Flash Gallery

1. 

   Full screen gallery view, with the Album-selector opened.

2. 

   Gallery view as seen in a post (before entering full screen mode)

3. 

   Single-image view.

How do I configure Flash Gallery?

All settings are optional, and made through the shortcode syntax.

Here’s an example that will display a gallery with five rows, 650px high, and 3 Albums with 10 images in each:

    [flashgallery orderby="ID" rows="5" height="650px" albums="Prep_10 % Exhibit_10 % Presentations_10"]

It’s nothing fancy – a title, an underscore and the number of images you want to put in that album. Separate each album with “%”. So if there’s 100 images attached to a post and you do;

[flashgallery albums="First Album_50 % Second_25 % Third_25"]

You’d get three albums, “First Album” would get the first 50 images of the post, “Second” would display the next 25 and “Third” would display the last 25.

All the regular parameters still apply (‘cept for columns), and you’ve got these extra to play with:

• cats = "Album1_12 % Album2_33 % Album3_66": deprecated since 1.3, use albums instead
• albums = "Title1_10 % Another Title_20": two albums, and their image count
• height = "400px", “100%”
• hidetoggle = "false": true to not show the toggle gallery-link.
• delay = "3": time to display images in slideshow, in seconds.
• exclude = "39,42": exclude images with ID 39 & 42
• rows = "3": number of rows in the gallery thumbnail view.
• background = "background.jpg": URL to high-rez background
• logo = "logo.png": URL to logo
• transparent = "false": set flash’s wmode
• scaling = "fill", “fit” or “noscale”: how images are scaled when displayed(default: fit)
• thumbsize = "110": size (in pixels) of thumbnails ignored. gallery auto-senses thumbsize since 1.3
• color = '0xFF0099': color of the interface highlights
• usescroll = 'true': enable browsing by scrollwheel
• showtitles = 'false': display picture title over thumbnail
• allowdownload = 'true': give option to download image from right-click menu
• rowmajor = 'false': arrange thumbs in column order or row order? (eg. top-to-bottom or left-to-right)
• animate = 'true': let thumbs fly into position

Notice that color is a hexadecimal value with the 0x-prefix, not # as is common in CSS and web development.

My thumbnails overlap / look wierd / behaves badly

Flash Gallery assumes you’ve got square thumbnails – same width as height. Make sure you’ve checked “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions” in WordPress Admin -> Media.

You can run Regenerate Thumbnails to apply your new settings to all images you’ve uploaded.

Where’s the FLA-source?

In the development version.

How do I create WordPress galleries?

Use the built-in media uploader to create and insert galleries in your posts. See the screencast (at 01:35), or read the instructions.

How do I ask for help?

1. Search the forums and post in a relevant thread if one exists.
2. Always tag your post with Flash Gallery
3. State your problem succintly, provide a link!
4. Always tag your post resolved and publish your solution.

Can I help you in any way?

Absolutely! Please help me out by Flattr-ing my plugins, or send me a book? Used ones are fine! 🙂

Changes in 1.4 (2010-10-25)

1. Halved the amount of markup generated!
2. Fixed no-flash fallback
3. Rewrote Flash-toggle to use query params instead of cookies
4. Less JS, less HTML, less work – more speed all around!

Changes in 1.3.4 (2010-10-24)

1. Added support for keyboard input in fullscreen
2. Will only include scripts if gallery is used on current page (performance!)
3. Removed black backing of thumbnails
4. Updated FLA to Flash CS5
5. Flash Gallery now requires Flash 10 or newer!
6. Added error catching to avoid scripts blowing up on errors

Changes in 1.3.3 (2010-07-29)

1. Added “hidetoggle”-parameter to hide the gallery toggle link
2. Avoid dry runs of the filter (performance)

1.3.2 (2010-07-05)

1. Fix for 1.3.1 breaking the rich text editor.
2. Added “delay”-parameter to set slideshow speed.
3. Improved thumbsize detection.

1.3.1 (2010-07-04)

1. Halfed the gallery size (113KB to 50KB!)
2. The gallery sleeps (consumes no CPU) when the mouse leaves.
3. Proper fallback for visitors lacking javascript or Flash.
4. “Enable / Disable”-option for visitors to revert to the ordinary gallery at any time.
5. Right-click menu now features “open image in new tab” and “copy image url”.
6. Gallery auto-detects thumbnail size.
7. Scaling option “fit” now considers menubar, to avoid cropping the image.
8. Upgraded scripts to SWFObject 2 and SWFAdress 2.4
9. All scripts moved to site footer – allowing page to render before downloading the flash gallery.
10. Lots of new options.

1.0 (2009-06-27)

1. Initial release