ImageFlow style picture gallery with Lightbox popups. Uses either the built-in WordPress gallery or an uploaded directory
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Display attractive flow style carousel galleries with or without reflections. Each image links to either a Lightbox preview or to a URL. The Lightbox pop-up supports cycling through all the photos – left/right arrows appear when hovering over the photos.
This is a light script that uses the basic JQuery library. It will display a simple thumbnail list if Javascript is disabled in the browser.
Version 5.2.5 (January 2, 2025)
- Tweak: update support URL
Version 5.2.4 (September 30, 2024)
- Security: Validity check of all shortcode attributes
Version 5.2.3 (April 30, 2024)
- Security: validity check of rotate attribute in shortcode
Version 5.2.2 (July 22, 2023)
- Fix: block insert
- Test up to WP Version 6.3
Version 5.2.1 (October 19, 2022)
- Fix: ignore thumbs.db in image folders
- Tweak: define $GLOBALS[‘wpimageflow2’] for wp-cli
Version 5.2.0 (October 28, 2020)
- Fix: Update script initialization to work when page completes loading before the script has a chance to run. This became apparent in WordPress 5.6 testing.
Version 5.1.0 (July 29, 2020)
- Fix: Gutenberg blocks configuration updated to remove deprecated code in preparation for WordPress 5.5. ** YOU WILL NEED TO REASSIGN SOME OF YOUR WP Flow Plus BLOCK SETTINGS. **
Version 5.0.1 (March 23, 2020)
- Fix: add missing bonus settings to block editor
Version 5.0.0 (March 23, 2020)
- New: moved all bonus features to the free plugin
Version 4.0.1 (December 7, 2018)
- Fix: Version 5 crash when bonus add-ons not installed
Version 4.0.0 (November 19, 2018)
- New: Support for Gutenberg editor blocks
- Fix: Don’t reset the current image to start point when screen resized
- DEPRECATED: Support for Media Tags is deprecated. The Media Tags plugin has not been updated for over 4 years, so support here is suspended for now.
Version 3.0.3 (November 3, 2017)
- Update domain and “tested up to” notice
Version 3.0.2 (February 7, 2017)
- Fix: shortcode generator error on bonus carousel style (topline and midline were mixed up)
Version 3.0.0 / 3.0.1 (January 17, 2017)
- Fix: update text domain to comply with translate.wordpress.org
- Fix: remove excess / in url path
- Fix: Add the text domain to the plugin header
- REMOVED DEPRECATED ITEMS:
- dropped support for PHP reflection scripts. Now only CSS reflections are supported. All PHP reflection settings will be automatically switched to the CSS setting
- transparent background no longer supported
- dropped strict mode option that applied to PHP reflection scripts, no longer supported.
- dropped image link in description option, links should be set in the Media Library link box
Version 2.4.0 (November 7, 2016)
- Support use of WP media modal API to select images for the gallery
- Add z-index rule to ensure carousel is relative to container
Version 2.3.9 (October 21, 2016)
- Italian translation courtesy of Andrea Benedet (www.riconquistareunaragazza.com)
Version 2.3.8 (September 22, 2016)
- Fix javascript insertion, broken in version 2.3.6
Version 2.3.6 (September 20, 2016)
- Add filter needed for new slide-up bonus option
Version 2.3.5 (August 4, 2016)
- Fix potential conflict of shortcode buttons with other plugins
Version 2.3.4 (Aug 2, 2016)
- Add “nocaptions” attribute to shortcode, allowing captions to be turned on/off for each instance
Version 2.3.3 (July 20, 2016)
- Update reflect3.php script for PHP7 compatibility
Version 2.3.2 (July 7, 2016)
- Update domain and “tested up to” notices
Version 2.3.1 (June 24, 2016)
- Fix shortcode generator for bonus carousel animations
Version 2.3.0 (June 17, 2016)
- NEW NextGen gallery support
- NEW featured post gallery support
- NEW shortcode generator
- Some code restructuring
- FIX key response when multiple galleries included on one page
Version 2.2.6 (April 18, 2016)
- Fix typo in sanitize function name, introduced in Version 2.2.5
Version 2.2.5 (April 12, 2016)
- Update tested notice to WP 4.5
- Additional sanitization checks of options
Version 2.2.4 (June 15, 2015)
- Force rotation pause to integer value
Version 2.2.3 (May 10, 2015)
- Fix issue with loading using Firefox on an Android device
Version 2.2.2 (April 20, 2015)
- Fix RAND orderby option that stopped working due to changes in WP core
Version 2.2.1 (March 18, 2015)
- Remove potential vulnerability
Version 2.2.0 (March 18, 2015)
- Improve admin area layout
- Swedish translation courtesy of Kenneth Andersson
Version 2.1.0 (July 2, 2014)
- Language support added
- Spanish and Serbian translation courtesy of Ogi Djuraskovic
Version 2.0.2 (April 22, 2014)
- Bug fix – Fix links to URL from device touchscreen taps
Version 2.0.1 (March 30, 2014)
- Bug fix – WPMU support corrected
Version 2.0.0 (March 26, 2014)
- Rename to WP Flow Plus
- Drop support for PHP 4
- NEW FEATURE – CSS reflections
- NEW FEATURE – configure carousel image size
- NEW FEATURE – WPMU support
Version 1.8.3 (March 25, 2013)
- Support newlines, quotes and other html special characters embedded in media description
Version 1.8.2 (March 11, 2013)
- Changes made the V2 reflection script in version 1.7.4 may have caused the script to stop working on some servers. This revision fixes that issue.
Version 1.8.1 (February 28, 2013)
- Fix external links from carousel, broken in 1.8.0
Version 1.8.0 (February 27, 2013)
- NEW FEATURE – add options to disable the captions and/or slider
- Internal code reorganization and cleanup
- Fix JS error when image gallery is empty
- Replace references to deprecated “longdesc” with “data-” attributes
Version 1.7.4 (January 20, 2013)
- Remove potential exploitations
Version 1.7.3 (January 19, 2013)
- Correction to the fix in 1.7.2
Version 1.7.2 (January 18, 2013)
- Update PHP code that was deprecated in 5.3
Version 1.7.1 (December 17, 2012)
- Remove newlines after image tags because some servers inserted breaks
Version 1.7.0 (December 4, 2012)
- NEW FEATURE – Support touch screen on the scroll bar to slide the images left/right
- NEW FEATURE – Provide option to open image links in the same window
- NEW FEATURE – Provide image link field in the image editor window rather than using the image description
- Support secure links for the image link URL
- Fix debug message when reflect scripts disabled
NOTES –
– Image links given in the image description are now deprecated and support will be dropped in the future.
Version 1.6.6 (October 31, 2012)
- Fix slider width calculation (was slightly off in IE7)
- Improve Lightbox prev/next image preloads (problem was notable when clicking rapidly through the lightbox on slow-responding servers using IE7 & 8)
Version 1.6.5 (March 6, 2012)
- Default to old reflect script and provide an option to select the new reflect script since the old script works on more servers
- Fix warning in debug mode
Version 1.6.4 (February 14, 2012)
- Move to newer V3 reflect script to support PNG reflections
- Update deprecated code, fix loadingdiv reference
- Fix html validation errors on noscript images
- Fix “&” html validation errors
Version 1.6.3 (September 9, 2010)
- Fix display of caption for galleries based on a directory
Version 1.6.2 (May 17, 2010)
- Fix bug when gallery has only one image
Version 1.6.1 (May 14, 2010)
- Support directory paths specified as URLs to provide support to more server configurations
Version 1.6.0 (May 13, 2010)
- NEW FEATURE – Provide an option to start at a specific slide number
- NEW FEATURE – Provide an option to turn on/off rotate for each instance of a gallery
- NEW FEATURE – Support full text description in the popup window of a built-in gallery
- Handle files with special characters in the name
Version 1.5.4 (May 7, 2010)
Version 1.5.3 (May 7, 2010)
- Fix dragging the scrollbar on galleries beyond the first on a page
- Update overlay div creation
Version 1.5.2 (May 4, 2010)
- Fix potential rotation problem with IE
Version 1.5.1 (May 4, 2010)
- Fix black slider on built-in galleries
Version 1.5.0 (May 3, 2010)
- Support gallery based on Media Tags (plugin by Paul Menard)
- Support auto-rotation (default is disabled, enable using the settings page)
Version 1.4.9 (April 17, 2010)
- Fix the slider styling added in 1.4.8 – it caused other problems.
Version 1.4.8 (April 16, 2010)
- Use stronger styling on slider to override some theme styles
- New option – to be used on servers with more secure settings to prevent reflected images generating 404 errors
- Fix Lightbox when last image in gallery has an external link
Version 1.4.7 (April 14, 2010)
- Drop Scriptaculous library since it clashes with MooTools, now only uses the basic jquery library
- Support transparency as a background colour. In this case the image reflections will be black over a transparent div.
Version 1.4.6 (April 13, 2010)
- Define PHP_EOL if not found
- Fix black scrollbar
Version 1.4.5 (April 13, 2010)
- Fix dragging scroll bar (don’t know how I missed that one!)
- Hide dashed outline of prev/next links in Lightbox on Firefox
Version 1.4.4 (April 11, 2010)
- Admin menu – fix possible missing text
Version 1.4.3 (April 11, 2010)
- Fix class on outer div (this matters to those who use custom styling)
Version 1.4.2 (April 9, 2010)
- Improve image path construction for galleries based on a subdirectory, to hopefully work on all servers
Version 1.4.1 (April 8, 2010)
- Fix captions when cycling through the Lightbox view
Version 1.4 (April 8, 2010)
- Support multiple instances of wp-imageflow2 galleries on a single page. You must update your custom styles when updating from a previous version (see Installation notes).
- Lightbox pop-up now supports cycling through the images directly with left/right arrows appearing when hovering over the photos.
- Fix color-code check in settings page (broken on version 1.2)
- Style changes in the method used to display the flow gallery – should be compatible with more themes
Version 1.3.1 (March 26, 2010)
- Fix potential loading issue in IE
Version 1.3.0 (March 25, 2010)
- New shortcode method: [wp-imageflow2] for the built-in gallery and [wp-imageflow2 dir=subdir] for a subdirectory. YOU MUST UPDATE YOUR SHORTCODES WHEN UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION.
- Dropped support for prior shortcode method
- Organize code into a class to prevent potential collisions with other plugins
- General code clean-up
Version 1.2.6 (March 10, 2010)
- Fix issues on legacy version of Internet explorer
Version 1.2.5 (March 7, 2010)
- Fix overlay size and position on scrolled screens
Version 1.2.4 (March 5, 2010)
- Fix problem with include/exclude built-in gallery options
Version 1.2.3 (March 4, 2010)
- Use a different method to extract image info so it works on servers with url access disabled
Version 1.2.2 (March 2, 2010)
- Remove the need for PHP 5
- Add option to turn off reflections (if your server doesn’t support GD or you just don’t want them)
Version 1.2.1 (February 18, 2010)
- Add a “close” link to the overlay div of the image Lightbox in case the full size image never loads
Version 1.2 (February 16, 2010)
- Use a Lightbox effect for the large size image display rather than opening a new window
- Don’t load scripts on admin pages
- Trim spaces from the galleries url entered on the settings page
- Display simple thumbnail gallery on browsers with Javascript disabled
Version 1.1 (February 8, 2010)
- Fix problem with image paths on some servers
Version 1.0.1 (February 3, 2010)
Version 1.0 (January 29, 2010)
