Comments on: WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:07 +0000

Hi traveller and Blake,

I can’t get rid of the white space of about 15px on the right and underneath my iframes.

You can set the amount of pixels in the file config.php. If you reduce that to zero and change the CSS a bit (hint: overflow:hidden) you can get rid of the white space. Regarding the watermark: this plugin hasn't got a feature to add something like this to an image but there should be no conflicts with plugins that do this. @Blake: please have a look at this: it allows you to add custom links to each and every image in your gallery.

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:38:29 +0000

I’m trying to get the url to change as I rotate through the gallery, showing the respective url, eg. http://www.examplesite.com/gallery/image#3
so that I can link to a specific slide in the sequence, rather than to the image only. Is this possible? Historymanager.js?

By: traveller

traveller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:57:53 +0000

Hi Christian
Please ignore the above – I got the ‘id=’ tag to work, but am still struggling with the ‘dir’ method. So I now have images from two different places on the same page. I’m still stuck with a couple of things though – firstly I can’t get rid of the white space of about 15px on the right and underneath my iframes. I’ve tried the ‘iframebgcolor=’ property and in FF no matter what colour I set for that it appears transparent (great, the background colour of the page shows through which is what I want) but on IE the white border remains no matter what colour I choose.
Secondly I have to remember to watermark each of my images before uploading – isn’t there a way of adding a watermark to the pictures automatically? Or does your script work with another WP plugin that adds a watermark?

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:25 +0000

Hi traveller, right now the plugin expects that all the images attached to a particular post/page should be used in the gallery. That said, you can use the attribute id in your second shortcode referencing another post/page which holds the images for the second gallery and the plugin will use those image instead of the ones attached to the current post. Just create a dummy post/page, don't publish it and attach the images for the second gallery to it. Then in the shortcode add the id attribute and point to the dummy post. This way you'll have two galleries on a single page showing a distinct set of images.

By: traveller

traveller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:04:52 +0000

The plugin itself is absolutely awesome and sincere thanks for releasing it, but I have to confess its not exactly ’straightforward’ to configure! I’ve read above about having a second gallery on the same page, and yes running an iframe for each gallery DOES work – I have two galleries on the same page – but both galleries show the same images, which rather defeats the idea of multiple galleries! How can I set parameters for an image to have it display in [gallery iframe=1 height=250 showCarousel=false timed=true delay=3000] or in [gallery iframe=2 height=250 showCarousel=false timed=true delay=3000] ??

By: garginis

garginis — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:42 +0000

Thank you Christian very much.Recently i have linked your plugin here: http://www.tooft.com/15-wordpress-slide-show-plugins-featured-articles-home-page/

cheers,Garginis

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:16:18 +0000

Hi garginis, please have a look at this FAQ item which tells you how to open links in another window when using the iFrame.

By: garginis

garginis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:20:44 +0000

Hi Christian
You made good plugin,10+ for plugin.I have a little problem.Everything is fine,i made no white space around slide show,no info panel, everything was fine.I made new page and type id of page in smooth gallery short code.It runs very well,but problem is when i click on image.When i do this,it open post links not in new window,it’s opened in same window instead of slide show with scroll bar.I dont know how to fix this.This is not easy plugin like most wordpress plugins.I tried to change add_pixels_to_iframe to 40 but it’s not working.

Cheers, garginis

By: ww

ww — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:48:58 +0000

Hi, how could I change the font on the slideshow?

Thanks.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:21:05 +0000

Hi JP,
if you’ve uploaded the images to a post/page and are using the shortcode, it’s as easy as opening the media gallery for the particular post/page and reordering the images. Just drag and drop the images up and down or change the numbers in the right column.