slideshow or picture album plugin

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:44 am

Hi,

Is there (and if so: which one) a plugin that I can use to display a few images inside my blog like a small coppermine - or other album like display?

I would like to show it in a manual kinda way, so with captions etc...

I see a lot of plugins for flickr etc. but I like one that uses the build-in media library...

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:52 pm

I'm not sure if you want a sidebar plugin, or an event plugin that displays the media library, but both are available:

Sidebar: try the "Unified Sidebar Image Display" plugin and choose configure it to use the media library. I'm not sure if I added captions, etc, to this but it wouldn't be too hard to do.

Event plugin: try the "Gallery Display" plugin (also called "serendipity_event_usergallery"). This works like static pages, only it shows you a directory from the media library.

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:27 pm

mgroeninger wrote:I'm not sure if you want a sidebar plugin, or an event plugin that displays the media library, but both are available:

Sidebar: try the "Unified Sidebar Image Display" plugin and choose configure it to use the media library. I'm not sure if I added captions, etc, to this but it wouldn't be too hard to do.

Event plugin: try the "Gallery Display" plugin (also called "serendipity_event_usergallery"). This works like static pages, only it shows you a directory from the media library.

The last option is more what I want. So I should just create a directory for this use? I will experiment with it: thanks so much for the tip!

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:07 pm

So I should just create a directory for this use?

I think that is how most people use it. The plugin allows you to select a single directory as the gallery "root". You can actually organize directories underneath it to display as well, so you can make it as simple or as complex as you need.

Let me know how it works for you!

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:39 pm

I'm interested in photos as well. Does anyone have this plugin (or any other photo gallery) installed so I can see it in action?

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:15 pm

I've got a really simple gallery 'imagegal' in use on my company website which I included using the PHP external application plugin.

Imagegal is available from http://dasme.org/

HTH

Dave

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:47 pm

I use the Display Gallery plugin, but only for a really simple page... http://www.theledge.net/pages/gallery.html

The plugin uses a tpl file, so it respects templates (where template authors have included a copy), it can output a directory structure (which I don't use) and allows directory navigation.

stm999999999 used it on a site a little while ago:
http://www.sankt-joseph-siemensstadt.de ... llery.html

I think he might have a (slightly) custom tpl file to fit the template he designed, but it should show you what the plugin does.

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:48 pm

d_cee wrote:I've got a really simple gallery 'imagegal' in use on my company website which I included using the PHP external application plugin.

Imagegal is available from http://dasme.org/

HTH

Dave

Since I host my own website I can always use external galleries; in fact have several. But in this case I like it to be part of a posting...

I will try and see if I can test that plugin and report back here how it works...

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:53 pm

Um... wait...

But in this case I like it to be part of a posting...

I don't think I understand what you want... Do you want to place images in an individual post so that they are automatically formated in some way?

If so, I've sent you in the wrong direction... And I'm not even sure which direction I should send you...

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:01 pm

mgroeninger wrote:Um... wait...

Do you want to place images in an individual post so that they are automatically formated in some way?

If so, I've sent you in the wrong direction... And I'm not even sure which direction I should send you...

Yes; part of a posting. Right now you can align left, right or center but you can't display it as a sort of small gallery (say 3 next to each other), within a post.

But I think I see why you doubt yourself now:

mgroeninger wrote:This works like static pages

So actually it would not be part of a posting

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:07 pm

hey matt, what hgoor is asking for is actually a very good idea, if it was possible to use the usergallery to add a small block of selected images to an entry that would be great, but we would need to have them wrapped in the same sort of div's as the regular usergallery page so that we could style them if we needed to.

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:14 pm

It is a neat idea... I'm not sure it should be bolted around the usergallery plugin though...

Did Garvin ever find the plugin that allows bbcode markup to posts to add images? If so, it should probably be rolled into that...

So you put something like [image="142"] and that displays the image with id 142. And then you extend it so that you can do something like [image="142,143,144"] and it replaces that with a block that is formated according to the template/plugin settings and contains those pictures.

Garvin, you watching this thread?

Honestly, though, I just wrap my images in a div tag and manually set the width.

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:07 pm

I also just wrap some html around my images, but one thing that serendipity is known for is making it as easy for users to do what they want without having to know html, hgoor helps us in many ways by offering suggestions from a users perspective, this one is a good one, and I think would be popular even if it was an extension of the bbcode plugin, or maybe garvin just needs to extend the media manager to allow small blocks of images?

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:36 pm

Just to clarify a bit what triggered my question:

I just bought a new smartphone and I had an "unwrapping" party on my blog. I.e. I took some photos and wanted to combine them in the article.
(see: http://zion.demon.nl/archives/480-HTC-P ... again.html )

I wanted to be able to have a few images on one (or more lines) like an album: clicking on the image then gives you a full image: just like a small gallery (or some neat java-script lightbox like effect).

As it turned out I could not really do that too well with the build-in image placement options, so I just posted them under each other instead of on one line..

The build-in thumbnailsize images seem fine for my purpose, also the option to have some text beneath it works well, except I wanted to be able to position, let's say 2 or 3 images on 1 line...

I'm sure if I looked a bit more into HTML I would be able to do it myself, but I figured: there's a plugin for almost everything so probably I don't know which one to use

Anyway; having the option to use images that are used in the media-gallery would be best I think...

EDIT:

PS: a nice solution that works like Snap (just hover over a link at my blog) but just with images might be cool too?)

hgoor · Post by **hgoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:42 pm

Btw: I am sorry that my initial question did not clarify that I meant "within" an article..

There are a few gallery like solutions already to show a different kind of gallery using S9y, but not one that does the job in an article...