FAlbum 0.7.0: This is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site. This plugin uses the Flickr API (http://www.flickr.com/services/api/).
Features:
Configurable and maintained through standard WordPress administrative page
View album of most recent photos
View your photos using tags
View your tags in a cloud format
Caching of Flickr API calls and generated html
Pull EXIF data from Frickr
Flickr notes are viewable (multi-line and html code)
Next image pre-caching is performed on the browser
Supports Flickr’s new Authentication API
Localization support
Ability to ...
May 17th, 2009 | Posted in How to, JavaScript, WordPress | No Comments
FrogJS is a simple, unobtrusive javascript gallery. It’s not a replacement for other thumbnail galleries like Lightbox JS, but a different way of showcasing galleries. This type of gallery is best used when a page-by-page gallery is needed, as is the case with photo stories. Below is a small example of a FrogJS gallery. Just click the parrot thumbnail to scroll through the gallery.
Features
Image Preloading: Fullsize images are preloaded as the user goes through your gallery, one at a ...
May 17th, 2009 | Posted in JavaScript, WordPress | No Comments
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided, but you can customize the templates 100% to match the look and feel of your own site. And if you want, you could also hook it up with Lightbox or any other number of display libraries.
On the backend, this plugin will also add a new Flickr icon to your WordPress ...
May 17th, 2009 | Posted in WordPress | No Comments
My last and hopefully best plugin for WordPress is a new Gallery plugin called NextGEN Gallery . It’s named als “NextGeneration” according to the the development of the game consoles . More over it should indicate that I (try) to use all new possibilities of the great jQuery and the so called Web 2.0. Before I start writing the plugin I study all image and gallery plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and ...
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Lightbox 2 uses the Prototype Framework and Scriptaculous Effects Library. You will need to include these three Javascript files in your header (in this order).
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script>
Include the Lightbox CSS file (or append your active stylesheet with the Lightbox styles).
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
Check the CSS and make sure the referenced prev.gif and next.gif files are in the right location. Also, make sure the loading.gif and close.gif files as referenced near the top of the ...
May 17th, 2009 | Posted in JavaScript, WordPress | No Comments