Simple Image Gallery PRO: Joomla! & Mambo image galleries redefined!
Adding image galleries inside your Joomla! articles has never been easier!
Using the "Simple Image Gallery PRO" plugin from JoomlaWorks you can quickly display a folder of images within Joomla! as a stylish image gallery within any article.
Use for example {gallery}myphotos{/gallery} inside the article in which you want to display an image gallery of photos uploaded to the folder "myphotos". The plugin will then "automagically" present this folder as an image gallery, in a stylish thumbnail grid with "lightbox" like popups to showcase the original images, when users click on the thumbnails!
You can also add nice captions (labels) to your images, like you would with a gallery component.
So now:
a) you don't need to have an additional gallery component to display your images and/or redirect your visitors elsewhere, as the galleries integrate with your articles
b) you focus more on content writing and less on managing the images!
c) you don't have to worry about upgrades, simply uninstall any old version of the plugin, install the new one and your galleries will inherit all new features!
Compared to the free version of the plugin, "Simple Image Gallery PRO" offers the same ease of use but many additional features like:
- Custom galleries per content item, with varying thumbnail dimensions per gallery (you can have for example one the same content item one gallery with thumbs at 200px wide and another at 140px wide!).
- Improved performance in the thumbnail generation and caching engine. Generated thumbnails are now created faster and stored in Joomla's "cache" folder.
- 10 popup engines for ultimate style and compatibility with various javascript frameworks. Includes 2 engines supporting "slideshow" mode and our brand new popup engine SimpleBox (soon to be released as standalone).
- 4 templates to showcase your galleries. Better still, it's easy to create your own now.
- Labels (captions) on thumbnails with word limit options. You can choose to hide thumbnail "captions", but keep popup image "labels". Labels (captions) are extended to include title and description. If you enable labels in the plugin parameters, a labels.txt file is auto-generated within the folder of each gallery! You can now use full HTML code inside the label descriptions.
- Select to "fit" or "zoom" thumbnail images to the thumb dimensions you set, regardless of dimensions of the original images. That means your thumbnails align nicely in a grid, despite having different dimensions.
- Select to show or hide a download link for the original image in the lightbox-like popup.
- Single thumbnail mode: only one thumbnail shows up on your page but once you click on it, you can browse though an entire image folder! This mode is ideal for powerpoint-like presentations.
- Large images can be resized in the popup window, when their dimensions exceed the ones of the browser window.
- You can choose to load a module position in the popup window, for banners or other cool integrations!
- New extended syntax for more flexibility. Use for example {gallery}mygallery:200:140:0:2{/gallery} to instruct the plugin to fetch the images inside the "mygallery" folder, resize them to 200px width and 140px height, display the gallery in normal (grid) mode, create and use a labels.txt file inside the "mygallery" folder, ready for you to edit.
- Backwards compatibility with the free version. You just uninstall the free version, install the PRO version and you're done! No need to re-edit your existing content items (articles) that previously included image galleries, inserted with the free version.
- The code has been rewritten from the ground up (compared to the free version) for performance improvement.
- Joomla! 1.0.x/1.5.x and Mambo 4.5/4.6 compatible.
See the "Simple Image Gallery PRO" plugin in action in our documentation section or, for real-world examples, at:
- Danaos Cinemas (movie theatre)
- Gazzetta.gr (sports portal) using the lugin to display newspaper covers
- Cinemad (cinema portal)
- Almaz (bar/restaurant)
- New Hellenic Theatre (theatre)
- Dural Stores (eshop)
- Savvidis Furniture (corporate)
- Noir Productions (corporate) - click on the "inside scenes" tab for the gallery
- Viva Vida (clothing stores)
- Naias Labs (corporate)
- Charleston South Carolina Artist Amelia Whaley
- Contextes.org (Photographers)
- Agroturystyczne Stowarzyszenie Pojezierza Brodnickiego (Agrotourism website)
- Migration in Context (conference photos)
...and many more.
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