sigplus 
Version
1.4.2.12 (last update on Oct 21, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
241
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
13 March 2010
Even while simple to use, sigplus offers an impressive set of features. Images suitable for gallery preview are automatically generated with cropping and/or centering, and clicking on a preview image brings up a pop-up window overlay (so-called lightbox) showing the original full-size image without navigating away from the current page. Images in a gallery can be displayed in fixed or flow layout, they can be shown on a slider or carousel/rotator, or an image can blend into another using a fancy transition effect. Appearance and behavior are highly configurable including image margin, border, padding, slider/rotator orientation (horizontal or vertical), animation speed, slideshow delay, image sort order, etc.
Despite its versatility, sigplus is completely free. It is a full-fledged product with all features included, there is no need to buy a commercial professional version with extra features or purchase club membership that grants you additional privileges.
Translations included: English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew*, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak and Spanish* (asterisk indicates front-end only). Joomla 1.5 users should install plg_sigplus-1.3.x (and optionally mod_sigplus-1.3.x), users of Joomla 2.5 and later should use the package installer pkg_sigplus-1.4.x (click "Download" for the latest version released in the series to date for maximum compatibility).
I have been searching for about three days for the right image gallery extension. I actually paid $40 for one of the extensions I tried and there was absolutely no customization. (Hopefully I can get my money back.) This extension allows you to design a page the way YOU want, upload all of the pictures in one folder, enter the code on the page and the pictures magically appear on the page you created. No dealing with creating thumbnail images... the extension does all of this for you. My favorite part is there are numerous options you can select from that make the enlarged photo display differently. The only thing I would like (and it might be available) is offer a way for the person to download the original size photo. OH, and this extension was FREE!
This extension is simply THE BEST inline image Gallery extension available to date, period.
I have tried and tested almost all image gallery extensions on JED but for what it does, this extension has absolutely no compare.
The ease of use is terrific! It just works out of the box. With this extension a novice can create a professional-looking inline image gallery out of a folder full of images by just inserting a simple tag anywhere in his article content.
There are lots of inline configuration tags available to the power user who wants to make his galleries of particular sizes and looks.
The variety of lightbox options available is very commendable. The boxplus lightbox option created by the author himself is amazing! It produces a flash based gallery with a scrollable strip of image thumbnails automatically on its own !!
All-in-all, for someone who wants to produce great-looking picture galleries embedded inside his joomla content within seconds,not minutes, I would say, look no further. Just download Sigplus Image Gallery Plus plugin and your job is done!!
My heartfelt gratitude to the author for creating and giving to the Joomla community this wonderful extension.
Could you please think of creating something similar for displaying video, a "Simple Video Gallery Plus" if we may call it :-)
A million Thanks !
I have tried and tested almost all image gallery extensions on JED but for what it does, this extension has absolutely no compare.
The ease of use is terrific! It just works out of the box. With this extension a novice can create a professional-looking inline image gallery out of a folder full of images by just inserting a simple tag anywhere in his article content.
There are lots of inline configuration tags available to the power user who wants to make his galleries of particular sizes and looks.
The variety of lightbox options available is very commendable. The boxplus lightbox option created by the author himself is amazing! It produces a flash based gallery with a scrollable strip of image thumbnails automatically on its own !!
All-in-all, for someone who wants to produce great-looking picture galleries embedded inside his joomla content within seconds,not minutes, I would say, look no further. Just download Sigplus Image Gallery Plus plugin and your job is done!!
My heartfelt gratitude to the author for creating and giving to the Joomla community this wonderful extension.
Could you please think of creating something similar for displaying video, a "Simple Video Gallery Plus" if we may call it :-)
A million Thanks !
So easy to set up! Fantasic work. A owrthy addition to any site. Very professional.
I had it set up in a very short time except for the captions and text.
My captions and text didn't work then I realised that I had to save from Notepad as a UTF-8 text file. It then worked fine. I should have read the instructions properly the first time!
I had it set up in a very short time except for the captions and text.
My captions and text didn't work then I realised that I had to save from Notepad as a UTF-8 text file. It then worked fine. I should have read the instructions properly the first time!
I am very pleased with the aesthetics of this gallery. Not only does it look great on my site, but it is easy to use and install. I had been using a different gallery, but all of the images displayed in small thumbnails beneath the main image. It was so unattractive, but this gallery solved my problem, and it only took a matter of minutes to switch extensions. I thoroughly recommend it.
This is the best gallery ever and Iam using it in many many pages in my site, but I have an issue which is when Iam tring to use more than one gallery in one page, H cant use any prettyphot style
just slimbox only, I would like to use the pretty photo style with multi gallery in one page, any help please!!!
just slimbox only, I would like to use the pretty photo style with multi gallery in one page, any help please!!!
This is by far the best image gallery available. Support for this plug-in was almost immediate. Documentation was really good and made things really easy for me. Thanks for a great plug-in!
A praiseworthy plugin that goes even beyond the cool Simple Image Gallery. Instructions are simple and clear. Usage is great. Please read documentation, and it works like a charm. Great work.
This is best gallery plugin on JED i ever testing (and i was testing most of them and even make modification of one of slimbox-based plugin).
Especially it useful in component like flexicontent - you just add a custom text field with preffix and parameters and after you just insert path to images in this field.
many thanks for nice free plugin!
Especially it useful in component like flexicontent - you just add a custom text field with preffix and parameters and after you just insert path to images in this field.
many thanks for nice free plugin!
this is simply the best gallery solution for joomla.. i have tried others, some just plain didn't work, some had issues, this one was pretty much plug and play..
it has plenty of options to customize it, but not too complicated so that the basic user can find his way quite easily..
thank you very much for sharing your amazing work with us :)
Omar M. from http://omar84.com
it has plenty of options to customize it, but not too complicated so that the basic user can find his way quite easily..
thank you very much for sharing your amazing work with us :)
Omar M. from http://omar84.com
Hi Hunyadi,
1. The installation is simple
2. Setup is simple
3. Functionality is excellent
4. Works good with IE7 and Firefox 3.6
5. With IE6, only the first picture is displayed.
Thank you for this great extension.
1. The installation is simple
2. Setup is simple
3. Functionality is excellent
4. Works good with IE7 and Firefox 3.6
5. With IE6, only the first picture is displayed.
Thank you for this great extension.
Owner's reply
Like many major websites that have discontinued supporting IE6, sigplus is not guaranteed to work with IE6 either. As sigplus is a relatively new project compared to IE6 lifetime, we chose not to support IE6 to save us introducing substantial legacy code for the sake of a single browser that does not conform to common web standards; you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to IE8 (or another browser). sigplus uses standard mechanisms for styling galleries understood by all modern browsers, it is tested with and should be generally portable across different engines.
Its perfect but i want to ask something. How i can use the "sigplus Image Gallery Plus" to show only one image from the gallery folder ?
For example i want to publish in my article only the image "test1" from the folder "images/stories/testgallery
I am trying but i cant....
Can someone help me ?
For example i want to publish in my article only the image "test1" from the folder "images/stories/testgallery
I am trying but i cant....
Can someone help me ?
Owner's reply
There are multiple ways to achieve this goal. One is to use a "labels.txt" file with a single entry for the image to display in the article, optionally adding a caption and a description. Another is to use the in-line override parameter "count" and specify a value of "-1". For details, please check the section "sigplus Configuration" in the documentation.
I'm pretty new to Joomla, but tried sigplus for use in my articles.
Download and install was very easy.
Of course (...) it didn't work at first: cache folder was writable, but not turned on in global settings in Joomla.
After correcting this, it worked like a charme!
Download and install was very easy.
Of course (...) it didn't work at first: cache folder was writable, but not turned on in global settings in Joomla.
After correcting this, it worked like a charme!
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