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The Plugin Demo is below. The 4 galleries in the Component Demo demonstrate most of the extension’s features.

See backend screenshots in the Guide To Component



Version 2.1 Plugin Demo:
The plugin puts a one or more galleries into a Joomla article.



Features
  • Joomla 1.5 native extension
  • Categories/Subcategories
  • User Ratings
  • User Comments
  • Slideshow
  • Front-end uploads/ Gallery Creation
  • Multiple image uploader in the backend and frontend.
  • Community Builder plugin
  • Access Control (public/registered/special) over galleries and menu pictures and individual images
  • Top/bottom/left/right position for thumbs
  • Top/bottom/left/right position for descriptions
  • Choose the amount of thumbnail images per row
  • Full lightbox photo gallery with all of the options that the main gallery has
  • Choose the width and height of each gallery
  • In the main gallery you can choose to hide the thumbnails or descriptions. You can also choose to hide the big image, and have the thumbnail click go to the lightbox. In the lightbox you can hide the thumbs and/or hide the descriptions (and use the slideshow controls to navigate).
  • Use the plugin to put one or many galleries into an article.
  • Use the module to put a gallery into a module position.
  • Joomfish Support
  • Option to have the large images preloaded in the background, after the page has loaded
  • Option to have the image transition fade in and out, or to have no transition effect (works well with preloading).
  • Add a description to any photo, which can have links and text formatting in it.
  • Choose a link for each photo (optional), so when you click on the big photo, it links somewhere (and choose whether it opens in a new window).
  • Search engine friendly urls for Joomla and sh404sef (site.com/category-name/gallery-name) with an alias field for each category/ gallery
  • Code validates to XHTML 1.0 transitional Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • Works with the Joomla FTP layer turned on
  • Works in Internet Explorer - 6/7/8, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome
  • Czech, Danish, English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish language files are inside the component.


Please note, if you webserver has the suhosin security extension installed, or has the mod_security extension installed, you may have problems uploading images as this extension uses a flash/javascript multiple image uploader. You may need to disable some features in these extensions, or turn them off altogether. You can find out if you have these installed by going to Joomla Backend -> Help -> System info -> PHP Information and searching for "suhosin" and "mod_security". There is detailed information about how to disable some features of suhosin/mod_security in the subscriber documentation.



Purchase

Ignite Gallery is $40 (US Dollars). This includes 6 months of updates/ new versions and 6 months of support. The extension is released under the GPL v2 License. This license allows you to use the extension on as many sites as you choose, and to modify it to your liking. There is no encryption or activation code in GPL licensed software, so the extension does not have a time limit on how long it works. The six month limit is a limit on how long you can log in to the site and download updates/ new versions, and how long you can submit support requests.

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Future plans for Ignite Gallery

*We are now planning a 2.5 version in late Feburary/ early March, instead of the previous plans for a 2.2 version in January/ early Feburary. The version change is because we decided we need to do some major changes to how the extension works, if we want future features to work well. We expect 2.5 will set up a good codebase for 2.6/2.7, which we expect will be more minor updates. You will be able to upgrade 2.1 to 2.5 keeping all content, but it won't be a simple process of applying a patch

For Version 2.5 we are planning:

  • There will not be galleries and categories, just categories, that do the job of a gallery and a category.
  • Profiles: The category settings will be stored in a profile. Multiple categories can be assigned to a profile. Changing the profile will change the settings in all the categories assigned to it.
  • Watermarking
  • Image tagging and a search
  • A random/ latest/ highest rated/ most commented image module
  • A Java uploader, as a backup if there are server conflicts with the flash uploader.
  • Single Image upload option (standard html form), and import images from a folder on the server.
  • A sliding category view, where users can navigate horizontally through categories/ subcategories
  • Pagination in the frontend, when multiple categories are displayed to the public.
  • A download image button
  • Support for transparent Gifs and PNGs
  • Importing of EXIF photo descriptions
  • Copy category button and copy/move image functions.
  • Possibly the option to resize images before they are uploaded.

If you can think of a feature that you would like in Ignite Gallery, You can make a post in the "Feature Request" section of the support forum.