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Soooo. You’ve seen all those galleries for the incredible Wordpress engine. Most of the time they are managed separately, via big files, the images are loaded externally etc. But Wordpress already has it’s own gallery feature and why wouldn’t we use it? It’s simple, accessible and easy to use. So let’s utilize it.
What is it all about?
Image Gallery Reloaded is a jQuery based Wordpress plugin which replaces the default Wordpress gallery with a highly customizable mouseover slide show and gallery for every post. Check it out in action as you read the article. Nice places, huh?
What it does?
The Image Gallery Reloaded (IGR) plugin rips the images from the post’s gallery and displays them in a different way. This is a better approach for displaying images for a few reasons:
1. Custom styling ability
2. Ability to display simple straight forward images and a gallery in one post, just like we have here.
3. If, for some crazy reason, you will decide to uninstall IGR, you site will roll back to the basic gallery, no harm done. You will not end up with some strange image styling or loose your images.
Please note: * this is really important
The plugin does not use the default image you upload, instead it uses the Medium and Thumbnail versions of it. It is done in order to produce better image quality and to increase performance. The size of these versions are set at Settings > Media. And why is it important? Because if you are running a photo blog or simply plan to use a very big gallery you may need to update the size of you Medium and Thumbnail versions of the image. The default sizes are 300X300 px and 150X150 px respectively. If you plan to set the main image to 960X700 px and/or use larger thumbnails it might be a good idea to set these sizes at the Settings > Media as well.
What options are available?
- Set your main image height and width
- Set thumbnails height and width and position
- Turn on and off the gallery navigation and set it’s position
- Browser “Back and Forward” ability. If enabled it adds a support for stepping back and forward through the gallery with the browser functionality and also:
- Sets a direct link to every image in the gallery, so you can directly link to each photo inside the gallery
- Custom colors via color picker to match your theme. Do you really want to learn CSS, just to change a godamn color? Of course not! This is why we’ve added a color picker for you to style your Image Gallery Reloaded on the fly. Choose a color to match your current theme, or, even better, apply a very distinctive color, for the Gallery to pop out.
- The plugin supports Thickbox for zooming images.
- Features the “Loading Gallery” notification while the images are loaded.
- Custom styled tooltips to match your theme
What do I do?
- Download the plugin from the Wordpress Plugin directory
- Upload `image-gallery-reloaded` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory on your server.
- Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu.
- Configure your new gallery via the Settings > Image Gallery Reloaded menu.
How do I add galleries to posts?
(Remember this is the default Wordpress Gallery)
- Write a new Post or edit an existent.
- Add images to it via the default Upload/Insert >Add an Image.
- On the Add an Image popup click the Gallery tab, Click Insert Gallery and watch your new gallery set.
Current Version 0.6.0
I’m planning the 1.0 version of the plugin and I need your help.
Obviously you can not use multiple galleries AND browser history/direct image linking on one page. I need your help in making this decision. Vote, people!
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Matej
Jan 24, 2010 17:30I solved the “jumping upwards on image click” behaviour by replacing the line:
in image-gallery-reloaded.php with the following:
Paulo
Jan 27, 2010 13:50the Thickbox for zooming don’t work in my wordpress….
Thomas
Jan 29, 2010 19:40Hi,
Very nice Wordpress plugin! I have two problems though:
1. I dont want the name of the image to show up – how can I do that?
2. The zoom-image jumps – why….?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Cheers,
Thomas
Cecile
Feb 3, 2010 17:22I’ve been trying to do things to the js for a day now, and I can’t make it do what I need:
- removing the caption and thickbox/Large View things
- Setting a min-height so the thumbnails under the main image don’t change place every time.
I was wondering when a new release is due and whether these two things will be fixed then. I’d love to keep using this plug in, but if it takes very long I might need to look around for something else. Please let me know!
Turkish
Feb 4, 2010 21:08This is a cool plug in. I have just installed it to my blog and it makes it look ten times bigger.
Ben
Feb 11, 2010 6:47There seems to be a bug with different images with different letter cases.
Say you have 2 images:
abc.jpg and ABC.jpg
It seems Wordpress in an apache environment will happily store these items in the same folder without adding a number at the end of either of them.
This then seems to be causing the gallery reloaded to have issues with linking and clicking through the images.
(I think it is a fix required on this plugin, but I could be wrong)
Andy
Feb 28, 2010 15:27Are you still developing this plug-in? I hope so, because I think it’s the best option for me. Thanks for all you’ve done, and looking forward to version 1.0 when it comes.