http://www.joomlaworks.gr/#downloads_sectionWith our latest plugin, adding image galleries inside your Joomla! articles (content items) is now super-easy and simple! Just add for example {gallery}myphotos{/gallery} inside any article and all images existing in the folder "myphotos" will be "automagically" presented as an image gallery, with stylish shadows on each thumbnail and "lightbox" popups to display the original images (when the user clicks on a thumbnail)! The thumbnails are generated on the fly using PHP, which means that the original images are resized and resampled, too!
Anxious to see the "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin in action? Then visit our exclusive demo site HERE!
Back to the plugin! What are the advantages of using it? Well, a) you don't need to have an additional gallery component to display a few images, b) you don't need to tell your visitors "to see our photos from Paris click here" and c) you focus more on content writing and less on administering the images! The plugin is ideal for news portals wanting to display some product images, for example, inside their articles. The potential of this plugin is actually only limited by your imagination!
You can have as many galleries as you want inside each content item, but for performance purposes try to only add one at a time (unless you're having only 2-3 images per gallery). If you want to create a gallery from subfolders inside images/stories/, simple add them like this: {gallery}folder/subfolder/othersubfolder{/gallery}. In other words, write the path to your target folder without any slashes at the beginning or the end of your path. Future releases will feature more control over the galleries created as well as different representations!
The "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin from JoomlaWorks uses "Slimbox" (developed by Christophe Beyls), which is a "Mootools" implentation of the famous "Lightbox" script. "Slimbox" generates the nice popups that display the original images in a gallery.
Download the plugin now from our Downloads Section and read the documentation carefully before posting any questions in the Joomla! forum.
If you want to show your support please rate and comment on the plugin at Joomla! Extensions. The "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin is released under the GNU/GPL license. Have fun creating galleries inside your Joomla! content items!
