FancyBox Gallery vs JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel

FancyBox Gallery integrates the FancyBox jQuery plugin into the WordPress gallery functionality. Simply use the gallery shortcode to display thumbnails in your posts with the option to link directly to the images (not the attachment template), and the plugin handles the rest. You get nice popups for the larger sized images, scaled to fit in the browser window, with a nice overlay effect. Features: Automatically scales large images to fit in window Adds a nice drop shadow under the zoomed item Groups related items and adds navigation through them (uses preloading) FancyBox jQuery features, not yet implemented in the WordPress plugin: Can display images, inline and iframed content Customizable through settings and CSS ToDo Add a settings screen. Allow control of FancyBox display options. Let user set their own CSS selector, instead of assuming the standard WordPress shortcode. Credits The FancyBox jQuery plugin is by Janis Skarnelis, and can be found here: http://fancy.klade.lv/

The ‘JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel’ allows you to create a ‘JCarousel’ (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/) as a widget or as a shortcode. This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin for its images. Requirements: NextGen Gallery Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) NextGen Gallery Integration: This plugin uses the original width and height of the image uploaded so make sure the images are the correct dimensions when uploaded. If a width and height are defined under the configuration all images will be resized to those dimensions (Highly recommended). Alt & Title Text Field: Provide a full url here and the image will link to this. Only works if alt field starts with either of these; /, http, or ftp. Description Field: Will be used as image alt text. If alt text is present but not a valid url alt text will be used instead for image alt text. You can specify the following parameters: NOTE: sc means shortcode: Title: Title. Leave blank for no title. (sc: title=”My Carousel”) Gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (sc: gallery=”galleryid”) Order: Order to display results in. You can choose; Random, Latest First, Oldest First, or NextGen Sortorder. Random will still work when a page is cached. (sc: order=”random”|”asc”|”desc”|”sortorder”) Shuffle: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (sc: shuffle=”true”|”false”) Max pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to use. (sc: max_pictures=”6″) HTML id: HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘jcarousel’. Needs to be different for multiple instances on same page. (sc: html_id=”jcarousel”) Skin class: Class of skinning to use. Defaults to use the tango skin. (sc: skin_class=”jcarousel-skin-tango”) Image width: Width of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: width=”200″) Image height: Height of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: height=”150″) Image gap: Gap between images. (sc: gap=”5″) JCarousel settings: Please check the JCarousel home page for more details (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/#Configuration). vertical: Specifies wether the carousel appears in horizontal or vertical orientation. Changes the carousel from a left/right style to a up/down style carousel. (sc: vertical=”setting”) rtl: Specifies whether the carousel appears in RTL (Right-To-Left) mode. (sc: rtl=”setting”) start: The index of the item to start with. (sc: start=”setting”) offset: The index of the first available item at initialisation. (sc: offset=”setting”) size: Size of existing elements if size is not passed explicitly uses the number of total items. (sc: size=”setting”) scroll: The number of items to scroll by. (sc: scroll=”setting”) visible: If passed, the width/height of the items will be calculated and set depending on the width/height of the clipping, so that exactly that number of items will be visible. (sc: visible=”setting”) animation: The speed of the scroll animation as string in jQuery terms (“slow” or “fast”) or milliseconds as integer (See jQuery Documentation). If set to 0, animation is turned off. (sc: animation=”setting”) easing: The name of the easing effect that you want to use (See jQuery Documentation). (sc: easing=”setting”) auto: Specifies how many seconds to periodically autoscroll the content. If set to 0 (default) then autoscrolling is turned off. (sc: auto=”setting”) wrap: Specifies whether to wrap at the first/last item (or both) and jump back to the start/end. Options are “first”, “last”, “both” or “circular” as string. If set to null, wrapping is turned off (default). (sc: wrap=”setting”) Shortcode Examples: [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″] [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel title=”Hello” html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″ vertical=”true”] [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”2″ width=”150″ height=”100″ visible=”2″ scroll=”1″ auto=”3″] Try out my other plugins: JJ NextGen JQuery Slider (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-slider/) JJ NextGen JQuery Cycle (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-cycle/) JJ NextGen Unload (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-unload/) JJ NextGen Image List (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-image-list/) JJ SwfObject (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-swfobject/) Contributors