Comments on: WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:13:54 +0000

Hi Scarlet,
if you’re using the iFrame feature, you can simply set the background color with iframebgcolor in the shortcode; you can read more about that above. If you prefer editing the CSS files, you can find them in the plugin’s directory in the css folder.

By: Scarlet Duba

Scarlet Duba — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:56:30 +0000

How do I simply change the black background to white or gray?
I don’t see the css files for smooth gallery anywhere. thanks in advance for your help.
I’m in wp 3.0.

By: marco

marco — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:21:00 +0000

But I don’t want all my images resized to 400×400 throughout all the multitude of galleries I have outside the plugin. I just want to use this plugin for one entry, that is all.

In other words, I guess I’m a noob and I need to know how to use the imgsize attribute inside the code. when you push “generate code” shouldn’t it already be incorporated?

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:39:49 +0000

Hi Marco,
this plugin doesn’t resize images because WordPress can do this for you. Just go to Settings – Media, adapt the dimensions for medium or large images, use the imgsize attribute in the shortcode and the gallery will use the scaled down versions of your images instead.
This doesn’t necessarily make the plugin worthless but you just have to use the features already provided by WordPress.

By: marco

marco — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:40:55 +0000

Still does not resize larger images.
Worthless.

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:07:34 +0000

thanks! it was the head/footer thing… THANK YOU!!!

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:58:53 +0000

Hi Kelly,
first off the theme seems to be broken: wp_head() and wp_footer() are called twice. That may be the reason the JavaScript might be kaput. Furthermore the pages above include jQuery which may be incompatible with SmoothGallery in some cases – maybe you should use the iFrame feature to work around this.
If the images won’t load it might be an issue with the web host. It has been reported to me numerous times that the images kept loading forever and this was caused with their webhost’s webserver setup; mod_security or similar may be the root cause here.

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:43:44 +0000

I was using your plugin all over this website (for example: http://parsonscreativecafe.com/?page_id=88). I’ve taught the client how to update the website and I’m wondering if they somehow broke something as now all the slideshows only show the loading bar forever. I have deactivated, deleted and reinstalled the plugin and I still only get the loading bar. when I try adding a new slideshow to a new page, I can’t even get the slideshow to appear. (http://parsonscreativecafe.com/?page_id=79). It was all working great at one point. Any ideas you have would be much appreciated.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:12:41 +0000

Hi Gigi,
I’ve just had a quick look at the link above but basically you’ll have to apply the changes to the relevant files that come with the plugin, i.e. the JavaScript and CSS. Furthermore, you’ll have to supply the necessary parameters via the custom field or inside the shortcode to get the behavior of the SmoothGallery just right.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:23:30 +0000

Christian,
Thanks so much for this plugin! I have a question about altering the code so that my slideshow displays as it does here (http://bigearthweb.com/test/JDgalleryMod/demoMod.php) with the description in a separate box. I’m just not sure how to implement bigearthweb.com’s code changes into the plugin you created. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!