Ignite Gallery 
Version
3.4.7 (last update on Apr 22, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
172
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
Date Added
17 July 2008
*Categories/ Subcategories
*Slideshow
*Full lightbox photo gallery with all of the options that the main gallery has
*Multiple image uploader with resizing before upload, and drag and drop
*Responsive Layout
*Frontend uploading and gallery creation
*Image tagging and search
*Watermarking
*A download image button
*Facebook Comments and JComments integration.
*Rounded corners
*Facebook like button for each image
*Google plus one button for each image
*Twitter Button for each image
*Top/bottom/left/right position for thumbs
*Top/bottom/left/right position for image descriptions
*Use the plugin to put one or many galleries into an article (with random/ latest/ most viewed options)
*Use the module to put a gallery into a module position (with random/ latest/ most viewed options)
*Search engine friendly urls
*Many more...
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It's nice to use non-commercial stuff, but sometimes you just have to pay a small amount to get what you need.
Faultless and easy. Nothing non-commercial even comes close to this for power and quality.
Faultless and easy. Nothing non-commercial even comes close to this for power and quality.
Finally a gallery extension with so many uses and variations.
You have solved heaps of my problems and your support was great.
The only thing I can suggest is being able to change the time of the transition dissolve...easily (a little quick I think)
Thanks again
You have solved heaps of my problems and your support was great.
The only thing I can suggest is being able to change the time of the transition dissolve...easily (a little quick I think)
Thanks again
I bought Ignite . I really love to see it on my client site. However, there were some conflict about java script between the template and Ignite. Therefore I could not use this component with my client site.
Matt is Great seller.He told me the problem once I asked . Then he gave me full refunded !!!
Best seller ...
Hope to use your service next time..
Thanks for all..
Matt is Great seller.He told me the problem once I asked . Then he gave me full refunded !!!
Best seller ...
Hope to use your service next time..
Thanks for all..
This is a GREAT gallery component for any site! I downloaded and installed some of the "others" and they do not even come close in simplicity and nice clean output. It was very easy to set up and does a wonderful job. It is one of my favorite components. Well worth the cost!
I just needed a basic image gallery for a corporate site and found phoca gallery too difficult to customise and strip back to a very minimal style. Ignite was exactly what I needed - an absolute bargain for the clarity of the instructions and ease of use, and for the fantastic support from Matt!! I couldn't recommend this more.
Things Ignite had that others missed:
* Easy, intuitive front end
* Front end created member galleries
I've been converting my community site to Joomla and have searched hard for a gallery component that would meet all my needs. I've installed all the free components I could find, but nothing came close to the feature set, and frankly, nothing really *looked* good. It made no sense to convert my site to Joomla if the galleries looked worse than before!
Then I purchased Ignite. So far it's a dream. I've been working with the back end, bit by bit. So far the front end is intuitive and attractive.
I love this product. Thanks.
* Easy, intuitive front end
* Front end created member galleries
I've been converting my community site to Joomla and have searched hard for a gallery component that would meet all my needs. I've installed all the free components I could find, but nothing came close to the feature set, and frankly, nothing really *looked* good. It made no sense to convert my site to Joomla if the galleries looked worse than before!
Then I purchased Ignite. So far it's a dream. I've been working with the back end, bit by bit. So far the front end is intuitive and attractive.
I love this product. Thanks.
I paid for and downloaded this extension hoping it would fulfil my needs. To some degree it did, but in the end I ended up changing what I needed to do and ignite was no longer suitable. However, I have still given this extension 5 star and a very positive review. This is quite simply because while I was playing around with it, it worked as advertised and did everything very well. It was easy to setup and configure and is clearly laid out.
More than that though, the support and advice I received from the developer (Matt) was first rate. He responded quickly, honestly and helpfully to solve the questions I had.
When I asked the final question about whether it could do what I now wanted, he didn't try to fob me off or make up some holding rubbish. He explained why it wouldn't do what I wanted plain and simple without trying to get me to hang on for the next version.
He's told me what he is planning for the next version, and when it comes to pass I may well find myself back using Ignite. In the meantime the hunt is on for the ideal gallery component for my needs. Either that or my needs need to change!
More than that though, the support and advice I received from the developer (Matt) was first rate. He responded quickly, honestly and helpfully to solve the questions I had.
When I asked the final question about whether it could do what I now wanted, he didn't try to fob me off or make up some holding rubbish. He explained why it wouldn't do what I wanted plain and simple without trying to get me to hang on for the next version.
He's told me what he is planning for the next version, and when it comes to pass I may well find myself back using Ignite. In the meantime the hunt is on for the ideal gallery component for my needs. Either that or my needs need to change!
This component is well worth it. Easy to install, easy to use, easy for non technical customers to use. I had an issue with my server, Matt forwarded me through to his extensive FAQ, solved my issue in 5 mins.
This comes as as component and plugin, so lots of flexibility there. There is a front end editor for the non technical user which is fantastic.
This is the only component I have ever brought, and it was well worth it.
Thanks Matt.
This comes as as component and plugin, so lots of flexibility there. There is a front end editor for the non technical user which is fantastic.
This is the only component I have ever brought, and it was well worth it.
Thanks Matt.
This is a very versatile gallery and might be very useful to many, but I do not think it is of any practical use to artists that want to present their work on a site.
There is a sliding bar of thumbnails underneath the original picture. All these thumbnails are square, no matter the aspect ratio of the original picture. No artist would want to see a stretched thumbnail, is my guess... well more than a guess: my customer did not like it very much.So my dollars went down the drain.
The developer was not sensitive to my criticism: "my gallery has square thumbs" was the final remark.
Well, I do not think the thumbs should be part of the artistic lay-out of a page. Thumbs are function, not form. Changing the aspect ratio is unforgivable from an designers standpoint.
Also I had quite some diffculty in figuring out how to set things up. Doc is limited.
The gallery is very nice, if you have no problem with the afore mentioned issues, however.
There is a sliding bar of thumbnails underneath the original picture. All these thumbnails are square, no matter the aspect ratio of the original picture. No artist would want to see a stretched thumbnail, is my guess... well more than a guess: my customer did not like it very much.So my dollars went down the drain.
The developer was not sensitive to my criticism: "my gallery has square thumbs" was the final remark.
Well, I do not think the thumbs should be part of the artistic lay-out of a page. Thumbs are function, not form. Changing the aspect ratio is unforgivable from an designers standpoint.
Also I had quite some diffculty in figuring out how to set things up. Doc is limited.
The gallery is very nice, if you have no problem with the afore mentioned issues, however.
Owner's reply
If you want to change the width and height of the thumbs, you simply enter the thumb width and thumb height in the gallery options.
The gallery does not stretch any pictures, it does crop the thumbnails a little bit if the original picture has a different ratio to the thumb width and thumb height.
I can not find any of my sent emails that say "my gallery has square thumbs", and I think this review says a lot more about the users ability to change the most basic settings, rather than the features of the gallery.
i bought Ignite Gallery because i needed something similar for a project. my first impression was that it's easy to use, does the job it should do, has many configuration settings which apply for each gallery individually, and it looks great.
what i really liked was the zip upload for images which saved me a lot of time. in the past i had to use galleries getting images from folders (which i upload by ftp) when i had lots of images and then i couldn't assign a description to those images (only using text files which is not very user friendly for website managers and end-users). Ignite Gallery takes care of this with the zip upload.
It's really simple but at the same time extremely customizable and it can easily be adapted to any project you need. your gallery no longer needs to be flash to look good, plus i've used it in a multilingual site and translated all photos and categories using joomfish contentelements.
I am definitely using Ignite Gallery again.
what i really liked was the zip upload for images which saved me a lot of time. in the past i had to use galleries getting images from folders (which i upload by ftp) when i had lots of images and then i couldn't assign a description to those images (only using text files which is not very user friendly for website managers and end-users). Ignite Gallery takes care of this with the zip upload.
It's really simple but at the same time extremely customizable and it can easily be adapted to any project you need. your gallery no longer needs to be flash to look good, plus i've used it in a multilingual site and translated all photos and categories using joomfish contentelements.
I am definitely using Ignite Gallery again.
Well worth the $25. Easy to install and manage. Easy for users to figure out creating galleries from the front end. I needed a solution that allowed categories that the users could create galleries in and it more that fit the needs.
Having researched and tested many of the gallery extensions available, Ignite is simply the best one available.
Version 2 will further expand this excellent product and the users options to customise it.
The customer service I have experienced so far is second to none.
Look no further, you have found the best - for an exceptional price!
Version 2 will further expand this excellent product and the users options to customise it.
The customer service I have experienced so far is second to none.
Look no further, you have found the best - for an exceptional price!
Ignite Gallery is so easy for newbie like me. It's headache free gallery with so much parameter to tweak.., and the display is also nice and can be configured from size, description, position
Only minor upgrade should be needed : Position of the description line.. it should be customizeable....
Awesome...highly reccomended...LifeSaver
Only minor upgrade should be needed : Position of the description line.. it should be customizeable....
Awesome...highly reccomended...LifeSaver
I was looking for an easy to use gallery extension for a technically inept client and I found the ignite gallery to be completely tactile and hassle free. The support on this one is amazing and the developer is really devoted to his project.
The design of this gallery is elegant and you can pretty much tweak it however you'd like. You tell the client to upload one image and then voila, perfectly proportioned thumbnails, images, lightboxes are created. All gallery extensions should be this easy!
My only improvement would be to somehow better align the description with the image (this may be difficult if you have images with many different formats). In any case, Thank You for this amazing extension (well worth the price)!
The design of this gallery is elegant and you can pretty much tweak it however you'd like. You tell the client to upload one image and then voila, perfectly proportioned thumbnails, images, lightboxes are created. All gallery extensions should be this easy!
My only improvement would be to somehow better align the description with the image (this may be difficult if you have images with many different formats). In any case, Thank You for this amazing extension (well worth the price)!
Ok, I bought this and had it working in minutes. Plus ran into a problem with SEOing it and the great developer Matt, kept his word and in 1 week upgraded this component for ALL OF US to work better with SEO urls!
THIS IS THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN FOLKS! Get is before he ups the price!!
THIS IS THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN FOLKS! Get is before he ups the price!!
I just bought yesterday, and its awesome. Easy to setup, works as advertised. I had a few suggestions and feature request to the developer, he replied within hours. Im happy to support his work as a buyer.
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