Settings Screen

Settings → Lazyest Gallery

The Settings Screen allows you to set the options concerning Lazyest Gallery. After installing the plugin, the gallery will work, but you probably want to change defaults like image size, and number of images per view. You may change these options can set in the Settings → Lazyest Gallery page.

Main Gallery Options

Your gallery Folder:
This has to be filled in during installation. It is the main directory of your gallery, relative to your WordPress installation e.g. wp-content/uploads/lg_gallery. Lazyest Gallery will check if the folder exists. If not, Lazyest Gallery can add the folder to your server.

Your Gallery Page:
The page in which your Gallery resides. Pick a page from the list or create a new page. Lazyest Gallery can insert the [lg_gallery] shortcode. The URI will be used for previews and to show folders and images when a user clicks on a widget or a link on your blog's home page.

Thumbnail View Options

Maximum Thumbnails Width:
Lazyest gallery automatically generates thumbnails for your pictures. This is the maximum width in pixels a thumbnail picture will have. Please consider the width of of your page content and the number of thumbnails you want to place side-by-side.

Maximum Thumbnails Height:
Lazyest gallery automatically generates thumbnails for your pictures. This is the maximum height in pixels a thumbnail picture will have.

Thumbnails per Page:
Number of thumbnails shown in a folder view. If your folder contains more pictures, pagination will be applied.

Folders per Page:
Number of thumbnails shown in the gallery or folder. If your folder contains more folders than given here, pagination will be applied.

Count Images:
Select how the number of images is displayed with a folder thumbnail. Choose from:

Show number of images in folder only ( one number )
Show number of images in folder including subfolders ( one number )
Show number of images in folder and subfolders separately ( two numbers )
Don't show number of images

NOTE! If you select the second or third option, the number pf images will be fetched by AJAX after the Gallery page has loaded.

Sort Images by:
You can select three ways to sort your images.

Name, ascending or descending The images and folders will be sorted by their full file name. Lazyest gallery sorts case insensitive.
Caption ascending or descending The images and folders will be sorted by their caption. If you haven't stored a caption for an image, it will be sorted by file name, excluding the extension. Lazyest Gallery sorts captions case insenstive, e.g. IMG3.JPG > img3
Date, ascending or descending The images will be sorted by the server sytem date at the time it was first discovered by Lazyest Gallery.
Manually You have to arrange the images by yourself. On the Admin page Manage &raquo Lazyest Gallery, you can sort folders and images. You can arrange them to your liking by dragging and dropping. With a simple click on the header of the table you can sort images by Name, Description, Date

Sort Folders by:
See Sort Images by

Folder Columns:
The number of columns to display folder items. Please consider the width of your page content and the width of folder images you want to place side-by-side. Set to 0 when you want a maximum fill of folder items works only if you don't use <table> layout.

Thumbnail Columns:
The number of columns to display image thumbnails. Please consider the width of your page content and the width of thumbnails you want to place side-by-side. Set to 0 when you want a maximum fill of image thumbnails (works only if you don't use <table> layout).

Folder Icons:
You can select three ways to display folders in the gallery navigation.

Folder Icon A thumbnail of the image with the same name as your folder will be displayed. So, if your folder is named my_folder1, Lazyest Gallery seaches for an images called my_folder1.jpg, my_folder1.jpeg, my_folder1.gif, or my_folder1.png. If found, the image thumbnail will be displayed. If not, a folder icon , plugins/lazyest-gallery/images/folder-icon.png will be displayed. You can replace this file for your own folder-icon.png image.
Random image of this folder Lazyest Gallery will randomly select an image from the folder to display as folder icon. If the folder is empty, a folder icon , plugins/lazyest-gallery/images/folder-icon.png will be displayed. You can replace this file for your own folder-icon.png image. You may want select to include images from sub folders, but consider that when you have many levels of subdirectories with many images, this option could increase the time to compile your page considerably
None No image, but only the folder name or the caption will be displayed

Caching:
Lazyest Gallery stores reduced images for faster loading and display of your thumbnails. Caching is enabled by default. When you disable caching, each thumbnail image will be generated on the server at each display. This will load your page faster but may cause some problems on your server because it could be hit by many simultanious requests to generate images.

Cached images are made as soon an image will be displayed on a page. When you upload many images by FTP, all these imaged have to be created at run time when the page is being created. This can result in the server to run out of memory or processing time. If that happens, check 'Create cached thumbnails after page has loaded in the browser'. The images will be generated sequentially by javascript requests.

Cropping:
Square thumbnails will be generated by cropping the original image to the smallest of Maximum Thumbnail Width and Maximum Thumbnail Height

On Click:
Perform the following action when thumbnails are clicked:

Show slide in slide view
Show slide in Lightbox
Show slide in Thickbox
Show full size image (Recommended for HTML rewriting pop-up plug-ins)
Show full size image in Lightbox
Show full size image in Thickbox

Lazyest gallery will generate the code to enable Lightbox and Thickbox slide shows. You have to install and activate a Lightbox or Thickbox plugin of your choice. Lightbox and Thickbox are not included in Lazyest Gallery.

Slide View Options

Comments:
This option will enable Comments on your folders and images. The comments form will be shown on the Slide View. If you have selected another option with On Click for Thumbnail View Options, yous visitors will never reach the Slide View and cannot comment on your images.

If comments on images don't work, be sure to include the line <?php comments_template(): ?> in your page template. If you can't find this line, please check your theme's single.php for the correct syntax and position.

Maximum Slides Width:
Lazyest gallery automatically generates slides for your pictures. This is the maximum width in pixels a slide will have. For best viewing results, make this as large as possible to fit in your page content

Maximum Slides Height:
Lazyest gallery automatically generates slides for your pictures. This is the maximum height in pixels a slide will have.

Caching:
Lazyest Gallery stores reduced images for faster loading and display of your slides. Caching is enabled by default. When you disable caching, each slide will be generated on the server at each display.

Slide Show
This option will allow your visitors to view your slides in a slide show. All the images in your folder will be included in the slide show. Some other plugins may conflict with the slide show script. The slide show will then only display "Loading...." The slide show is enabled by default.

On Click
Perform the following action when slides are clicked:

Nothing.
Show full size image (Recommended for HTML rewriting pop-up plug-ins)
Show image in pop-up window
Show image in Lightbox
Show image in Thickbox

Lazyest gallery will generate the code to enable Lightbox and Thickbox slide shows.

Hint: If you have a fast server, you can hide the path to your images for your visitors. Disable Thumbnail and Slides caches and select "Nothing" for On Click. All thumbnail and slide images will then be generated by the server. Visitors of your site will not be able to download your full size images.

Exif Data
Select this to display Exif data stored in your images.

Caption and Description Options

Use image captions instead of file names:
Will display the caption in thumbnail views and slide views. If a caption is not found, the image filename, excluding the file type extension, will be used.

Use folder captions instead of file names:
Will display the folder caption in navigation views and as header for a folder thumbnail view

Show descriptions in thumbnail view
Enable this to show descriptions in thumbnail views. Disabled by default.
If you want to dispay extra fields in thumbnail views, please select this option too.

Length of Captions in Thumbnail View
Length of the caption in characters. Set to -1 to disable captions in thumbnail view. Set to 0 to disable cropping of captions text in thumbnail view. Set to any other length to crop captions to prevent wrapping of the text in your thumbnail views. Captions will be cropped and remainder ot the text will be displayed as "..."

Upload Options

Allowed file extensions:
In practice Lazyest Gallery handles gif, jpeg, and png type images. Use this option if you want to restrict your users to upload certain types of images

Enable Flash Uploader
Check this to enable the WordPress flash uploader for Lazyest Gallery

Auto Read Image Data
Will read image data after a file has been uploaded and stores them in the caption and description fields.

Enable Web Publishing Wizard Support:
If you check this option, Lazyest Gallery can receive images sent by the Microsoft Xp Web Publishing Wizard. (not recommended)

Advanced Options

Lazyest Gallery Administrators
Select Users to be Lazyest Gallery Administrators and have full control over editing, inserting and deleting folders and images and their captions, descriptions and other fields. Blog Administrators are Lazyest Gallery Administrators by default.

Use Permalinks for the Gallery
Check this to display the Gallery Folders as subpages of your Gallery Page.

Works when you have enabled permalinks for your blog

Normally, a slide will be displayed as http://myblog.org/my_gallery/?file=myfolder/animage.jpg After selecting permalinks it will be http://myblog.org/my_gallery/myfolder/animage.jpg

Use Canonical links
Enable this to insert canonical links in the header of your page when the Gallery is displayed.

Append Gallery to WordPress search results
When you check this, all folders and images matching the search query from the WordPress search box will be displayed as a gallery below the standard search results.

Excluded Folders:
Some folders in your gallery could have other purposes than storing images. These can also be system folders. All folders names you fill in here will be ignored by Lazyest Gallery. Defaults are "cgi-bin, thumbs, slides, _vti_cnf".

Image Resampling Quality
This option sets the quality for thumbs and slides when they are created by Lazyest Gallery. Valid settings range from 0 (low quality) to 100 (best quality). This setting only applies to JPEG files.

Shortcode links to Gallery
his option decides where your visitor will go when an image in a folder shortcode is clicked. If checked, the visitor will see the images in the main Gallery. If not checked, the visitor will see the images in the same post or page

The Images in the Gallery should be listed as
Fill in if you want to call your images something other than 'photos'

Credits
Please enable this to support Lazyest Gallery by showing the "Powered by Lazyest Gallery" banner below your gallery and link to this site.

Do not check Memory before creating images
Lazyest Gallery will check the amount of memory available before creating thumbnails or slides. If the amount of memory is less than required, an error icon will be returned. If you think you have enough memory to process the images, please select this option.

Use <table> element for gallery layout
For backwards compatibility sake. Pre-1.1.x versions of Lazyest Gallery used <table> elements for lay out.

Use AJAX to refresh thumbnail pages
Enable this to refresh the gallery without refreshing the whole page
Warning: This will stop lightbox or thickbox on secondary pages

About Lazyest Gallery

This panel informs you of your current version of Lazyest Gallery, offers links to Lazyest Gallery information pages and a link to donate to Lazyest Gallery. This plugin has cost me countless hours of work, if you use it, please donate a token of your appreciation!