It is designed for sites that outgrow basic gallery extensions: thousands of galleries, large photo libraries, legacy folder archives, Cloudflare / Full Page Cache environments, and clean frontend output without heavy JavaScript frameworks.

KEY CAPABILITIES

• Manage a massive number of galleries from a modern Joomla administrator interface
• Dual gallery directories: Active managed galleries + Legacy archive galleries
• Active directory for new uploads and day-to-day gallery management
• Legacy directory for historical / folder-based galleries kept read-only and safe
• Indexed gallery registry for fast discovery, browsing, and shortcode insertion
• Create, publish, and organize galleries with Overview, Photos, and Settings hub workflow
• Upload JPG, PNG, and WEBP images with automatic optimized image processing
• Configurable resize, quality, and strict filename sanitization
• Optional per-gallery watermark support
• Scan Existing Photos to index images already present in gallery folders
• Paginated Manage Photos interface for large galleries
• Dedicated thumbnail cache system separate from original images
• Per-gallery thumbnail settings with global defaults
• Automatic thumbnail generation on upload
• On-demand thumbnail generation for existing and legacy galleries
• Versioned thumbnail folders with staged cleanup for cache safety
• Frontend shortcodes for articles and content:
- {gallery}gallery-name{/gallery}
- {gallery}galleries2/my-gallery{/gallery}
- {devartgallery path="galleries2/my-gallery"}
• Content plugin for rendering galleries inside articles
• Editors-xtd button with gallery picker for fast shortcode insertion
• Site module for any module position with Normal Grid and Masonry layouts
• Lightweight popup / lightbox-style viewer
• Frontend safety caps for very large folders (module and content plugin)
• Dedicated frontend gallery menu items with SEF-friendly routing
• Package-only install and update ownership through pkg_devartgallery
• Built for high-traffic Joomla sites, shared hosting, enterprise servers, and CDN setups

INCLUDED EXTENSIONS

• comdevartgallery — administrator component and frontend gallery views
• moddevartgallery — frontend gallery module
• plgcontentdevartgallery — shortcode renderer for articles
• plgeditors-xtddevartgallery — editor button for gallery insertion

All extensions install and update together through the single package pkg_devartgallery.

WHY EDITORIAL / LARGE SITES CHOOSE IT

• Handles huge gallery inventories without forcing everything into one fragile folder model
• Keeps active production galleries separate from legacy archives
• Protects historical galleries in read-only compatibility mode
• Uses thumbnail caching instead of repeatedly serving heavy originals in grids
• Avoids frontend bloat: no jQuery dependency and no heavy third-party gallery frameworks
• Fits magazine, newspaper, news portal, and media-library workflows
• Cloudflare / Page Cache friendly architecture

SECURITY & RELIABILITY

• Joomla ACL with custom actions and secure administrator workflows
• CSRF protection for admin actions
• Hardened gallery path checks and path traversal protection
• Upload validation for size, dimensions, and pixel count
• Strict filename policy
• XSS-safe frontend rendering
• Keep Data on Uninstall option
• Install and update only through the official package channel

LANGUAGES

Packaged with 15 locales, including English plus Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Turkish, and Chinese (Simplified).

REQUIREMENTS

• Joomla 6.0+
• PHP 8.3+
• GD extension for image processing and thumbnails

Not designed for Joomla 3 / 4 / 5 or older PHP versions.

BEST FOR

• Newsrooms and magazine sites with large photo archives
• Portals maintaining both new galleries and old folder-based galleries
• High-traffic websites that need thumbnail caching and CDN-friendly delivery
• Agencies and publishers migrating from legacy gallery folders without breaking shortcodes
• Sites that need a clean, secure, Joomla-native gallery workflow at scale

DevArt Gallery focuses on stability, simplicity, security, and Joomla-native architecture — so you can manage enormous gallery libraries while keeping frontend rendering fast and maintainable.