Pic-Time Connect vs Super Zoom Gallery

Pic-Time Connect automatically generates comprehensive image sitemaps for all your Pic-Time photo galleries, helping search engines discover and index your images for better SEO performance. Key Features 🎯 Smart SEO Analysis – Automatically detects and processes Pic-Time galleries 📱 WordPress Integration – Seamlessly integrates with WordPress 5.5+ sitemap system ⚡ Performance Optimized – Focused data processing for faster sitemap generation 🔧 Selective Mode – Choose which galleries to include in sitemaps 🌐 Multiple Formats – Supports both standalone and WordPress-integrated sitemaps 🛡️ SEO Plugin Compatible – Works alongside popular SEO plugins 🔍 Robots.txt Management – Advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics tools How It Works The plugin scans your posts and pages for Pic-Time gallery embed codes, extracts image data from the Pic-Time API, and generates XML sitemaps that search engines can easily crawl and index. This helps improve your images’ visibility in search results. Sitemap Integration WordPress Sitemap Integration: Images appear in your main WordPress sitemap index (/wp-sitemap.xml) Standalone Sitemaps: Alternative endpoints for maximum compatibility Robots.txt Integration: Automatically adds sitemap URLs to your robots.txt file Robots.txt Management Diagnostic Tool: One-click testing and automatic fix attempts Platform-Specific Guides: Instructions for WordPress.com, WP Engine, Kinsta, and more SEO Plugin Integration: Step-by-step guides for Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and others Force Add Option: Override SEO plugin conflicts when needed Selective Gallery Mode Control which galleries are included in your sitemaps using the data-pt-sitemap="true" attribute on gallery embed codes. Perfect for: Privacy control for personal galleries Improved performance with fewer galleries Strategic SEO management Developer Features Comprehensive debug logging Action hooks and filters for customization SEO plugin compatibility detection Maintenance tools for troubleshooting External Services This plugin connects to external services provided by Pic-Time to function properly: Pic-Time Update Service Service: Pic-Time Plugin Update Server URL: https://pictime1system.blob.core.windows.net/pictures/pt_wordpress_plugins/version.json Purpose: To check for plugin updates and display notifications to administrators Data Sent: Plugin version number and site URL (for compatibility checking) When: Once daily via WordPress cron, or when manually checked by administrators Privacy Policy: https://www.pic-time.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.pic-time.com/terms-of-service Pic-Time Gallery API Service: Pic-Time Image Data API Purpose: To fetch image metadata from your Pic-Time galleries for sitemap generation Data Sent: Gallery IDs extracted from your embed codes When: When generating sitemaps or when pages containing Pic-Time galleries are processed Privacy Policy: https://www.pic-time.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.pic-time.com/terms-of-service This plugin only functions with existing Pic-Time gallery accounts and embed codes. No data is sent without your explicit configuration of Pic-Time galleries on your website. Support For support with this plugin, please visit the Pic-Time support forum. For Pic-Time account and gallery-related questions, please contact Pic-Time support. Privacy Policy This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. It only processes publicly available image URLs from your Pic-Time galleries to generate search engine sitemaps. Third-Party Services This plugin communicates with Pic-Time’s servers to retrieve image metadata for sitemap generation. Please review Pic-Time’s Privacy Policy for information about their data handling practices. Development This plugin follows WordPress coding standards and best practices: Full internationalization support with proper text domains Secure coding practices with proper input validation and output escaping WordPress filesystem API usage for file operations Proper database query optimization with caching SEO plugin compatibility detection and handling Comprehensive error handling and logging Technical Requirements WordPress 5.0 or higher (5.5+ recommended for full sitemap integration) PHP 7.4 or higher Active Pic-Time galleries on your website Public site visibility for robots.txt integration Credits Developed by Shahaf Wieder with Claude AI assistance. Special thanks to the Pic-Time team for API support and integration guidance.

Yet another gallery plugin. I was looking for a simple gallery where you can select a thumbnail, see the complete picture in a acceptable size but also have the oppertunity to see the details of the image. I searched the web for a way to do this and found the AnythingZoomer, a jQuery Plugin by Chris Coyier. I originally used this jquery plugin for this WordPress plugin. In version 0.5 the plugin was completely re-written. The generated HTML is completely different, the JavaScript was re-designed and the CSS was created from scratch. Also inner zoom was introduced. It works well for e-commerce sites like webshops or as a photo gallery. It is easy to adapt if you would want to, but the default behaviour should be very much usable by anybody. There is a settingspage to customize the images used and wheter or not to over- write the default gallery shortcode. If you want to use this gallery, simply use the [superzoomgallery] shortcode in your post or page, or enable the overwriting of the gallery shortcode and use the default wordpress [gallery] shortcode in your post or page. Since this is still an early version, I recommend to test it out first before taking it to a production site. If you have any questions or problems, I would be happy to hear from you and help you if I can!