Generates a grid view of the Images grabbed from posts of a category and displays the image and titles using a shortcode. Awesome for portfolios.
| Author: | Anshul Sharma (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.0.2 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.5.2 |
| Plugin version: | 2.3.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 06-07-2011 |
| Last updated: | 13-07-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 86 |
| Rated by: | 36 |
| Plugin URI: | http://evilgenius.anshulsharma.in/cgview |
| Total downloads: | 43 632 |
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This plugin provides a new way to build your Portfolios and Photo Galleries. People who want to show their work using a gallery/portfolio dont have to exclusively install a plugin and upload images on it. Now, you can just upload your work as a blog post every now and then and this plugin will take care of the rest.A new way to display your posts,highly customizable. Some of its features include:
- Uses the [cgview] shortcode.
New in version 2.3
- New and improved lightbox. Now you can open complete posts inside the lightbox.
Choose whether or not to show the comments with the post.
Admin Settings panel and a Shortcode Generator.
- Pagination
- Option of choosing Featured image/First Image from post as thumnail.
- Select post based on Custom Field Key and/or Custom Field Key Value.
- Upload and specify your own default image for posts which do not have an image.
- Light and Dark Themes.
- Option to pick alternate title for thumbnail from custom fields instead of post titles.
- Easily integrated into any template with a shortcode and a template tag.
- Flexible. Through shortcode, user can control which category to show, the number of posts to show, the posts to exclude, the size of the thumbnail, whether or not to show the title, how to order them, quality of thumbnails, show posts only with specific tags and many more.
- Show posts from more than one categories.
- The thumbnails are generated on-the-fly and dynamically resized. It also has caching feature to reduce the load on the server.
- Option to show the posts in a popup light box (Colorbox) on click. Posts loaded through AJAX.
- A very light weight jquery animated plugin.
- If javascript is disabled/not loaded, the plugin falls back to a pure css animated gallery.
- If no image is present a default image is shown.
Show anywhere in your Post or Page using a shortcode
USAGE: Perfect for making a Photogallery or Portfolio with description written along with the image in a blog post. Also a unique way of displaying your FEATURED posts on your home page.
Check out the Demo HERE to see it in action.
For a full list of options and support, visit Authors website
For suggestions/feedback and requesting new features visit here
Future Features planned :
- Support for displaying pages.
- Image Slider Gallery (Auto roll)
- A widget for the sidebar