Andrew Munro

Here’s a few:

1. I originally built this as a product gallery for an e-commerce plugin so by using action hooks you have full control over the positioning of the gallery. You cannot do this elegantly with the shortcode
2. You have full control over the HTML markup and styling, unlike the WP gallery. Handy for developers like me who want to fine tune
3. The images open in a lightbox, as opposed to an attachment page, and adding more lightbox scripts is easy (if you are a developer)
4. The ids of the images are stored in the DB against the post’s ID, so it’s easy for a developer to do more with the images, such as turn them into a slideshow etc

The usual WP gallery is fine if that’s all you need, but I find it’s handy to have a bit more control

Screenshots are now up
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/easy-image-gallery/screenshots/

Hi Jeff,

Apoligies for the delay, as a new plugin author I didn’t realise this support system does not send notifications. You apparently have to wait for the first support query and then you get the chance to subscribe to the plugin ??

It looks like EDD has changed the functionality in which this plugin hooks into. I’ve just tested it and you’re right it doesn’t work anymore. I’ll have a dig and see if I can post an update soon. Thanks for letting me know!

parkirblog: If you disable the EDD coming soon plugin does that error still persist? looks like it’s coming from EDD itself, but let me know.

Hi Dan,

Sorry for the delay, the support system never sent a notification.

Using links within the content editor can get a bit tedious when there are many links are large amounts of content, hence this plugin provides a nicer interface to keep your images “separated” from the content editor.

This means there’s only one shortcode which you can move around, especially handy when the WP editor’s formatting goes crazy. This plugin also groups the images in an array so if you were a developer you could easily rig it to show the images in a slideshow, lightbox etc.

Let me know if you have any more questions. I just released a nicer solution to this plugin and it works for all post types https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/easy-image-gallery/

Screenshots are coming very soon ?? Thanks

I’ve got the same PHP warnings as above. Seems to be when using the WYSIWYG field. The data is not saved to database so we can’t use the WYSIWYG field at all.

Great, thanks for that Ron

Nice update. Is it possible to allow developers to remove the action that generates the CSS so we can write our own if required? Eg this line in the plugin that builds out the CSS.

add_action( 'wp_head', array( $this, 'css' ) );

Normally I’d just the following, but because the plugin is wrapped in a class I probably need a bit more trickery:

remove_action('wp_head', 'function_name');