Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?

Skubidu · 2005-09-25 12:40:36

I have to second what alexandra wrote: Get familiar with the “textpattern way” by playing around with the sections, pages and forms.

To give you a clue considering your problem. I think you’re talking about this part:

3. The Sections, Pages, and Forms
First set up a section called e.g. “gallery” and assign a
X/HTML page to it. This will be the gallery overview page. Style the page as you like it. To list single galleries on this overview page, we use conditional comments.
Place the following lines into that page.

That means:

Go to the presentation tab. You will be automaticly directed to the page tab.
Move to the bottom of this site to “Copy page as:”
Enter a name, e.g. “gallery-page” click copy.
Now, back on top of the page, switch to the sections tab
Create a new section called “gallery”
After creating the section, go down that page until you find the preferences of the new section “gallery”
Change “Uses page: default” to “Uses page: gallery-page”. Save it.

Now you have a section called “gallery” that can be fount under www.your-site.com/gallery and you have assigned a X/HTML template called “gallery-page”. The following code lines mentioned in the tutorial have to be inserted in this page. So go back to the page tab, select “gallery-page” under “All pages” and add the code.

That’s it :)

Last edited by Skubidu (2005-09-25 12:42:02)

barnettgs · 2005-09-25 16:39:08

Thanks, I have tried earlier but I have placed the code within content div. Was I doing correct thing?

I had got it working in the end but somehow my images still pop up instead of displaying image at the bottom of gallery page (similar to demo showed). Not sure where I went wrong there.

Cheers

Gary

> Skubidu wrote:

> I have to second what alexandra wrote: Get familiar with the “textpattern way” by playing around with the sections, pages and forms.

To give you a clue considering your problem. I think you’re talking about this part:

3. The Sections, Pages, and Forms
First set up a section called e.g. “gallery” and assign a
X/HTML page to it. This will be the gallery overview page. Style the page as you like it. To list single galleries on this overview page, we use conditional comments.
Place the following lines into that page.

That means:

Go to the presentation tab. You will be automaticly directed to the page tab.
Move to the bottom of this site to “Copy page as:”
Enter a name, e.g. “gallery-page” click copy.
Now, back on top of the page, switch to the sections tab
Create a new section called “gallery”
After creating the section, go down that page until you find the preferences of the new section “gallery”
Change “Uses page: default” to “Uses page: gallery-page”. Save it.

Now you have a section called “gallery” that can be fount under www.your-site.com/gallery and you have assigned a X/HTML template called “gallery-page”. The following code lines mentioned in the tutorial have to be inserted in this page. So go back to the page tab, select “gallery-page” under “All pages” and add the code.

That’s it :)

Last edited by barnettgs (2005-09-25 16:40:04)

Skubidu · 2005-09-25 16:51:40

Can you post the code you used? It sounds like a missing attribute in the rss_thumbpop tag.

the_new_guy · 2005-09-26 16:38:29

Thanks for all these links and suggestions, I’ll try a few of these out.

arkham · 2005-09-26 17:26:50

I had a lot of hesitation about getting started with the galleries… I just created a first one last night with rss_thumbpop. It is not hard once you get started.

http://www.ohword.com/gallery/46/oh-word-desktop-wallpapers

Last edited by arkham (2005-09-26 17:28:39)

davidm · 2005-09-27 11:55:39

<blockquote> 1beb wrote: Depends what you are doing with it.
Standalone galleries are probably a better idea if you have to manage a large number of photos, such as Yapig or Plogger:http://www.plogger.org</blockquote>

I confirm Plogger is very nice indeed, and easy to integrate into your website

<blockquote>To integrate Plogger into your website, place the following PHP
statements in the HTML document you wish display the gallery:

First line of HTML file -> <code><?php require(“gallery.php”); ?></code>
In HEAD section of HTML -> <code><?php the_gallery_head(); ?></code>
Somewhere in BODY section -> <code><?php the_gallery(); ?></code></blockquote>

I just love it, and it works flawlessly, thanks 1beb for the tip !

bizartist · 2005-09-27 19:10:13

While we’re on the topic of galleries, do any of these have really good navigation for multiple thumbnail pages, and also the ability to include a short blurb under each of the pics on the full size image view?

apo · 2005-10-06 02:19:31

hi there,

is any of these ways able to gimme just a listing of clickable thumbnails of myPicCategory?

should not be that difficult to create a tag like < txp:gallery category=“mycat” >, is it?

davidm · 2005-10-06 08:24:55

<blockquote> bizartist wrote: While we’re on the topic of galleries, do any of these have really good navigation for multiple thumbnail pages, and also the ability to include a short blurb under each of the pics on the full size image view?</blockquote>

Plogger does :-)

jstubbs · 2005-10-06 08:44:00

OK – ZenPhoto, Plogger, Photostack – they all seem good. Which is the best? For simple galleries who would go with rss_thumbpop or albumpattern? There is also beb_jmrgalleryhack which has a nice javascript image fade-in effect…..

davidm · 2005-10-06 09:08:15

I wouldn’t choose ZenPhoto, too many bugs for me…
Plogger is deadly easy to integrate to a website, and I didn’t test the Photostack Beta yet (but I am sure it’s good)

If you need something “light”, why not use a gallery plugin or a flickr plugin : depends on your needs !

jstubbs · 2005-10-06 09:24:47

Actually for me I use rss_thumbpop on one site, and jmrgallery on the other. beb_jmrgalleryhack is jmrgallery taken further down the road. They both work well, and if one does not have a lot of photos its the best way to go. I used albumpattern once and found it difficult but it could have changed.

Now I have a client who is using PhotoPost (ugghh!!) and I am currently implementing a new design and backend in TXP. I was looking at alternatives to PhotoPost, since it would be preferable to spend less time administering the site (TXP admin, PhotoPost admin, phpBB2 admin etc) and more time adding content.

Client did not like the Gallery or Cooppermine look (they are a bit heavy), although I think Gallery2 is pretty good. Any other ideas I may have missed?

A gallery that is XHMTL-ok would be good, oh, and with a PhotoPost export utility. Am I dreaming that this is possible! ;-)

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