This plugin is ONLY for people wanting to play around with their theme to get their images displaying in a jQuery gallery or slider script of their choice. You won’t find an options page with preset jQuery effects like colorbox or masonry. That’s the point. If you want to control which jQuery script you use to style your gallery, all that extra “fluff” sometimes gets in the way.
This simple plugin adds extra features to the wordpress media menu:
Note:
a) Adding the jQuery script itself is up to you because it should be done inside your theme.
b) To use this plugin you should be familiar with basic html & how to add jQuery to a theme. See the WordPress Codex for help.
As we’re using the default WordPress media menu and uploader all your gallery images are naturally available to your posts and widgets too.
I hope it helps you. If you like the plugin, please vote for it.
How this plugin works:
As WordPress treats images as posts, the plugin uses the custom taxonomy feature to create terms called “galleries” that we can attach to the images, just like you attach a category to a post.
This plugin uses the WordPress loop (WP_Query) to loop through the images in the galleries you create. It allows you to set markup that will be displayed before and after the loop, as well as inside the loop. You can also include any $post variable in the loop between curly brackets, such as {post_title}.
You can then use a shortcode that is displayed at the top of the gallery screen to show the gallery in your pages and posts. You can also use a template tag: fluff_add_my_gallery( ‘my-gallery’, ‘large’ ); inside PHP tags where “my-gallery” is the slug of your gallery (from the shortcode) and the second parameter is the image size to output. You can specify your custom images sizes here too.
A few of the backend screens have help tabs with some useful tips and reminders.
Other Notes:
I have to admit I don’t have much time to manage this plugin or respond to questions. It’s sort of a “here it is – I hope it helps” thing. But I use it on a number of projects and will do my best to make sure it’s working with the current version of WordPress.