Fancy Gallery Pro is a state of the art WordPress Image Gallery Plugin you can use to create, manage and handle image galleries easily in your WordPress backend and present images to your website visitors.

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The Main features are

• Fancy LightBox support for all linked images on your website
• Manage Galleries separated from Posts or Pages
• Gallery Taxonomies to categorize all your images
• Custom thumbnail sizes and color effects
• Fully compatible with all existing themes with archive template
• Template engine to display your galleries
• User role and capability support
• Gallery archives and RSS Feed support
• Clean and easy-to-use user interfaces
• Widgets to display your images in the sidebars
• Completely free of advertisement and brandings

Contents

1. Introduction
2. WordPress Gallery Feature
   1. FancyBox support
3. Fancy Galleries
   1. Activate the Galleries
   2. Create and Edit Galleries
   3. Title
   4. Images
   5. Excerpt
   6. Template
   7. Owner
   8. Thumbnails
   9. Featured Image
4. Taxonomies
   1. Activate Taxonomies
   2. Manage Taxonomies
5. Galleries and user capabilities
6. Galleries in WordPress Menus
7. Gallery Archives
8. [gallery] Shortcode
9. Templates
   1. Create your own template
10. Widgets
    1. Taxonomies
    2. Taxonomy Clouds
    3. Random Images
11. Options Page

WordPress Gallery Feature

In WordPress 2.5, the Gallery feature allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog.

The [gallery] shortcode is used in a Post or Page to display a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post. It can be used in its simplest form like this:

[gallery]

The easiest way to insert the shortcode to your contents is to use the gallery button in your WYSIWYG editor. The [gallery] shortcode is completely supported by Fancy Gallery Pro and you do not need to change the posts or pages you created in the past.

FancyBox support

All images you insert via the [gallery] shortcode will open in the jQuery FancyBox and the user can navigate through them automatically.

Fancy Galleries

Activate the Galleries

The Fancy Galleries need to be activated via the Fancy Gallery Options page. You can find the options page in your WordPress Backend -> Settings -> Fancy Gallery Pro.

Scroll down on the options page to the "Capabilities" box title and click it to open the box. Tick "Yes" for all capabilities of your user group to activate all features of Fancy Gallery Pro.

Create and Edit Galleries

After activating the Fancy Gallery features there is a new admin page in your menu: "Galleries". Click on "Add Gallery" to create a new gallery. The usage and handling of the interface is very similar to the edit post or edit page screen.

Title

Enter a title or name for the new gallery. It will be visible to website visitors if they open a gallery via permalink.

Images

In the Images meta box you have the ability to upload new images via Flash or HTML uploader. On the second tab "Gallery" you can see all images which belong to this gallery. Click on "Show" link to enter details for each image.

Of course you can also modify the image if you want.

Excerpt

Gallery excerpt are usually some random images which represent a gallery on archive pages. If you prefer a text and a thumbnail as preview of a gallery click on "Text Excerpt" and type something.

Template

In Fancy Gallery Pro you can choose a template to display a gallery. So you have the full control about your websites design and code.

Owner

The owner of a gallery is similar to the author of a post. If a user has the right to edit others galleries he can change the owner of a gallery to someone else.

Thumbnails

To customize every gallery you can change the thumbnail images height, width and appearance.

Featured Image

The featured Image is the main presenter of your gallery. If you use post thumbnail somewhere in your website. The theme should use the featured image of the gallery on this place.

Taxonomies

Taxonomies for galleries are similar to categories and tags for posts. You can use them to categorize all galleries and to build archives and RSS feeds.

Activate Taxonomies

To activate the taxonomies go to the Fancy Gallery options page and take a look on the "Taxonomies" option box.

Manage Taxonomies

Managing the gallery taxonomies is as easy as managing categories or tags for posts.

Galleries and user capabilities

Fancy Gallery Pro uses the WordPress embedded user rights system to control the access to galleries, taxonomies and options. You can change the settings directly on the Fancy Gallery options page without any external plugin. By default nobody has any right expect the admin to see the options page. So the first step after activating the plugin should be the capability configuration. Go to your WP Dashboard -> Settings -> Fancy Gallery Pro. Scroll down to the "Capabilities" options box and open it up with a click on the box title. Then you can set the available capabilities for all existing user groups.

Galleries in WordPress Menus

Nothing is cooler than a Plugin which plays well with all the cool WordPress features. You can add all Fancy Galleries or taxonomies to your custom menus. Go to your WP Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus.

Gallery Archives

Fancy Gallery creates a gallery archive for all gallery taxonomies you created. You can find the url of each archive below the Edit Taxonomy page.

[gallery] Shortcode

The [gallery] shortcode is used in a Post or Page to display a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post. It can be used in its simplest form like this:

[gallery]

There are several options that may be specified using this syntax:

[gallery option1="value1" option2="value2"]

The following options are supported by Fancy Gallery:

id

specifies the gallery ID. The gallery will display images which are attached to that gallery. The default behavior if no ID is specified is to display images attached to the current gallery. For example, to display images attached to gallery 123:

[gallery id="123"]

orderby

specify the item used to sort the display thumbnails. The default is "menu_order". Supported values are

• id - Order by id.
• title - Order by title.
• date - Order by date.
• rand - Random order

order

specifies the sort order used to display thumbnails. ASC or DESC. For example, to sort by ID, DESC:

[gallery order="DESC" orderby="ID"]

number

specifies the number of displayed images. By default all images will be shown.

Include

comma separated image IDs (attachment IDs), [gallery include="23,39,45"] will show only the images from these attachments.

exclude

comma separated image IDs (attachment IDs), [gallery exclude="21,32,43"] excludes the images from these attachments. Please note that include and exclude cannot be used together.

size

specify the image size to use for the thumbnail display. Valid values include "thumbnail", "medium", "large" and "full". The default is "thumbnail". The size of the images for "thumbnail", "medium" and "large" can be configured in WordPress admin panel under Settings > Media. For example, to display a gallery of medium sized images:

[gallery size="medium"]

link

you can set it to "attachment" so each image will link to the attachment page of the image. The default value is "file" and links to the full size image.

link_class

you can use this attribute to specify a html class for each a tag of the gallery.

thumb_width

specifies the width of the thumbnail images of this gallery (in px). This overrides the "size" attribute!

thumb_height

specifies the height of the thumbnail images of this gallery (in px). This overrides the "size" attribute!

thumb_grayscale

Set this to "1" or "yes" to display the thumbnail images in grayscale.

thumb_negate

Set this to "1" or "yes" to display the thumbnail images negated.

Templates

The Fancy Gallery Pro Plugin will use templates to display galleries. A template controls the appearance of a gallery and generates the HTML code. So you have the full control how your galleries look like and which HTML standard they follow. You can see all available templates on your options page: WordPress Dashboard -> Settings -> Fancy Gallery Pro.

Create your own template

To create your own template you only need elementary HTML and PHP knowledge. Create a new HTML file and start writing the header with the template details. Here is an example how the header should look like:

<?php
/*
Fancy Gallery Template: Template Name
Description: Your template description here.
Version: 1.0
Author: John Doe
Author URI: http://example.com
*/

To generate the HTML code you can access the gallery object via $this->gallery inside your template. A good starting point is the default gallery template.

Widgets

Fancy Gallery comes with some cool widgets which displays galleries and taxonomies in your sidebars.

Taxonomies

The "Taxonomies" widget displays your gallery categories, tags, events, etc.

Taxonomy Clouds

The "Taxonomy Clouds" widget displays your gallery categories, tags, events, etc as cloud like you know it from post tags.

Random Images

This widget displays random images from some random galleries.

Options Page

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