NextGEN Download Gallery vs UnGallery

Add a template to NextGEN Gallery that provides multiple-file downloads for trade/media galleries. NextGEN Gallery is one of the best gallery plugins for WordPress because it is very flexible and has a nice, simple admin. This plugin adds a new gallery template that lets you select multiple images from the gallery to be downloaded as a ZIP archive. NB: the Photocrati version of NextGEN Gallery can impact the performance of your server, and not all of the old plugin’s functionality works. You might want to consider using NextCellent Gallery instead — it’s a fork of the original NextGEN Gallery with continued support and compatibility, without the performance impacts. NextGEN Download Gallery is targetted at creating “Trade/Media” areas on websites, allowing journalists to easily download multiple product images. It’s apparently very popular with photographers too. Translations Many thanks to the generous efforts of our translators: Czech (cs_CZ) — Rudolf Klusal Danish (da_DK) — Ligefrem Dutch (nl_NL) — the Dutch translation team English (en_CA) — the English (Canadian) translation team English (en_GB) — the English (British) translation team English (en_ZA) — the English (South African) translation team French (fr_FR) — Nicolas Sizun Korean (ko_KR) — the Korean translation team Portuguese (pt_BR) — Juliano Arantes Polish (pl_PL) — Jakub Molek and the Polish translation team Russian (sv_SE) — the Russian translation team Swedish (sv_SE) — the Swedish translation team Turkish (tr_TR) — the Turkish translation team If you’d like to help out by translating this plugin, please sign up for an account and dig in. Credits This program incorporates a little code that is copyright by Photocrati Media 2012 under the GPLv2. Some PHP code was copied from NextGEN Gallery and altered, so that the nggtags shortcode could be extended as nggtags_ext and specify a gallery template.

UnGallery displays your directories of images as a browsable WordPress gallery. The advantage of UnGallery is there is there is no gallery management required in WordPress. You just point the plugin to a directory of photos and they are immediately viewable via an existing WordPress site. Any uploads, deletions, or edits you make to your photos and directory organization are automatically reflected in WordPress. If you’ve ever had to reorganize galleries after publishing, you know how inconvenient it is to return to a web tool to correct the paths, relink the thumbnails, update titles, etc. With UnGallery, you can restructure entire galleries, edit a dozen party pic red-eyes, rename an event or remove individual photos and each of these changes is automatically live in WordPress. Introduction and installation screencast Mark Reynolds http://markpreynolds.com Features Unlimited depth, breadth, and number of photos in library. My gallery has ~24,000 pictures and movies. Photos are managed outside of WordPress. Simply update a picture directory and UnGallery sees changes immediately. Galleries are searchable. This became very helpful as gallery volume grew to thousands. Default and configurable gallery titles Galleries can be set to hidden. These do not display in browsing, with access provided via direct link. Caching for faster page loads MP4 movies browsable within WordPress. Movies are linked and playable within browser. Image rotation support for orientation of jpegs with exif data Gallery hierarchy breadcrumb links Multiple gallery views, thumbnails, browsing navigation buttons, and slideshow. Dependencies Linux on the WordPress server PHP 5 Notes All image sizes including thumbnails, selected image view, movies, and column layout are customizable. To display a caption over a gallery, add a file named banner.txt to that directory with the desired text. The file can include plain text or html. If no banner.txt is found, the name of the directory used. To mark a gallery hidden, enter a name for hidden galleries on the UnGallery administration page. Any directories you create named “hidden”, will not be visible via normal gallery browsing. A direct link may be sent to provide access to hidden galleries. You can include UnGallery images in other areas of your WordPress site or other sites by embedding the URL from UnGallery into the external site. License The MIT License Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.