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Recently I have been finding that it is difficult to follow up on the comments that people are leaving on the Photopic module page. So I decided it was time to setup a forum, as a central location for storing the comments.

A very short blog post, just to let you all know that I have uploaded a new version of Photopic.

On popular demand, this new version now supports the Next and Previous functionality of the lightbox2 module. When a photo is displayed, a visitor may navigate to the next or previous photo with ease.

These past weeks have kept me so busy that I could not dedicate as much time as I wanted to programming and I apologise to all my Photopic fans out there...but it's my manager's fault :) hehehe Let me know if you would like to sign a petition against him giving me too much work...

Anyways, this small update adds two new checkboxes on the admin page which enable the display of album description and photo captions. By default they are switched off.

For the existing users wishing to try out the new options, I recommend that the currently installed version is disabled before installing the new version. Installation as always is simple - just upload and overwrite all the existing module files.

Today I have spent a couple of minutes going through my Drupal Photopic module, removing all hard-coded css styles (missed a few from last time) and thanks to Eddy de Boer I have fixed a known issue where the module did not work correctly with Drupal clean urls switched off. I still need to do some more testing before I close the issue though.

A couple of other suggestions were also received on how I can improve and optimise the code. All of these have enabled me to learn and understand more quickly how to properly build a module for Drupal.

Thank you for all the support and encouraging comments!