NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget vs Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

The NextGEN widgets only allow showing of single images, I needed a solution to show links to galleries, so I wrote this widget. You can specify the following parameters: Maximum Galleries: the number of galleries you want to show Gallery Order: you can select random, date added ascending or date added descending Gallery Thumbnail: which image should be taken as thumbail in the sidebar (preview set in NGG, first or random image) AutoThumb parameters: if you got AutoThumb installed, the widget will use its functions to resize the image to your needs. Use a string like w=80&h=80&zc=1 here to show 80×80 square thumbnails. Output width/height: if you don’t use AutoThumb, the plugin will set the HTML attributes width & height. Default Link Id: the widget assumes that you set up pages for each gallery and link the gallery to that page (you can use the NGG Gallery Editor to do this). If a gallery has no link set, it will use the default link (id of a page or post). Exclude galleries: exclude galleries by specifying their ID as comma separated list All development is done on GitHub. If you have ideas, enhancements, etc. feel free to fork the project and send a pull request. For any issues please use the Issue Tracker. Templating: Beginning with version 0.3, you have full control over the widget’s output as it is controlled with templates. As the built-in templates would get overwritten on every plugin update, create a new directory called “ngg-sidebar-widget” in your theme’s directory and copy the two template files “tpl.outer.html” and “tpl.inner.html” over there to edit them. The outer template is just a wrapper template (useful when you need some additional markup, e.g. when creating a list), the inner template has access to all the values from the gallery and image object (written in a simple templating syntax: {=object.member}). For the most use cases you should only need “gallery.title”, “gallery.link” and “image.url”. You will have access to the following variables: gallery gid name path title galdesc pageid previewpic author link image errmsg error imageURL thumbURL imagePath thumbPath href thumbPrefix thumbFolder galleryid pid filename description alttext imagedate exclude thumbcode name path title pageid previewpic permalink post_id sortorder meta_data gid galdesc author imageHTML thumbHTML url output_width output_height output_width_tag output_height_tag

Photo Gallery is the leading plugin for building beautiful mobile-friendly galleries in a few minutes. Useful Links: Live Demo Premium Photo Gallery by 10Web Special Offer for all Premium Plugins If you’re looking for a user friendly and feature rich plugin to add responsive galleries and albums to your website, Photo Gallery plugin can be the best option for you. It’s simple to use yet packed with powerful functionality, allowing you to create anything from simple to complex photo galleries. Photo Gallery comes packed with stunning layout options, gallery and album views, multiple widgets and a number of extensions that take its functionality even further. WordPress Photo Gallery is a great choice for photography websites and blogs, as well as sites that want to have robust image galleries with easy navigation. Check the extensive feature list of the plugin bellow, have a look at the plugin demo and give it a try. Benefits Increased visitor engagement – Images and photos grab attention and make websites more engaging. Using images in your posts and pages will result in increased visitor engagement and can give a boost on your posts’ pageviews. Enhanced SEO – Adding relevant tags and metadata to the images can enhance your SEO and provide more visibility in relevant search results in Google. Better page navigation – Organized galleries and albums will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience. Modern web design – Relevant high-resolution photos displayed in beautiful layouts are an integral part of a well-designed website that gets results. Full Control – Plugin gives you flexibility in terms of the design and customization of your galleries. You’ll get full control over the style, optimization and display of visual content on your website. Support – Get timely and effective support to all its users. We keep standards high and response time low. What’s in it CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS Photo Gallery provides a number of view options to organize your galleries and albums in beautiful views, including Slideshow, Thumbnails, Masonry, Image Browser, Extended and Compact Album, Blog Style, Mosaic. The layouts give you the flexibility to customize them to match your needs. UNLIMITED PHOTOS, GALLERIES AND ALBUMS Sounds great, right? With plugin you can have as many galleries and albums as you want, and stuff them with unlimited number of photos and videos. Kinda unlimited everything. POWERFUL LIGHTBOX You can display your media content in a responsive lightbox that comes with 15 slideshow effects, supports social sharing, full width view option, filmstrip, image commenting (Premium version), lightbox autoplay and many more options that make your lightbox look awesome. AUDIO AND VIDEO SUPPORT The Photo Gallery plugin allows you to include both videos and images within a single gallery. The WordPress Plugin supports YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Flickr or Dailymotion videos within Galleries. All you need to do is copy the URL of the video you want to include in the gallery plugin. It’s also possible to add audio tracks for the image slideshow. MULTIPLE WIDGETS There are four widgets in the gallery plugin: WordPress Standard Tag Cloud, Dynamic Tags Cloud (Premium version), Slideshow and Gallery widget. Use one of these widgets to display your albums on the sidebar areas of your website. IMAGE WATERMARKING AND RIGHT CLICK PROTECTION With watermarking feature of the Photo Gallery plugin you can add text or image watermarks on the photos in your galleries and albums, and protect them from illegal use. Right click protection will protect your images from unlawful distribution. PRELOADED THEMES The plugin comes with two default Themes. The themes are giving you the option to add new themes with custom styling, colors, layout settings, and image navigation options. SOCIAL SHARING You can allow users to share photos on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr with social sharing buttons. ADD-ONS Photo Gallery comes with a number of add-ons that can help you import/export galleries and albums from one WordPress website to another. SETTINGS/CUSTOMIZATION *Some customizations described here are available in Premium version . Please refer to feature summary for additional info. Photo Gallery allows you to create unlimited galleries and organize them into different photo albums providing detailed gallery descriptions and tags.The plugin supports both image and video content. Adding photos and videos to the galleries from the WordPress dashboard is simple and easy with its user-friendly admin panel. You’ll get all the tools you need to add and edit photos in the galleries.The file manager will help to rename, upload, remove, copy images and/or image directories with a few simple steps. Under the options (settings) tab in admin panel you’ll find an extensive list of settings for galleries, thumbnails, watermarking, social accounts and slideshow that you can configure based on your needs. Plugin features a powerful lightbox that supports filmstrip and image carousel display. Also, you can enable image comments options and show the comments of the images right in the lightbox. There is a dedicated section for lightbox settings where you can choose to enable/disable AddThis display, image download option, image count and other lightbox features. Under the social options tab you’ll find settings for the Instagram galleries, where you can specify Instagram feed auto update interval. With the available user roles you can choose who can add/edit galleries, images, albums and tags (Premium feature). Premium version adds Commenting possibility with Captcha protection Dynamic Tag Cloud widget with image tag cloud and text tag cloud options Add ons support. Possibility of changing the roles of who can edit the galleries/albums/images (Author/All Users) Photo Gallery Add-ons Google Photos Add-on – Link and display your Google Photos albums in one click. Export/Import Add-on Export/import galleries, albums and all related data from one WordPress site to another. IMPORTANT: If you think you found a bug in Photo Gallery or have any problem/question concerning the plugin, please check out Support Forum in our website.