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

Great Job!



Posted on 15 December 2010
The product and support are incredible!!!



However it didn't work on one of my sites because of script errors. Too many to fix. I will use this product on other sites.



I recommend this extension:

1. Great product

2. Incredible support

3. Easy to use both front and backend



Great Job Matt!

Great Photo Gallery



Posted on 14 December 2010
The best I've used, from far.

I've tested a lot of galleries and I can say that this one is really excellent from the coding to the ease of use.

Support is very fast and high level !

Really great extension, I love it.
This is THE BEST PHOTO GALLERY COMPONENT available! It's exactly what I think PhocaGallery WANTS to be. Just goes to show ya, you get what you pay for. It's tough to make a FREE extension be great so that said, when it comes to photo galleries, this is one the best and so worth the money - and I've used pretty much all of them.

Well worth the money



Posted on 24 September 2010
Used this on two sites now, and it's easy to customise from the Joomla back-end, but also pretty straightforward to work out how to create HTML overrides, and tweak the CSS for finer control, which I need to do as a developer.

Great Photo Gallery



Posted on 20 September 2010
Well worth the purchase, looks great easy to upload photos. I had an issue with the plugin not working correctly and the developer was very helpful in getting this resolved. Turned out it didnt work well with simple gallery, which is fine as I will replace all my article pictures with Ignite.

The best!!!



Posted on 26 August 2010
The product and support are incredible. My website use this component and look great.
I bought the full version of the component before using the free trial because I was in a hurry. I made a mistake and it cost me $40. You can learn from my mistake and save $40. Download the free trial and try it first!



In reviewing the support blog, you can see that there is definitely a pattern of the component not working well with templates (other than the default ones supplied with Joomla) and other modules or plugins. Unfortunately, you can't see the support blog until after you pay for the full version.



The developer does respond to problems quickly, unfortunately he seems to answer most problems with the same canned response. I received the same canned responses that many others on the support blog received to problems similar to mine and dissimilar to mine.



He'll cut and paste instructions from the "help" file that have nothing to do with your specific instance, (I think hoping that you'll wear-out in doing the laborious processes and just go away) and then if you do actually take the time to follow the instructions to no avail, he'll follow with the ultimate "waste of time".



When nothing works to the resolve the problem, he ends with, "You need to turn off all modules and components in the site, except for his, switch to a Joomla default template, switch on one module or component at a time until you locate the conflicting component. Once the conflict is identified you either trouble-shoot php on your own, or decide which component is more valuable to you and ditch the other.



I decided this "one-in-a-thousand" photo gallery function wasn't worth my time and pulled the component out and found another one that plays well in the real world.
Owner's reply: tebyerly made a support request that the gallery was not working.

I quickly looked at the site and saw the the link to mootools (the javascript library that comes with Joomla) was missing.

I have seen this problem many times before, and it almost always happens because the template uses jquery (another javascript library), and the template is programmed to remove any links to mootools.

As the template did use jquery, I gave some information on what code to look for/remove in the template, but no code that removes mootools could be found.

I asked that a temp login be sent to me, so I could have a look for anything removing the link to mootools. All of the above happened within 3 hours of the original request being made.

tebyerly did not send me a login, decided the gallery is not suitable, and removed it and left this review.

If it was the case that tebyerly's template (or some plugin) is programmed to remove mootools, it is not correct to blame the gallery. There are hundreds of extensions that will not work with mootools (a core part of Joomla) disabled. I did not get the chance to prove the fault is not with the gallery.

I don't think the above comments about support being slack are accurate. I made an honest effort to solve the problem, but tebyerly moved on before the support thread was half a dozen posts long, or before it was 3 hours old.

If you want to see what my support is like you can look in the trial version support part of the support forum, it is open to the public.
After wading through countless different gallery extensions for Joomla! and phpBB3, we finally discovered Ignite Gallery. Not only does it suit our purposes better than everything else we tried, but the developer support is top notch. The author really knows his code inside and out, which is surprising considering how much of it there is. When support is this good, I'm more than happy to pay for it.
I love this extension. My clients love this extension. All they have to do is browse to a folder on their hard drive and dump a bunch of photos into a gallery to add them in bulk to a slide show. Any support questions have been answered quickly and helpfully. I couldn't be happier. Keep up the great work!
i tested a lot of the galleries, and this is the one that suits me most. a lot of display-options, nice, clean interface and furthermore really great support! of course one would expect support for a commercial extension, but what they did after i had some troubles upgrading to the new version after moving to a different server, was really, really helpful!

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:
c m p
Compatibility:
J4 J5
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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