
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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ovidiu
Jul 31, 2009 8:27looks nice. can you tell me how big the overhead for it is, meaning what extra .js files are being loaded for hte gallery?
besides is there a way to implement something like a lightbox effect when clicking on the bing picture so it pops up in full size isntead of just browsing forward?
Daniel Sachs
Jul 31, 2009 12:49Hey ovidiu,
It loads just one external .js (5kb) plus another one for the color picker, but it doesn’t affect the performance. As for lightbox support I’ll add a roadmap for this plugin’s development to the article, but essentially I want to keep it as light and as simple as possible, so I’ll probably add a support for other plugins people are using, just like we use the Shadowbox for other images here on 18.
Regards,
Ricardo
Jul 31, 2009 14:36On my WPMU site I have some rotating thumbnail images (JQuery). After I installed your plugin these thumbnails stopped rotating.
I think this plugin is conflicting with them.
Is there a workaround?
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baron
Jul 31, 2009 17:20Works great, thank you
vlee
Jul 31, 2009 17:42Hi, I’m using the theme called ‘sirup’. Do you think this is a problem? I’m not sure if it uses the PHP file as a styling method as you mentioned.
Thanks in advance.
Daniel Sachs
Jul 31, 2009 18:19Hello Ricardo,
In case your plugin uses an old(er) jQuery release, it might conflict. One of the tasks for the next release of this plugin is jQuery deactivation, just for cases like yours.
Daniel Sachs
Jul 31, 2009 18:21Don’t worry vlee. Your “Sirup” will be even tastier with Image Galley Reloaded
Adeptris
Jul 31, 2009 18:52Dumb Questions, I have only been using wordpress for a few days so these are really dumb questions!
I have lnstalled the plug-in and activated the settings, now where do I upload the images to, and how do I show it on a specific page, I have had a look around before posting, sorry to be a numpty!
David
David
megan
Jul 31, 2009 19:13Hello and Good Day,
I installed your software called “Image Gallery Reloaded” in my WP blog. I faithfully followed all your instruction steps right up to Plugins/ Settings. At this stage, I selected the default settings and then press the update button. Then I went to the widget section under Appearance Section. But I cannot find the “Image Gallery Reloaded” widget. i also go the Post /Page Editor section. But I could not find it either. What must I do after I do the setting changes? Where do I go next? Where do I go to insert my images? i am at a lost. Please assist me. Thank you and best regards. Megan
Daniel Sachs
Jul 31, 2009 19:21Hello, Adeptis. No worries mate,
While wring the post (Posts>Edit or Posts>Add New) click on the dark(ish) square right at the top of the page, right next to Upload/Insert.
An uploading dialog will appear
From Computer>Select Images
Add your images (you can multiselect)
Now remember the From Computer Tab? Two tabs to the right is the Gallery tab. Click it. Click Insert Gallery and you are done. Don’t forget to style you gallery via the Image Gallery Reloaded control panel
Daniel Sachs
Jul 31, 2009 19:27Welcome Megan,
The plugin is not a widget. You simply insert the default WordPress image gallery into your post. (Follow the instructions for Adeptris). The plugin takes the default gallery and uses it in it’s way.
So essentially what you need is 1. default WordPress gallery added to the post. 2. IGR plugin enabled.
Does it help?
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The Frosty
Jul 31, 2009 23:55Very nice plugin. Though I think you should use the built in jQuery from WordPress and give user an option to use it, or there own?
Also, the
get_the_imagefunction clashes with a plugin and theme from author: Justin Tadlock using the same function name.That’s all I’ve got now.
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Rhonda
Aug 1, 2009 3:59Excellent work. I would like compliment you for your gorgeous work here. Send me you hints. I am new … Poetry is my fun. Your fan. Rhonda
Tristan Shouldice
Aug 1, 2009 7:34Hello,
Has anyone experienced errors with thumbs not loading inline in Safari? I have a full gallery running works in Firefox and IE 6 and 7 but Safari (pc and Mac) is giving me trouble! Basically when you load the gallery on the page it loads the thumbs (random order it seems) but every now and then it bumps some of the thumbs down so they are not in a straight line. Scroll still works. It’s as though it applies CSS to most of the thumbs but forgets randomly on a few.
It is never the same ones. Changes with each refresh. I can provide a link if need be. Thanks in advance!
Tristan
ernest
Aug 1, 2009 17:55Daniel,
Very cool looking gallery plug-in!
I installed it onto the website I’m working on, and sure enough, the slideshow stopped working on it, and when I went to your site to try to install the redux version, I found out that it is not there…
Any thoughts on that?
help212
Aug 1, 2009 21:27i downloaded and installed version 0.2.4 but still it isnt working I think is because I have a .php style site, , how do I download the redux version , can someone post a link
Daniel Sachs
Aug 3, 2009 17:49Thank you for your interest.
The next version, probably 0.3 (maybe even 0.4) is ready to be released. Most of the bugs you have mentioned will be fixed.
Raymond Brigleb
Aug 3, 2009 19:59Lovely, lovely work. Brilliant. I’m thinking about using this for a site, but I had sort of a random question that was relevant to this project.
Is it possible, or have you ever tried, putting more than one on a page? I ask because I was thinking about doing a layout with two of them, side by side, but I suspect there might be issues, and the plugin might assume that you’re only showing one such gallery at a time.
Just wondered if you thought it would be possible to lay out two on the same page, and if so, might there be any special considerations to make this sort of feat possible?
Daniel Sachs
Aug 3, 2009 20:54Well Raymond, thank you.
Look at it this way: there is no Image Gallery Reloaded. Only the default WordPress gallery. After installing the plugin, wherever you can insert the default gallery, it will appear as Reloaded. So it’s not a matter of me limiting it, it’s a matter of the default gallery limitations.
My intention in creating this plugin was to minimize the site owner dependency on external gallery addons, while increasing the overall appeal and design consistency of a site.
Tyler Travis
Aug 4, 2009 13:22This is saving me countless hours of work. Thank you so much, this is incredible!
That being said I have three questions:
1. At one point I had a gallery that was only two rows deep that scrolled through all of the thumbnails. Now all of a sudden on another post it just crams all of the thumbs and pushes the image down. I have no idea what changed… any help?
2. CSS location for the background color (to remove).
3. CSS location for the large image formatting (must center).
Thanks, once again, this is one of the best plugins I have ever come across, and I have used an assload of them
Tyler Travis
Aug 4, 2009 13:30Oh, and this is the page
http://ykvision.com/wordpress/galleries/
Tyler Travis
Aug 4, 2009 13:45I had to delete the page completely to get it to work, but why did it happen?
Daniel Sachs
Aug 4, 2009 15:59Thank you Tyler.
Point taken. I’ll try to add the CSS tweaks to the next release. Actually it’s a very good idea.
On the other hand I have no idea what has happened to your previous gallery, since you deleted the page. In your case, for better styling I’d suggest either changing the gallery height and width or changing the image sizes uploaded and their Thumbnail and Medium attributes via the WP control panel.
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Niccolò Favari
Aug 6, 2009 11:38Hi there! Nice plugin (thanks for it) but I’ve found a conflict error.
Image Gallery Reloaded is trying to define a function called get_the_image() but this function is already defined in some themes. For example the Hybrid theme framework (http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid) and so many child themes based on it.
Maybe you could call it gallery_reloaded_get_image() or something like that… well I don’t know but thought you should know about the glitch.
Thanks,
Nick
tyler travis
Aug 6, 2009 12:37Thanks for your reply… I am going through the css right now and taking that on.
I just had the gallery jump to having multiple static lines again… still no idea why. Once I update it, it goes all wonky. I can reproduce it for you if you would like.
Tyler
tyler travis
Aug 6, 2009 12:56I figured out that if my images are smaller than 55px then the scroller doesn’t work. I have also been unable to determine how to get it to only display two rows of images consistently…
tyler travis
Aug 6, 2009 13:11If anyone is interested, to center align the images just add: ‘text-align:center;’ to #gbackgr in the image-gallery-reloaded-style.php file
Daniel Sachs
Aug 6, 2009 14:30Hi Niccolo, thanks.
I’m aware of this issue. Was a bit stupid of not to check if such a function exists. This conflict will be taken care of in the next release, as I stated earlier.
Daniel Sachs
Aug 6, 2009 14:31Thanks Tyler, will be taken care of in the new release.
morgan
Aug 6, 2009 17:01when i go to add an image to a post, it does not give me the Add Gallery option..any ideas why not?
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tyler travis
Aug 6, 2009 22:11Just trying to help out
I have determined the multiple lines of images and the scrolling issue comes from this block of css:
.galleria {
width: 1500px;
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
list-style: none;
}
It will only scroll left or right if you only have one line, or if you have a “full” secondary line.
I decided to set the width to 10000 as I do not know how many pictures I will have for each gallery. This keeps the images to one line and makes sure it will always scroll.
It is not ideal, but it is a good fix for now
marujo
Aug 7, 2009 3:28hi Tyler, im using this great plugin in papercut (wootheme). i see the space for gallery, the arrows to navigate between the photos, but the images doesnt shows. what could be? anyidea? this theme use phpstylesheet . sorry for my english. thanks a lot.ma
tyler travis
Aug 7, 2009 9:45I would start by disabling the navigation arrows, i found that got me lost between galleries. see if that works
marujo
Aug 7, 2009 15:10hi tyler, i do this but doesnt work. the gallery dont show any image. see it/print screen:
http://www.4shared.com/file/123540591/b510d7f4/img-galleryreload.html
Daniel Sachs
Aug 7, 2009 19:05Marujo,
What you are experiencing is a function conflict. The next release will fix it.
marujo
Aug 7, 2009 19:24hi Daniel. there a prevision when the next release is public? sorry for my english. so, i will use other, until this bug is fix. i really like this plugin. thanks!
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ovidiu
Aug 8, 2009 2:24cool thickbox effects are supported now
Just curious if you can implement something like this plugin offers: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cleaner-gallery/
that plugin Integrates with 16 different Lightbox-type scripts
radcrap
Aug 8, 2009 3:02Is there anyway I can get the old version again…the first version worked well in my WordPress page, the new one killed it.
radcrap
Aug 8, 2009 4:17Basically in my wordpress blog (2.7.1). It essentially removed all of the paragraphing spaces in the articles and the images wouldn’t load.
Is there a go around, or is the old version still available?
dave
Aug 9, 2009 8:41What wordpress version this works with? 2.8.3 seems to not go.
Dave
Daniel Sachs
Aug 9, 2009 17:23@ ovidiu – I do not see it happen in the near future. I’d like to stay with the built in scripts only for now.
@ radcrap – Thank you for your input. This bug along with some other have been fixed.
@ Dave – we ran 2.8.3 and it works fine here, so I believe 2.8.3 shouldn’t be problem
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tyler travis
Aug 10, 2009 12:28Matt, that has nothing to do with this plugin. Please refer to wordpress.org for those answers
Daniel Sachs
Aug 10, 2009 22:20Dave,
Tyler is right, you’ll find all the info you need at the WordPress official site.
Anyway, try to look at Appearance > Widgets. Especially at the Blogroll and Pages
Ted
Aug 11, 2009 22:32Your plugin rocks. I’m having one problem, though. Once activated, it seems to apply the tooltip styling to all hyperlinked images on the page. That is, it tries to load the image title tooltip for every image you mouse over. When there is no image, you get a black bar. Is there a way to adjust the css to make sure the tooltip styling only applies to the image gallery reloaded?
Ted
Aug 11, 2009 22:33I forgot to mention: Here’s a link to the site, where you can see the tooltip styling problem in action: http://freehold.injersey.com/2009/08/10/freehold-townships-got-talent/
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Colloton
Aug 12, 2009 6:51I just updated to the newest version of the gallery plugin and for some reason none of my photos are showing. I tried fiddling with settings, changing default image sizes as well as reloading the gallery entirely. Non seem to work. Any suggestions?
Daniel Sachs
Aug 12, 2009 8:31@ Ted – you’re right. it’s a bug. I’ll update it for the next bugfix release. If you’re annoyed with it enough, you can fix it your self:
Open Plugins>Editor. Open image-gallery-reloaded.php. On line 33 just below you’ll find: jQuery(“img”) | change it to jQuery(“div#gbackgr img”). And as I said I’ll release this bug fix later as well.
Cute kids at the talent show, by the way…
@ Colloton – I do not see the gallery on your site, so it’s hard to tell really. One problem might be with you built-in jQuery script. Try updating it to see if it fixes the problem.
Ted
Aug 12, 2009 16:04Thank you so much, Daniel. That fix worked like a charm. Incidentally, I couldn’t get the forward/backward navigation buttons to work. Could that be a glitch with WordPress MU?
And thanks for the compliment about the talent show pics. Now that we have your plugin, we’re psyched to step up the quality of our photography to showcase it a little more.
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tyler travis
Aug 13, 2009 13:12I just updated the plugin and it just broke everything. I will try to deactivate and reactivate, and let you know how that works.
tyler travis
Aug 13, 2009 13:38No luck. I decided to revert back to the previous version and now my general navigation doesn’t work. Any Ideas?
Alex Rodriguez
Aug 13, 2009 20:08Hi, I absolutely loved this plugin from when I first saw it, the gallery is very clean and appears to be easy to use. I am trying to use it for my artwork and it is not working. The style of your gallery does not appear on my page, only the full size images, and the text of the code. Also my control panel does not look like the one shown on this site. I cannot select colors. I am not familiar with code and computers are not my strong point. Please help! Take a look at my site and tell me what you think I could do to fix it. Here is the link, http://www.inkthetrees.com/?page_id=16.
Ted
Aug 13, 2009 21:52Daniel, I notice one other small css issue. On my site, I use the Events calendar widget, which offers a little preview of events when you mouse over the sidebar widget. It appears that the jquery of the Image Gallery Reloaded is styled in such a way that it causes those previews to be blacked out. You can see it in action here: http://freehold.injersey.com/2009/08/13/eagle-scout-leads-community-effort-to-restore-vfw/
What do you think? Is there another fix I can make?
Daniel Sachs
Aug 13, 2009 23:52@ Tyler – please post a url of the page or email it to us. I promise to have a look at it.
@ Ted – thank you for reporting this. It seems that our tooltips no control your calendar as well, sorry about that. I’ll be releasing an update this weekend, this bug will be addressed as well.
@ Alex – well, it’s a mess. First of all the gallery and all the supporting scripts and CSS files load correctly from what I see. Nevertheless, there are errors on page. I think that something went wrong with the WordPress built in jQuery, maybe during WordPress engine upgrade etc. Try the following:
Delete this page entirely, including the corresponding gallery.
Deactivate Image Gallery Reloaded and delete it.
Go to Google repository: http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/downloads/detail?name=jquery-1.3.2.min.js&downloadBtn=
Download the jQuery file and rename it as jquery.js
Go to /wp-includes/js/jquery on your server rename the existing jquery.js to jquery.js.old and upload the new jquery.js
Create a new page and add a default gallery to it.
Download the Image Gallery Reloaded script and activate it.
Repost back
I believe it should be fine, plus it will serve you better with other scripts and plugins using jQuery in the future, not just IGR.
francisco
Aug 14, 2009 2:06Daniel, unfortunatelly the plugin 0.5.4 does not work on my WP 2.8.4
http://bienesraices.vivenicaragua.com/propiedad/casa-zona-central-san-marcos-carazo-3.html
Alex Rodriguez
Aug 14, 2009 3:55Hi, Daniel, your advice worked at first, although there were still some errors on the page such as images appearing below the gallery along with unecessary text. However, despite it working to some degree, when I attempted to recreate the gallery as a final copy with all of the desired images in the gallery, there was no longer an option to create a gallery in the upload media section of the admin page. I could really use some help with this again, seeing as how no other site has matched my expectations for a gallery so far. I have tried deleting and reinstalling everything that I installed, including the jquery file that I had updated, but it was fruitless, no create gallery option. Please help! Thanks, Alex.
Daniel Sachs
Aug 14, 2009 15:42Version 0.5.5 released.
All the issues raised here should be addressed.
Daniel Sachs
Aug 14, 2009 15:47@Alex – please revert back to your old jQuery – all your issues should be addressed now.
Thank you all for your comments, testing and input. They are priceless, while developing this kind of plugin!
Alex Rodriguez
Aug 14, 2009 17:36Hey again Daniel, I deleted the revised jquery and reverted back to the old one and renamed it as such, made a new gallery drawings page and attempted to upload images into it, but I cannot click the “show” option next to my uploaded images in the media library to insert them into the post. Any suggestions?
Alex
Ricardo
Aug 14, 2009 20:45@francisco: it does work with WP 2.8.4. I tested myself on one of my instalations. But I have a plugin in another one that is conflicting with IGR. The gallery shortcode is working fine, but when I turn on IGR it doesn´t work. What appears is a black background. Accessing the HTML code, I see it´s ok with the generated code (, etc.). But it doesn´t work. If I find out what is going on I will post here.
Ricardo
Aug 14, 2009 22:19I was wondering… does it work with WPMU 2.8.4?
Ricardo
Aug 15, 2009 2:47Look what I found out. I have two WP instalations (WP 2.8.4 & WPMU 2.8.4) with excatly the same plugins. And you know what? IGR works with WP 2.8.4, but it doesn´t work with WPMU 2.8.4!
Fred Weymouth
Aug 16, 2009 15:03Hi – I am using your plug-in and it is really slick! One problem I am having though is that for each new gallery I create, the main image from the first or initial post keeps showing up as the main or first image in each new successive gallery, even though it is not part of that specific gallery. Any ideas or suggestions on fixing this? Thanks so much!
dea
Aug 17, 2009 2:57so i’m working on getting the image gallery fully implemented, but instead of the beautiful gallery i get bullet points instead… can someone help me out
http://www.stanford.edu/group/sgrho/cgi-bin/wordpress/2009/08/16/misc-photosmisc-photos/
dea
Aug 17, 2009 3:12here’s the correct link
http://www.stanford.edu/group/sgrho/cgi-bin/wordpress/2009/08/16/misc-photos/
MCT
Aug 17, 2009 4:04Hi, I’m using NextGen Gallery. May you make IGR work with NextGen?
Darius
Aug 17, 2009 23:08Hello I use fck editor to add pictures, because I can make subdirectories, because for photo galery all pictures in one (uploads) is dificult to administrate.
Is it possible to recognize subdirectories in this plugin?
Would be fantastic!
Daniel Sachs
Aug 18, 2009 13:56@ Ricardo – can you post a link to the installation for me to check it out?
@ dea – I do not see a WP installation on your site, are you sure it isn’t corrupted? The HTML code does not reveal any info about your installation.
@ MCT – the purpose of this plugin is to run under the default gallery. making it work with NextGen means creating a different plugin altogether. This was never my intention, so creation of such a plugin is highly unlikely. NextGen is a great plugin, if you like it you most definitely should use it.
@ Darius – if you can create WordPress default galleries in such a way, I guess they will work under IGR as well. I, personally, have never used FCK Editor, so I’m at no position to comment on it’s functionality.
Ricardo
Aug 18, 2009 15:53Daniel,
I inserted the shortcode [gallery] at the end of the post.
Take a look at “http://ibear.com.br/blog/2009/06/16/drama-in-rio/2/”.
I don´t know but somehow it looks like it is not loading or processing the script at all.
Ricardo
Daniel Sachs
Aug 18, 2009 22:50Hi Ricardo,
I believe your problem might be with you calendar javascript. IGR uses the default “jQuery.noConflict();” function from the built in jQuery. Right before the gallery is initialized, another script, probably that has something to do with calendar, defines the noConflict function as “$j=jQuery.noConflict();” overriding the default noConflict. This might be the reason for jQuery not to be able to initialize the gallery afterwards.
Ricardo
Aug 19, 2009 2:31Daniel,
I´m afraid it´s not the problem.
This code ($j=jQuery.noConflict();) is generated by the “Event Manager” plugin (http://davidebenini.it/wordpress-plugins/events-manager/). And, as I told you, I have another WP 2.8.4 installation (not MU) with “Events Manager” plugin activated and IGR works just fine (I looked at the source code and the jquery code is there). On my WPMU 2.8.4 I deactived the “Events Manager” plugin (no jquery code!!!) and it is still not working.
Ricardo
Ricardo
Aug 19, 2009 4:36Anyone out there running WPMU with IGR?
Silvia
Aug 19, 2009 9:25I like this tool. But I have a problem. I have more than one gallery on one page in the blog – and than it is not working right. In the first posting with gallery it is shown right, but in all other postings with galleries it shows only the thumbnails. If you want to see the larger version of the picture you have to scroll to the first post with gallery. What am I doing wrong?
Silvia
Daniel Sachs
Aug 19, 2009 10:47@ Ricardo – Oh, so this is an MU installation… OK, so my guess was wrong. I’ll need to look more deeply into it. For now, unless someone else has a different experience on MU, I need to say IGR is not Mu-compatible and I can not recommend using it on MU installations. Sorry Ricardo, you’ll need to wait for an update.
Everyone else, Please note:
If you have a problem with IRG installation please add the following info:
WP version
IGR version
Link to your site
Silvia
Aug 19, 2009 12:20Hi Daniel!
My WP-Version is WordPress 2.8.4.
IGR version is Version 0.5.5 DE-Edition
Link to the site: http://www.workingsheepdog.de/blog/?paged=2
Silvia
Ricardo
Aug 19, 2009 19:55Daniel,
I´m looking forward for this update.
Ricardo
Andy
Aug 20, 2009 0:19I have the same problem as tyler travis reported on page 4 of comments—— gallery stopped scrolling and went from a single line of thumbnails to 2 rows of thumbnails (1st row 6 2nd row 3). The thumbnail scroll was working fine after I had uploaded my test bed of images. I believe that all of these work greater than 55px. BUT after I uploaded all of my images of which there are images that are less than 55px (this is the number that tyler mentioned) the problem started.
I have Stable tag: 0.5.5 of IGR activated on 2.7.1 of WP.
2 questions:
1. was this supposed to have been fixed in this release?
2. tyler mentioned a workaround by changing width in .galleria of the CSS. Where is the CSS file for IGR.
Thanks Andy
Ricardo
Aug 20, 2009 4:32Daniel,
I deactived all the plugins and widgets on my WPMU site and still IGR does not work.
I thought it could be something related to the theme I´m using on the main blog. So I created a second blog, as I´m using WPMU, with a diferent theme. Guess what? IGR just worked with WPMU 2.8.4 in this second blog.
Just to make sure there was a conflict with the theme used in the main blog, I actived this theme in the second blog and IGR worked again (?????!!!!!).
That´s what I have found out:
Main Blog + Theme A + Plugins + Widgets = IGR not ok
Main Blog + Theme B + Plugins + Widgets = IGR ok
Second Blog + Theme A + Plugins + Widgets = IGR ok
Second Blog + Theme B + Plugins + Widgets = IGR ok
Well, at least we now know IGR works with WPMU.
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It seems a very specific theme related problem.
Ricardo
inkflomasterz
Aug 20, 2009 7:28I’m having a problem when I use Image Gallery Reloaded. I posted 2 different blogs and made a gallery for each, but when I view my site the pictures between the two post gets mixed up.
Ricardo
Aug 20, 2009 14:20@inkflomasterz – Are you running WP or WPMU?
Andy
Aug 20, 2009 20:16Daniel, thanks for 0.5.6. I have upgraded to it from 0.5.5 on WP 2.7.1.
It appears to have fixed the scrolling problem that tyler and I reported.
New Bug found — Caption not displaying. Behaviour is when:
load page – caption displays ok
click on thumbnail in scroller – caption does NOT display ok
click on main image – caption displays ok.
Improvement requests:
1. The Tooltip when hovering over a thumbnail uses the “Caption” field text. This is the same text that is displayed under the main image. I think it would be better if either the Thumbnail tooltip used the “Title” text field OR keep using “Caption” text for the thumbnail tooltip but change the Main image text to use the “Description” field from the WP media.
2. Can you make the styling of the Main Image tooltip the same as the Thumbnail tooltip styling.
Thanks Andy
Alex
Aug 22, 2009 17:54Hi, great plugin. An option I’d like is to make the caption optional. As far as I can tell, that the caption is set from the title in the obfuscated js, so it’s a little tricky to edit..
Daniel Sachs
Aug 22, 2009 23:51Thanks Andy, I’ve noticed that. Will be addressed in the next release.
@Alex – the caption is actually the title of the image as it is set on your Media panel, You can change it, update it as you like.
Andy
Aug 24, 2009 14:22@Alex – the WP Edit Media window exposes 3 free form text fields – Title, Caption and Description.
For me IGR 0.5.6 is using the “Caption” text from WP for both the thumbnail tooltip and the main image caption.
@Daniel
See “Improvement requests” a couple of posts above here. Do I have it wrong?
_KmL_
Aug 24, 2009 20:25woow, very nice. thk u so much…
Yanik
Aug 25, 2009 18:11@Daniel Sachs
Excellent work on this plugin, thank you so much for providing what I had been looking for.
Certainly don’t mean to pry, but about the little bug for the caption not displaying when we navigate by clicking thumbnails, would you have any idea when you plan on tackling this in your next release?
Any ballpark estimate would be much appreciated.
Once again sorry for even asking.
Cheers
Yanik
Kyle S.
Aug 26, 2009 13:30Hi-
Thank you for such a great gallery plugin! I am experiencing errors as I see at least 1-2 others mention here but I did not see a response yet. So thought I would just add me “2 cents” – Problem: for each new gallery I create, the main image from the first or initial post keeps showing up as the main or first image in each new successive gallery, even though it is not part of that specific gallery.
Any ideas or suggestions on fixing this much appreciated? And again, thanks and fantastic work!
Peter
Sep 1, 2009 0:29Hello,
I followed your instructions for installing and using IGR but it does not work for me. All I see is a bulleted list of images. I am using WP 2.8.4 with IGR 0.5.6. I would appreciate any suggestions that you may have.
john wilkins
Sep 2, 2009 23:04Hi, I’m rebuilding my site and installed your program, it’s great !!!!!
I have many hundreds of galleries to install, is it possible to edit the script so that I can put one photo in a post and link it to the gallery in a page?
Also I need to move the gallery to the left, I noticed this post
“to center align the images just add: ‘text-align:center;’ to #gbackgr in the image-gallery-reloaded-style.php file ”
Where would I find the script to do this?
john wilkins
Sep 2, 2009 23:12Fogot to ask this , I notice that if I click onthe waterfall picture above I get a pop up gallery, this wopuld suit me even better , how do I achieve it?
john wilkins
Sep 2, 2009 23:56I have now loaded 2 galleries, Inotice that the full size image is smaller than the gallery image, how do I increase the size of the main image?
john wilkins
Sep 3, 2009 0:07Is this a bug? on initial loading of my site both posts show a small strip of the photos in the gallery, by clicking on one the image is loaded and you can scroll through all the images, however if you scroll down the page to the second post
the full gallery is allready loaded BUT THE IMAGE SHOWN IS THE LAST ONE ROM THE FIRST GALLERYf!!! this disappears once you start to scroll through the images!!
aljuk
Sep 3, 2009 13:58This is a GREAT looking gallery but I’m having 3 major problems with it:
1. I’m already linking to the latest jquery library via a script call in the site header for other functionality on the site. With this running, the gallery doesn’t load. I temporarily removed it and the gallery runs, BUT…
2. when I click on a thumbnail, or image or forward/back buttons, although the image loads as it should, the entire page leaps upwards.
3. The code the gallery generates doesn’t validate (I’m running perfectly formed XHTML Strict) and throws a ton of errors.
Any suggestions please? Thanks.
aljuk
Sep 3, 2009 15:56It appears the validation issues are down to the use of logical and (&&) in the IE hack.
aljuk
Sep 3, 2009 16:30I managed to sort out the jquery problem. The php call to wp_head needs to be the last thing in the header (ie. come after any other js script calls).
The page jump issue seems to be caused by any other embedded script occuring in the page before your gallery script. It’s a pity – it means I probably can’t use your script on the site I’m building at the moment.
One other question – how can I turn off the tooltips that appear when I hover over the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Cindy
Sep 4, 2009 2:41Thanks so much for a great looking image gallery!
Is there any way to disable the “full size” function and the image name hover-over feature? I really don’t need it for this particular site.
Thanks!
Nadiyah
Sep 6, 2009 20:41Hey there,
I was wondering if there was a way of making the entire page the actual Image Gallery. I just don’t know where to start. I was just going to go into the HEADER/MAIN PAGE/TEMPLATE.php and just strip it down. Is there a easier way or what would you do?
Clark
Sep 16, 2009 5:42I’ve got the same problem a few others are seeing. When the page loads and when I navigate using the buttons, the captions display just fine. when I click a thumbnail, the captions on the large image disappear. Using Firebug I watched the caption span and it just sites there empty when clicking thumbs. When I click the buttons the captions show up again. Any ideas?
Ted
Sep 16, 2009 14:46I’m running into the problem of having multiple galleries showing up on the index page, and photos from different posts appearing in the same galleries. Seems like this is the same thing a few other people have seen. Dan, any luck in getting that to work?
For the time being, I’m just breaking the posts so that the galleries only show up on the single-post template, but it would be nice to have the ability to have multiple galleries showing up on the main page of the blog
Nick Thain
Sep 17, 2009 16:37I’ve just installed the IGR plug-in and when i go to “click the Gallery tab” there is not that option… all i have is “From Computer” + “From URL” and “Media Library”.. am i missing something here… where is the gallery tab?
Any help would be really appreciated.
thanks
Nick
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Linda
Sep 22, 2009 21:27Hei Daniel! Brilliant plugin! I was looking for a fast and easy way to have my pics online until I have the time to learn PHP
. So far it looks like I made the right choice, my already uploaded pictures are now shown via this plugin: nothing I needed to do!
Cheers and great work!
Linda
Sep 22, 2009 21:43Hei again
. I just wrote how much I love the plugin, and I still do. Just one question…why does the gallery not show in Opera? The rest works fine, so I’ll survive, but if that issue can be fixed then I would be very grateful.
Cheers!
john wilkins
Sep 24, 2009 23:26Have done all this
While wring the post (Posts>Edit or Posts>Add New) click on the dark(ish) square right at the top of the page, right next to Upload/Insert.
An uploading dialog will appear
From Computer>Select Images
Add your images (you can multiselect)
Now remember the From Computer Tab? Two tabs to the right is the Gallery tab. Click it. Click Insert Gallery and you are done. Don’t forget to style you gallery via the Image Gallery Reloaded control panel
as posted by Daniel Sachs
but when I go to edit there is no tab for the gallery ?
How do I activate it?
john wilkins
Sep 24, 2009 23:34Now remember the From Computer Tab? Two tabs to the right is the Gallery tab. Click it. Click Insert Gallery and you are done.
No gallery tab has appeared, please help.
bonnieH
Sep 25, 2009 0:21Is there a way to make it autoplay on page load??
Jay
Sep 25, 2009 5:17Hey There,
Great plugin!
I am trying to get this working alongside Mojozoom – http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/mojozoom/ – for a retail clothing site. I basically need to be able to add a custom attribute to the img src for the main image that is being displayed, but for the life of me I can’t work out where to add the code. I have been trying to modify the image-gallery-reloaded.php file to add this custom attribute in but can not find where to add it.
I hope this all makes sense. If you are able to help in any way that would be excellent!
Thanks,
Jay
bonnieH
Sep 28, 2009 22:17Also, Is there a way to watermark the images?
Mahalo!
bonnieH
Sep 28, 2009 23:40sorry last question… Is it possible to remove the caption and link to the thickbox?
I may be able to do the changes myself but the script is packed. Do you offer an unpacked version?
Thank you for all your hard work on this awesome wordpress plugin!!! to me it’s the best one out there! and its *almost perfect for the application (a photographers portfolio) i am using it for!
Ben
Oct 6, 2009 4:39Hello,
On my install it seems to be using the original images that are uploaded rather than the medium size. Is this incorrect? I was hoping the smaller version would be used to limit bandwidth.
Rob
Oct 6, 2009 16:37Please, please, please fix the caption bug (caption disappears when you navigate with the thumbnails). Not easy to get into the js. It’s the only issue I’m having, but major issue as I really need the captions to show up at all times.
Thanks!
milo
Oct 6, 2009 17:04I have a question… i have downloaded the latest version which is Version: 0.5.6… I’m having these problems.
(1) The main images are sometimes not loaded completely? they sometimes work or sometime loads only half of the image or just a portion of it? The filesize of the image is 2.3mb and its dimensions are 2896×1944… I have configured the image reloaded to use its default sizes.. so im not sure where i went wrong?
(2) The gallery tabs sometimes shows and sometimes dont… i have tried FF3 and IE7…. im not also sure what’s happening
(2)
joe
Oct 9, 2009 20:02can this bad boy be put in a sidebar?????
Pete
Oct 15, 2009 6:39Hey Daniel – Amazing Plugin – thank you! It makes so much sense to build on the built in wordpress gallery instead of making a whole new system like NextGen Gallery, etc.
I have several issues I’m trying to solve and I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction. I’m using 0.5.6. Your description above says that it will use the thumbnail and medium size images, but it seems to be using the full size images causing very slow performance. Any idea why that might be happening?
I’m also trying to make some changes to the element – I set .caption in image-gallery-reloaded-style.php to display:none, but there is some jquery that is forcing it to be visible again on page load.
Love the thickbox integration on the “Large View” button – looks very slick! But for my case I would like to just link the “full image” link to the plain image file. Where can I add the “nothinkbox” class instead of “thickbox” ?
Lots of questions, I know… Thanks for any help you are able to give.
Pete
Oct 15, 2009 6:43Another little note: The img title for the main image still says “NEXT IMAGE >>” even when click for next image is disabled in the admin panel… a bit confusing…
Daniel Sachs
Oct 15, 2009 9:07Pardon me for my recent absence. I know there are many questions as well as many bugs reported. The development for this plugin is not over, and as the matter of fact I’m rewriting the whole system with a better jquery code, more controls etc. Although this might seem infinitely slow, but I’m planning to release the 1.0 version at the end of this month.
Regards, and thank you all for you questions, remarks, and requests.
Daniel
Oct 15, 2009 21:37Tried to search through all the comments here, but could not find any posts about this: When i press the thumbnails the image title of the loaded image wont show, if I press next on the image or with buttons the titles works fine again.
Anyone else experiencing this, then it might be something to look into on the update? if not, it might be just me – and do you have some pointers in that case?
Otherwise an awesome plugin, looking forward to the update. thanks.
Luis Romero
Oct 30, 2009 8:18I’m trying to use this in a wordpress page. I add the image, select gallery, click on insert gallery and it seems to do it. The problem I’m having is that I cannot click on anything afterwards. It’s as if every link was disabled (which means I cannot update my page either to save the gallery. Has anyone experienced this problem with this? Can’t wait to get it to work. I looks great!
Steven C
Nov 11, 2009 21:11Hi Daniel,
If you only have 1 image, when you click prev or forward, the image disappears and you can never get it back.
I’m encountering this because I hardcoded a gallery to show for every blog entry. It works normally with multiple images, but say an entry only has 1 image, then it gets buggy.
Is there a way to disable showing the nav buttons and all hyperlinks if you only have one image? thereby eliminating the disappearing unrecoverable image bug? I attempted this in the code..but couldn’t figure it out
example here: http://web.stevenchustudio.com/wordpressmu/features/2009/11/07/andrea-giacobbe/
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drew
Nov 15, 2009 5:12Not vaild code.
Andy
Nov 18, 2009 13:13I think this is a great plugin and I hope you keep developing it. I’m going to start using it on my sites. If possible, what I’d really like is more control over the image captions and tool tips. Or maybe you can tell me how to change them myself in the code. I would like:
- to center and choose my own style for captions that appear below images
- to turn off the little thing that opens a full size image
I also don’t know why you are using medium images. I’d prefer “large” by default, and the ability to choose large size if I want them.
Anyway, thanks so much for your work and for sharing this with us all.
Andy
Nov 19, 2009 3:16I forgot to add, what I really, really hope for is a “play” button, so the slides will show automatically. I can live without transitions, or at least with simple ones.
I hope you will keep this plugin light and simple. There are so many other slideshows that add ugly or slow loading features, but this one is fast and brings out the best in photos. You have done a wonderful job with it, and I’m grateful.
adam
Nov 20, 2009 3:22hey – is there a way to remove the caption and the lightbox options? i would ideally just like to have the main image and the thumbnails – nothing more.
thx for a great plugin!
Michael
Nov 22, 2009 17:10There is no gallery tab.
Anyone have a solution for his?
Michael
Nov 24, 2009 6:58Hello,
There is no gallery tab as you have described it:
“On the Add an Image popup click the Gallery tab, Click Insert Gallery and watch your new gallery set.”
Is there something that I need to turn-on in WP? I’m using the current edition of WP. I can upload images to a post, but I don’t see any way to get them into your gallery…
marujo
Nov 25, 2009 22:25suggestions for new version:
- slideshow (autoplay = on/off)
- param width and height for galleries [gallery w:540 h:400]
if is possible… thanks.
i see that in WP 2.9 the [gallery] shortcode has include and exclude params. its is very nice too.
thanks!
lmjaster
Nov 28, 2009 5:20is it possible to stop the images from popping out? If so, how do I do that? Love the gallery by the way…really works well!
nyuwec
Nov 28, 2009 5:42There is a javascript bug in IE6+:
Using jQuery().attr() with the “class” property name leads to a “Expected string or number” error, because IE treats “class” as some language element, not a property name, I assume. There is a quick fix for this: replace line #37 in image-gallery-reloaded.php to this:
jQuery(‘.main_image a’).attr({“class”: “thickbox”, “rel”: “thickbox”});
I have simply added extra quotes around “class” and “rel”. (FYI, using quotes around property names is the standard syntax in JSON.)
ron
Nov 30, 2009 4:49Hi, I am using the Tarski template. I have installed the plugin but it overshoots into my right sidebar. How do I correct this, or change the size of the plugin display. Thank you.
ron
Nov 30, 2009 18:14Michael, re: no gallery tab. See this post
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/227754
and follow what bythec1 has to say. This has solved the problem for me. This worked for me.
Chris
Nov 30, 2009 20:55I see to be running into a collision with the display of the gallery disappearing on a website, any info on why this may be occurring?
ron
Nov 30, 2009 22:43Hello again Daniel, I found the ‘settings’ page. (that bit of info should come in handy in the future). So, problem solved. ron
Pete
Dec 1, 2009 0:08Thanks for fixing the caption appearing when you click on the thumbnail – works great now.
Your description above says: “The plugin does not use the default image you upload, instead it uses the Medium and Thumbnail versions of it.”, but for me it seems that it’s using the thumbnail and original, not thumbnail and medium. It would be amazing if the thumb was the thumb size, the slide was medium size, and the full size popup linked to the original file.
Thanks again for all your hard work on this plugin…
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Patricia
Dec 3, 2009 17:08Hi, thanks for your work on this pug-in. I was wondering if there is an easy way to edit the .js file to eliminate the linking to a larger view of the image…I deleted the larger.png line in the php style document, but only got errors when I tried to fiddle with the .js stuff…Thanks in advance!
Nick Moores
Dec 4, 2009 18:15Is it possible to remove the image title / filename, and expand button. If so where is this located? Great plugin btw, very smart!
Luis
Dec 10, 2009 20:37I love the gallery. Thanks for sharing this. I only have a question. I installed it in my wordpress site but if I’ve scrolled down to see the gallery and I click the next button, the page reloads to the top. So instead of remaining in place it seems like I have to scroll down again every time I change image. Is there a setting for this that I’m missing? (you can see this here: http://www.anatituesday.com/?page_id=11). Thanks!
Daniel Sachs
Dec 11, 2009 9:59I believe it’s due to the fact that multiple jQuery versions are loaded. Try upgrading the older versions you load. (Backup first , of course)
tvd
Dec 13, 2009 20:48I’m having the same problem with scrolling. Also, I don’t have any other plugins that load jQuery. Please solve this; it’s pretty annoying.
tvd
Dec 13, 2009 21:34And I just managed to solve it by giving the page a height that exceeds the height of the content. That might help you find a neater solution.
tvd
Dec 13, 2009 21:47Clearly the unknown height of the gallery is the cause. I now only attributed a sufficient height to .gbackgr in my theme CSS; without any other changes the problem is gone then. Please update your plugin to have a calculated static height based on the user settings.
tvd
Dec 13, 2009 21:59Additionally, a calculated static (min-)height for the gallery_reloaded_container would keep the thumbnails from jumping sometimes when a new image is loaded.
Daniel Sachs
Dec 14, 2009 1:41Thanks, tvd. will look into it.
Although, I might reveal that the upcoming v1.0 of Image gallery Reloaded is going to be a ground – up rewrite, so I think most of the problems/bugs will be eliminated
Ben
Jan 4, 2010 1:54May want to check your css as the demo is being cut off.
Very nice plugin though
Belajar SEO
Jan 14, 2010 20:15thanks a lot for nice plug mister, you rock
Rando
Jan 14, 2010 23:26When i have multiple posts with a gallery there seems to be a problem. one main picture shows on all of the galleries instead of displaying a picture from its respective gallery. whats up with that? here is the link to see what i am talking about http://meetthadealer.com/category/meettha-vixen/
Jordan
Jan 15, 2010 21:47I am not able to see the Gallery Tab on the Add an Image Pop Up…
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.
Mystifier
May 12, 2011 23:43Thumbnail sizing doesn’t work correctly (v3.1.2) and spacing between thumbnails is about same size as thumbnail images.