Need Image Gallery with CUSTOM thumbnails
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Hey all. I'm currently using the fantastic Deluxe Image Gallery for my portfolio site. It's Fancybox based and automatically generates it's own thumbnails. What I'm actually looking for though is a gallery plugin, not necessarily with fancybox, that enables you to create your OWN thumbnails. I want to have control over how I crop my images.
Does anyone know of one? Is there a tutorial on how I can add fancybox to my site and then just create my own gallery?
Thanks for your help
Does anyone know of one? Is there a tutorial on how I can add fancybox to my site and then just create my own gallery?
Thanks for your help
I would think that if you are not going to take advantage of the built-in functions of concrete5 then it is always possible to hard-code any gallery you find on the internet into your page. Just create a new 'page type' file and hard-code to your hearts content. Create your thumbnails the way you like them and FTP them into a folder on your server. You know... old-school.
Well, I guess that's what I'm asking. How can I use the built in functionality of Concrete5 to produce what I need?
Its very easy to put together the equivalent of the basic fancybox gallery with the List Files from Set addon, a custom template, and some javascript to set the fancybox running. (See the forum posts directly associated with that addon for pretty much all you need).
It would be fairly easy to adapt that to take the thumbnail for each galley image from an attribute attached to the image rather than a shrunk version of the actual image.
It would be fairly easy to adapt that to take the thumbnail for each galley image from an attribute attached to the image rather than a shrunk version of the actual image.
I saw something in the Gallery Block addon about adding attributes to images. But it seems to be referencing an old version of Concrete.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/gallery/tip-controlling...
My Dashboard doesn't look like the one in the tutorial and I can't see how to add the appropriate attributes. I am running 5.6.1
I'll have to check out "List Files from Set".
thanks
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/gallery/tip-controlling...
My Dashboard doesn't look like the one in the tutorial and I can't see how to add the appropriate attributes. I am running 5.6.1
I'll have to check out "List Files from Set".
thanks
To translate those instructions to 5.6...
Enable the 'Image' attribute type for files by going to 'Dashboard->System and Settings'. Under the 'Attributes' heading, click 'Types'
Put a checkmark under the 'Files' column for the 'Image' attribute.
Open the full dashboard and under the 'Files' heading, choose 'Attributes'. Choose 'Image' from the drop-down and enter 'gallery_thumb' for the handle and 'Gallery Thumb'
Steps 3-6 remain the same as in the instructions.
Enable the 'Image' attribute type for files by going to 'Dashboard->System and Settings'. Under the 'Attributes' heading, click 'Types'
Put a checkmark under the 'Files' column for the 'Image' attribute.
Open the full dashboard and under the 'Files' heading, choose 'Attributes'. Choose 'Image' from the drop-down and enter 'gallery_thumb' for the handle and 'Gallery Thumb'
Steps 3-6 remain the same as in the instructions.
Hot Damn! That's going to work. Thank you very much. I edited the CSS to get rid of that pesky grey line that appears around the gallery block and I'm going to be good to go.
