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Introduction

Photo Gallery, Photo Display, Photos & Images, Slideshow, Galleries

Ignite Gallery is a full featured gallery with flexible options so you can create the gallery layout you want. Choose the demo link to see the galleries features in action.

★Features

✔Categories/Subcategories
✔Mobile friendly with swipe and responsive layouts
✔Metro grid, Masonry grid, Justified grid layouts
✔Embed video from youtube or vimeo or from a local video file
✔Frontend gallery creation
✔Multiple image uploader with resize before upload
✔Image tagging, tag filters and tags cloud.
✔Search for images and galleries, Joomla smart search support.
✔Watermarking of images
✔Password protection of galleries
✔Top/ bottom/ left or right position for thumbs
✔Top/ bottom/ left/ right /overlay position for image descriptions
✔Lazyloading of images
✔Social sharing buttons
✔Download image button
✔Image zoom button
✔Image commenting
✔Image voting
✔Slideshow
✔Ken Burns Effect
✔Import and display camera make/model, aperture, exposure time, ISO, focal length, GPS location
✔Animated Webp and Animated Gif and SVG image support
✔Optional plugin and module to place galleries into articles and module positions
✔Random/ Latest/ Most Viewed/ Highest rated galleries
✔Disable right click and save
✔Import images from a folder on the server
✔Create extra fields for custom image information
✔Search engine friendly urls
✔Custom Field Plugin

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Unbelievably good gallery



Posted on 01 October 2011
I needed a gallery that would do front end uploading and image management, and that would look good and be really customisable. I had almost given up finding all these features in one component, and then I found Ignite Gallery.



It is simply superb, and almost unbelievably cheap to boot - I would have paid triple and considered it money well spent.



Thank you Matt for an exemplary Joomla extension. If only more developers would emulate your quality, style and sheer functionality. Hats off to you, and thank you.

Great simple gallery and great support!



Posted on 30 September 2011
I have used many galleries over the years and this time around we gave Ignite Gallery a shot.



I had a problems which turned out to be a simple setting in the Ignite Gallery Parameters. I sent an email to support and they got back to me promptly.



I was well taken care of was left feeling appreciated for being a paying customer and was treated as such.



I will definitely use this gallery again on future projects.



Thanks!!!!



Micah

Great extension!



Posted on 27 September 2011
I will have to give this five thumbs up! Looks magnificent, works like a charm and is very easy to install and configure. Also support was fast as lightning when I needed them.

WOW Factor - Diamond Standard



Posted on 24 September 2011
I have installed and paid for a lot of slideshows since the early days of Mambo through to Joomla 1.7 and I can put my hand on my heart and say... THANK YOU for making a component that has the end user in mind. It is difficult to find a Component that works straight off without any issues whatsoever.



I am impressed... well worth the £26.71.

Wow!



Posted on 09 September 2011
Having tried many others that have front end edit-ability (Phoca was, despite the massive amount of reviews, hard and cumbersome to deal with and I never managed to upload from the front end), I bit the bullet and paid for Ignite. Why hadn't I done so sooner???? A breeze to install, learn and use.



It's a powerful extension, but easy to learn and understand. Phoca was a nightmare trying to get into the dev's head and figure out what he was thinking. Ignite was logical and well thought out. The online dox were a little thin given the amount of options, but they were all pretty self-explanatory. If anything, for me, tool tips in the back end would be all I would change.



First gallery took longer to upload than Ignite did to set up. Brilliant!

Thank you Matt for this great Component



Posted on 12 August 2011
I am very new to joomla. I have a BA-degree in Graphic design and currently studying Multimedia Design and I am making my first Joomla website. I looked and looked for a component like this one and jei.... this one is just perfect.



Of course there are always a few things that can be fixed but the support is great and I imagine that the developer is open improvement suggestions.



A great component/module/plugin for large image galleries.



Best money spent ever!!!



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Excellent - and the best after "sales"



Posted on 12 August 2011
So many variables that are easy to apply and if you get stuck then Matt will help you out (for me twice within 24hrs each time).

Really brilliant component and makes my site look great

thanks Matt

Getting better all the time



Posted on 04 August 2011
With the support for J1.7, frontend upload, subcategories, and excellent responsive support, I think it's pretty close to what we need. Stable, nice features and easy to adminstrate.

Pretty good but needs more features



Posted on 30 July 2011
This is a good gallery because you can view the thumbs and main image inline, the page doesn't reload, so it is very smooth.

You can also add your own logo, which saves a lot of time. If you don't like your first logo.

It is also very fast to upload many photos on the backend, so you can easily have 100's of photos display fairly quickly.

Missing features i'd like to see:

-Zoom, magnifying glass

-Amazon bucket support

-Other image borders designs options

-Clear resize cache (be careful about this one or you'll have a server full of duplicate images.)

-Choose resize folder location, no buried in the images folder.

- Captions over images.

- include videos

- thumbs inline option

The BEST for following reasons:



Posted on 25 July 2011
We are a development team, migrating several websites that used joomla, wordpress with image galleries -or dedicated software. At first sight iGallery seemed to be one of the good choices if not the best. After using it for a month and after migrating/creating five websites, here is our verdict that we had to share:



- easy to use, almost everything is included (read the documentation and the forum! ... we found features we needed, even after one month while we were about to code it)

- stable, fast and looks amazing on every design

- frequent upgrades and fast/friendly/professional support

- the software is extremely flexible if you learn how to set up and use Profiles (important!)



One of the websites took several hours to create, sort and publish a gallery structure with subcategories, now it took about five minutes. This is what made me write this review.

iGallery saves us at least two hours per day. Thank you!

Ignite Gallery

Version:
5.2
Developer:
Matt Thomson
Last updated:
Jun 09 2025
2 months ago
Date added:
Jul 17 2008
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
Includes:
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Compatibility:
J4 J5
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