WordPress image gallery plugin

33 responses to “WordPress image gallery plugin”

1. 
   Ls May 12, 2010 at 7:11 pm | Permalink

   Hey Bitvolution,

   I really like this gallery and I am using it for a website. It is really basic and that”s what I like about it. I think it is quite a good tool. The only problem is that it has no image captioning. You did not implement this yet did you?

   Greets and thanks for sharing this!
   Ls

2. 
   Tom Fotherby May 19, 2010 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

   Thanks Lauren,
   You’re right, image captioning would be a useful feature (and good for SEO) – I have released a new version of the plugin (v0.1) which supports it. To add a caption to any image in the gallery fill in the caption textbox in the WordPress gallery dialog.

   Thanks for your feedback,
   Tom

3. 
   Valentijn June 29, 2010 at 4:08 pm | Permalink

   Hi

   Using 0.03 version of WP galleria in 2.9.1
   And using php4 on iis7 win system.

   I changed 2 things :

   // Member variables
   var $bitvol_galleria_version; //instead of public…

   And changed : function BitvolutionImageGalleria() //instead of public function BitvolutionImageGalleria()

   At this moment this php4 hack works for now 🙂

4. 
   Tom Fotherby July 13, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink

   Hi,

   I use PHP 5 so didn’t know the plugin wasn’t working in PHP 4. Thanks for the info on making it work with PHP 4.

   What is the convention when it comes to backwards compatibility? Do most other plugins work with PHP 4? Should I change my code so it works with PHP 4?

5. 
   Angela September 16, 2010 at 11:01 pm | Permalink

   I’m fairly new to the wordpress scene. I uploaded your plugin wanting to use it to display a gallery on a page. Everything is looking good so far…. the plugiin uploaded & I activated it. Now where do I go to upload the pics to it? or how do I get it to display on the page?

   Thanks for your help.

6. 
   Sherry Haney September 23, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Permalink

   How do you remove an image from the gallery for a particular page, but not from the media completely. In other words, I am working on a site for a client and they will have several pages of images. But they want to move an image from one page to another. When I open the page to remove that image from that particular gallery, it removes it completely.

7. 
   tom September 29, 2010 at 8:15 am | Permalink

   @Angela:
   > Now where do I go to upload the pics to it?
   The plugin does not change the WordPress interface in any way – to upload a pic to the gallery you click the “add a image” button on the WordPress write interface (or the “Add New” button on the Media Gallery page).

   > how do I get it to display on the page?
   The same as normal WordPress galleries – see http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wordpress+add+gallery for video tutorials. Once you have added your pics to a post or page you can display it by writing “[gallery]” in the post text (but usually the WordPress interface does this for you automatically).

   @Sherry Haney:
   > How do you remove an image from the gallery for a particular page, but not from the media completely.
   You have to use the “exclude” option in the gallery shortcode, see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode . Yes, this is fiddly! Lets hope WordPress updates the media management interface one day.

8. 
   Colby October 22, 2010 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

   the plugins nasty
   needed it over the original galleria for the exclude
   had to tweak a few things but its awesome up and running, thanks

9. 
   Dani January 13, 2011 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

   Hi! I really loved this plugin. It is almost perfect. A thing that I miss is to show a “description” of image. Not just the “caption”. Can you help me?
   I tried, but him show twice the “caption” and “description” of each image.
   My e-mail: difluir@gmail.com
   Thanks a lot!

10. 
    tom January 21, 2011 at 7:26 am | Permalink

    Correct me if I’m wrong but I think the plugin is working in the way that WordPress intends the caption vs description to work. If you have a gallery without my plugin enabled, the caption is shown on the gallery thumbnail, and the description is shown when the user has clicked the thumbnail and is viewing the full image. This assumes the gallery has the “Link thumbnails to:” set to “Attachment Page” not “Image File”.

11. 
    luca January 26, 2011 at 10:32 am | Permalink

    Hi!
    very good plug-in, but what happens with sidebars?
    the sidebar content you see in this page is not the real one (the sidebar is now displaying the bottom sidebar content of the page :S. the aside has totally disappeared): http://www.buyflatbarcelona.com/flats/rambla-del-raval-36/

    What do you think? What could be the prob.?

    Thanks!!!

12. 
    luca January 26, 2011 at 11:27 am | Permalink

    sorry, problem solved! (and it was not a plug-in problem!)

13. 
    Victor March 3, 2011 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    Well, it seems that I am finally seen how this really works, but… the pictures appear kind of out of the box and the main one (the one that is shown big) is not big enough to fullfil the space. What am I doing wrong? Do the pictures have to have a special pixel size? Well, I’ve already tried that and keeps same problem.
    WP3.0.5 (I’ve tried under 3.1 and it is even worst! Nothing appears!!)
    Try going into my web.
    name: user
    pass: user

14. 
    tom March 3, 2011 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    You need to resize the thumbnail images – instructions are here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bitvolution-image-galleria/installation/.

15. 
    Victor March 3, 2011 at 7:49 pm | Permalink

    Hi Tom.

    Please, u already have my website, same as user&pass. Can you have a look?
    I don’t understand why there is a blue tryangle in each thumbnail (that when u click on it open in big the picture in the middle of the website).Please, I just want it as the example above (even like that without the PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons), or it could be as the exemple http://www.greekislandpropertyfinders.co.uk/what-we-are-finding. What am I doing wrong?
    WP 3.0.5, very few plugins installed.

    Thank u

    Victor

16. 
    Victor March 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    ok, I see this is something due to my theme!! Boldy. If I change it for another it does not happen anymore. mmh! Now I have some more info to keep trying.
    Thanks

17. 
    Tom March 4, 2011 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    Hi Victor,
    I guess the Bitvolution Image Galleria plugin is not compatible with your theme. This incompatibility is quite common.
    The plugin works by binding to the “post_gallery” filter to override the default WordPress gallery.

     /**
      * Bind our own callback to the "post_gallery" filter to override the default WordPress gallery template.
      * Original is defined in gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php
      */
      add_filter( 'post_gallery', array(&$this, 'bitvol_galleria_shortcode'), 10, 2 );
    

    If another theme or plugin does the same thing, then an incompatibility arises. It is usually possible to solve the issue by editing the theme code to comment out the line that defines the filter. I often create a child theme so that I can remove a filter that I don’t want using remove_filter in the functions.php file without needing to affect the original theme.

18. 
    Christopher March 15, 2011 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    Great plugin. The only problem is that sometimes the link in ie7 don’t work. I know its this plugin because we disabled/enabled other plugins and we narrowed it down to this. Basically, links in the nav/sidebar of our wordpress theme don’t click out anymore. Any idea why that is?

19. 
    Jean March 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    It looks your your great plugin is not compatible with WP 3.1. The minute I edit it (even inserting a single carriage return in the code, without touching any header), it gets deactivated by WP with a message stating that The plugin does not have a valid header. I tried that with 2 different installations of WordPress. I looked at the headers and could not find anything special about them. For the moment, I turned back to 3.0.5 because I can’t live without your plugin!
    Do you have a clue about this? I suspect it could be a single bit of code that causes this deactivation.

20. 
    Tom March 23, 2011 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    Hi Jean,
    You could well be right, but I do run this plugin on various WordPress installations that are running WP 3.1 without the same troubles as you. Two examples are http://www.stokerowaccommodation.com/gallery and http://www.greekislandpropertyfinders.co.uk/what-we-are-finding

21. 
    carl July 22, 2011 at 10:15 am | Permalink

    Hi Tom,

    thanks for the great plugin. I am having a few issues which I hope you can help me with. The gallery works fine apart from the fact that the thumbnails are all over the place (you can see what I mean here: http://carlwebb.com/wordpress/?page_id=129). Have you seen something like this before or am I just doing it wrong!)

    Thanks for any help you can give me.

    CARL

22. 
    Jean August 12, 2011 at 4:08 pm | Permalink

    I waited for a newer version of WP. Today I upgraded a copy of my site to 3.2.1, with my modified version of the plugin being instantly deactivated with the same deactivation message stating that The plugin does not have a valid header. I re-installed your original plugin with success, added a return between to blocks of code in bitvolution-image-galleria.php and got the same deactivation message. I edited the file with Dreamweaver 11. What I found out today is that if I edit the file within wp-admin, the plugin seems to be safely saved. So the culprit is Dreamweaver (a trustworthy program) – or a bit of code in the php file that Dreamweaver does not like or understand. Could that give you a hint ? Of course, I will re-edit the files with the wp-admin editor and come back with my results.

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    Jean August 15, 2011 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

    Today, I tried to add a return between, again, two blocks of code, in my modified version of the plugin, with WP editor, so that the file would be somehow rewritten by it, before upgrading WP core from 3.0.5 to 3.2.1. And it worked! The plugin was not deactivated on Admin reload after upgrade, did not generate any error message, and seems to be working flawlessly! So, in conclusion, there is an interaction between the original plugin code, Dreamweaver 11 and WP 3.1 and above… I suspect some invisible character being written by Dreamweaver, but when I compare the WP-admin-editor-modified file with Dreamweaver’s one, TextWrangler does not find any difference between the two except the extra carriage return… Could saving the php file with the WP editor change a record in the database? So, I don’t come with a final explanation, but have found the workaround to avoid Dreamweaver to edit the plugin’s files in the future. And again, I LOVE your plugin, it is the only one I found that fitted so well our needs.

24. 
    Tom August 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Jean, for documenting your struggles so well here. It could help out someone else if they come across a similar issue. (I’m afraid I didn’t know how to solve it and I’ve never used Dreamweaver so can’t investigate closer).

25. 
    Tom August 16, 2011 at 12:08 am | Permalink

    Hi Carl,

    Yes, I have seen this before. It occurs because, by default, my plugin uses thumbnails that are not the normal WordPress thumbnail size. You need to go to Settings->Media and change the thumbnail size as described in Step 3 of the installation instructions at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bitvolution-image-galleria/installation/

    Why did I choose this plugin size and not the normal WordPress one? It is much more space efficient and faster and works better for the sort of websites I work on.

    There are other gallery plugins that use the default WordPress thumbnail sizes or automatically scale the images (a performance sin in my eyes).

26. 
    Lauren Serge September 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    Hi Bitvolution!

    I am using the bitvolution gallery for a project (again) and I wanted to tweak it to my needs but can not figure out how to do that exactly.
    Basically I want only the thumbnails to be visible at first. Then when you click on a thumbnail the .mainImageDiv slides open. How could I do that?
    If you could explain me where I could alter that in the code I can try to figure it out myself!

    I am a big fan of Bitvolution, sorry for all the requests 😉
    Greets,
    Lauren

27. 
    Tom September 20, 2011 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    Hi Lauren,
    It could be possible if you have have some jQuery-fu? You’ll need to edit the plugin jQuery code. You’ll need to have mainImageDiv hidden initially then use jQuery slideDown() on the thumbnail click event. The tricky bit will be to make it work when there are multiple galleries on one page.

28. 
    Frank September 23, 2011 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Is it possible to integrate this plugin with some lightbox effect, so when you click on on the medium image, it will show the “large” image in a pop up lightbox effect?

29. 
    Tom September 25, 2011 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    No, I’m afraid this is not possible in the plugins present form. It’d be a nice feature to add, but there’s no plans for it as yet.

30. 
    Salustiano Muniz February 10, 2012 at 11:18 pm | Permalink

    Just came here to thank you for the plugin. I’m using on a website I’m developing.

    If I see you around, remember me to pay you a beer 😉

31. 
    Salustiano Muniz February 10, 2012 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

    I’d like to see it too, I’ll be very happy If you can add this feature.

32. 
    Larry April 17, 2017 at 6:08 pm | Permalink

    wish you would update this plugin, one of the best image gallery plugins I’ve used, but with updated wordpress the images don’t upload or don’t stick upon upload.

33. 
    Larry April 17, 2017 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

    Using version 0.1.1 on wordpress 4.7.3