Simple Image Gallery 
Version
3.0.0 (last update on May 27, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
223
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
5 December 2006
Uses Updater?
- Yes
Adding image galleries inside your Joomla! articles is now super-easy and simple, using the magical "Simple Image Gallery" plugin for Joomla!.
The plugin can turn any folder of images located inside your Joomla! website into a grid-style image gallery with cool lightbox previews. And all that using a simple plugin tag like {gallery}myphotos{/gallery}.
So for example, if we have a folder called "my_trip_to_Paris" located in images/stories/my_trip_to_Paris, then we can create our gallery by simply entering the tag {gallery}my_trip_to_Paris{/gallery} into some Joomla! article.
The galleries created are presented in a grid using a polaroid-like background for the thumbnails. When your visitors click on a thumbnail, they see the original image in a lightbox popup. The thumbnails are generated and cached using PHP for better results.
So let's briefly see what are the main advantages of using Simple Image Gallery: a) You don't need to have an additional gallery component to display a few images, b) you don't need to tell your visitors "to see our photos from Paris click here" and c) you focus more on content writing and less on administering the images!
The plugin is ideal for news portals wanting to display some product images, for example, inside their articles. Or for people who quickly wanna show their summer vacation pictures. With Simple Image Gallery, you can have as many galleries as you want inside each article.
Please note that if you want to create a gallery from a subfolder located inside your "image gallery root folder", simply adjust the plugin syntax to reflect the remaining path (after your set "root folder"), e.g. {gallery}folder/subfolder/othersubfolder{/gallery}. Make sure you write the path to your target folder without any slashes at the beginning or the end of your path.
You can see a demo of the plugin here:
http://demo.joomlaworks.net/simple-image-gallery
Simple Image Gallery is a Joomla! plugin developed by JoomlaWorks, released under the GNU General Public License.
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i was looking for an image gallery wich was very easy to use for users who has no skills with joomla.
just tried this one and it works great.
just upload a folder whit images, insert 1 line into the content, witch direct to this folder, and it works. I love this one
thanks
just tried this one and it works great.
just upload a folder whit images, insert 1 line into the content, witch direct to this folder, and it works. I love this one
thanks
Once I figured out that to install the plug-in I needed to use the mambot installation tool it was very easy to get working. In a few minutes I had my first article with gallery posted, then made decisions about resizing photos before upload and thumbnail settings on the mambot edit page. Easy to use and seems fine to me. Probably the easiest item I've added to the site I work on in three years.
Thanks!
Thanks!
It's quick, easy and straightforward. Shame about the html code appearing in the alt and title fields but was able to change these in the code. Nice background gradient on the thumbnails.
This is very neat and clean!
It does what it says, no worrying about having to publish or organize your images - just upload it to your directory, but one simple line in your article and there you go!
I built a large gallery using joomla content section and categorys with articles being the gallery directorys. I works flawlessly and very simple!
The only thing I wish the free version should have added once, is pagination for really large folders! Add this, and it will be an 5stars plug-in!
It does what it says, no worrying about having to publish or organize your images - just upload it to your directory, but one simple line in your article and there you go!
I built a large gallery using joomla content section and categorys with articles being the gallery directorys. I works flawlessly and very simple!
The only thing I wish the free version should have added once, is pagination for really large folders! Add this, and it will be an 5stars plug-in!
The good news is that this is a simple easy-to-install and easy-to-use component. The bad news is it has lots of bugs and some design flaws that make it not very intuitive to the end user.
The bugs are:
-file names of the photos in your gallery cannot have any capital letters or it will crash.
-depending on which style you choose some will display photos incompletely with half the photo not appearing at all if you move your mouse out of the frame. If you move your mouse into the frame the photo will appear in its entirety but then you have to look at the navigation buttons.
-sometimes the close button disappears (on the lytebox setting) and then users don't know how to get out of the show.
design flaws:
-navigation!! Every single end user complained that it's not intuitive as to how to move to the next slide. This could be solved by having the next and previous buttons appear by default for the first few seconds and then disappearing until the user mouses over them again. Or better yet, take them out of the picture window entirely and put them down in the caption area.
-it'd be nice if vertical photos could have their captions displayed NEXT to them instead of underneath them. Displaying the caption underneath vertical photos makes the viewer have to scroll down to see it.
All in all I'd say it's not a bad component but it's not worth buying the pro version.
The bugs are:
-file names of the photos in your gallery cannot have any capital letters or it will crash.
-depending on which style you choose some will display photos incompletely with half the photo not appearing at all if you move your mouse out of the frame. If you move your mouse into the frame the photo will appear in its entirety but then you have to look at the navigation buttons.
-sometimes the close button disappears (on the lytebox setting) and then users don't know how to get out of the show.
design flaws:
-navigation!! Every single end user complained that it's not intuitive as to how to move to the next slide. This could be solved by having the next and previous buttons appear by default for the first few seconds and then disappearing until the user mouses over them again. Or better yet, take them out of the picture window entirely and put them down in the caption area.
-it'd be nice if vertical photos could have their captions displayed NEXT to them instead of underneath them. Displaying the caption underneath vertical photos makes the viewer have to scroll down to see it.
All in all I'd say it's not a bad component but it's not worth buying the pro version.
This is a great plugin, but when i installed it on Joomla 1.5 stable - it did not work for some reason, so i had to download another plugin to make it work. Once I have installed another plugin, it looked and worked well. But there was another down side, that there is no order of pictures unfortunately...
hi
this mambot works fine with firefox, but not with IE7. It will only generate the backgrounds of the thumbnails, or it will put the thumbnails just anywhere on the screen, but not on the backgrounds...
too bad ... its a nice mambot... any ideas of how to fix this for IE7 ?
this mambot works fine with firefox, but not with IE7. It will only generate the backgrounds of the thumbnails, or it will put the thumbnails just anywhere on the screen, but not on the backgrounds...
too bad ... its a nice mambot... any ideas of how to fix this for IE7 ?
I've been using Joomla for just over a week. I know nothing about Unix and PHP is a closed book. Yet I managed to get this installed and working in just over 15 minutes.
It installs as a Mambot flawlessly, I had to reset the ownership on the directories and files and then figure out that when you are told to write {gallery}directory{/gallery} you don't need to put any more path information than that.
One small issue (and it may be me). If you upload an image and create a content item that uses it, then overwrite the image (say, with a smaller version) you have to re-open and then save the content item to see the new version.
If you still aren't sure; give it a go - you'll soon see how simple Simple Image Gallery is.
It installs as a Mambot flawlessly, I had to reset the ownership on the directories and files and then figure out that when you are told to write {gallery}directory{/gallery} you don't need to put any more path information than that.
One small issue (and it may be me). If you upload an image and create a content item that uses it, then overwrite the image (say, with a smaller version) you have to re-open and then save the content item to see the new version.
If you still aren't sure; give it a go - you'll soon see how simple Simple Image Gallery is.
Great extension to go with your photo galleries. "Simple Image Gallery" As it says. Recommend for everyone.
http://www.joomlaworks.gr is one the outstanding Joomla Extensions developers.
http://www.joomlaworks.gr is one the outstanding Joomla Extensions developers.
I have yet to see anything out there that even come close to the SIG.
Easy to get up and running.
Enough options (who needs 100s)
Does the job and does it well
Easy to get up and running.
Enough options (who needs 100s)
Does the job and does it well
Download the pictures into a directory, create your story and add
{gallery}image_directory{/gallery}
to your story. That's it. Thumbnails are automatically created and displayed. Clicking on the left or right side of the picture advances to the next or previous picture. User interface is obvious and well thought out.
Directions and documentation is excellent. However, there are some minor limitations:
* No picture order: The pictures are displayed in alphanumeric order. You can't specify the order.
* No resizing: Thumbnails are created automatically, but the picture images display as actual size. We had to resize our images because they were too big.
* No comments. Only the file name is displayed.
* No layout options in the thumbnail gallery. Thumbnails are displayed depending upon the width of the webpage.
* Can take a while to load. Thumbnails are created on the fly.
Obvious you can't use this for a site that is selling paintings, but for most sites, this works great.I'm quite happy with it.
{gallery}image_directory{/gallery}
to your story. That's it. Thumbnails are automatically created and displayed. Clicking on the left or right side of the picture advances to the next or previous picture. User interface is obvious and well thought out.
Directions and documentation is excellent. However, there are some minor limitations:
* No picture order: The pictures are displayed in alphanumeric order. You can't specify the order.
* No resizing: Thumbnails are created automatically, but the picture images display as actual size. We had to resize our images because they were too big.
* No comments. Only the file name is displayed.
* No layout options in the thumbnail gallery. Thumbnails are displayed depending upon the width of the webpage.
* Can take a while to load. Thumbnails are created on the fly.
Obvious you can't use this for a site that is selling paintings, but for most sites, this works great.I'm quite happy with it.
Just the one for novices and works so intelligently...
Great work keep it up!!!
Senthilkumar
Great work keep it up!!!
Senthilkumar
Just as most of these posts state... This is aesome and easy to use o a begginer like me. After messing with a half dozen others, I found this to be the gallery tool for me. Administering my site is more than enough with out having to think about a gallery. Thank You Guys!
Now for the Bad part, Dont know where the conflict lies but Anywhere an album is my tabbed rokslide goes out whack. Any Ideas??
Ron Nava
Now for the Bad part, Dont know where the conflict lies but Anywhere an album is my tabbed rokslide goes out whack. Any Ideas??
Ron Nava
I've installed and start to use so easy that it amazed me!
Do everything it says, is simple, easy to use and light.
To improve the bot, who needs the gallery on multi-lingual site, you can edit the files:
/yoursitepath/mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig.php: line 70
#else {$html .= ''.$images[$a]['filename'].'';}
This line shows the image filename. I just deleted this one, because this name can be anything that a "dumb" user may not know.
One more thing here, I wrote the image counting ("Image # of ##") here on PHP, because I can't translate it on slimbox.js. I've add:
$html .= _IMAGE.' '.($a+1).' '._OF.' '.$noimage;
** The _IMAGE and _OF are set on your site languages.
On the file:
/yoursitepath/mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig/slimbox.js: line 138
#this.number.setHTML((this.images.length == 1) ? '' : 'Image '+(this.activeImage+1)+' of '+this.images.length);
I've just deleted this one too.
Then, to the site languages, by the backend menu:
Site > Language Manager > Site Languages
Add these lines on every language:
/** Simple Image Gallery **/
DEFINE('_IMAGE','Image');
DEFINE('_OF','of');
Thanks for this great bot!
Do everything it says, is simple, easy to use and light.
To improve the bot, who needs the gallery on multi-lingual site, you can edit the files:
/yoursitepath/mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig.php: line 70
#else {$html .= ''.$images[$a]['filename'].'';}
This line shows the image filename. I just deleted this one, because this name can be anything that a "dumb" user may not know.
One more thing here, I wrote the image counting ("Image # of ##") here on PHP, because I can't translate it on slimbox.js. I've add:
$html .= _IMAGE.' '.($a+1).' '._OF.' '.$noimage;
** The _IMAGE and _OF are set on your site languages.
On the file:
/yoursitepath/mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig/slimbox.js: line 138
#this.number.setHTML((this.images.length == 1) ? '' : 'Image '+(this.activeImage+1)+' of '+this.images.length);
I've just deleted this one too.
Then, to the site languages, by the backend menu:
Site > Language Manager > Site Languages
Add these lines on every language:
/** Simple Image Gallery **/
DEFINE('_IMAGE','Image');
DEFINE('_OF','of');
Thanks for this great bot!
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