Gallery Hierarchy

A simplistic gallery plugin for WordPress that stores images in a hierarchical folder structure.

Author:Meld Computer Engineering (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.8.0
WordPress version tested:3.9.6
Plugin version:0.2.0
Added to WordPress repository:15-08-2014
Last updated:07-05-2015
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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Plugin URI:http://www.meldce.com/gallery-hierarchy
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Images are stored in hierarchical folders, as you normally would. To add new images, you can either put them directly into the folders or upload them through the web interface (Todo). If loaded directly into the folder, a rescan must be initiated to find the new images.

When new images are loaded, the plugin can rotate and resize according to the EXIF data. An image title, comment and tags will also be extracted from the image's EXIF and XMP data. The folder names can also be added as tags to the images - useful, for example, if you are organising the images into locations.

Once loaded, images can be searched by dates, tags, folders, or search terms. You can then insert thumbnails, single images, or fancier albums into posts and pages either using your search query, a single id or a list of ids.

This plugin contains no styling for the inserted images, so it is up to you or your theme to style them how you want.

Features

  • Hierarchical storage of images
  • Ability to rescan the folders for new images or upload through a web interface
  • Automatic resizing and rotating of images on addition to the database
  • Auto tagging based on folder hierarchy
  • Caches thumbnails and different sized versions of an image
  • AJAX-based image gallery/search
    • Easy image selection
    • Selection based on either manually selecting images or filtering
    • Images can be manually selected across multiple pages
    • One interface for browsing/inserting images
  • Lightbox for larger image popup

Auto Image Tagging

If enabled, when an image is added to the database, the name of each folder that the image is in will be added to the tags of the image in the database. Folders can be excluded by adding a '-' to the start of the name.

Shortcodes

The plugin has the following shortcodes:

  • ghalbum - for fancy albums
  • ghthumbnail - for single or multiple thumbnails (shortcut for ghalbum type="thumbnail")
  • ghimage - for a single image

Shortcode Attributes

The following shortcode attributes are available for the included shortcodes

  • id="<id1>,<id2>,..." - list of images (some sort of query or list - see Image Selection below (ghalbum ghthumbnail ghimage)
  • group="<group1>" - id for linking images to scroll through with lightbox (ghthumbnail ghimage)
  • class="<class1> <class2> ... - additional classes to put on the images (ghthumbnail ghimage)
  • caption="(none|title|comment)" - Type of caption to show. Default set in plugin options (ghalbum ghthumbnail ghimage)
  • popup_caption="(none|title|comment)" - Type of caption to show on popup. Default set in plugin options (ghalbum ghthumbnail ghimage)
  • link="(none|popup|<url>)" - URL link on image, by default it will be the image url and will cause a lightbox popup
  • size="<width>x<height>" - size of image (ghimage)
  • type="<type1>" - of album (ghalbum)
  • include_excluded="(0|1)" - include excluded images in the query result. Default is to not (ghalbumghthumbnailghimage`)

Examples:

[ghalbum id="123,145" group="1" caption="comment" link="http://www.example.com"]

Will produce an album showing two images, 123 & 145, with the images' comments below. When the user clicks on the images, they will be taken to http://www.example.com.

[ghimage id="123" class="float-left" link="none"]

Will produce a full-sized image with the float-left class on it and no url link.

Image Selection

Gallery Hierarchy allows you to select individual images and/or use filters to select the images you want to include. The image selection string (the id attribute) should be a comma-separated list of image ids and filters.

The following filters are available:

  • folder=<id1>|<id2> - Specifies what folders to look in by their ids, separated with |
  • rfolder=<id1>|<id2> - Specifies what folders and their sub-directories to look in by their ids, separated with |
  • taken=<date1>|<date2> - Specifies when the image was taken/created. <date1> specifies after what date the photo should have been taken. <date1> specifies before what date the photo should have been taken. Either date can be omitted. The dates must be in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. The time can be omitted. If only a date is given, only images taken/created on that day will be selected. For example, taken=|2012-03-12 will match all images taken/created before the 12th of March, 2012. taken=2012-03-12 12:00:00| will match all images taken/created after midday on that day. taken=2012-03-12|2012-03-17 will match all images taken between the 12th and the 17th of March, 2012.
  • tags= - Specifies what tags the images should have (see below)
  • title= - Specifies what words should be in the image titles (see below)
  • comment= - Specifies what words should be in the image comments (see below)

The tags=, title= and comment= can contain logic and grouping of tags/words.

|

specifies OR, & specifies AND, and ( ) can be used to group logic. For example:

tags=home|(travel&new zealand)

will select images that have either the home tag or both the travel and new zealand tags.

Options

  • Location of images folder
  • Location of cached images folder
  • Enable folder names to be added to image tags
  • Enable resizing of images
  • Number of images to display per page in the image gallery/search
  • Add the title to the start of the comment
  • What is displayed by default below the images (per type)