New:

• Gallery description next to the gallery. This feature allows to display description at the right of the gallery. As a result, the gallery and description are placed at eye-level allowing for better readability when long descriptions are added to the galleries. 

• Tags display on the gallery view. Earlier tags assigned to the gallery didn’t display on the gallery page. Now the tags assigned to the gallery are displayed underneath the gallery title.

• Search by ID. To simplify files management via the admin panel, we have added the ability to search for files by ID. 

• Search by tag. We have added a search by tag filter to the files management section so you could search for files by tags via the admin panel.   

• Custom CSS style section. We have added CSS style section in admin panel so the users could edit CSS styles of the component directly via Joomla admin panel.

• Gallery display in a map module. We have added galleries filter to the map module settings. With this filter, you can choose the galleries you want to display on the map.  


Updated:

• Renamed Default design to Fancy. We have renamed Default design to Fancy to avoid confusion with the default option allowing to set priority between menu item settings and global settings
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• Geotag for a gallery. Now you can assign a geotag to the gallery. A gallery with a geotag is added to the galleries filter, in the map module settings. As a result, this gallery can be displayed on the map.

• Default image setting for a front-end manager. Now, the default cover image can be set for a gallery via the front-end manager.


Bug fix:

• Tags display in menu item settings. Fixed tags display in menu item layout settings. Earlier the tags added for a new gallery didn’t display in menu item layout settings

• Tags order. Synchronized the order of the tags between the front-end and back-end. 

• Batch upload via the front-end manager. Batch upload didn’t work for the front-end manager.

• File description. Fixed the file description display in the below position.

• Video cover upload. It was impossible to upload a video cover for a gallery.

• Magnifier display. Fixed magnifier display in the lightbox.


Based on our customers’ requests and trends research in the Joomla sites development, we have improved the product for both site administrators and visitors. Version 4.8.0 contains numerous design and and functionality updates making our product more flexible and configurable to any taste.

So, first things first.

New design for galleries and files by default. This allows you to make your work with an admin panel of the site even more convenient and productive. Previous default design is still available as Classic option. In total FW Gallery has 5 design options and customer can switch designs in gloabal settings or individually on a menu item via Options tab.

Detailed layout for for every design. Each design has its own display style for galleries and files, which can be selected in accordance with a gallery purpose. Depending on a design selected and fields display chosen selected design will remain consistent.

Combined Galleries and Single Gallery menu layouts to avoid further confusion. Now there is only one Gallery Layout which can show top level galleries in no galleries is selected.

Information display customization option for galleries and files. This allows to optimize your work with albums of a specific gallery and single files. The following options are available:

• display gallery information under thumbnail or over it on hover;
• display file information under thumbnail or over it on hover;

Individual layout selection for a menu item on the site:

• grid selection - the number of objects in the bar and on the page can be set for the site menu item;
• global settings of galleries and images can be redefined for the site menu item;
• gallery can be set by selecting multiple galleries per one menu item.

An option to create a gallery by selecting tags assigned to single files. This approach saves a lot of time by the fact that the pictures do not need to be added again or moved between folders manually.

A new layout for one file with a other gallery files slider. Files slider also is available on Lightbox and  can be turned off if it is not useful for the purposes of a site.

The ability to view files in a Lightbox rather than on an individual page. This allows the user to take fewer actions and receive information faster without waiting for the new page loading and without creating new tabs.

Improved design and display settings for the Slideshow module. The admin panel design has become visually more pleasant, and the module design itself has been updated (thus, the slideshow option has changed, the opportunity to add the image name, the date has appeared).

Optimized the design and display settings for the Content Plugin, which allows you to work more efficiently with images in articles (adjust the image position to the text, customize the galleries inside the article).

Updated Google Images (old Picasa) Import plugin. We renamed it into the Google Images Import Plugin and added the possibility to download images from both the Gmail account and the Picasa account.

... and many manu more. Please read the Changelog on top of  FW Gallery Grand products page for the full updates list and read FW Gallery Documentation to see how new features work.

It's time to try the updated gallery!

Reading Time: 10 mins. 
Implementation Time : 60 mins.

• Prepare media content - photos grouped by services.

• Install FW Gallery to present your services with a clean design.

• Create required galleries to show service categories and different types of services inside them.

• Display all images to show services with their images and descriptions.

• Display a map using FW Gallery Map module.


Top-level gallery

Projects by location section

Page with projects

Project page

Project presentation with lightbox