sigplus 
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).
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!
According to the following review from another user, I have the same problem also.
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Everything works perfectly except one thing. When i click on an thumbnail, instead of poping up a window and showing the gallery, it opens only that specific picture in a new tab. Have u had problems like this?
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Owner's reply
This behavior is triggered by an unsuccessful binding between images and the pop-up engine (Slimbox or prettyPhoto), which has failed to hook to the click event. There are several reasons why this may happen and it impossible to give a generic answer, the problem should be tracked down at the specific site, the javascript error console should give more details.
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I have the following error message from error console of Firefox while I browse my site (http://www.finnkoli.com/media-gallery/others). May I have any suggestion to resolve the problem from you.
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.finnkoli.com/plugins/content/sigplus/css/sigplus.css
Line: 39
Error: G[P]("scroll", A)[P] is not a function
Source File: http://www.finnkoli.com/plugins/content/sigplus/engines/slimbox/js/slimbox.js
Line: 6
Many thanks in advance.
Should you encounter javascript errors like the one above, please enable debug mode to help discover the source of such problems. Open Extensions/Plugin Manager in the administration back-end, click "Content - sigplus Image Gallery Plus", expand the tab "Advanced Parameters", and set "Debug mode" to "Yes". Normally, sigplus uses minified versions of any javascript code it ships with to save network bandwidth, which uses cryptic variable and function names. Such obfuscated code, however, is very difficult to debug. If you enable debug mode, the (functionally equivalent) uncompressed version of the same javascript code will be used, making problems far easier to track down.
I suspect you are using international captions but have saved the labels file as UTF-8 with BOM rather than without BOM. If you save the file as UTF-8 with BOM, the byte order mark at the beginning of the file gets appended to the filename of the very first image. As such file whose name is the BOM combined with the original filename truly does not exist in the filesystem, sigplus will ignore it. A solution is either to use the proper encoding or leave the first line blank. Please note, however, that the JED review system is not intended or suitable for support requests. There is a delay between the time you submit the review and we are able to read it, and there is no way we can contact you to supply details should it be necessary.
It looks a great extension - Just wish I could get it to work!
Any help appreciated.
This is defenately a "keeper"!! See it "live" on my homepage
After trying some stuff with my website I ran into some problems and contacted the developer. He returned my email the next day with some possible sollutions and a link to a newer version, which seems to have solved all of my problems.
I can really recommend this plugin to everyone! Hats off to the developer. ^^
Good one pal, all you need is little refinements. My suggestion if you upgrade features, keep the simple one intact as lots of people will need and just love simple things. If you intend so make Simple and Professional versions.
Everything works perfectly except one thing. When i click on an thumbnail, instead of poping up a window and showing the gallery, it opens only that specific picture in a new tab. Have u had problems like this?
This behavior is triggered by an unsuccessful binding between images and the pop-up engine (Slimbox or prettyPhoto), which has failed to hook to the click event. There are several reasons why this may happen and it impossible to give a generic answer, the problem should be tracked down at the specific site, the javascript error console should give more details.
Awesome Plugin, exactly what I needed!
The limit is system-dependent and is affected by PHP configuration. Future versions will exhibit a more user-friendly behavior should a memory limit problem arise.
I installed without a glitch and tried a simple, basic gallery as a start.
{gallery}/sigplus{/gallery}
All I see in a browser is
/sigplus{/gallery}
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A simple thing, right?
You are using a wrong syntax (no leading slash is required), please check the documentation for proper usage and examples. If in doubt, you may contact the developer, whose address you find on the documentation page under the title "Developer Info".
Only drawback is jQuery image galleries engines do not work for authentified part of my website (family photos), still no problem with mootools. Quite strange but love it anyway. Thanks a lot for the good work !
I'm using it on a few sites now! I only give it 4 stars because on some installations it shows bullets next to each thumbnail, otherwise a 5 star plugin!
This is a stylesheet issue. It can be fixed by adding the line
background-image:none;
to the CSS selector
.imageSlider ul > li
in the file sigplus.css within the folder sigplus/css. This is already incorporated in the upcoming 1.1.5 release.
Of course it took me a day or so to figure it out but thats cause i did't read the documentation right. [quote]By typing {gallery}imagefolder{/gallery} into the body of an article (content item), the plug-in will automatically produce a thumbnail gallery of all the images in the folder joomlaroot/images/stories/imagefolder. Clicking on any of the thumbnails will bring up a pop-up lightbox.[/quote]
Great job people keep it up!
