Simple Gallery

• Introduction
• Create galleries
• Display a gallery
• Display a list of available galleries
• Future features
• Help & support

Introduction

• Admin UI for managing galleries and reordering images
• Gallery snippets for manual placement inside CMS and static pages
• Link one or more galleries to a blog post
• Form widget for use in custom layouts
• Automatic image resizing.

This plugin is largely based on SimpleGallery by PolloZen.

This plugin does NOT include any CSS or Javascript, leaving any styling and animation up to the developer. The plugin renders clean unordered lists unless overriden.

Create Galleries

• CLick on the "Galleries" option inside the main menu.
• Click on "New Gallery"
• Name the gallery
• Drag and drop any images you want and reorder them as necesarry.
• Save it!

Display a gallery

For CMS pages

Drop the Gallery component into your page. Edit the Select the gallery option, if you want to display a specific gallery.

If you you want to load a dynamic gallery depending the on the url, specify the Gallery slug and leave Select the gallery set to the default Using gallery slug. For example, creating a CMS page with the URL /gallery/:slug and including the Gallery component with the slug Gallery slug set to :slug will display the Test gallery when visiting the url /gallery/test.

For static pages

Drop the Gallery snippet into your static page. Edit the Select the gallery option to choose the gallery to display. Ignore the Gallery slug option.

For static pages as a custom data type (Form Widget)

Include a custom field in a static page layout as follows:

{variable name="galleryId" label="Gallery" tab="Gallery" type="gallery" placement="primary"}{/variable}

This will render a gallery picker when this layout is used by the user. The variable can then be passed on to render the actual gallery. (See CMS pages above)

For blog posts

Blog posts can be linked up with one or more galleries on the Galleries tab when creating or editing a blog post. Information about connected galleries can then be accessed though the post.gallery variable inside your page.

Display a list of available galleries

For CMS pages

Drop the galleries component into your page. Edit Gallery order and Results per page as needed.

For static pages

Drop the galleries snippet into your static page. Edit Gallery order and Results per page as needed.

Image Resizing

When the Max Dimension property is used for the Gallery component, all gallery images will be resized using October's Resizer so that the longest side is that length in pixels. The default is 0, which means that original images will be used.

Overriding the Component Template

You can expand and edit the component templates if a different resizing logic is needed (for example with more options) or if you want to use your own markup. Right click on the {% component %} tag and click Expand Component Partial. (Also see Customizing Default Markup)

Future Features / In the pipeline

• Pagination for the galleries list
• German and Dutch Localisation

Help & support

If you find some bugs please open a ticket on GitHub