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LightGallery is the most user-friendly component for a lightbox gallery that I've come to use so far. Thanks for creating this and thanks for the support you give to people here who use it.

This is a very good extension. The only, little, stain is the problem with IE but I solved it activating: System - Mootools Upgrade.

This is a perfect little slideshow, easy to use and set up. But it does not seem to work in Internet Explorer. I have searched and contacted the developer (no luck) and am surprised that no one else has this problem? Would love to figure this out or I'm on to another product.

This is a great component and very easy to use, unfortunately it turned out I couldn't use it on one particular site, you cannot assign categories to menu items, it all comes under one menu item. (Unless you have only one category.)

This would be fine for smaller or simpler layout sites but I have different modules and banners etc assigned to different menu items, meaning that the banner / modules do not show when you click on a Light Gallery category, i.e. you have to have your banners / modules assigned to all.

It would be vastly improved if it were possible to do this, I would use it again if it fits the design in future!

Everything works great, and big thanks to anchor for the fix.

I just found the problem with uploading images. In the file /administrator/components/com_lightgallery/controllers/images.php

you will find 2 lines at line 403 that look like this:

$this->imageCompression($source,150,$dest);
$this->imageCompression($source,500,$source);

Remove the 2nd line which is line number 404. You can also change the number 150 to whatever thumbnail width size you prefer. That fixes the upload error.

I like the fact it is simple to use/manage and are SEF supported. This kind of stuff are really necessary in the JED for who have small website. The ultimate gallery are Phocagallery and Joomgallery but are too much complex for who need just a simple gallery for publish some picture without million of options/features. Anyway this addon need some improvement because some point are not well making difficult to use in production site.

- When you upload a small image (like 480 pixels wight for example) you get a GD error because the size of popup image are hardcoded by default to 500 pixels so any image below this size will cause an error.
- Ability to customize easily the size of thumbnail and popup image and keep really that size. In fact pictures are scaled and not totally resized to default hardcoded size.
- Public location of all stored images. Actually all image are stored inside Administrator folder making impossible to protect this folder with htaccess (like is often suggested for increase security) because all image will not displayed.
- Ability to choose slideshow ON / OFF instead ON hardcoded by default
- Add pagination features
- I agree with review of craig2006 telling ability to change default name Lightgallery

I think this component can have great potential if developer keep it simple like it is. Maybe a simple random image module can be also proposed in future. Personally I will very happy to pay for this component if all this point are solved. I will follow the development and hope some improvement will be done in near future.

Not a good module. Doesn't even have basic features like display only a particular gallaery, or show the description in the light box.

This is great. It installs in minutes. It's easy to manage. However, I would like to know how I can modify or unpublish the name 'Light Gallery' on the title of my Gallary page. I would prefer the title be the title of my own Gallery.

I've tried quite a few galleries in the extension section and never was really pleased. LightGallery is small non-assuming gallery with a small CSS file and easy to edit templates. The LightBox functionality also doesn't require MooTools! Yay!