Gallery Hierarchy (gallery-hierarchy)

A simple image gallery where images are stored in hierarchical folders.

Description

By Meld Computer Engineering

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Being super tired of the limitations of the gallery plugins in Wordpress that I have tried and looked at, I decided to create my own that suits my needs and maybe it will yours as well.

Images are stored in hierarchical folders, as you normally would. To add new images, you can either put them directly into the folders or upload them through the web interface (Todo). If loaded directly into the folder, a rescan must be initiated to find the new images.

When new images are loaded, the plugin can rotate and resize according to the EXIF data. An image title, comment and tags will also be extracted from the image's EXIF and XMP data. The folder names can also be added as tags to the images - useful, for example, if you are organising the images into locations.

Once loaded, images can be searched by dates, tags, folders, or search terms. You can then insert thumbnails, single images, or fancier albums into posts and pages either using your search query, a single id or a list of ids.

This plugin contains no styling for the inserted images, so it is up to you or your theme to style them how you want.

Features

• Hierarchical storage of images
• Ability to rescan the folders for new images or upload through a web interface
• Automatic resizing and rotating of images on addition to the database
• Auto tagging based on folder hierarchy
• Caches thumbnails and different sized versions of an image
• AJAX-based image gallery/search
  • Easy image selection
  • Selection based on either manually selecting images or filtering
  • Images can be manually selected across multiple pages
  • One interface for browsing/inserting images
• Lightbox for larger image popup

Auto Image Tagging

If enabled, when an image is added to the database, the name of each folder that the image is in will be added to the tags of the image in the database. Folders can be excluded by adding a '-' to the start of the name.

Shortcodes

The plugin has the following shortcodes:

• ghalbum - for fancy albums
• ghthumbnail - for single or multiple thumbnails (shortcut for ghalbum type="thumbnail")
• ghimage - for a single image

Shortcode Attributes

The following shortcode attributes are available for the included shortcodes

• id="<id1>,<id2>,..." - list of images (some sort of query or list - see Image Selection below (ghalbum ghthumbnail ghimage)