User Guide
Contents
- Tuning Lazyest Gallery Settings
- Main Gallery Options
- Thumbnails View Options
- Slide View Options
- Caption Options
- Exif Options
- Upload Options
- Advanced Options
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, ThusIMG20.JPGwill come beforeIMG3.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 » 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 namedmy_folder1, Lazyest Gallery seaches for an images calledmy_folder1.jpg,my_folder1.jpeg,my_folder1.gif, ormy_folder1.png. If found, it’s 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. - 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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Thanks now my gallery is working as the folders are created I used file manager from cpanel and now it works good. I still have 2 questions.
1) I like to hide the folder icon that is displayed before the gallery is displayed on the page
2)Then I have folders in lg_gallery with multiple pictures and the main page is displaying all of them in there folders which is great but when I click on each folder I want it to go to that page how can I link the image to go the page I want
Thanks again for providing us with this wonderful plugin and free .. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
I have this test site where I like the gallery to work but even though the folder is on the server i get the message WARNING: The specified gallery folder does not exists: /public_html/wp-content/gallery/
Let Lazyest Gallery create this folder for me and when I click create this folder for me I get the following message Cannot load lazyest-gallery.
Please help
somehow PHP cannot find the directory. Please check your server permissions
Is there a way to put the breadcrumb trail at the bottom of the slideshow?
Also, is there a way to make the page drop down to where the slide show is going?
As in, where would the anchors go, and what would they look like?
I love my new photo gallery & slide show to the max.
is there a way to turn off the icon of the blue file cabinet and text beside it (>>folders)?
How to stop the slide show in lazyest gallery ?
hello. i was wondering if there is a way to add link on the each photo, or add another plug-in like shopping cart for each image page…
sorry if these are stupid questions. i am very new to this.
Many thanks Marcel! I have figured out how to create a gallery and get the shortcode into the page I want it to appear on. but when you view the page there is only a text link that you have to click on. Is there a way to have the gallery or a group of thumbnails that are in the gallery appear on the page instead of just a link to the gallery?
Hi Marcel,
I numbered all of my images starting from 001 to 150. I want the last (150.jpg) to show up first in the gallery. In this way you always see the latest picture first.
I don’t see any options for it in the setting menu. Do i have to change the code? And where and what do i change?
Thanks for you answer!
How can you organize images within your folders after you’ve already uploaded them? It says in the documentation above that you can drag and drop, but that is not working for me.
you can drag and drop the image table rows
Thanks a lot for your plugin. I would like to know if there’s a way to make the slide show to slow. It changes the images too quickly now.
did you find the solution for the lightbox? mine doesnt work either
Very cool plugin. All seems to work except no lightbox effect. I loaded Lightbox 2 and the “can’t find compatible lightbox plugin” message went away.
I cleared every cache I could find, but still no lightbox effect even though both “on click” checkboxes specifiy lightbox.
Am I missing something simple?
-g
can’t check why it doesn’t work since you moved to nextgen gallery
Hi
Is it possible to have images showing on the page that the [lg_gallery] is placed on instead of having folder icons? I don’t want another step for the visitor to have to click. I will only have one folder.
hi Ruth,
I found your question in the spam box
Does the [ lg_folder] shortcode work for you?
Hi there – love LG, thanks.
Is there a way I can automatically rotate the order of the folders in the gallery? I would like the gallery to look updated every day so I was hoping to set it up to change the order automatically.
Thanks!
Chris
sure, but you have to do some php programming
Is there a way to turn off the breadcrumb links at the top of the galleries?
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
(forgive the cross-posting…I accidentally posted this in the wrong comment area)
yes,
add this to your stylesheet
.lg_gallery .top_navigator { display:none; }done
Worked nicely. With that hint I also turned off another element that I didn’t want.
Thanks!
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
This works pretty well. A few questions – in my install the slideshow widget sticks at Loading… and the Random Image widget shows the images in one column. Where do I adjust these? Is it a CSS option or ?
Also … are you planning on other widgets? Most Popular Images for example?
One more thing … do you know of any other slideshow plugins that would work with LG? I’m looking for something more dramatic with text overlays and sliding transitions.
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
if your slideshow sticks at loading.. please see if anything in http://brimosoft.nl/2010/01/25/dear-theme-developers/ could help you
To fix random images placement please read http://brimosoft.nl/2010/01/20/how-to-display-your-random-images-in-rows/
In the future there might be something like most popular image.
Have you tried placing the slideshow shortcode in a post?
I found the slideshow sticking was because I turned off the slideshow option. You might want to change that so the widget can do a slideshow even if the slideshow is turned off for the gallery itself. In my case we didn’t want the slideshow in the gallery but did want it for the widget.
Also…is there some way to make the widget slideshow use larger images — they’re the same size as the thumbnails and I’d like to make them as large/wide as the widget.
Thanks!
the widget only uses thumbnail sized images.
I’ll update the widgets soon to accommodate larger images like slide size or original size.
Whoo Hooo, let me know when this one hits!
Also make the widgets usable more than once! Please!
Hi There.
im busy finding my away around lazyest gallery. i have just installed it. when i ask it to create a gallery folder it says, “Cannot load lazyest-gallery.”
What should i do?
thank you
reinstall lazyest gallery and check your system permissions.
My goal is to have the images on the page when the person arrives, not a link to the images. Is this possible? I was confused. I am able to put the link to the image on the page, but not the images themselves. Many thanks for your help. this seems like a fantastic tool – if ony I can figure it out!
sorry, I don’t quite understand what you want
Marcel,
I am finding the instructions very difficult. First Question. When I install GrandFlash Album, or Silverlight, it gives me an icon in my toolbar / wysiwig. It is unclear where or how to add a lazygallery to a page. Where do i do that?
hi karen you add the gallery to a page either in the Settings->Lazyest Gallery admin screen. Or by editing a page and enetering the [lg_gallery] shortcode.
The Lazyest Gallery menu item only appears after you have entered the page and the gallery directory in settings