Flash Album Gallery – Introduction
Are you looking for a better way to manage and display photos on your blogs??? Then you must try this fantastic Flash Album Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very professional.
Flash Album Gallery – Installation
- Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery
- Activate the plugin
- Add a gallery and upload some images (the main gallery folder must have write permission)
- Go to your post/page an enter the tag ‘[flagallery gid=all name=”My Gallery”]’.
- If you would like to use additional Flash Skins (only a option), go to Flash Skins, download the skin and upload the file through Skins page in Wordpress admin panel or through ftp in “skins” folder inside plugin
See more tags in the FAQ section
That’s it … Have fun
Flash Album Gallery – Configuration
Before you do anything else, go to the Options sub-page. From here you’ll notice a number of options pages for configuring different parts of the plugin, including General, Thumbnails, Images, Sorting, Colors, and Roles.
General Options
- Gallery path
Most people won’t have to change this. - Default size (W X H)
Specifies the default size of the flash. This is the size at which flash are displayed. Height can’t be set with per cent. Defaults to 100% x 500. - Delete image files
Check if you want to the image files to be deleted from the disk when you delete images from a gallery. Enabled by default.
Thumbnails
After making changes to thumbnail options, you will need to regenerate thumbnails in all galleries.
- Width x height (in pixels)
Specifies the maximum width and height for thumbnail images. The default is 115 x 100. - Set fixed dimensions
Ignores the aspect ratio of images and generates a thumbnail to the exact dimensions specified above. Enabled by default. - Crop square thumbnail from image
Creates square thumbnails and use only width setting: (width x width) 115 x 115. Disabled by default. - Thumbnail quality
This is a percentage of maximum quality. Defaults to 100%.
Images
- Resize images
Specifies the width and height that images will be resized to. These are maximum dimensions and aspect ratio is maintained. Images are only resized when you choose to do that specifically. Images are not resized when you upload them. Defaults to 800 x 600. - Image quality
This is a percentage of maximum quality. Defaults to 85%.
Sorting
- Sort thumbnails
Specifies how thumbnails are sorted when displayed in a gallery. Defaults to Custom Order.- Image ID – Sorts thumbnails by the ID of the image. This works well if you import them in the order you want them displayed.
- File name – Sorts thumbnails by the name of the image file. This works well if your image files are named the way you want them sorted.
- Alt/Title text – Sorts thumbnails by the alt/title text specified for each image.
- Sort direction
Specifies the direction for sorting (ascending or descending). Defaults to Ascending.
Colors
Each skin has own color settings, which can be changed here.
- Background Color
Specifies the color of the background for flash. Transparent, if checked option ‘transparent’ - Specifies the color of text and buttons and color when rolling over them.
- Buttons Color
- Category Buttons Color
- Category Buttons Text Color
- Thumbs Rollover Color
- Main Title
- Category Title
- Item Title
- Item Description
Roles
Do you need help with your WordPress gallery? You can assign different roles to allow users to help you. This tutorial will show you how to assign different roles.
- Main Flash Album Gallery overview – This allows for the assigned role to have complete control of the FlAGallery. If there is a user that you want to assign to this position, drop the box down and select the user.
- Use TinyMCE Button / Upload tab – This option allows assigned users to upload images and slideshows. Drop the box down and assign this role to the user of your choice.
- Add gallery / Upload images – With this option, the assigned user can only create galleries and upload images. Again, drop the box down and select the user of your choice for this role.
- Manage gallery – This option allows the assigned user to manage the gallery. By managing the gallery, they cad delete galleries, edit galleries, and more.
- Change skin – The skins option will only allows the assigned users to change the skin of the FlAGallery.
- Add skins – The skins option will only allows the assigned users to add new skins to the FlAGallery.
- Change options – This option allows assigned users to change the options of the WordPress gallery. This option gives users a lot of authority too.
After you have assigned the roles to the users of your choice, click the Update button. Be careful when assigning these roles. Someone can mess the entire gallery up if you assign the different options to different users.
Flash Album Gallery – Image Management
Add Gallery
The first thing you will want to do is upload some images. Before you can do that, you have to create a gallery. You do that on the Manage Galleries -> Add Gallery tab. Galleries are created below the path specified on the General Options page, typically wp-content/flagallery/. Creating a gallery actually creates a new folder on the server to store the images.
Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it. You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk.
Adding Images
Once you’ve created a gallery you can add images to it. There are two different ways to add images to a gallery, by uploading them and by copying them to a location and then scanning the directory.
Note that when uploading images, check that the php.ini file for your sever sets the maximum file upload size high enough.
Upload images one or more at a time. This is done from the Upload Images tab on the Manage Galleries page. You can select multiple files to upload and see progress of each image as it is being uploaded.
Import images already in your gallery folder. To do this:
- Go to the Manage Gallery page.
- Click on the Edit link for your gallery.
- Click the Scan Folder for New Images button.
Managing Images
Once you get images into a gallery, you can perform a number of different operations on them. Probably the first thing you’ll want to do is to annotate them. While you’re at it you may as well add a description to your gallery.
The Manage Gallery page provides a lot of flexibility and allows you to make a lot of changes at once. One thing you’ll want to be careful of, however, is to avoid doing to many operations that take a lot of time, such as regenerating thumbnails. Doing so can cause the operation to timeout.
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on images on the Manage Gallery page.
- Specify a description for each image.
- Specify alternate title text for each image.
- Delete an image. The image file itself will only be deleted if the Delete image files option is enabled on the General Options page.
- Generate (create) new thumbnails for selected images. This is especially useful when you change the thumbnail options.
- Resize images. This is useful when you set resize parameters on the Images option page.
- Scan the folder for new images as described above.
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on the gallery on the Manage Gallery page.
- Edit the name and description of the gallery.
- Edit the path (although this only changes the path, it doesn’t rename it).
- Delete the gallery.
Flash Album Gallery – Displaying Images
Once you’ve created a galleries, and added images to them, you’re ready to display them on your site.
The plugin uses shortcodes in pages and posts to display images. Flash Album Gallery shortcode is specified as a word enclosed in square brackets – [ and ] – followed by parameters describing what and how to display the images.
This shortcode is built in to the Flash Album Gallery plugin:
- [flagallery gid=x name=”album_name”] – Display one or multiple galleries with a beautiful flash skin.
hi there
do you have video of flash album gallery – installation
Flash Album Gallery – Installation
Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery
Activate the plugin
Add a gallery and upload some images (the main gallery folder must have write permission)
Go to your post/page an enter the tag ‘[album]’.
If you would like to use additional Flash Skins (only a option), go to Flash Skins, download the skin and upload the file through Skins page in Wordpress admin panel or through ftp in “skins” folder inside plugin
kind regards
egill magnusson
Hi, Awesome plugin! Do you have any idea how this site (saw your link) http://www.fotoimpressions.com/blog/ got the images to go across so large? I am sizing mine to be 900×600 but they are now showing that large. This link is how I’d like them to look.
Mine currently look like this: http://jcleggphoto.com/?page_id=240
Any ideas would be great, I’d love to get them to stretch across the whole blog post like my normal pictures do. Fotoimpressions and my blog use the same theme.
Thanks so much!
here what you can do:
1. Set size of the flash in General options tab to: 100% x 900
2. Add this to your theme styles (style.css):
.flashalbum { margin: 0 -20px; }Great work. It is definitely the plugin that makes my site look alot better.
I have one tiny “problem” though: I wrote a mini-plugin that displays a random Image from my galleries and one page where all gelleries can be accessed. I link from the random Image to the picture file itself and with an additional link below the picture to the page with all galleries.
What I would like to do is link to the page with all galleries and make it start with the specific picture. Is there any way (parameters etc) to link to a specific image in a specific gallery (while allowing the viewer to browse through the rest afterwards)?
Greetings from Germany,
Jens
I found a solution to my problem, it is more of a quickhack though, since I had to change the xml.php file in the skin directory of the plugin. It seems I cannot link to my solution files here directly, but they are available for download on my linked website. I hope this helps someone out there. :-)
Hello,
I have installed the plugin and it looks beautifull.
But I have one problem. When i select the page (with the gallery tag) for the first time (with Internet Explorer) nothing happens. After refresh the page or slect the gallery page for the second time the gallery displayed. When i tried the same under Firefox it works perfect directly the first time.
Do you know the solution
With regards,
Albert
I’ve tested on all browsers and everything is ok. I can’t see any problem
Hi
Thanks for this great plugin
I am just wondering…can I make the default to be that it is a MOVING slideshow ?
Thanks
Hany
There is a skin with auto slideshow you can download on PhotoGalleryCreator
hello
after have put the [flagallery gid=all name=”My Gallery”] i have this error
[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]
can u help me?
TKS
I need to see that
I’ve got the same error. How can I fix this?
This is .htacess file problem. Flash file can’t get access to xml and get “500 Internal Server Error”.
For whatever reason, the .htaccess file can become corrupt. So all you have to do is correct your .htaccess file.
How To Fix The WordPress Internal Server Error
Here is what you need to do :
1. Back up your current .htaccess file.
2. Delete all of the information from your .htaccess file and save it i.e. upload a blank .htaccess file.
3. Your blog should now be usable again so go into the admin area and set your permalink structure again.
4. Open your new working .htaccess file in an editor. Now copy over all the non WordPress .htaccecss information from your old backed up .htaccess file eg. any search engine htaccess information, ip blocks etc – basically everything Non-WordPress that you added before.
If you find that adding all the code from the previous .htaccess file is causing an Error again then remove it all and enter the information back to the working .htaccess file line by line to see what is causing the problem.
I am having a similar error but it’s #2036…is this the same thing? Will the .htaccess fix work for this error?
Thanks! I LOVE this plugin!
Vickie
And, actually, it was working yesterday..so this error just started happening today for no apparent reason. :(
nevermind! I found the problem! I had changed the path for my uploads after the fact, so the gallery couldn’t find them. That’s the #2036 error…so, problem solved. :)
Hi
I am just wondering if some helping me how to display the gallery!
I have installed plugin and is fine but i don’t know how to display the gallery if i need the code where to put it
can u help me ?
[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]
I have the same problem as Lorenzo
Hi
can we delete the icon PGC in the bottom corner of the gallery?
on commerce skins no PGC button
After rummaging through the masses of optional Slideshows and Galleries I am torn between two.
I wish to make the images I display on my page clickable to pave the way to a previous post I have done e.g. The IAMX album image I currently have I’d like to be able to click the picture and be directed to the post I have written.
I can do that on another gallery but yours is far more superior due to simplicity but it doesn’t appear to have that option. Could you help at all please? I intend to use it as an advert platform as well, I can put your site in it too if you can help at all.
Hello,
Very good job with this plugin !
I have a problem.
The pages of the gallery are black on Google Chrome. But on Firefox and IE8 all is OK !
I have the version 10 of flash installed.
What is wrong with Google Chrome ?
I thank you in advance for your answer.
I can’t get it working on neither Chrome or IE8. Both Firefox and Opera are working just fine!
Does anyone have a clue?
I wish there was a place that would list the gallery code. I never get it after it is created and I am not very good at code, to take your hint to know what to put in.
Having it show up as a column in the list of galleries would be nice.
Hi!
Thanks for a great plugin. I purchased the green-style-pro a few days ago and it is working fine, except I was wandering if there is a way to turn this into an autoslide show? [I realise you have a free download version of autoslide show, but since I've already purchased this template, I'd rather use this one]. Is there some simple code I can insert etc?
Thanks in advance for your help =0)
there is no way to turn slideshow on all skins excerpt skin named “SLIDESHOW”. For easy inserting shortcode in the post see video tutorial
Exactly the plugin I’ve been looking for to insert/display cartoon segments in my WP posts. Great features, excellent options. Altogether a great piece of work. Thanks!
Hi! Thank you for a great download :)
I installed GRAND Flash Album Gallery yesterday and add a Gallery to http://victoriavives.com/media/gallery and today is not appearing. Do you know why this can happen?
I was installing Google Analytics last night and I noticed that if I would put it in the Gallery page, the gallery won’t appear, so I removed the analytics part and the Gallery worked again, but today it doesn’t work and I am not sure why.
Thank you in advance for your help!
V
check your shortcode, please. I am sure that it is written with an error.
Oh! Thanks for your prompt response :)
I had try the shortcode for a while… I finally reset the settings and now it appears again! So everything is good now :)
Thanks again! V
I love this plugin. One question I have, can I use a link in the blog text to open a new page for viewing the gallery? I have several static pages where I will have a number of galleries on each page. Rather than having the static page have all of the galleries each with its own viewer appear one below another (with a bunch of shortcodes), I was hoping I could just insert links and then when clicked it would open a new window to view the specific gallery. (rather than have the shortcodes)
Thanks for the help,
Mike
In January I’ll publish new skin. In it you’ll be able to link to any gallery or image in the flash and use browser history
Hi there.
Great Plugin. looks fantastic.
I havfe two questions:
a. how can I manage the photos categories? I have many albums to display, dont want to display them all separately, but on the same gallery.
b. is the a way to display the info, i.e photos description automaticly under/over the images, without needing to click on the i icon?
best regards.
a. Watch video tutorial
b. There is no such option in current skins
Hello,
It it possible somehow to increase the FS (full screan) button in FIA Gallery plug in?
no, you can’t increase buttons in FlAGallery
is it possible to change this in core of the plug-in.
Hi there,
Ive been trying to get this plugin to work on WP 2.9.1 on windows.
It all seems to work ok except that it can never find the main images when it is trying to process the thubnails so I dont end up with any thumbnails.
The thumbnail folder is created and I think the permissions are ok..it puts the original file in the gallery folder but raises an error on upload that it cant find the image..presumably this is trying to reload the image to generate the thumbnail.
The same happens if I try to regenerate the thumbnails.
Thanks for the plugin
Rolf
PS is there a function call instead of a short code if I just wanted to dump a gallery in a theme somewhere..?
It seems that some of the file functions dont seem to be working with php on windows. Specifically all the is_readable, file_exists checks always return false for some reason…havent been able to find out why. It also means that it doesnt resize the images..
Perhaps someone knows why this is broken in PHP for windows or knows how to get it to work.
just copy shortcode generated in post an paste in
do_shortcode( $content )function. Example:I’m not able to create new thumbnails of the image.
When I insert new images in the gallery, the thumbnails are created automatically and the settings page, when I try to correct them, I have a message that was successfully updated, the more they are not being changed – what can I do?
manage gallery -> select images and choose ‘Create new thumbnails’ action and click OK
Can you make, when launched, the viewer open FULL SCREEN? Thanks.
thomas
It’s impossible due to Adobe Flash Player security
Hello, I am trying your flash gallery and I must admit I am impressed by what you offer. Still I am having issues with thumbnails. The thumbnails are not created when uploading images and I can not recreate them while being in the gallery. I have tried with big images and then I would get an error memory exceeded XX Mb. Then I have proceeded to the smaller sized images and the same story apart that the error is different now – Object XmlHttpRequest. I am clueless to what could be done. I am using 1and1.com hosting. Thank you.
just to add to the above – I am able to edit the thumbnails. I could stick to this but it takes a bit of the time to manually edit the thumbnails.
I was wondering if you were ever going to allow other people to make themes for this plugin? I want to use the gallery on my site but I wanted to change the design to match the rest of my site. Please let me know.
Any chance for supporting CDNs and/or CDN plugins? Or maybe just supporting using image URLs instead of having to upload each image?