Are you looking for a better way to manage and display photos on your blogs??? Then you must try this fantastic GRAND 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. You can display galleries with a beautiful flash skins integrated with GRAND Flash Album Gallery.
How to insert your own video in the post with GRAND FlAGallery:
I found video review of GRAND Flash Album Gallery from LeapFishWebsites:
And here is another small review from contactTUCU
With GRAND FlAGallery you can:
- upload unlimited number of pictures for your slideshow galleries and albums;
- customize color of all the user controls and background for embeded flash skin to fit your blog colors;
- change width and height of flash or leave width 100% to fit your blog;
- view photo gallery in full screen mode for dramatic presentations;
- turn on/off image gallery media RSS feed;
- change role settings for each gallery;
- copy or move images between galleries;
- import images from folder and create gallery;
- easily insert shortcode in post with special button integrated in post editor;
- create custom thumbnails for image;
- sort pictures in drag-and-drop way.
- show selected images only for registered users feature.
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Excellent Video Tutorial! :) THANKS!
Hello, can I remove the button PGC?
many thanks
See comercial skins
Can you add sound (background music)
Thanks
Bill
Thank you sooooooo much you have made my day!!!!!!! I have tried to find a solution to post pictures as I have sooo many many pictures to post on my blog. Thank you once again you’re my saviour!!!! =D
This is far one of the best video tutorial ever.
The music matches perfectly with this great tutorial
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Relaaax… take it eaaaaaaaaasy… RELAX… LOL
I’ve created my website using static pages on wordpress, and I’m wondering if there is a way to display your plug-in gallery on the static pages. I can’t find any information on how to do this. Thank you for your help.
The same as on posts
Is there any way for the slideshow to automatically be set to “SL” so that it just plays right away?
download skin named “Slideshow”
Great plugin indeed. Thank you for this. I have one small question: I know you can use html code in the picture description, but I was wondering if it’s possible to use some embed code, like the embed code for a YouTube movie for example.
Thank you.
Hi i have a few ?s
I am playing with the gallery on a test site right now. Liking it a lot
Can i change out the FS icon to something Like — (Open or Close Full Screen mode )– text My wife was lost at going back to normal mode.
I would like to make it as easy as can be for every user.
When posted on a blog page Can i set it up to only show one large main load in image first and not load any other images. A preview image i make that will also says something like click on gallery up top to view each gallery.
I would like to cut down the load time for the gallery so it loads very fast.
Right now it is loading to slow so a blog viewer (person) will scroll past it before it has loaded and may never see it??
My wife just did that she went past it as it had not loaded yet and kept going down looking for it and never found it till i had her go back up to the top then it was loaded in.
Thanks for any help with this
I get a “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” when trying to activate your plug in. Any ideas?
It is conflict with some other plugin. Try disable your plugins one by one and activate FlAGallery.
I filled the title and description of some pictures but they don’t appear. How can I do?
there is ” i ” button for each image description in the flash
hello
in some browsers like internet explorer and sometimes mozilla
the ” i ” button don’t appear, what can be the problem?
thanks
the ” i ” button appear only when image have description or alt/title text
Finally, a WP slideshow that works!!!!!! This is great. I’ve tried about 10 other WP slideshows and have failed miserably at making them work. This was so easy!
Just one question…Is there a way to enable the image captions (descriptions) to appear when the image does?
Thanks!
Amy
This is not realized in current skins
Wow! A slideshow that works, that is beautiful, that is easy to work with… and a fabulous demo video with perfect music!
I might add… I’m not the least bit techie (Creating my basic blog was a bit much for me) and through watching the video, I was able to create a gorgeous slideshow for my Blog!
Thank you!!!
Very great plugin!! I use it on my site. I have purchased flash skin and very like the result.
Great tutorial! Love it fall for it! Love the music too…
thanx
I love the program! Very easy to use and I am so glad that you developed it. However, when I go to edit a page and click on the new button to insert a new gallery the window comes up with an internal server error. Is there anything that I need to tell me hosting provider to do?
Thank you so much for your help!
Since I can’t get the video tutorial loaded, can someone explain what the function of the All Categories button is? It only lists the active gallery. Where are categories listed in the backend? Is there any other form of tutorial on this side besides the video? Thanks.
Fantastic plugin seriously. Is there a way to have it load full screen from the start?
Love this pluginm but whenever I want to edit thumbnail it doesn’t work.
I have wordpress 2.9.2 installed. Could it be only this version?
The Edit Thumbnail button in versions 0.40+ does not appear if you use Internet Explorer 7. I’m unsure about IE 8. At Sergey’s suggestion I have switched to Firefox for editing the gallery.
I have the same issue and I have tried it in chrome, firefox, EX8 . when I go to click on the image to select the Thumbnail it acts like I am only trying to grab the whole image not create a thumb
I’m having the same issue. I’ve tried to create/edit thumbnails, and both IE and Firefox only want to grab the whole image…
Has anyone found a fix for this???
Checking out your video now. Who does that song that comes in around 7:50? Sounds like old school hip hop or someone trying to sound that way. Love it.
I did not find instructions in the tutorial on how to change the timing of slide changes. Currently it is moving somewhat too fast for my audience. Also is there a way for them to stop on a given photo?
Lots of good comments on the gallery. Thank you for such an excellent product.
there is no option to change timing of slide changes in FlAGallery. Slideshow stop button is the same as start.
I am unable to set file permissions successfully although I have tried to follow the WordPress ‘Changing File Permissions’ advice that you linked to. I have created “/wp-content/plugins/flagallery-skins/” and “/wp-content/flagallery” but am unable to create galleries in FlAG Gallery. Can you help?
Read more in WordPress Codex
Actuall, sorry to bother you – I’ve fixed the problem now ;)
How did you fix it? I’ve tried to change the file permissions in Filezilla to no avail…. is there another way?
Great Tutorial, and nice plugin … Thanks a lot for sharing it.
Like someone asked above: Is there a way to change the FS button text to “Fullscreen”? It’s a little confusing for those not in the know, and it took me a little time to find Open in Fullscreen Mode. I would like to make it as simple as possible for viewers.
I would also like to be able to turn Category title off as it appears very messy as it is set to something like “portglasgow” – with no capitilization or spaces – since that is the name I gave it when setting up the folder. I would like it to appear as “Port Glasgow” but I don’t appear to be able to rename the folder in Manage Gallery. Therefore, I would like the option to turn off the category title.
See commercial skins. To change gallery title go to manage gallery page and in Gallery settings block change title of gallery… click Save Changes
Hi there
Installed flash-album-gallery.
Does exactly what i require for website except the titles and other info./text entered does not show and is not visible to the user.
Can you help me?
I know that the i is where the user selects o see the extra information.
Many thanks for your time.
Maybe in feature skins
Hi…I’ve been adding html in description to link to the post; but it doesnt appear or works..is there a special skin for it to do it?
I would love to get this to work! I am on a mac using firefox, and when I try to upload new skins, it says I need connection information. When I enter it in, it goes to the ‘want more skins’ page and doesn’t show any skins loaded ?!?!? This is driving me crazy!
Upload it via FTP
Hmm.
I tried using post/pages, reinstalled, but all i get is a black box with red type : Couldn’t load the Main XML file.Error #1088 ”
I see my gallery/images in FTP too, seems like everything is there..
Do u have an idea what would be the problem?
Yes, the plugin looks fantastic!
Overview reset doesnt work.
It works!
Awesome! Thank you!
may i know how you solved Error #1088? thanks!
Very coll!!
Eu adorei o plugin, parabéns!!
Can gallery be embedded within a table and if so, how?
Is there a way to include the gallery in page/post templates (using php, perhaps) instead of embedding it on the page with a shortcode?
i’m interested in this function as well… there must be a way!
Like the other dudes :), i would like to know which is the command to embedd the gallery in php and over all how to show ALL gallery in php. Thanks wonderfull job in any case
php code (will display all galleries):
Nice and good plugin but it don’t work in Safari…
when clicked on a image, is it possible to start an automatic slideshow after a few seconds? or return automatically back to the cube view?
Hello !
Congrats for the website and interactive platform ; really helpfull…
Question : when I publish my gallery it give me this error message :
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function auth_redirect() in F:\xampplite\htdocs\xampp\my_site_berty\wp-admin\admin.php on line 56
# ID 7: A failure occurred
[more]
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The pictures are loaded but the problem is I can’t see any thumbnails. If I edit the admin.php and # line56 , I will have other error messages…
Any idea ?
Cheers,
bert.
How I can change the “I” letter from capital to small “I”
2 questions.
How do you set a gallery to change photos automatically?
Also I would like to have captions that show for each photo. How is that set up?
(1) Get the Slide-Show skin;
(2) See the video tutorial and either use the Title Text at the top (it has a fixed font size), or leave that blank and use the Description field and set your own font and color size.
I’m unsure whether any of these skins automatically display the caption, i.e., the viewer still must click to prompt the caption or text description to appear.
Since I can’t get the video tutorial loaded, can someone explain what the function of the All Categories button is? It only lists the active gallery. Where are categories listed in the backend? Is there any other form of tutorial on this side besides the video? Thanks.
When the visitor’s cursor is hovered over the All Categories button (at least in the skin I am using; some menus are, e.g., at the top), that button will prompt a menu listing all your separate galleries in any order you set. Every time you create a gallery, it is assigned a number. Those numbers must be entered on the gallery page you actually publish in WP, and indeed can appear there in any order you choose, e.g.,
16,17,11, 3,6,7 etc.
That is, gallery 16 will be the one that is loaded when the published gallery page itself is loaded, gallery 17 will be the next one on the menu for the viewer to click, etc.
The FAQ page on this site has instructions for entering gallery number on your page and for adjusting their order.
Thank you kind man for releasing such an amazing application for free.
You saved me HOURS of time :)
I am using Word Press 3.0.1 and have developed the template with Artisteer.2.5.0.29918 which is made for Word Press 3.0.0 . I have bought several skins and activated 2 different ones which didn’t seem to make a difference. The problem I am having is: The photo gallery works once and when I go to a different page and come back it shows the code instead of the photo gallery.
I have removed it from the website because I don’t want to give my customer a bad feeling.
Any insight into this would be appreciated.
I went to your site and had no problem with the gallery. It loads and works on the home page and also after I visit the About page and return to the home page, even multiple times.
Hi there,
I’d like to use this gallery plugin, When I insert the code of a gallery in a post I am getting this tekst. Can anybody telle me what I am doing wrong?
GRAND Flash Album Gallery
Skins for GRAND FlAGallery, Photo Galleries, Video Galleries
developed by CodEasily.com – WordPress Flash Templates, WordPress Themes and WordPress plugins
The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed.
Thanks!
Tjapko
try to reset settings
How to step by step Edit form wordpress Create Floder gallerry
nable to create directory wp-content/flagallery/demo-gallery!
Directory wp-content/flagallery/demo-gallery is not writeable !
Unable to create directory wp-content/flagallery/demo-gallery/thumbs !
The server setting Safe-Mode is on !
If you have problems, please create directory wp-content/flagallery/demo-gallery and the thumbnails directory wp-content/flagallery/demo-gallery/thumbs with permission 777 manually !
Is there a function that adds the gallery to a template yet ?
Hi.
I’ve installed FlAGallery, but I am not able to find any skins. There is a default map under the flash-album-gallery/skin/ directory , but I get no skin options to choose from under Admin-settings in WP – it just say’s “No skins to show”. I also tried to install new skins – no error message, but nothing seem to happen.
Any suggestions what the problem is?
skins folder should be ‘/wp-content/plugins/flagallery-skins/…’
Read FlAGallery Review and FAQ for more.
Why the above does not play video tutorial? I used the following code appears:GRAND Flash Album Gallery
Skins for GRAND FlAGallery, Photo Galleries, Video Galleries
developed by CodEasily.com – WordPress Flash Templates, WordPress Themes and WordPress plugins
The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed.
try to reset settings.
Maybe you should edit the post title Video Tutorial: GRAND FlAGallery to more catching for your webpage you write. I enjoyed the the writing yet.
Great job on the tutorial……….Thanks.
Hey, thanks a lot for this plugin! Love it!
Is there anyway to use 2 different skins on different pages of the same website?
use FlAGallery button in your post editor to insert shortcode. In popup choose custom settings and choose different skin. If you want to change skin colors you should activate that skin first, change colors, save changes.
Another way of thinking of this is to remember that one skin (the activated skin) is your “default skin,” while the others are “available skins” . . . but all the skins can be used anywhere on your site – as Rattus points out – by simply using the custom settings for each gallery.
After you make the color changes to each skin and save those changes, it doesn’t really matter which skin is the activated/default skin, since you can still use them all.
Is there anyway that I could increase the font size for the image information.
Also, I cannot get the gallery description to show??
Thanks.
Use <font size=”20″ color=”#FF0000″> </font> tag in image description
This looks great in Firefox but I simply cannot work out why it won’t work in ANY other browser. Changed all the server permissions, but nix. Please help!
This video was extremely helpful in getting the gallery setup on one of my client’s sites. Loved the background music mix by the way :)
The flash window is blank, therefore no pictures are displayed. Could it have something to do with IIS7 file permissions as I am running WordPress on Window 7? All my other plugins work fine.
I don’t know about the IIS7 permissions issue, but the blank screen can be connected with your Flash player settings and/or version or also with your graphics card capability.
Great video and LOL @ Don’t Worry Be Happy playing in the background. An appropriate song whenever you’re trying to figure out a new plugin :)
The plugin looks great, but is not displaying properly. If you go to http://www.summermountainwoodworks.com/photo-gallery you will see the gray square where it is supposed to be. And it appears to be loading the photos, if you can guess where the full screen button is you can click it and get it in full screen mode. But it will not display the photos except with google chrome. Any advice?
seems, pictures were not recorded in a database. Try reset settings, Scan Folder for new images or reinstall plugin. If nothing helps, send me a temporary access to the WP admin panel via the form on About page.
Hi thanks for your tutorial
Please could you insert the sound track to find the songs? are very nice
thanks and greetings from PERU…
Hi, I cannot edit the thumbnails. WHen I go to Edit Thumbnail, the window pops up but I cannot select any part of the image. When I click and drag the images moves with my cursor. I tried in Chrome and Safari.
Christina,
Create a test gallery, then try creating new thumbnails on that gallery’s main page (using the action function at top). Sometimes the gallery thumbnail size can get changed, and setting it back to 100% x 115 (or 100; I think those are the dimensions) will solve the problem.
Is there any way to display titles of the images in gallery
Title and description of image are under “I” button
I am attempting to use Grand Gallery, but once a gallery is created for any skin I cannot edit the slide title imformation. How do I get the information to update?
Ohterwise the plugin works great and if this is fixed I may purchase one of the premium skins.
Thanks,
Al
go to Manage Gallery and edit image titles(descriptions) -> Save changes. Image title and Description is under “I” button on the flash
hi,looks great, looking to purchase, btw what is that tool inside the video to edit the css
For all those who want to know how to do make this use captions as well as pictures while fading in and out.
The original div tag has the slideshow class. For each item that you want to rotate simply insert ‘that’ into another div, inside of your slideshow fading div.
IE
caption
In the case where you are using mysql calls for each url (or picture in this case) you would simple call the sql, query it, and mysql_fetch_assoc. While inside of te loop you would make the new div tag.
This is simple, but if you need help email me at burstroo@gmail.com
Thanks,
Andrew West
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Hi!
I keep getting an error when generating thumbnails. It says, “ID 14: An error occurred. Exceeds memory limit.” How can I fix this?
Cheers,
Erica
Increase PHP Memory Limit (ask your hoster) or upload images less size.
I attempted to install a freee gallery in hopes of testing. Before the plugin install was complete I received and error of “The plugin does not have a valid header”.
Please advice.
are you sure you install GRAND FlAGallery plugin and not skin for it (as a plugin)?
I love this plugin. Really well done!
Is there a way to edit the links on the default skin for the fullscreen button (FS) and slideshow button (SL) links? They are very small and hard to find for the casual Internet user. Even if they were spelled out it would be easier to see. Worst case, if you can point me to the code, I can probably figure it out.
this what i get when i preview the gallery
Couldn’t load the Color XML file.Error #1088
Cannot get transparent option to work – please help
Gregg
man this DON’T EVEN WORK TRIED TWICE AND I GET THIS STUPID ERROR Couldn’t load the Color XML file.Error #1088 WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
PLEASE PEOPLE don’t you read some peoples probleme. The plugin doesnt open in safari. If you build your website and safari users cant open it you’re srewed. Is there someone who knows how to get it to work in safari ever since almost half the world is running a mac these days.
I love how this looks!
Sadly I can’t get it to work…!
I have watched your video tutorial and followed it religiously, but when I do a preview of the post, I only get a grey box with nothing in it…
What am I doing wrong?
(Does it matter that I’m working on a mac?)
Any input would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Steinar
Im trying so hard to learn from this video but I just cant stop dancing!
=)
I need to be able to add an audio file which will play when each individual image is displayed/clicked.
is this possible?
For example, if I have 20 images inside the gallery, then for each image I want there to be a different audio ‘description’ that plays whenever each image is clicked.
Plz note: I AM NOT REFERRING TO BACKGROUND AUDIO/MUSIC.
If I have 20 different images, I am looking to have 20 different (descriptive) audio voiceovers.
Is this doable?
i have done every thing but when i am trying yo display on my page i am getting this error “Couldn’t load the Color XML file.Error #1088″
kindly help me out
thanks.
try open color xml file (colors.php in skins folder) in your browser and see what’s wrong. Free hosting can add some scripts to the and of php file, so xml will be invalid
(1) Can the demo skins be deleted from the skins folder?
(2) If I understand correctly, the Midnight and Midnight International skins must never be deleted for the plugin to work (and update) properly. Is that correct?
Thanks.
(1) Yes
(2) Midnight (default), Music Default and in the feature Video Default skins must never be deleted for the plugin work properly
Thanks – also for the info about the Music Default and Video Default skins, which I did not know. Very helpful.
Hi! Can i also crop pictures before they’re being uploaded? or is there an image editor?
If I understand your question, you actually do need to crop and size pictures before uploading them, though you will have the option to edit the thumbnail view after an image is uploaded and determine the Default flash size under options.
p.s. and resize images under Image Settings; that’s a lot, but not quite a full editor, unless I have misunderstood one of the functions.
I know you can get the short code for the gallery when you initially make the gallery. But how do you get the short AFTER the gallery is created (and you didn’t copy it when you first made the gallery)?? I’ve searched everywhere and cannot find the short code anywhere.
July 23, 2011 at 11:04 pm
If I understand your question correctly, you can reconstruct the gallery short code according to the standard short-code form, which you can see at 1:00 in the video tutorial at the top of this page.
You can also create a dummy page and choose (insert) that gallery from the FLAGallery dropdown menu; that inserts the short code into the page.
But again, I may have misunderstood your question.
I cannot create new album. I want to put several albums on the page, and within each album several categories.
Categories work perfectly, uploaded images etc. But how to create album?
create album -> drag & drop categories in it in order you want -> click save button
go to edit post and insert shortcode like: [flagallery album=1 name=Album]
use FlAGallery button for easy generate shortcode
I had the gallery on a page working but now I get this error “Error! Please, check shortcode for this album…”.
I need a link to the gallery page
Make sure you have a clean shortcode on the page, esp. if you may have used an earlier version of the plugin to create that page or ever edited the shortcode. Call up the page in the edit screen and try having the FLAGallery button reinsert the shortcode anew.
I am using the gallery and it works on all browsers I need apart from IE7 where the loading icon just keeps on screen. I tried resetting the settings but it dind’t work. Do you have any advice?
The gallery works great when I use the shortcode in a post. However, when I put the shortcode on a page, it displays the shortcode instead of the gallery. How do I display a gallery on a page with text above it and below it?
Perhaps, your theme is using function for display content which have conflict with shortcode.
Far from being a ‘Rattus norvegicus’, sir, you are a STAR! :D
Our bunch of volunteers, mostly between 50 and 75, is trying to restore our beautiful local green spaces, clearing rubbish and cutting back weeds.
Being in poor health, I volunteered to become webmistress, but until I found your plugin, I battled with quirky, unstable Flash Gallery plugins.
Now I can do justice to the photography of our members and show our neighbours what we are trying to achieve… I have just put up a few trial photos, but there will be many, many more, thanks to you!
THANK YOU, YOU’RE A HERO!!!! xxx
Hi, great tutorial! Luv the music.
Can clickable html be used in all the skins or just specific ones? (Our clients need to be able to click on an image and go to a specific page.)
Thanks.
I followed all the steps and nothing is happening.
I have a gallery with images, I add the short code and nothing happens on my homepage?
My images keep looking grainy and out of focus in the 3D part, but then look great once you click on them. What’s up with this?
It’s done to decrease memory and processor usage for 3D rendering
I’m currently using your plugin & it looks great but was wondering is there anyway you can insert shortcode that points to a specific photo within a gallery?
Some galleries have Deep Links integrated. So you can open page with gallery -> click image you want in the gallery -> url address should change with # and numbers at the end -> copy this url -> insert it where you want to point to specific image.
I may have missed some instructions along the way, but in WP 3.3 it seems the FlAGallery shortcode-button is no longer accessible in the page editor; in any event, it no longer appears in my editor. Can you help? How is one now to enter the shortcode?
In the plugin version 1.63 I’ve fixed FlAGallery button in HTML Editor and also add link to Upload / Insert section.
Thanks for returning the button to the HTML-editor, though I confess I have in the meantime I have transformed all my galleries into the new Grand Pages … the latter are a very nice addition.
Thanks also (and especially) for adding the link to the Upload/Insert section, which is also a very helpful addition I have long wanted.
This plugin is not working in Safari. What do I need to do in the code to fix this?
Need this info ASAP for 2 clients. Thanks!
Try activate different skins and check in Safari.
hi,
i really love the plugin and specifically the default skin fits all of my needs. however, is there an option to automatically “turn on” the title/descriptions while still keeping the default skin. clicking on the small I isn’t intuitive enough for people.
thx…
There is no such option.
Tried to upload a new picture. it says picture successfully added. No thumbnail gets created. And this message appears: ID 7: A failure occurred. I have already tried resetting the plugin settings.
Be sure `/wp-content/flagallery/` folder and subfolders have write permissions.