. I think it's more confusing than anything (because it has nothing to do with what size something gets printed at unless you take care to set the printer DPI the same), but someone asked for it and I should really leave it up to the user. The plugin now allows you to use any color space registered on your computer when generating images to upload. I don't think this will be useful for very many people, but perhaps it might be a benefit when combined with some printing services(?)
20080924.28

I created a “Metadata Management” section in the dialog, and moved some things into that from other sections.

Fixed a race condition that sometimes caused the export destination to not appear in the synopsis of a closed “Upload Destination” dialog section.

Also fixed an issue whereby doing a “replace” would abort when the image previously uploaded to Zenfolio was no longer present at Zenfolio. Now, if the image isn't there anymore, the “replace” turns into a simple upload. (A “replace” goes to whatever the gallery the original was in; but a replace that turns into an upload goes to the export's destination gallery.)

Moved the items in the “Upload Management” section into the “Upload Destination” section, since they are really quite related.

20080923.27 Sigh, just realized that the “check for new version” stuff did break in 2.1. Totally my fault, sorry. Fixed.
20080921.26 Oops, the ability to use my template tokens in the 'extra keyword/tags' area, that I added last week, didn't actually recompute the tags on a per-image basis, applying the tags computed for the first image to all the others. That's now fixed, and tags are recomputed with each image.
20080920.25 Enhanced the {Rating} token to allow {Rating=*} to create "*****" through "". You can put most anything instead of the asterisk, so you might consider {Rating=great } to end up with "great great great". Since these forms result in nothing for an unrated photo, you can use the "|" pipe to provide a default “when empty” value, such as “rating”: {Rating=*|"unrated"}
20080918.24 Added the ability to use template tokens like {Filename} in the “extra tags” input box.
20080916.23 Update an error message to reflect an apparent bug in LR that causes LR to hand off a file to my plugin for upload before the file is actually available. This seems to happen when using LR/Mogrify or other filters. Updated the url shown in the “status” section of the plugin manager
20080916.22 Finally have the upgrade button working on both Win and Mac. Since I returned home last week, I now have access to both kinds of machine for the first time since LR2 was released. I can sum up the 5 hours I spent wrestling with the unzip code in three word: I hate Windows. Microsoft owes me five hours of my life back. Note that you may have to install this one by hand in order to get the newly working upgrade button... it's the next upgrade that should be easy-as-click.
20080914.21 Added a few more descriptive tooltips to the example-token dialog
20080914.20 Oops, fixed a boo-boo introduced in the previous version.
20080914.19 Remember (again) the upload-destination across exports. It used to work, and I'm not sure when it stopped working, but it must have been really annoying while it was broken, sorry.
20080914.18 Fixed tokens “OriginalWidth” and “OriginalHeight” in templates. Added a bunch of new template tokens and a new token filter. Added a token-examples button, which brings up a dialog listing all tokens and their value for an example photo (the first photo in the export list).
20080905.17 Fixed an “undefined global: DestinationSynopsis” error that could happen when using a preset with a “select at export time” upload-destination setting
20080831.16 Handle a race condition in the upgrade logic that sometimes results in a superfluous “You have version XYZ, but version XYZ is now available” message
20080829.15 Added a bunch of new items to the template language.
20080829.14 Oops, left some debugging cruft that results in an “empty” dialog if the logged-in-user has no galleries or the like. Fixed.
20080828.13 Minor tweaks
20080828.12 A few more tweaks to report a failed upgrade attempt a bit more clearly
20080828.11 Whoo-hoo, finally figured out the “assert” problem that some people without galleries were having. When upgrading, ignore a status of “50” (which means “out of disk space”) from the unzip the plugin performs. It seems Windows often reports this status even when there's plenty of disk space left, so until I can understand it better, I'll just ignore that code.
20080827.10 Fixed the Caption {Filetype} token (was broken for DNGs). Made some Layout tweaks in my preset dialogs. Added titles to the tools sections (were missing on OSX)
20080817.9 Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available.
20080814.8 Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations
20080812.7 Fixes (I hope) a “bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)” error
20080811.6 Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager.
20080806.5 Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates.
20080805.4 Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here.
20080804.3 Fixed “Access to undefined global: LrError” error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem.
20080804.2 Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the “choose destination at time of export” feature
20080729.1 Initial public release. (The version of this plugin for Lr1 is here; its initial release was “20071121.1”)

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HOW DO I FIX THIS??????? (SEE BELOW)

Unexpected reply from Zenfolio. The plugin expected a data reply, but received a web page instead, so perhaps Zenfolio is having “issues” at the moment. For reference, in case there are any hints to the problem, the web page reply is:

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Additional information to pass along to Zenfolio support in case you contact them:

I suggest contacting Zenfolio support and providing the info shown, and ask them to investigate. It’s not impossible that it’s a problem with the plugin, but when the plugin spits out an error in that way, it has so far almost always been due to issues at Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

— comment by Tina Marquez on December 28th, 2018 at 8:35am JST (5 years, 3 months ago) comment permalink

Hello Jeff,

Is there a way to remove past history of zenfolio publish on the history of the develop mode of a photo without losing all the history of development actions?

In the standard “Metadata” section of the Export/Publish dialog, select “Include: All Except Camera Raw Info”. This removes information about what develop changes were made (but the develop changes are still made… just not “commented” in the metadata). For finer control, you can use My Metadata Wrangler plugin as part of your export/publish. —Jeffrey

— comment by Thales Martins on January 18th, 2019 at 6:44am JST (5 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

Hello Jeff,
I think that my last post was not clear enough and your answer didn’t address my problem.
So let’s try again.
When you go into the develop module and look at the history of changes I find several entrances of “Published-jf Zenfolio (date….)”.
Those are the entries that I would like to remove and keep only my last update, if possible.
If I had a way to attach an image of the screen it would be very easy to see what I’m looking to accomplish.
Thanks

Oh, I see what you mean. No, sorry, Lightroom doesn’t give plugins any access to the history. Lightroom lets you flush the entire history for a photo (see here), but there’s no way to flush all but the last item. —Jeffrey

— comment by Thales Martins on January 20th, 2019 at 7:54pm JST (5 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

Hello Jeff,
Thanks for the reply, but let me ask you if there is a way to edit the catalog from outside lightroom. In this manner, we could remove those comments from uploaded to zenfolio and after LR will redo the indexation. What do you think?

It’s certainly possible, since the catalog is just an sqlite3 database, but you’d have to be very careful not to do something to break the integrity of the database from Lightroom’s point of view. It’s possible, but risky unless you’re very knowledgeable and careful. —Jeffrey

— comment by Thales Martins on January 21st, 2019 at 9:30pm JST (5 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

Every time I go to export to Zenfolio, Lightroom says “Can’t log in to Zenfolio: invalid credentials.” I log out of Zenfoliio via export dialog and log back in using saved/cached credentials and then the export works fine. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have reinstalled the plug-in to no resolution.

This makes me a bit worried that your Lightroom preferences have started to go corrupt. —Jeffrey

— comment by Scott on June 20th, 2019 at 12:23am JST (4 years, 9 months ago) comment permalink

I’ve only recently updated my LR to the new LR Classic. Previously I could export a csv from Zenfolio and import it really easily in to LR via your fab plugin… Am I being dense, or is this option no longer available? I’ve been using it for years and love the ease of this plugin… keeping fingers crossed I’m just having a “moment”!

Jess

It doesn’t quite ring a bell… what kind of CSV, to do what? —Jeffrey

— comment by Jessica Chu on July 2nd, 2019 at 7:31pm JST (4 years, 9 months ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeff, did you stop supporting the Zenfolio plug -in? It’s been unusable for a few weeks now unless I’m doing something wrong. It says the schema is wrong. Any updates coming?

It sounds like your install might have gotten corrupt. Perhaps delete all versions that you have lying around on disk, and download/unzip/install the latest version from my web site…. —Jeffrey

— comment by Henry Gonzalez on July 3rd, 2019 at 12:27am JST (4 years, 9 months ago) comment permalink

I upgraded the LR to the latest version 8.4 (8/13/19) via CC cloud and now it says that your plug-in has been disabled. When I go to enable it, I receive a message from LR “An error occurred while reading the schema for the plug-in “jf Zenfolio”. The plug-in will be disabled.”

Is there something I can do locally?

Thank you.

Perhaps the plugin install got messed up somehow. Try deleting all copies of it that you have locally, and then download and install a fresh one from the web site. Make sure you have it live on your system in a place outside of where Adobe installs Lightroom. For example, make a “Lightroom Plugins” folder under “Documents”, or the like. —Jeffrey

— comment by Max Surikov on August 15th, 2019 at 5:14am JST (4 years, 7 months ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeff, love your plugins and have used them for years. Unfortunately, for the last 2-3 weeks I have had issues uploading with the Zenfolio plugin. It takes a while but successfully posts the first image in an album but then all subsequent uploads time out with an Network error contacting up.zenfolio.com and never complete. The images can be manually uploaded without issue which suggests there isn’t a network issue. I’m using Lightroom Classic 8.4.1 and Catalina (10.15). However, this issue preceded the upgrade to Catalina.

Thanks

Zenfolio’s own tools don’t necessarily upload to the same servers that they make available to third-party apps, so that could be one reason. It could also be something on your system that’s diddling Lightroom’s networking (as opposed to your browser’s). I get these kind of reports in waves over time… some months I hear nothing, then suddenly for a week lots of complaints. The best I can guess is issues at Zenfolio, but it’s not the kind of thing one can prove. —Jeffrey

— comment by Tom Scott on October 9th, 2019 at 7:26pm JST (4 years, 6 months ago) comment permalink

I cannot get to Paypal – it has been sitting and spinning on the “Securely logging you in… You activated PayPal One Touch™, so no need to enter your password today.” page for, like, 5 minutes. No exaggeration. I actually had time to go to Zenfolio and look to see if THEY had an uploader I could use instead, and report a bug in THEIR page.

Help?

I’m afraid that I don’t have any insight into PayPal’s web site. Maybe they were just having a glitch? I haven’t had other reports of problems…. —Jeffrey

— comment by Pete Bosch on November 4th, 2019 at 5:47am JST (4 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

I just upgraded to Lr9 and updated the Zenfolio plugin (now V 20191011.322). Not sure if this is an old problem but I notice that naming and structure that I update to collections (galleries) in Zenfolio (for example renaming) aren’t reflected in the LR collections in the Publish Services section. am I assuming some functionality that doesn’t actually exist or should this work in both directions through the plug-in?

Changes in the plugin are not reflected at Zenfolio, as there are reasons one might want to update the name locally and not have it reflected. If you want to change names at Zenfolio and have them reflected in Lightroom, make the changes there then “Edit Settings” for the publish service in question, and in the “Zenfolio: Galleries in this Publish Service” section, do a refresh of the album list (“refresh list”), then check the “Forcefully rename….” option. Then save the settings to close the dialog. —Jeffrey

— comment by Simon Fitall on November 12th, 2019 at 3:42am JST (4 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

Jeff:
I’m having problems with the mark to republish tool. Here is what I am doing.
I select the photos I want to republish in the published gallery via the cmd and right click with the mouse. Then I select mark to republish. Instead of the photos I selected to republish, all of the photos in the gallery are republished.
What I am trying to do is apply 2 different watermarks to the published photos. Some are dark so I have a white letter watermark that I want to apply on publish. Others are light and I want to apply a black letter water to them when I publish. I published all my photos in Zenfolio before I developed my watermarks. Rather than clean out the gallery and republish all the photos, I was hoping to republish select photos with the proper watermarks.
Suggestions?

“Mark to Republish” merely moves photos to the “Modified Photos To Republish” section. To republish only a selection within “Modified Photos to Republish”, hold down the alt/option key to turn the [Publish] button into [Publish Selected], and click it. —Jeffrey

— comment by Robert Serneels on April 24th, 2020 at 5:57am JST (3 years, 11 months ago) comment permalink

When will you have the upload to Zenfolio plugin for Lightroom updated? LR just issued update as you probably know

Sorry about the delay… I pushed out new versions a few hours after Lr10 was announced. —Jeffrey

— comment by John Reed on October 20th, 2020 at 11:40pm JST (3 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

Hello Jeff, love what you do and thank you so much. Just wondering if you intend to do an update for the latest Adobe Lightroom Classic today? My current zenfolio plugin stopped working with the new Lightroom Classic update.
best Regards Paul.

Sorry about the delay… I pushed out new versions a few hours after Lr10 was announced. —Jeffrey

— comment by Paul Todd on October 21st, 2020 at 2:54am JST (3 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeffrey,

Just got the lightroom update but my registration code doesn’t work that I got on the 1st January. Is this correct?

Many thanks

Yeah, sorry, as the registration page has noted for the last decade, major-version upgrades reset registrations. Sorry for the hassles; you can create a new registration code with a 1-cent transaction if you like. —Jeffrey

— comment by Chris Grady on October 21st, 2020 at 7:40pm JST (3 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

When your Zenfolio plug-in is enabled, Lightroom takes 20 – 30 seconds to load the Export window, even to just export to JPG or something unrelated to Zenfolio. If I disable the Zenfolio plug-in, the export window loads very quickly.

Is there anything that can be done to optimize? Seems like maybe it’s making a bunch of Internet calls or something whenever the export dialog window opens.

It should never take that long, so something’s wrong. I worry that perhaps your Lightroom preferences are going corrupt, as that’s often the source of all kinds of weird behavior. If you have a mega-gazillion albums at Zenfolio, it might take a while to display once you select Zenfolio as the export target, but it should have zero effect on other targets, so that’s why I worry about your preferences. —Jeffrey

— comment by Scott on October 31st, 2020 at 1:57pm JST (3 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeffry,

Longtime Export to Zenfolio user (thank you!). I was wondering if you could manage to retrieve the viewer data for photos when doing a sync. I periodically do this manually to gauge viewer interest and to decide if I should remove some images from my Zen gallery. But it is very tedious and time consuming. I know you retrieve comments, which is great. It would be very helpful to also retrieve the number of image views – would save a lot of time.

Steve Toll

I’ve just pushed out a version that pulls Views from Zenfolio when pulling comments. It can be enabled/disabled in the pLugin manager. Remember, though, that the way Lightroom works, any publish action results in comments (and now ratings/views) being queried for every photo in the publish service. Adding ratings/views doubles the amount of what might already be a ridiculous amount of work for large Publish Services.—Jeffrey

— comment by Steve Toll on January 4th, 2021 at 9:56am JST (3 years, 3 months ago) comment permalink

HI Jeffrey. I am from Australia and for many years I have been using the jf Zenfolio plugin to upload images direct from Lightroom to my website. I currently cannot do it as a error message comes up ‘Assert Failed Zenfolio – missing cookie at export. Assert@Debug:912’. I have updated lightroom, created new registration for the jf Zenfolio plugin and restarted my computer. Zenfolio have suggested removing the plugin and reinstalling it. If this is a solution can you tell me how to uninstall it.

Can you help me overcome this issue?

Oh my, I hadn’t seen this error for a long time. Please see this FAQ —Jeffrey

— comment by Ross Spencer on April 8th, 2021 at 5:49pm JST (3 years ago) comment permalink

The LR Plugin just stopped working suddenly. It chokes on initializing a new collection. It throws an error in connecting with Zenfolio. “Network Error when attempting http://API.Zenfolio.com/api/1.8/zfapi.asmx: The Request Timed Out.

Then LR freezes up after this and I have to force quit. I’ve tried deleting the plugin and installing a new one but it does the same thing. Please help!

Zenfolio is in the midst of changing their backend service provider, and so perhaps there are some bumps in the road. I’ve just released a new version of the plugin that may be more robust with their new system, so please give it a try. —Jeffrey

— comment by Michael Anderson on May 16th, 2021 at 4:12pm JST (2 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeffrey,

zenfolio-20210515.333 that I downloaded yesterday works fine with my LR 5.7 but not with LR 2.7 I prefer for certain applications. Your previous plugin worked fine with LR 2.7.
I’m a photographer in Portland, Oregon

Wow, I didn’t think anyone used Lr2 for a long time. It took me a while to find an installer, to see what the problem was. I found it and have pushed out a new version that still works in Lr2, but it’s not something I’ll be able to guarantee going forward, so perhaps keep a copy of the plugin zip, just in case. —Jeffrey

— comment by Sidney Smith on May 20th, 2021 at 4:35am JST (2 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

I can’t seem to figure out where to register my latest Zenfolio plug-in? Or maybe your latest Zenfolio plug-in does not work with Big Sur OS? Thanks for any guidance.

The plugin should work fine on any system that Lightroom can run. Install instructions are in the box in the upper right. —Jeffrey

— comment by Mark Lance on May 21st, 2021 at 9:08am JST (2 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

I just updated to the M1 native version of LR, 10.3 and this plugin works, and seems to integrate with Zenfolio, but then i go to Zenfolio (the plugin even opens the page) and the gallery is empty.

Could it be as simple as the page needs to be reloaded in the browser? Or, that you’re not actually logged into your Zenfolio account in the browser and the images are not public? —Jeffrey

— comment by Rob O'Keefe on June 14th, 2021 at 3:08am JST (2 years, 9 months ago) comment permalink

I just downloaded the recent update of the plugin (20210625.336)and had to register as well, because i had to re-load my whole OS, and when entering the registration code it told me that my code failed. I tried again and got another code, and it still failed. I restarted LR and it still didn’t work

Please see this note on the registration page. I’m guessing that you’re being bit by a PayPal bug that presents you a bogus number on the web confirmation page; the proper code is presented in the email followup. —Jeffrey

— comment by RACHAEL MEIER on July 5th, 2021 at 8:59pm JST (2 years, 9 months ago) comment permalink

I’ve been using the plugin for Zenfolio for years and several versions. Just updated to latest version and I keep getting can’t render photo errors. I can’t find the one photo that it won’t render. How can I upload the others with skipping the one problem photo?

Thanks.

I would have expected that Lightroom would tell you which photos can’t render. (This aspect of the publish operation is all out of the plugin’s hands.) You might try selecting the photos and doing a simple export-to-disk operation, to see whether Lightroom tells you which are causing troubles….—Jeffrey

— comment by Kara on September 25th, 2021 at 6:15am JST (2 years, 6 months ago) comment permalink

Kerry here from Simi Valley, California
Using the “Export to Zenfolio” plugin Version 20210625.336 on Mac OS 11.6 and Lightroom Classic Version 10.4
Unable to upload any files as I constantly get “network connection lost” errors and no upload. I’ve been using the plugin for years and never had this problem. There is no problem with my Internet connection and I was able to upload manually with no issues. I’ve re-booted the computer, removed the plugin and re-installed it to no avail. Plugin Manager says “installed; may not work” which is never a good sign but pretty useless without knowing why.

I just pushed out a new version of the plugin that should hopefully address these recent network problems. —Jeffrey

— comment by Kerry Perkins on October 20th, 2021 at 2:46am JST (2 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

For some reason I can no longer upload to Zen folio to make galleries. It will start and then say there’s an invalid stoppage, and the plug-in in the manager says that it may not work although it is on.

If it’s still not working, please send a plugin log and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

— comment by jim Lawson on October 23rd, 2021 at 11:29am JST (2 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

I upgraded to 20211020.337 and have the following two issues since doing so:

1. Publish Services attempts to download comments even though I have that set to “Manual” instead of “Automatic” in the publish service config.

2. New images that are uploaded through the publish service appear in the proper gallery on Zenfolio but are not sorted correctly. For example, I have a gallery set to sort in descending order based on date/time that image was created. Publish service will put the image at the bottom instead of the top. If I manually upload another image through zenfolio.com, not only will that image be properly sorted, but the image uploaded by publish service is now updated correctly. Seems like the plug-in is missing some sort of cleanup task at the end to trigger a sort routine?

Thanks!

About #2, I’ve reached out to Zenfolio to ask. About #1, I’d guess you’re seeing Lightroom’s behind-the-scenes preparation to do the comment fetching, something that the plugin can’t stop. Lightroom thinks it’s going to get all the comments, but if you have my plugin set to “manual”, the plugin just tells Lightroom “no new comments” without actually checking. This saves your bandwidth and some time, but Lightroom still cooks a lot of CPU doing the overhead, unfortunately. —Jeffrey

— comment by Scott on November 12th, 2021 at 7:38am JST (2 years, 5 months ago) comment permalink

Hi I’m getting this error when uploading through the plugin, but if I export and upload from the browser it completes with o error.
Also I wrote to zenfolio support with this error msg and they asked me if uploading from the browser will also give any error. Since I could upload it looks that the problem is somehow with the plugin.
Please let me know what to do.
Thanks
here the error msg:
The “RayID”, which allows Zenfolio to identify this specific failure in their database, is “6bfc484e6986724c-IST”.

I don’t see the actual error message (what you included comes after that). Perhaps send a plugin log next time you encounter it. Zenfolio’s own stuff can use private dedicated servers that third-party apps like the plugin cannot, so it’s totally possible for them to have different results. —Jeffrey

— comment by Thales Martins on December 19th, 2021 at 8:58am JST (2 years, 3 months ago) comment permalink

Jeffrey, I am noticing that some images within the plugin folders keep getting moved to “modified photos” and asking to republish. I did not make any changes to these photos. Also, if I choose to republish, it duplicates the images in the zenfolio folder, now my website had numerous duplicate photos Any way to change this?
Byron

The duplicate images should not be happening. If you can Byron Capo on January 25th, 2022 at 4:11am JST (2 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

I am using Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 and Zenfolio plugin 20220510.344. I can upload one or maybe two photos but when I try ten photos I receive “Network error” “timeout retry”. Is it the plugin or my inadequate upload speed?
England

It’s certainly not the plugin, but it could be anywhere along the network (your network, Zenfolio’s network, or anywhere in between) having issues…. —Jeffrey

— comment by James Fox on August 3rd, 2022 at 6:57pm JST (1 year, 8 months ago) comment permalink
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