Video Gallery For Wordpress

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Thisguide will show you how to use the Gallery block to display multiple photos together. The Gallery block contains individual Image blocks for each image and arranges them in an attractive way.

When you select a block, you will find additional block settings in the right sidebar. If you do not see the sidebar, you may need to click the Settings icon in the top-right corner to bring up the settings. This icon looks like a square with two uneven columns:

To ensure that you are editing the Block Settings for the Gallery block and not an individual image within the gallery, use one of the following methods to navigate to the Gallery block:

Select between one and eight columns to display your gallery images in multiple columns. Your images will automatically arrange themselves into the best configuration according to the number of columns you select. Try changing the number of columns to see what you like best.

In the Gallery block settings, there are three options for linking the gallery, explained below. If the Image Gallery Carousel is enabled on your site, clicking on the gallery will open an interactive slideshow/lightbox instead of using the link settings.

After adding images to your gallery, you can also add captions to each individual image. Click an image in your gallery, and click the caption icon in the toolbar above the image. You can remove captions by clicking the icon again.

The position of the caption cannot be moved in the Gallery block. As an alternative, you can change the Gallery block to a Columns block using the option in the block toolbar. Then, you can add captions as paragraph text below the image in the column.

If you have written captions for images in the Media Library and then add the Gallery block, the Gallery block will show the captions you wrote. However, if you add captions to the images in the Media library after adding the Gallery block, those captions will not appear in the Gallery block. In that case, you can either type the captions manually on the Gallery block or remove and re-add the block so that it will use the captions from the Media library.

Photo Gallery provides a number of view options to organize your galleries and albums in beautiful views, including Slideshow, Thumbnails, Masonry, Image Browser, Extended and Compact Album, Blog Style, Mosaic. The layouts give you the flexibility to customize them to match your needs.

You can display your media content in a responsive lightbox that comes with 15 slideshow effects, supports social sharing, full width view option, filmstrip, image commenting (Premium version), lightbox autoplay and many more options that make your lightbox look awesome.

There are four widgets in the gallery plugin: WordPress Standard Tag Cloud, Dynamic Tags Cloud (Premium version), Slideshow and Gallery widget. Use one of these widgets to display your albums on the sidebar areas of your website.

With watermarking feature of the Photo Gallery plugin you can add text or image watermarks on the photos in your galleries and albums, and protect them from illegal use. Right click protection will protect your images from unlawful distribution.

Unzip the downloaded Photo Gallery plugin folder without making any changes to the folder.

Upload the Photo Gallery plugin into the following location wp-content>wp-plugins.

Activate Photo Gallery by going to Plugins and pressing Activate button.

Adding images to photo gallery is pretty straight forward. On the left menu select Photo Gallery > Add Galleries/Images > Add new.

The standard gallery is designed for including both regular images, as well as media from social networking websites, such as Flickr, Instagram and etc.

Name. Specify the name of the gallery.

Slug. Specify the alias in your website for the gallery.

Type. Choose the Mixed type.

Description. Fill in the information you would like to share with the gallery. The description will be visible with some of the gallery views.

Author. This indicates the author of the gallery. It automatically includes the name of the logged in user, who has added the gallery.

Published. Choose whether to publish the gallery or to leave it for the further publication.

Preview image. Indicate the image which will be used to preview the gallery. If you leave it blank, it will automatically pick the first uploaded images included in the gallery.

You can add photos by clicking Add Images button.

Photo Gallery plugin is using both standard WordPress Media Library, as well as a Photo Gallery File Manager. You can either click on Media Library button (in advance enabling it from General Options section of the Options menu) and select images to be imported into the Photo Gallery File Manager or click on Upload files and upload the desired images from another location. After uploading images you should mark them and press Add button.

Bulk Embed. This option will allow adding more than one images from specific social media (currently only Instagram account, but more options will be added with the upcoming updates) into the standard gallery. You should keep in mind that the images will be added without the possibility of auto-update.

Instagram user. Set the name of the Instagram user without additional symbols, e.g. jaredleto.

Number of recent instagram posts to add to gallery. Specify the number of images you want to add from the stated Instagram account.

Instagram embed type. Choose to use only the image content of the Instagram post or the entire post.

The problem might be due to the large number of pictures in the main directory of Photo Gallery image uploader. If you already have heavy amount of uploaded images, please try to group them in separate folders.

Take a note, that importing images with WordPress default Media Library can get into a conflict. You can try to disable that option and enable it only when you need to import images to Photo Gallery from there

Open the post/page you want to display the gallery. Press the button named Photo Gallery. A camera icon will be inserted into the page/post. Click on the image and select the gallery/album display you want to use for that specific page/post.

Each shortcode uses three columns of parameters. The first column shows parameters specific for that view only, the second one shows Lightbox (except Slideshow view) parameters, the third one is referred to the Advertisement.

Generate

Clicking this button you will be able to create a special shortcode based on your option choices. The created shortcode will appear in the box below. It can be copied/cut and pasted into a post/page.

Import

Pasting the shortcode in the box below and pressing the button, you will be able to edit and make changes in the shortcode. The final shortcode can be copied/cut and pasted into a post/page.

To use the created galleries and albums for the custom location, you can generate custom shortcodes of Photo Gallery and edit the created shortcodes.

Generate. Clicking this button you will be able to create a special shortcode based on your option choices. The created shortcode will appear in the box below. It can be copied/cut and pasted into a post/page.

Import. Pasting the shortcode in the box below and pressing the button, you will be able to edit and make changes in the shortcode. The final shortcode can be copied/cut and pasted into a post/page.

For this case you shall go to Photo Gallery > Options > Thumbnail options and set Thumbnail click action option to Redirect to URL.

Afterwards open your gallery you want to add a URL and define the necessary links in Redirect to URL field, which should be under the title input.

Lastly, when you insert your gallery into a page or post, make sure Thumb click action option is set to Redirect to URL in shortcode toolbox as well.

The problem might be due to the large number of photos in the main directory of Photo Gallery image uploader. If you already have large amount of uploaded images, please try to group them in separate folders.

Please note, that importing images with WordPress default Media Library can get into a conflict. You can try to disable that option and enable it only when you need to import images to Photo Gallery from there.

To publish gallery plugin widgets, go to Appearance > Widgets. Here select the widget option you want to add to a custom location. Afterwards drag and drop the selected widget into the custom location, fill in the options and press Save button.

Tag Cloud. This widget is included as a hosted widget for the WordPress standard Tag Cloud. It will display the tags added to the albums and images of Photo Gallery. After the click, the images using the tags will be displayed in Thumbnails view.

Title. Provide a title for the tag cloud.

Taxonomy. Select Photo Gallery from the provided options.

Photo Gallery Tags Cloud. This dynamic widget allows having rotating tags or images. After clicking on the tag a separate page will be opened displaying images corresponding to the tag. In case of images, the images will display with a pop-up.

Title. Provide a title for the dynamic tag cloud.

Choosing Text type

* Open in. Set the tags to open up either in separate page or lightbox view.

* Number. Provide the number of tags you want to display. If you leave it to 0 all tags will be displayed.

* Dimensions. Specify the width and height for the dynamic tag cloud.

* Transparent background. Choose whether to have a transparent background or not.

* Background color. Choose the background color for the tag cloud.

* Text color. Choose the tag text color

* Theme. Choose the theme, which will be applied to the gallery/album corresponding to the tag.