User Guide

Contents

Tuning Lazyest Gallery Settings

After installing the plugin, the gallery will work, but you probably want to change defaults like image size, and number of images per view. These options you 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/lg_gallery. Lazyest Gallery will check if the folder exists. If not, Lazyest Gallery can add the folder.

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, pagination will be applied.

Sort Files and Folders by:
You can select three ways to sort your images.

  • Name
    The images and folders will be sorted by their file name, Thus IMG20.JPG will come before IMG3.JPG.
  • Date
    The images will be sorted by the last date the file content was modified. on the webserver system. It is not the date you have created the image or folder, and not even the date when you have uploaded it to your gallery.
  • Manual
    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

Folder Columns:
The description says it all. Please consider the width of your page content and the width of folder images you want to place side-by-side.

Thumbnail Columns:
The description says it all. Please consider the width of your page content and the width of thumbnails you want to place side-by-side.

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, it’s thumbnail will be displayed. If not, a folder icon folder-icon.png, 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 folder-icon.png, plugins/lazyest-gallery/images/folder-icon.png will be displayed. You can replace this file for your own folder-icon.png image.
  • 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 decrease the performance of your site.

Cropping:
Your thumbnails will be generated by cropping the original image to the

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

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

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

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.
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. This will decrease the performance of your site.

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 images will then be generated by the server.

Caption 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 will be used by default.

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

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 ...

Exif Options

When you check this option, a list of exif codes will unfold. The exif codes (encapsulated in jpeg images) will display with your image in he slide view.

Upload Options

Maximum size:
Maximum size of one image that can be uploaded by the Lazyest Gallery uploader
Allowed file extensions:
In practice Lazyest Gallery only handles gif, jpg, jpeg, and png type images. Use this option if you want to restrict your users to upload certain types of images
Check roles allowed to manage images and folders
The role(s) a user should have to be allowed to manage Lazyest Gallery folders and upload images.
Enable Web Publishing Wizard Support:
If you check this option, Lazyest Gallery can receive images sent by the Microsoft Xp Web Publishing Wizard.

Advanced Options

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. If you use Microsoft Frontpage or Microsoft Expression Web, you should not delete the folder name_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
This 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

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  1. #1 by Dimitri on 9 March 2010 - 9:42

    Hi,

    I’ve a problem with your plugin, I’ve installed the last version 0.16.0.2 and in the administration section of the plugin I don’t see the “file manager” tab… What is the problem?

    Thank you for your precious help.

    Dimitri

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    • #2 by marcel on 9 March 2010 - 9:50

      Hm, I don’t know.
      What other plugins do you use?

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      • #3 by Dimitri on 9 March 2010 - 11:06

        Gwolle Guestbook
        Lightbox 2
        PhotoJAR: Base
        Post Notification
        Secure WordPress
        ThickBox
        User Photo
        WP-DBManager
        WP-Mail-SMTP
        wp-scanner activato
        WP Security Scan

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  2. #4 by Kenold Beauplan on 5 March 2010 - 19:02

    How can display most recent folders first? which PHP line should I modify? I tried the sort by date but it’s displaying the oldest gallery first.

    thanks

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  3. #5 by Wouter on 26 February 2010 - 18:03

    Hi, I’m using your (excellent) plugin on our website, but I can’t find an easy way to manage the comments or even see on which image the comment has been placed. Am I overlooking something? The admin panel shows that the page has an comment and so does the rss feed.

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    • #6 by marcel on 26 February 2010 - 19:20

      dat is een punt van aandacht voor versie 1.0

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  4. #7 by Phil on 16 February 2010 - 2:24

    I want to be able to display different folders of the gallery on different pages. How is that done?

    For example I have a Bear Bust 2007 page and I would like to display he Bear Bust 2007 images on that page.

    Thank you for your plugin.

    Phil

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    • #8 by marcel on 16 February 2010 - 10:09

      plz use the [lg_folder] tag

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      • #9 by Don on 16 February 2010 - 18:49

        First off – I am not a web developer. That is why Wordpress is so cool. So if I have to do a bunch of coding to get the gallery working I’m afraid I’m out of my element.

        I’m wanting to do the same thing on my site. I would like to build multiple galleries with related pictures. Each gallery displayed on a separate static page.

        What I’m gathering by your response, if I simply put [lg_folder] on each of those static pages everything is going to work just fine. How do I link separate galleries to specific pages?

        Thank you.

        Don

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  5. #11 by Andrew on 9 February 2010 - 17:42

    Hey marcel, using the latest version again after updating, and I wondered – since I have “Use Folder Names” instead of their captions enabled, do the folder captions appear anywhere at all? I find I’m using it as a descriptive field but it isn’t actually appearing anywhere.

    Also, where do the image descriptions appear? Or perhaps I’ve not updated properly! (this image should have one: http://aarmstrong.org/testing-gallery?file=Videogames/Beyond_Good_and_Evil_2/bgande2_1.jpg ). I am sure Wordpress’ auto update deletes the original files in the lazyest subgallery though – but if there is something I need to do to properly update then feel free to berate me for missing it (the readme doesn’t have much in on updating :) ).

    Also, I would love it if you could add clear:left and clear:right into the code to fix images not properly being placed in left/right alignments since this seems like an odd thing to miss out – example here: http://aarmstrong.org/journal/2009/11/08/league-of-legends – see the 3rd image not going properly on the right hand side of the page?

    It mainly needs clear:left or clear:right (line 331 and 333 of your latest beta’s frontend.php file), so it would be “float:left;clear:left;” and “float:right;clear:right;” respectively. I’m not using the beta, but it’s a similar place in lazyest-gallery.php in the most recent 15 version.

    Just a suggestion though, luckily it’s easily fixed by me locally, just an odd thing to have to keep doing every time I update! :D

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    • #12 by Andrew on 9 February 2010 - 17:43

      Urg, sorry for double posting this, I thought it was the suggestions page. Perhaps it’d be easier just to do an email nextime.

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  6. #13 by azarimy on 4 February 2010 - 2:23

    hi, let me applaud you for a brilliant job creating the gallery system. it fits my needs perfectly. one issue though:

    i’ve already uploaded some of my pictures in a few folders, but i can’t for the life of me figure out how to rearrange the folders into hierarchy. for example, i have 3 folders:

    > party/
    > birthday party/
    > weekend party/

    and i want to rearrange it into:

    > party/birthday party/
    > party/weekend party/

    any suggestion?

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    • #14 by Marcel on 4 February 2010 - 6:29

      plz use ftp to rearrange your folders

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      • #15 by azarimy on 4 February 2010 - 14:11

        ah… sometimes the simplest solution is the obvious answer ;) .

        thanks!

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  7. #16 by Joe Gold on 3 February 2010 - 17:49

    I installed version 0.15.6.1 and when i try “Sort Gallery Folders” manually after I drag and order them and click “save gallery order” the new order never saves.

    Is there any advice on what could be causing this?

    Thank you,

    Joe Gold
    UltraVisions.com

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    • #17 by Lazyest Developer on 3 February 2010 - 22:28

      do you get any error messages? on screen or in the error log? there could be an error writing the captions.xml file to the gallery

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  8. #18 by Jen on 30 January 2010 - 23:10

    So stoked that you finally incorporated permalinks. AWESOME! One question. How can I show most recent images added in the sidebar? Is there a shortcode I missed?

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    • #19 by marcel on 30 January 2010 - 23:25

      Hi Jen,
      I haven’t thought about latest images yet. LG doesn’t keep track of the upload dates.
      Marcel

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  9. #20 by Matt on 28 January 2010 - 5:53

    I got the plug-in installed and created a gallery folder via settings and a folder within that via settings but I can’t upload… The files are less than 300k… what am I doing wrong?

    Thanks

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  10. #21 by Adrian on 24 January 2010 - 11:26

    Is there a way to hide just the image count for folders?

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    • #22 by Adrian on 24 January 2010 - 13:42

      I found this information on the main page, perhaps putting it here too might be helpful since this is the user guide?

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      • #23 by Adrian on 6 February 2010 - 21:15

        Opps I didn’t, I posted that I found the information on the wrong comment.

        Any way to hide the image count?

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  11. #24 by FightSarcoma on 20 January 2010 - 6:39

    Marcel,

    Awesome plugin it does nearly everything I was looking for. I may have found a bug.

    WP version: 2.9.1
    Lazyest Gallery: version 0.15.5
    Thickbox: version 1.5
    Safari: version 4.04
    Firefox version 3.5.7

    Instructions to reproduce:
    1) activate slideshow
    2) use thickbox upon click
    3) use LG Slide Show in a widget area
    4) during image rotation, click image observe display in thickbox
    5) while thickbox is displayed, click slideshow widget that is in background

    Observed behavior:
    Images double post and cause several other display and navigation problems.

    Correct behavior (possibly):
    1) Kill ability to click slide show while thickbox is displayed or
    2) upon click of slideshow kill current thickbox and display thickbox for image clicked in widget.

    Thanks, and again awesome work.

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    • #25 by Lazyest on 20 January 2010 - 10:49

      It is probably a style issue. The z-index for the slideshow is set quite high. The slides will be displayed ‘above’ the thickbox.
      look for the following in the lazyest gallery plugin /css directory in lazyest-style.css

      .lg_slideshow a.show {
      z-index:500
      }

      .lg_slideshow .sscaption {
      z-index:600;

      set the z-index to lower values e.g. 50 and 100

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  12. #26 by Adam on 14 January 2010 - 0:11

    Thank you, Marcel. I was able to limit to work around the problem there. Is there a way to prevent anything from happening when a thumb image is clicked? I have “none” set in the slide view options, but Thumbnail View Options. If not, maybe I could just have the pic open in a new window instead of leading viewers away from the main page. Do you know where I’d need to make the changes in the code?

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    • #27 by marcel on 14 January 2010 - 7:03

      inc/lazyest-images.php function lg_get_thumb_link() on line 146

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  13. #28 by Adam on 10 January 2010 - 19:34

    Thank you so much for your work on the plug-in! I’m having some trouble with the slideshow playback. At first, all seems right and the images stay in the left column on our Wordpress site. Then, after clicking posts in the center column, the images will start overlapping the center column. It appears that the flash animation is wider than the left column where I have the widget active. Lowering the maximum width for the images only decreased the image size, not the placement of the images.

    Also – I would like to have a slideshow play, but nothing happen if the user clicks on the THUMBNAIL displayed in the slideshow (I saw the “do nothing” option under slide view options, but it doesn’t seem to override the thumbnail setting).

    Thank you so much!

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    • #29 by Marcel on 10 January 2010 - 20:24

      Hi Adam,
      The slideshow is not a flash object, but javascript driven. I can’t tell you what to do, but it probably has to do with your theme.

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      • #30 by Adam on 10 January 2010 - 20:46

        Thank you, Marcel. I found the code that seems to be causing issues. The width and height attributes change from time to time. I’m guessing width and height parameters are set to percentages somewhere, causing the placement to vary. I can’t find this line of code in the files though. I want to set width to 200px to avoid the problem. Isn’t this code in the plugin?

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        • #31 by marcel on 10 January 2010 - 21:07

          Hi Adam,
          The slideshow adapts the position of the slides each time they appear, to keep them in the center of the slideshow. The code is in the javascipt file js/lazyest-slideshow.js

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  14. #32 by Adrian on 21 December 2009 - 2:00

    Can you please give more details on how to use the shortcodes? Is it possible to insert a shortcode to a specific gallery within a post and have it display a random thumb from that gallery?

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    • #33 by Lazyest on 21 December 2009 - 13:23

      Hi Adrian,
      It is not (yet) possible to insert a shortcode for a random image.

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      • #34 by Adrian on 24 January 2010 - 11:12

        Next question (sort of delayed). I can’t find anything in the documentation, but how do you shortcode to a specific gallery?

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        • #35 by marcel on 24 January 2010 - 21:34

          please use the [lg_folder folder="yourfoldername"] shortcode

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  15. #36 by CBusquets on 9 December 2009 - 21:38

    Hi! First of all, thank you for this plugin… it’s just all I need.
    I’ve got a question… how can I translate it to spanish? Can you show me which files I have to edit?
    Lots of thanks!

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  16. #38 by Steve on 3 December 2009 - 11:41

    Hi – great plugin – thanks! However your latest revision seems to leave the ‘loading’ notice still showing while the slides are running – which I dont think was happening before. Twould be nice not to have this. Thanks for yr attention to this, Steve

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    • #39 by marcel on 3 December 2009 - 11:46

      thanks for the heads up. You can download a fix at http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/lazyest-gallery.0.15.1.1.zip

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      • #40 by Steve on 3 December 2009 - 12:39

        Thanks Marcel – have downloaded – but not sure what to do next. Do I just put the whole folder onto my website? If so – in which folder would it go? Would I just replace the folder called Laziest gallery that’s already in there? Steve

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        • #41 by marcel on 3 December 2009 - 13:03

          Hi Steve,
          0.15.1.1 will be available for automatic update later today. So if you can wait for that, it would be a lot easier.

          Thanks

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          • #42 by Steve on 3 December 2009 - 14:26

            Great – thanks Marcel. S

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  17. #43 by Trond Fjeldseth on 21 November 2009 - 22:42

    Hi and thank you for your quick respons! I tried your tip and placed the command in the stylesheet (at the bottom of it). Still did not work. Anything else I have to do? please excuse me, I am not a programmer! Best regards, Trond

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    • #44 by marcel on 21 November 2009 - 22:58

      Hi Trond,
      I have just visited your site and I don’t see the Folder icon anymore.
      Is it something else you wanted to do?

      Lykke til, kommer jeg til å sove

      Marcel

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  18. #45 by Trond Fjeldseth on 21 November 2009 - 15:23

    WordPress webb adress: http://www.studio36.no/wp

    Thak you for yournice åplugin. I am almost there, but as you can see on my “Foto” page at http://www.studio36.no/wp I get both “Folders” as a title and an icon on the page AND I get a line for the gallery on thesidebar. I only want the gallery link on the sidebar and the page “clean” for posting and discussion. How to remove thje icon etc. from the page and still ahve a functioning sidebare gallery list? best regards from Oslo, Norway/Trond Fjeldseth

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    • #46 by marcel on 21 November 2009 - 16:53

      Hi Trond,
      Add this to your stylesheet:
      #gallery .folder { display:none; }

      suksess!

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  19. #47 by Stromkopf on 21 November 2009 - 12:31

    hey!

    first off i’d like to say thank you for the great plugin! i was about to code my own gallery, because all the other wp galleries didn’t do what i wanted, when i stumbled across you work.

    now i am configuring it for my need and i’d like to use a lightbox / thickbox viewer. the problem is: no plugin i tried works. not even the Shadowbox you recommended (installed all three versions i found). in the Lazyest Gallery settings it always says: “WARNING: A supported Lightbox plug-in was not detected”

    any ideas what is going on?

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    • #48 by marcel on 21 November 2009 - 14:28

      Lightbox plugins will work even if Lazyest Gallery doesn’t recognize them. LG just doesn’t recoginze the latest versions of the plugin.
      Something to do for me.
      I have installed Shadowbox on this site, please visit the Gallery and click on an image in slide view.

      Recommended LG Setting:

      • Show image in Lightbox

      Recommended settings for Shadowbox:

      • Enable Smart Loading: False
      • Image Links: False (Lazyset Gallery will insert the code in the image links)

      Thank you for using Lazyest Gallery and Good Luck.

      Marcel

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      • #49 by Stromkopf on 21 November 2009 - 15:38

        you are right, it does work now. tried with jQuery Lightbox, will give Shadowbox another shot.

        thank you very much!

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      • #50 by Misa on 16 February 2010 - 6:24

        But if you use the LG Setting:

        Show image in Lightbox

        does that mean that the image code will use rel=lightbox instead of rel=shadowbox ?

        not sure how to get shadowbox to work

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        • #51 by marcel on 16 February 2010 - 10:07

          shadowbox runs perfectly with rel="lightbox"

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  20. #52 by SCMG Enterprises, LLC. on 19 November 2009 - 19:21

    Greetings Marcel…

    Thanks for a great plugin… I just have one question though; EVERYTHING works well – But – in the main admin window – the choices for who has permission to alter the gallery (s) is not allowing me to change permissions… no matter what I do – the permissions always return to the same default levels being checked -which I do not want – so – how do I get around this ?

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  21. #55 by Andre on 28 October 2009 - 10:20

    Hey, What lightboxes are compatable and where can i find them? PLZ Help.

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  22. #58 by Matt on 3 October 2009 - 15:48

    I love the plug-in and have almost everything set up but I cannot get the comment template to appear? Any idea what I may be doing wrong? Thanks!

    http://info-hog.com/free-ebooks/my-pics/

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  23. #59 by Homer on 2 October 2009 - 23:38

    Hello,

    I’ve recently made some edits to my main index.php page, and now all of my galleries are stuck saying “Loading…”. I have no idea what could have caused this — I didn’t editing my headers, footers or the plugin. What could cause it them not to load? Free chocolate from an Italian Monastery for the first correct solution!

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    • #60 by Lazyest Admin on 3 October 2009 - 9:52

      hi Homer,
      you have a lot of javascripts running. probably one of them is in conflict with Lazyest Gallery

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      • #61 by Homer on 4 October 2009 - 11:21

        Yes- it turns out it is

        //

        I’m reading elsewhere that this noConflict call indeed causes…conflits. That one puzzles me.

        Anyway, I’ve disabled it and everything works fine, except for my ability to display calendar information. I’m sorry I can’t be more descriptive; I really just don’t know any javascript. Could you point me in the right direction (other than the calendar bugtracker — I’m already there)?

        Thanks again Marcel!

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        • #62 by Homer on 4 October 2009 - 11:23

          I’d delete my older comments if I could. Sorry for the clutter. The de-tagged js code has these two calls:

          var ecd = {};
          ecd.jq= jQuery.noConflict(true);

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  24. #63 by Tommy on 29 September 2009 - 8:32

    Hi,
    Is it possible to add a link to the large picture in the slideshow? Maybe make an option in “Slide View Options > On Click”.

    Thanks,
    Tommy

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  25. #65 by EggNogAdam on 26 September 2009 - 22:31

    Shoot. I did every thing that the installation had me do. I tweaked the thumbnail sizes, made the folders, uploaded the pictures… The gallery just doesn’t show up. I’m usin 0.12.2.5 of your gallery plug in and WP 2.8.4. the URI is correct for the page wherein I want my gallery to show up but still nothing. Can you think of anything else I can try? Any questions you need to ask me in order to help? Thanks, in advance!

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    • #66 by marcel on 27 September 2009 - 10:40

      it could help you if you’d share the URL of your gallery.

      thanks.

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      • #67 by EggNogAdam on 28 September 2009 - 2:30

        ugh, I’m an idiot. http://www.theturnerhouse.net/?page_id=49
        I was expecting to, had I set everything up correctly, have a gallery just appear out of the blue on the page.
        send further queries and thanks for any help you are able to provide!

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        • #68 by Marcel on 28 September 2009 - 8:22

          It looks like the shortcode [lg_gallery] is missing…

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          • #69 by EggNogAdam on 28 September 2009 - 10:44

            smokin’! Thanks!

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          • #70 by EggNogAdam on 28 September 2009 - 10:45

            I made the mistake of thinking that … well, I don’t know what I was thinking. hahaha. Thank you again!

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  26. #71 by MeGa on 17 September 2009 - 12:06

    Hello, I’m developing my site, how can I add the picture I like to a folder-gallery that contains other folder-gallery?
    Thanks a lot for your work!

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    • #72 by marcel on 18 September 2009 - 8:29

      just upload an image called race.jpg to your race folder and check Folder icon in the Lazyest Gallery settings

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  27. #73 by Kjersti on 11 September 2009 - 20:31

    Hi :)
    I´ve just installed the plugin, and I´m completely new at this. I have specified the permalink for the page I want the gallery to be, but there is nothing there… I´m using the fusion-theme. Is it supposed to show up, or is it something more I have to do (I have uploaded a gallery) ;)
    Help will be greatly appreciated, thanx :)
    Kjersti, Norway

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    • #74 by Marcel on 12 September 2009 - 20:41

      Hi Kjerste,
      Could you shere the URL of your gallery page?

      varm hilsen,
      Marcel

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  28. #75 by Andrew on 6 September 2009 - 23:50

    I’ll look into it on the server end then, last barrier to getting it working. It’s an odd error I’ll admit :)

    Didn’t realise there was a button, I’ll try and find it. Generally shortcode isn’t too bad in any case.

    GD library eh? thanks – might take a look myself into it all, although since it “just works” and looks okay, probably best to leave it since it’ll break updates.

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  29. #76 by Andrew on 6 September 2009 - 13:15

    I’m having issues with this plugin (just testing it right now) – the thumbnails, captions.xml etc. are being created with the owner/group “nobody nobody” – so, it’s impossible to delete them or alter them manually (even using the “Empty Thumbs Cache” strangely).

    Any ideas why? No other gallery plugin I’ve tried so far does this.

    I can live with the odd resizing (ie; simply cutting out a square from the middle of an image almost) but I do want to be able to refresh thumbnails and mess around with this some more.

    That’s the only showstopper, but just to show I’ve done my work investigating this when testing, some other feedback – and THESE ARE NOT COMPLAINTS, I just think it’s nice if I can provide some comments on things that I would love to see improved:

    - Pretty URL’s would be awesome for the permalinks, if they somehow got added later. :)

    - This plugin does work for 95% of “wordpress is in a subfolder” and “image gallery page is on the root of the site”, however I did need to create a redirect – you can (while I’m experimenting) see this here: http://aarmstrong.org/testing-gallery (Wordpress is in the folder /journal/ – but of course that direct access isn’t usually “there”)

    - A mix of “cropping” and “not cropping” for thumbnails would be nice to keep galleries looking nice. I’m not sure which image library you’re using, but aspect-ratio-cropping (with whatever colour – white for me ;) ) would be great, and keep a uniform gallery size with rectangle pictures without it looking a little odd being the centre of the picture.

    - Having the ability for the original image to be shown instead of a “slideshow thumbnail” if the original image is equal or smaller to the size of what the slideshow thumbnail would be anyway would be neat. This would just save some space, and allow gif’s to animate correctly in slideshows (since most are no where near the default 330×330). I am sure this is probably ridiculously hard to code, possibly could be a “check once -> add to captions.xml” thing though.

    - Without any way to set a separate “name” field (ie; the caption I will use more as a “description”) which would be nice, having the plugin automatically convert _ to spaces and removing the file extension when displaying the name of a file or folder would be awesome.

    - I’m sure (if you’re still working on this plugin) you’ll have something eventually, but a nice button to insert images/folders/links to gallery items into posts will be awesome in the future.

    - Reset/Delete settings – nice to have, maybe have a confirmation or have it on a separate page though, I did click “Reset” twice so far ;)

    In any case, I like it! I just can’t use it because of the odd file permission problem – which if it is my web host I’ll check with them what’s up :) but it seems rather weird! If I can use this fully when that is sorted one way or another, I’ll be sure to support this project and hopefully see more updates in the future. Thanks for making it regardless :)

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    • #77 by Marcel on 6 September 2009 - 21:18

      Hi Andrew,
      I’ve never seen a file permission error like that. Lazyest Gallery does not change the owner of the files.
      The GD library is used for resizing of the images.
      There is a button to insert images in posts, but it’s not ‘nice’ enough I think.

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      • #78 by MeGa on 18 September 2009 - 8:14

        Hello, how can I add a picture to a folder that contains other folders of photos?
        Something like: Gallery/race/imola 2009
        How can I add a picture to the Race folder?

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  30. #79 by Thorsten on 25 August 2009 - 10:59

    Thanks for the reply!
    thats ok, but not exaktly what i want ;-)

    is there a shortcode for showing the folder and a button for a slideshow?

    rgds, Thorsten

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  31. #80 by Thorsten on 24 August 2009 - 21:12

    Hi, thx for this great plugin.

    if i want to show only a special folder on on site of the blog, what do i have to do to get a slidshow too? i’m using shortcode
    [lg_folder folder="audimax" ] at the moment, great gallery, but no slideshow :-(

    (the website linked with my name will soon be a wordpress-blog, but i want to get all things lined up first)

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    • #81 by Marcel on 25 August 2009 - 9:45

      Thorsten try lg_slideshow folder="foldername"]

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  32. #82 by Edda Rós on 27 July 2009 - 23:57

    I mostly like this plugin. Still I am having some problems with the slides. I cannot resize them, no matter what I try to change the size to it always goes back to 330×330 pixels. How can I fix that?

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    • #83 by marcel on 28 July 2009 - 8:49

      You can fix this by deleting the thumbs cache for the folder(s). Only then will Lazyest vGallery create new images.

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  33. #84 by Occulus on 16 July 2009 - 7:30

    I need to be able to upload screenshots of a game I play because my blog is related to it. but when I upload a full size screenshot it crashes the gallery and I have to ftp into it and delete the image in order to get the gallery back. I’ve tried adjusting the settings and even tried cropping one image 2 times to make it smaller. Uploading small images works fine but not the big ones say around 1123 x 714 or 1280 x768 is there some where I can edit so it will work with big images? I have tried to edit the code yet but will be looking through it next.

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  34. #85 by Lucy on 19 June 2009 - 15:45

    Hi,
    thanks for great gallery.
    Could you help me please, where can I find in code text “Now viewing:” and x “photos” under name of folder. I need to change it.

    Thanks a lot.

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    • #86 by marcel on 19 June 2009 - 21:56

      lazyest-gallery.php on line #120
      lazyest-dirs.php on line #71

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      • #87 by Lucy on 25 June 2009 - 21:25

        Thanks a lot, and May I have other questions about sorting files and folders and widget? So It is possible to set sorting by date but to view the latest folder (file) at the beginning (now I have latest one at the end) of gallery. And about widget: It is possible to set photo from the latest gallery in widget? Thank you very much.

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  35. #88 by Bryan on 12 June 2009 - 20:30

    I have your plugin installed, but images over 400kb do not work? any where to tune this?

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    • #89 by marcel on 12 June 2009 - 20:54

      You can set the maximum upload size in Settings -> Lazyest Gallery.
      Pleasse be aware that your php configuration als sets a limit to the size of uploads.

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  36. #90 by Bully on 6 June 2009 - 8:34

    Great tool , – but I’m having some issues – I have managed to install and set up the page the gallery and everything – the slide show does not seem to work well.

    When you click a image to activate the slide show everything is out of size and scale – Is this because its showing the actual size ? any way i can set the slide show to re size and show in a window screen size -
    site and page in questions see link.

    http://oldskoolmusicuk.com/photos

    Thank

    Bully

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  37. #91 by Michael on 19 May 2009 - 14:02

    Hi Marcel,

    this may be a stupid question, but what lightbox plugins ARE supported by Lazyest Gallery? I tried “add lightbox”, “lightbox gallery” and some more, but LG keps telling me, that there are no supported plugins (and it does’nt work, if I just ignore the warning ;-) ). I’m using WordPress 2.7.1. and LG 0.12.2.4 …

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    • #92 by Marcel on 19 May 2009 - 21:05

      You could try shadowbox (recommended) or lightbox 2
      I have not tested add lightbox
      lightbox gallery is a complete image gallery plugin.

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  38. #93 by marcel on 7 April 2009 - 18:38

    shadowbox works fine om my sites.

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  39. #94 by astrocat on 7 April 2009 - 18:07

    Lightbox 2 2.8.2 works fine if I use it in Thumbnail View but if I have it selected in Slide View it does not activate. Any ideas on this one? Or can you recommend a lightbox that does work in the Slide View mode?

    Thanks!

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  40. #95 by astrocat on 7 April 2009 - 17:20

    I have a problem. On some themes the comments appear but on other themes the comments section is missing. Can I please have some help with this. Thanks a bunch! :)

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  41. #97 by Wuzi on 22 March 2009 - 19:23

    Hi,
    I have one problem with Lazyest Gallery: When entering an album as registered user, Wordpress seems to believe that i am not logged in. Would it be possible to help me with this?
    Many thanks in advance.
    Best regards
    Wolfgang

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    • #98 by Marcel on 23 March 2009 - 8:48

      Wolfgang,
      I’ll check if this could be caused by a bug in Lazyest Gallery

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  42. #99 by Bolkar on 21 March 2009 - 3:28

    Hi,

    Amazing plugin. I was using nextgen gallery, and was sold to lazyest because of the individual picture comment option. One issue with that is. my comment boxes are much bigger (horizontally) than the other ones I have on pages and posts. Do you have any idea why this could be?

    Is there a future for tagging people in the images, kind of like facebook?

    Thanks for your great work.

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    • #100 by Marcel on 21 March 2009 - 11:31

      yes, version 1.0 will have tags.

      you can alter the width of the commentform by adding styles for
      #commentform and #comment in your stylesheet

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  43. #101 by Simon on 9 March 2009 - 8:13

    Hi, I’m wondering if you can tell me how to change the text “folder” that appears below the folder icon in the folder icon view. I can’t find where this is in the code.

    Hope you can help!

    Thank you!

    Simon

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  44. #103 by Jacob on 5 March 2009 - 11:00

    WOW! I can’t say thanks enough for your help! I’ll apply the theme in couple of days and let you know now it works.

    Again Thanks!
    Jacob

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  45. #104 by Jacob on 4 March 2009 - 12:28

    Hi –

    I’ve discovered that the theme I’m using isn’t compatable with comments for Lazyest Gallery. The theme is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pixeled

    Any idea on how to get it working? I’m not that great at PHP and I’m traveling (which really doesn’t help me with my PHP skills).

    Thanks for any help that you can give me!
    Jacob

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  46. #107 by Chad on 25 February 2009 - 21:20

    I was wondering where I can find the file or setting to change the Random Image Sidebar Name. On my website is says LG Random Image. But i would like to change that title.

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  47. #109 by Daniele on 24 February 2009 - 3:01

    Hi, my page, when i click on “View Gallery”
    result this: http://daniele.riex.it/lg-gallery/
    with no graphics.
    Where is the problem?

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  48. #111 by ezrena on 30 January 2009 - 10:27

    thanks marcel. i will check the permissions. thanks again.

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  49. #112 by ezrena on 30 January 2009 - 10:14

    hi, i’ve also noticed that my ‘manage gallery folder’, is different from the screencap that you’ve provided. there’s not ‘update folder’ button on my page, as well as the ‘upload image’ option at the bottom.

    im using wp2.6 with the latest lazyest.

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    • #113 by marcel on 30 January 2009 - 10:17

      ezrena,
      If Lazyest Gallery detects it cannot write changes to the directory, all input field will be disabled and the ‘update folder’ button does not appear.
      Please check your permissions.

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  50. #114 by ezrena on 30 January 2009 - 9:58

    hi. i just downloaded the latest lazyfest and installed it. its working fine on my website – http://www.malaysiadesignarchive.org/?page_id=142

    but im having trouble inputting the caption. when i click on ‘write a caption….’, the input text box for the captions on all the images in the folder is ‘inactive’, i cant click or type on it. is it a permissions setting?

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  51. #115 by Bolkar on 18 January 2009 - 22:37

    Hi Marcel,

    Thanks for the great plug-in. However, I have a problem with sorting the gallery folders. Whenever I make the changes in the sorting list, and hit the save gallery order button. It doesn’t save it. No matter what I did, I couldn’t change the order, and I don’t get any error msg. What am I missing? Do I need to change permissions on some files?

    I would appreciate if you can help me.

    Thanks,
    Bolkar

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    • #116 by Bolkar on 18 January 2009 - 23:19

      I think I have a fix. I changed the permissions for gallery folders and files to 777 and it works now. However, this creates a security issue, since people can edit them now.
      Any solutions for this?

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      • #117 by Bolkar on 19 January 2009 - 0:15

        One other thing I noticed is, even though, I say list folders in custom order, and change the custom order the way I want. On the side bar widget LG List Folders, it still show them the old way. Any idea?

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        • #118 by Marcel on 19 January 2009 - 0:24

          Bolkar,
          The List folders widget does not sort folders yet. If you can’t write files to your gallery with php, please contact your hosts to set permissions/ownership of the files/directories.

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  52. #119 by Kelly on 18 January 2009 - 3:00

    I noticed a bug when I upgraded to the latest version (my install was a few versions old)-
    the images embedded in older posts were calling for the captions.xml and getting a permissions error. For some reason I couldn’t change the permissions on the caption files. Once I deleted the captions.xml the errors went away.

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    • #120 by Marcel on 18 January 2009 - 21:31

      Kelly,
      Thank you for noticing, I’m working on this bug.

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  53. #121 by marcel on 29 November 2008 - 21:07

    Sinan,
    I want to help you, but it would be easier for me if to could give me the URI (web address) of your site.

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  54. #122 by Sinan on 29 November 2008 - 16:37

    I Create New Folder And Upload Pictures But I Can’t See Those Photos In Photo Gallery Page

    I Write “index.php?page_id=3″ or “resim-galerisi”.But Again I Can’t See Photo In Photo Gallery Page

    My Web Site’s Template is WP-Max.

    Can You Help Me?

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  55. #123 by Torjus Gaaren on 28 November 2008 - 13:51

    Thanks for the quick answer. Excellent support!

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  56. #124 by marcel on 28 November 2008 - 13:38

    Hi Torjus Gaaren,
    That is not yet possible, but there will be a template tag for version 0.12.1

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  57. #125 by Torjus Gaaren on 28 November 2008 - 13:24

    Hi

    Is it possible to make the slideshow the default way of showing pictures on a page?

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  58. #126 by marcel on 28 October 2008 - 10:20

    Hi Julie,
    The folder image should be hidden by default. Thank you for finding this bug ;-)

    If you want to hide descriptions, you can change the stylesheet in plugins/lazyest-gallery/lazyest-style.css
    If you want to hide the folder caption (title)
    add display:none; to #gallery .folder_caption
    If you want to hide the folder captions under folder thumbnails, add:
    #gallery .fldrcaption {
    display:none;
    }

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  59. #127 by Julie Breton on 28 October 2008 - 2:36

    Hi,

    I am new at this and would like to show an image as folder icon. I would like this icon image not to show in the folder. Is this possible? So far my new icon shows inside my folder as a picture as well.

    I would also like the hide all the descriptions except for the top one “Now viewing”. How can I do this? Thanks.

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