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Simple Image Gallery, by JoomlaWorks - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Photo Gallery, Content Photo Gallery, Photos & Images, Galleries

Simple Image Gallery (by JoomlaWorks) is truly the simplest and most effective way to add image galleries into your Joomla content and a classic must-have extension for any Joomla based website.


WHY SIMPLE IMAGE GALLERY?

Adding image galleries inside your Joomla articles, K2 items, Virtuemart/HikaShop products or any other component that supports "content" plugins is dead-simple. The plugin can turn any folder of images located inside your Joomla website into a grid-style image gallery with lightbox/modal previews. And all that using a simple plugin tag like {gallery}myphotos{/gallery} or {gallery}some/folder/myphotos{/gallery}.

So for example, if we have a folder of images called "mytriptoParis" and located in images/mytriptoParis, 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 of thumbnails. When your site visitors click on a thumbnail, they see the original (source) image in a lightbox/modal popup. The thumbnails are generated and cached using PHP for better results.

The plugin is ideal for any type of website: from personal ones (where you'd post a photo gallery from your last summer vacation), to e-shops (for product presentation) to large news portals. With Simple Image Gallery, you can have as many galleries as you want inside your content.

FEATURES

So let's briefly see what are the main advantages of using Simple Image Gallery:
- You don't need to have an additional gallery component to display a few images and thus you don't need to tell your visitors "to see photos of XYZ click here".
- You can place one or more image galleries anywhere within your content giving you total layout freedom.
- The gallery layout is fluid by default which means it'll fit both responsive and adaptive website layouts.
- You can set a "root folder" in the plugin's parameters if you have all your gallery folders under a single long path in your Joomla site (e.g. images/content/galleries). This way you won't have to type the full path to each gallery folder inside the {gallery}...{/gallery} plugin tags but just the gallery folder name. The default "root folder" in the plugin's parameters is "images" because that's the default folder for uploading media files in Joomla as well.
- You can use MVC overrides to change how the thumbnail grid looks in your site. Simply copy the folder /plugin/jw_sig/tmpl/Classic into /templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/jw_sig/ so that you can access its files in /templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/jw_sig/Classic/. You can then modify both the HTML and CSS code included there to match your template's design and colors.
- Uses the core Joomla updater.
- Uses Fancybox 3 for the lightbox/modal previews.
- Allows printing the image gallery grid when using the print preview feature available in most Joomla components (including the default article system and K2).
- Supports JPEG, PNG, GIF and WEBP as source images.

DEMO

You can see a demo of the plugin here: https://demo.joomlaworks.net/simple-image-gallery

LEARN MORE

Visit the Simple Image Gallery product page at: https://www.joomlaworks.net/simple-image-gallery

If you want to contribute to the plugin or report any bugs/issues on GitHub, have a look here: https://github.com/joomlaworks/simple-image-gallery

COMPATIBILITY & LICENSE

Simple Image Gallery is fully compatible with Joomla versions 1.5, 2.5, 3.x & 4.x on servers running PHP versions 5, 7 & 8.

Joomla 1.5 must have the "Mootools Upgrade" system plugin enabled to avoid JavaScript conflicts between Mootools and newer jQuery releases used by the plugin.

Simple Image Gallery is a Joomla plugin developed by JoomlaWorks, released under the GNU General Public License.

Well done for all the excellent work.



One thing for anyone having a problem showing the thubnails of the images.

I can't tell in which part of the server the error was, but I had no thubnails of my gallery and no errors from joomla.

Because, I don't own the server, I adjusted the file "showthumb.php", in the folder "plugin_jw_sig", by hard-coding the image gallery's path in the "$_image_" variable in line 7.



Thanks again for an excellent plugin.

Great plug-in



Posted on 09 December 2006
As it says, very simple to use



As said before in the reviews, a few options to choose from would be great, but it has to stay simple
Really love the aptly titled simplicity of this plugin, works as advertised and outputs attractive functional galleries. Newest 1.1 irons out all the major issues mentioned before.



The people at JoomlaWorks are turning out some great Joomla addons, quick with upgrades, attentive to improvements and prompt and polite in answering questions about their products.

Simply the best!



Posted on 07 December 2006
i searchs long time such a plugin! it's near perfect, but it's new.



my wishes for the next versions:



- option to set number of cols

- option to write a little more informations for each picture



Thanks alot for this Plugin! I'll donate joomlaworks as soon as possible!
Owner's reply: All that you ask have been fixed in version 1.1. Enjoy!

Combining with sliders



Posted on 07 December 2006
I really like this plugin because of its simplicity.

I'm now trying to combine this plugin with your sliders & tabs plugin. When using tabs, the images are shown correct.

However, when using the gallery inside a slider, only the backgrounds (shadows) are shown and not the images themselves. It would be fantastic if this would be solved.

No pop-ups



Posted on 07 December 2006
Very useful plug-in. It's easy to setup and run too.



My galleries looks fine (in Firefox) but the big pictures are opened in a full new window, with no alpha effect. I've tried to disable other javascripts, but there's no conflict. In IE I can't even get the page. I got an strange error message instead. My source code looks exactly the same as Joomlaworks demo does.

Great job



Posted on 07 December 2006
This is a fantastic, easy to implement plugin. A couple of suggestions, though to make it a little better:



1. Ability to use the lightbox image set technique to go between photos directly from within the lightbox.

2. Ability to place image folders anywhere within the site instead of only as folders/subfolders within images/stories.



One small bug that I have seen is when displaying images of various sizes and orientations, the thumbnail shadow boxes don't align properly with some images.



Other than that - what a GREAT PLUGIN! I look forward to the next release.
Tried this and would love to get it to show correctly in IE, but it does not greyout site as it should, in Firefox it works great, correct thumbs and all, but in IE, when you open the same, it's clipped....any ideas would be great on how to fix this. Email for link to site to see IE problems
Owner's reply: The xml declaration included in the top of some templates (even the default Solarflare) is causing these display issues in IE. The XML declaration "forces" IE to run in quirks mode, meaning not complying to HTML/CSS standards! Removed the line "" and everything will show up fine in IE.

Great Plugin



Posted on 06 December 2006
Simple and easy!



The best gallery solution for a "news" website.



Just a suggestion to give a 10:

Please, consider to make a JCE plugin too, this way editors can just click the gallery icon at JCE toolbar, try to imagine something like this - a popup opens with "Choose gallery folder" option, the editor can browse at server and finally click the "insert gallery" button. The WYSIWYG editor window can shows a colored bar to indicate where gallery starts, and the HTML editor window shows the plugin tags with folder path.
This is a total snap to install, and use, and looks great.



Questions/Issues...

I get an error on each page that reads "Notice: Undefined offset: 15 in .../plugin_jw_sig.php on line 59." How can I make that go away?



I have image sizes and aspect ratios that are not uniform. Sometimes the thumbnail does not fit in the shadow box for which it is intended (additional white space shows up between the right edge of thumbnail and the shadow box). I get better results when I resixe the original image to an even multiple of the target thumbnail width. Is there a better solution?



If a thumbnail is shorter (vertically) than the one next to it, S.I.G. drops in another thumbnail below it in the same row. Great idea, but a problem can/does show up because this is a progessive feature. At the end of a row (on the right), the stack can grow up to 3-5 thumbnails high with TONS of white space left under the first thumbnails on the left.



Perhaps a solution would be to track the height of the tallest individual thumbnail in the row, and double up below short thumbnails only if there is room for it (without increasing the min row height required for the tallest individual thumbnail).



Great work. Wish I was a programmer so I could help out.



bertm
Owner's reply: All you have to do to solve these issues is donwload the latest 1.1 released. It fixes all the things you mention.
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Simple Image Gallery

Version:
4.2
Developer:
JoomlaWorks
Last updated:
Jan 11 2023
2 years ago
Date added:
Dec 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4
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