Smart Image Gallery
Smart Image Gallery allows to insert images, and pictures, in your blog, directly from the WordPress media library, or eternal images repositories (like: Flickr, Instagram or Google Images ). The images are searched, and inserted, from the article edition, without importing them to the WordPress media library. All you need to do is pick the search criteria, and the plugin will search in all available sources, allowing select the images that most closely match the blog’s subject. Smart Image Gallery allows insert the selected images by separated, or as part of a gallery. It is possible select between different galleries designs, included with the plugin. Features Insert images, or image galleries, in the blog’s articles The easiest way to find images related with the articles Allows search for images in the WordPress media library, or external images repositories Allows to display the images separately or as part of a gallery Reduces the bandwidth consumption of your server using images hosted in external servers Allows insert the gallery in the website’s sidebar. The base plugin, available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory, has all the features needed for search, and insert, images in the website’s articles. Premium Features Includes a wide number of images repositories (like:WordPress media library, Flickr, Instagram and Googel Images) Includes additional galleries designs (like: carousel and Classic Gallery ) Demo of Premium Version of Plugin https://demos.dwbooster.com/smart-image-gallery/wp-login.php https://demos.dwbooster.com/smart-image-gallery/ If you want more information about this plugin, or another one, visits my website: http://wordpress.dwbooster.com Requirements: The requirements depend of the images repository, some repositories require an API Key, or Client ID Using Smart Image Gallery Smart Image Gallery is an easy and intuitive plugin. Before search, and insertion of the images in the articles, will be necessary activate the images repositories. Go to the settings page of plugin ( from the menu option “Settings > Smart Image Gallery” ), and activate the available images repositories (the number of images repositories depends of plugin’s version installed on your WordPress ). Each image sources has its own settings options ( for example: Flickr requires an API Key, and Instagram a Client ID) After activate the images repositories, go to the article, and press the Smart Image Gallery icon over the content’s editor. The action opens an popup window with a search box. Type the search criteria and press the “search” button, or simply press the carriage return key. The plugin displays the images available for each images repository. If the resulting images are not appropriated for the article, the plugin displays an “+” button at right of each repository, to get additional images with the same search criteria. Each image has associated a checkbox to be selected and inserted in the article. One time have decided the images to insert, go to the galleries design tab, and select the gallery to display (the available galleries, and its options, depend of plugin’s version installed in your WordPress ) The plugin inserts a shortcode in the article, doing easy remove an image, or modify the gallery’s settings.
SSP Director Tools
This Plugin uses the SSP Director API to pull content from SlideShowPro Director. Features: Insert a single image from SSP Director into a post using a shortcode. Insert a photo grid with multiple images from SSP Director into a post using a shortcode. Query SSP Director for albums, galleries, tags and configure the sorting of the output. Photo grids with random images are possible. Insert widgets into your theme if you want to display a photo grid in a widget area. Sizing and image handling are according to your default settings but can be overridden by shortcode attributes. Use image metadata provided by SSP Director for formatting image captions. Enable/disable photo feed functionality which generates an encrypted RSS photo feed URL for photo grids. Use FancyBox to display photos in lightbox style. Shortcode Help Use this shortcode: [sspd]. List of allowed attributes: album: The id of an album to show (integer). gallery: The id of a gallery to show (integer). image: The id of a single image to show (integer). align: Alignment of a single image (left|center|right, default: left). caption: Whether or not to show the caption of a single image (yes|1|no|0, default: 1). limit: The maximum number of images to be shown in a grid (integer, default: 0). 0 if unlimited. tags: List of tags to filter the content by, separated by commas. tagmode: Mode in which the tag filter works. Match all tags or any out of the list (all|one, default: one). sort_on: The sort field (null|created_on|captured_on|modified_on|filename|random, default: null). sort_direction: The sort order (ASC|DESC, default: DESC). rss: Whether or not to show a RSS photo feed link below the photo grid (yes|1|no|0, default: 1). If no attributes are specified, the default plugin settings apply as defined in the sections “Photo Grid Defaults” and “Image Sizes and Handling”. Example: [sspd gallery="6" limit="10" tags="technology" sort_on="captured_on" sort_direction="DESC"]: This will output the 10 most recent photos of gallery 6 which are tagged with "technology". Using captions Image captions are automatically generated using image metadata. You can define different captions for preview images and images presented by FancyBox. Use placehoders like %placeholder% in your caption definitions and define how dates will be formatted. List of allowed placeholders: %caption%: The image caption as provided by Director. If the caption is not set in Director, the IPTC caption is used instead. %byline%: The IPTC byline %city%: The IPTC city %country%: The IPTC country %date%: The image capture date from the EXIF record Date formatting: Use common PHP date formats. Using HTML in your captions: You may use the following HTML elements and attributes: , , , , , Example: %caption% (%date%) Photograph by %byline% Known Issues A bug in the Director API v. 1.5.0 beta generates a wrong result when a query with multiple tags is done. See SSP Director Forum. photo grids and photo feeds don’t work for smart galleries and albums. (Seems to be a Director bug.) The plugin currently doesn’t check if the photo feed feature is installed correctly. The photo feeds don’t show the real sizes of the downloadable enclosures, but the sizes of the originals.
