I18N Gallery

[ChriS]

Thanks for your extended response!

But there are also other plugins directly using the directory structure, like Photo Gallery.

I would like to stay with I18N Gallery because of the strong I18N compatibility, even in monolingual projects (for consistency) and also because of the very good included lightbox featureset and constant updating (Photo Gallery was last updated in May 2011). Thanks for the indication, will check Photo Gallery especially for the I18N compatibility and lightbox featureset. Maybe will have a look also over other plugins.

With I18N Galleries it's only slightly slower - create a gallery giving it a title, add pictures, navigate to directory, select "Add all pictures", save.
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But you can also put multiple galleries on a page manually with (% gallery name=mygallery thumb=random %). Then you have more control over the order of galleries, the thumb displayed, text between galleries, etc.

I agree to the first statement, but the gallery is still only created in the plugin backend; the additional work comes from the individual setup of the public viewable galleries in the pages backend.
Looking at the ouput of the shortcode you provided, additional tumbnails are there but not displayed:

Code:

<div class="gallery-thumb" style="display:none">

Would you please make it possible to influence the output by giving a style class and providing a shortcode variable that omits the display:none property? That would be a nice little feature to show all the thumbnails.

You could use PHP to get all XML files in /data/i18n_gallery, extract the tag name from the XML and display the galleries using get_i18n_gallery($name, array('thumb'=>0)). Put the code in a component and include it in your page with DynPages

I don't know if I'm able to code the PHP part, but even if I am I would prefer if this possibility is included in a future I18N Gallery plugin. I am thinking of a shortcode like (% gallery all thumb=random %) maybe also with the option to additionally output the title (I know this is a more complex styling). The biggest step would be if I18N Gallery allows folder like organization of galleries (hierarchical ordering).
I hope you agree this to be potential major additional features and hope even more you are interested to implement (some of) them.
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