I’ve tried several, but still looking for nice photo gallery plugin that works

  • margaret352

    (@margaret352)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    I have a blog with some trips in it and so there are many posts with daily journals and lots and lots of photos. They’re already there, thousands of them and I don’t want to have to make some massive effort to move all the photos or reformat them or add code to each post if I can help it.

    I’m looking for any sort of photo gallery really, a light box type or slide show would be nice, that can use the photos that are already in my regular WP gallery at the bottom of each post. Presently, using the standard WP gallery, if you click on a thumbnail, you’ll get the size that fills the screen and if you click it again, you’ll get the full size version, on which you’ll have to scroll around. All my pics were taken at max resolution. This is OK, but I want something snazzier in a new gallery

    I’ve installed and activated several but they didn’t work at all or displayed the image way too big, or used the thumbnail image and tried to expand it which made it look horrible. The most recent one only used the images in the body of the post, ignoring the images in the gallery, which is what I really wanted.

    Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
    Flexible Lightbox
    Image Gallery Reloaded
    NetGEN Gallery
    jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

    I’ve tried a couple of others too. Some, I could find no configurations and it just simply had no affect. A couple of them work without me doing anything, except the images are mega big (only about 20% of the image fitting on the screen), it doesn’t resize the image to fit the screen. I need something that will resize the image for the screen or light box automatically.

    Anyone have any ideas or recommendations?

    Thanks,
    Maggie

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  • Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    >>I’ve installed and activated several but they didn’t work at all or displayed the image way too big, or used the thumbnail image and tried to expand it which made it look horrible.<<

    Very odd, since Next Gen does what you want. All you have to do is edit the stylesheet to have it display the images in the size you want. Using it out of the box just generates the default size and settings – you’ve got to change the settings and edit the stylesheet to customize it.

    Thread Starter margaret352

    (@margaret352)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    OK thanks doodlebee, I’ll give it a go. I appreciate that head start; I just didn’t want to waste a bunch of time dinking around with every one trying to make it fit.

    Cheers,
    Maggie

    Thread Starter margaret352

    (@margaret352)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Well, out of the box, NextGen has no affect on my existing galleries. After reading up on it, apparently I have to create new galleries and add a tag to my posts to get it to work. Since I have hundreds of posts and thousands of pics in my existing galleries, I really don’t want to create new galleries and/or edit all of my posts to add tags.

    I’m looking for something that will work, out of the box, with my existing galleries with no changes to my existing posts or galleries.

    I’ve tried Flexible Lightbox and it seems to work except that it does not resize the image to fit the screen, it presents the huge image with vertical and horizontal scroll bars.

    Image Gallery Reloaded replaces my existing WP gallery with what appears to be a slide show type lightbox, but it just shows funny white stars in place of the images. Doesn’t work.

    I also tried jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries and got the same results as Flexible Lightbox.

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks
    Maggie

    Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Oh, yes – I’m sorry. I must have mis-read, Yes, NextGen requires you put all images in a designated folder for that.

    I’ve never actually used a plugin to deal with images already on the site before, so I can’t help much there. That being said, I *have* used lightboxes and such – and I do know that you can edit the size of the image’s appearance with CSS. Usually these plugins come with a stylesheet that’s applied – all you have to do it edit the stylesheet to meet your exact needs. So if Flexible Lightbox does what you want (just shows the wrong size), and you like it, use it – just edit the stylesheet to make the sizes show up how you want.

    Thread Starter margaret352

    (@margaret352)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah, I’m looking at the different lightbox plugins, but so far, I haven’t seen any place to edit the image size in the css or php files or configurations. Still working on it.

    Cheers,
    Maggie

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