The #1 selling gallery on CodeCanyon
This responsive WordPress gallery plugin aligns your thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, like Flickr and Google image search. Make your galleries stand out in an eye-catching and unique new way! Replace the standard WP galleries [gallery] as [justified_image_grid] with lots of new features and options. WordPress manages the galleries and this plugin will display them. Or alternatively you can load images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram or use NextGEN as an image manager/source. Unleash the power of image RSS Feeds and pull videos from Youtube, Vimeo and images from 500px, Pinterest, deviantART, Stumbleupon, Imgur, Tumblr, WordPress.com blogs and more! Or just make a responsive banner of Recent posts using their featured images! Also works with custom post types and custom taxonomies. Filter the thumbnails by tags or any taxonomy!Control every aspect: row height, appearance, special effects like desaturation, color overlay with magnifier icon, borders, multiple captions, free and premium lightboxes, mouse activated animation… It’s easy to install and comes with 20 presets out of the box. The setup is a breeze with two admin areas: the plugin settings and the Shortcode Editor (you can edit your previously generated shortcodes!). 279 settings are spread over a tabbed interface in two admin areas for quick access. The settings are available to change on a per gallery basis, extending the global settings and presets. No coding skills are required. There is no need to remember shortcode attributes/values because of the Shortcode Editor that has examples and contextual help.
Your download includes an extensive 71 pages PDF documentation with full settings reference, troubleshooting guide and clickable bookmarks – table of contents. There are also some narrated HD videos available. An excellent, fast-response support is provided with guaranteed reply. It covers installation, technical and compatibility issues. Buy with confidence, the author is here to help!
Extended license doesn’t cover multiple uses! You need to purchase a regular or an extended license for every site. You can’t resell the plugin as part of a stock theme, the extended license doesn’t allow you to do that.
Videos – make sure you watch them in 1080p!
- #1 How to install
- #2 Settings and creating a gallery
Features
- Automatically align images to a justified gallery keeping their original aspect ratio
- Responsive: adapts to the resolution of any device, provided your theme is also responsive. Try resizing the browser window! It’ll adjust as you stop dragging.
- Uses the WordPress native way of creating galleries, you can use your pre-existing galleries
- Facebook compatibility: use the Facebook authorization manager tool and the shortcode editor to visually select your single or multiple Facebook albums to load (page and user albums as well). Or just display all albums in your content using the Facebook overview feature – automatically create separate pages for the albums or just open them in the lightbox. API Requests are cached.
- Flickr compatibility: load photos from a user’s Photostream, Favorites, Group pools, Collections (!), Photosets, Galleries or a global Flickr search tool! Includes a user manager tool. No authentication required. Optional backlink to the photo on Flickr is available. API Requests are cached. Breadcrumbs for collections! Sets can be opened in the lightbox directly from the collection view.
- Instagram compatibility: load your feed, your recent photos, or your liked photos! Also, automatic content aggregation by Instagram tags, recent photos by any user. Furthermore pick any location or venue in the world to pull photos from, using Instagram and Worldcam! Optional backlink to the photo on Instagram is available. API Requests are cached.
- RSS/Atom feeds, semi-dedicated support for these popular sites: pull videos from Youtube, Vimeo and images from 500px, Pinterest, deviantART, Stumbleupon, Imgur, Tumblr, WordPress.com – using a regular link to Feed URL converter tool. It knows the feed URLs on these sites and helps you get them easily.
- NextGEN Gallery (both versions 1 and 2) integration, full support for nested albums and galleries, tag gallery, tag album, recent images, random images (all photos or from a gallery), individual photos, permalinks, custom links, limit, load more or hidden limit is used instead of pagination. You can transfrom your already established site using NextGEN shortcodes to use this plugin for the looks, in a matter of minutes! Hugely improved display performance over native NextGEN.
- Compatible with NGG Custom Fields for custom links on NextGEN images
- Built-in breadcrumb for Nextgen with lots of options, also for Flickr and Facebook sources
- Recent posts: Create a homepage banner of the (recent) posts (or your custom post type) using their featured images, filter by categories, display categories/tags/taxonomies in the caption, or show an automatic excerpt trimmed to x words as well as your manual exceprt, author name, time… Pre-filter by custom taxonomies, date queries, author and more!
- Filter using tag cloud or buttons by the terms of any taxonomy, ony the fly, for example: narrow WP posts, Flickr, Instagram or NextGEN content by tags! Extend WP post categories and tags to images to filter by. Works with custom post types with custom taxonomies. Compatible with Media Library Assistant.
- Clicks on thumbnails can point to a Custom link/URL with video support – images with link target (_self/_blank/video)
- Load more type of pagination with Infinite Scroll
- Limit image count or maximum rows
- Hidden limit – limit the number of thumbs but cycle all gallery images in the lightbox
- Flexible, dynamic row height
- On the fly special effects: cross-browser desaturation, glow, blur, sepia, edge detection effects
- Natively HDPI display or Retina Ready
- Jetpack Photon compatible
- Ability to crop images to a fixed aspect ratio (essentially similar to fixed width and height, but with reponsiveness in mind)
- Ability randomize image width (without skewing image of course), this is the opposite of the previous feature, the fixed aspect ratio
- Adds images to XML Sitemap with WordPress SEO plugin by Joost de Valk
- Admin area 1: Main settings page with clean and logical tabs and sections
- Admin area 2: Shortcode Editor for the attributes with the ability to edit existing shortcodes
- Both admin areas feature contextual help
- 279 unique settings and shortcode attributes that you can change for each gallery
- Mobile specific settings that apply when a mobile device is detected
- Collaboration with premium lightboxes (WordPress plugins). These are FooBox which is social and responsive + the Social Gallery that allows Facebook/Disqus comments for the pictures. These are purchased separately.
- Multiple free lightbox options bundled: a customized prettyPhoto with social sharing, ColorBox, PhotoSwipe – which is optimized for mobiles and features a touch swipe navigation between the images. It’s possible to use a different lightbox for mobile devices and for desktops. Also to disable the lightbox or to turn links off. Compatible with Jetpack’s Carousel, a full screen free lightbox.
- prettyPhoto advanced deeplinking: Customized to Like images individually, with the Liked photo’s thumbnail showing up on Facebook, works with random order
- Full deeplinking and extended social tools support for prettyPhoto: Like, Tweet, G+, Pin the individual images (toggleable and re-orderable buttons)
- Most important prettyPhoto settings are easily changeable, theme, social tools, deeplinking. Optional Google Analytics compatibility.
- HTML tags support in lightbox captions
- Inner/Middle/Outer border with Inner/Outer shadow
- Magnifier icon (can be changed) in the middle of the transparent color overlay
- Error checking
- Right click theft protection
- Download link with browser pop-up to save the image
- Ability to use multiple instances on one page
- Option to hide the last row if incomplete or to match previous row’s height for same shaped images
- You can choose any of the WordPress image fields (such as Title, Alternate Text, Caption, Description from Media Libray) to appear at any location as captions and in the lightboxes
- Translation or localization ready with .po file (includes tinyMCE modal window texts)
- Built-in tool to move images between posts in the Media Library without having to re-upload them
- Crops the images as a last resort, can be set to never crop
- Template tag generator in the shortcode editor, sidebar text widget shortcode compatibility
- Features simply the best mouse enter/leave animation solution, hoverFlow for jQuery to solve the animation queue buildup
- TimThumb prepares, resizes, caches the thumbnails for minimal bandwidth and resource usage (can be disabled). It’s also made cacheable by CloudFlare!
- CDN support
- Plugin files will only load when needed, not causing slowdown on other pages
- Earn affiliate commissions by enabling a ‘powered by…’ link through your envato username
- Continuous updates have been released and are to be expected as new feature suggestions and customization requests spotlight areas to improve. Also when 3rd party script authors release new versions. Bugs are to be eliminated when found.
- Support is taken seriously, all efforts will be made to make an incompatibility go away. Also I listen to customer opinions and feature suggestions.
Testimonials
- “The Justified Image Grid plugin for Wordpress installed easily, and works fantastic. It’s simple to use, and the multiple appearances made customization a breeze. I’d recommend this for anyone who wants their image galleries to stand out. In all – a great plugin. // Nils Kristoffersen”
- I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. This is one of best gallery plugins out there. Easy to install and use and looks fantastic. With it’s easy social media integration this proved to be the best solution for clients who were more comfortable uploading images onto their social media accounts than entering the WP Admin which can be daunting for some. 5* all the way. Highly recommended!
- This is the best gallery plugin for wordpress. Great styles, loads of options, and totally flexible. I love it! Works perfectly for what I was trying to accomplish. Thank you so much!
- Great plugin and a great author!! Easy install, and when I had a small issue the author took care of it within minutes. Bookmarked
- What a beautiful gallery plugin! Lovely work.
- Just want to say: what an awesome plugin. I have been looking for a gallery for wordpress with these capabilities for an age! Great work Firsh.
- 5 stars on this one buddy, up and runnin faster then my coffee maker!
- This plugin is awesome, but Firsh’s customer service is incredible!
- Perfect and easy! Best (responsive) gallery plugin by far! Great job.
- You are awesome Firsh. The best customer service on the web!
- It´s too bad that I can´t give you another five stars for your custumer service!
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- Thanks for making such an awesome plugin, I really love it and am so glad I stumbled upon it today!
- 1.2? OMG …its the gift that keeps on giving! Right on man, best 12 bux I EVER spent.
- I love this gallery plugin….Been hoping someone would put it together, and did not imagine it being this good. Bravo!
- I just feel the need to comment on how extremely helpful Firsh is if you ever have a problem with your purchase or even if you have questions not related to your purchase. I would recommend buying from him. He is patient, thorough, and overall, makes great plugins!
- I did the upgrades of the plugin and it is working brilliantly. It takes true vision to develop such a piece of software and I applaud you for that! It solved a big problem for us and opened up some great new possibilities which we are using to extend our website design way beyond the norm.
- Thanks for the lightning fast support. Firsh was great help. He answered my query in under an hour and fixed my issue right away..
- You my friend have been awesome! You went beyond the call of duty to help me out! So easy to recommend your work and support to others! We need people like you out there on all Evnavto Marketplaces!
Milestones
- This is the #1 top selling WordPress gallery plugin on CodeCanyon since July 28, 2013!
- This item made me the Nr1 Top Selling New Author For July 2012 on CodeCanyon, thank you my Dear Buyers!
- This file hit the 3-months Top Sellers list in 2 months with 373 sales (ending Aug, 2012) and it’s there ever since.
- This plugin is on the Weekly Top Sellers list every week since 1 year and counting, top position is 7th with 142 sales.
Updates / Changelog
What’s next?- The to-do is still too long, so more updates are coming in 2014. I also want to improve the product page and the preview site with more and better demos and do some marketing.
v1.8 – December 20, 2013 – Christmas update – Flickr collections, Multiple Facebook albums, new Recent posts features, individual prettyPhoto social tools, WP3.8 compatibility and much more
- New feature: Flickr collections
- Collections hold sets on Flickr and JIG now fully supports the concept, with 5 levels of nesting
- ‘Overview collection’ that loads every collection on the Flickr account
- Sets can also open in a lightbox instead of on their own page
- Integrated breadcrumb with renameable home element and different separator characters
- Subcollection / set / photo count display on the thumbnail
- Collection / set description can be displayed above the grid
- New feature: Multiple Facebook albums can be selected for a customized overview (much requested!)
- New feature: Recent posts are now filterable by author. It’s also possible to only show the currently logged in user’s posts.
- New feature: Instagram user blacklist feature that allows you to hide photos from certain users (by username or IG user ID) – to provide some sort of moderation
- New feature: Instagram tag filter now has a mode switch: AND/OR to allow multiple tags narrowing the image results from Instagram
- New feature: Ability to add a class to certain images in the grid, to target them for CSS or JS customizations
- New feature: PrettyPhoto social button can be rearranged or individually disabled from now on, using a simple setting.
- New feature: Recent Posts can now be obtained via WP3.7 ‘Advanced date queries’: show posts from a specific date range or the last x days
- New feature: Recent Posts’ “Display in the description” setting is now multiplied to allow 3 different lines of the same setting. You are now able to display three different types of information about the post (such as date/time, author, excerpt etc…) combined!
- New feature: Recent Posts’ “Display in the description” settings have all your custom taxonomies added that can be shown as caption on the thumbnails. They are displayed comma separated like categories and tags which were the only taxonomies available previously.
- New feature: Facebook albums’ description can now be shown on the overview thumbnails (under the photo count) and also above the albums.
- New feature: Facebook photo count on album thumbnails can now be disabled if not needed.
- New feature: Custom attribute name/value on thumbnail links (for custom lightboxes)
- New feature: Link attributes (custom lightbox) settings mini-section holds the link class, rel, custom attribute settings and on top of that a control to use them only on desktops or mobile devices or both. This lets you use your custom lightbox wherever you require it.
- New feature: JIG images can be enabled to show up in feeds, it’s an advanced setting and may not be applicable for every site.
- Improved: WordPress 3.8 compatibility, better design/typography of the admin area (global settings). The Shortcode Editor was updated to match the original JIG SCE design.
- Improved: The Load More feature (all types) will now wait until the current batch is finished loading before staring a new batch, this improves the speed and user experience
- Improved: Recent Posts’ Automatic excerpt feature doesn’t generate an empty ‘excerpt ending’ when there is no text or there are just images in the post.
- Improved: The photo downloader feature (download link in the lightbox) is now compatible with more images and server scenarios, ensuring that no 0 size images are downloaded
- Improved: Image width and height is now added to the thumbnails, not just via CSS.
- Improved: Facebook overview feature now finds your manually set cover photo. However if you are opening the albums in a lightbox, the cover photo will be the first photo to start viewing from the beginning.
- Improved: WP smush.it plugin compatibility: In some cases that plugin breaks image uploads and essentially removes the dimensions metadata from the image in the WP database. JIG tried to calculate the dimensions (required for the layout) for these images but failed, now it’s done in an improved way that actually works. So while the smush.it plugin is not recommended, it will likely NOT break the grid by missing images from now on, even if the image appears broken in the Media Library.
- Improved: PHP Sessions are no longer used for the Facebook and Instagram authentication process, now WP Transients are used instead. This means it should work seamlessly on even more servers (not relying on sessions).
- Improved: PrettyPhoto social buttons have a more specific class now, to avoid theme conflicts. Spacing between them is equalized. The ‘facebook’ theme of prettyPhoto has a new classname as well!
- Improved: ‘All of the images have failed to load.’ error message got updated with better instructions, it includes the hint that it may be a problem with Hostgator.
- Improved: Shortcode Editor’s Recent Posts tab is reorganized for easier access (using subsections)
- Bugfix: Filtering: When displaying the tag cloud, the first tag is treated like any other, previously it was larger than the rest.
- Bugfix: Filtering: The method for selecting the first filter tag (or ‘All’) is revised to be more consistent – sometimes the gallery wouldn’t initialize
- Bugfix: Filtering: The tag cloud’s range now doesn’t take into account the ‘All’, and the most popular tag will be as large as the ‘All’ (if present) previously the ‘All’ was too dominant in some cases.
- Bugfix: Facebook overview feature, when opening albums in a lightbox, the first image’s description will be its title and not the photo count from the thumbnail.
- Bugfix: Add friends as Facebook pages feature extended to be available through the ‘add other user’ as well
- Bugfix: NextGEN permalink slug setting is now used properly. Previously it caused discrepancy between JIG and native NG’s album view.
- Bugfix: NextGEN albums feature, when a subalbum is empty and the counter setting is on, there is no empty line new before the subalbum’s description
- Bugfix: Load more’s hybrid mode wouldn’t activate the auto loading feature in certain scenarios
- Bugfix: IE7 when caption is displayed below the thumbs, the mouse doesn’t turn into a hand from now on.
- Updated: MobileDetect to 2.7.6
- Updated: Localization, documentation
- New feature: Flickr search (ability to pull global Flickr photos matching certain criteria)
- New feature: Facebook friends can now be added much like restricted pages (an authenticated user is required, you), this feature needs to be enabled with a separate setting to make sure one understands other people’s privacy
- New feature: From now on it’s possible to purge the WP RSS feed cache in the options.
- New feature: Hybrid Load More option: One click on Load More is required then infinite scroll.
- New feature: Add your Facebook friends as pages, with access via your user
- Improved: When multiple filtering mode on, clicking on a lone selected filter will deselect it and choose ‘all’ or the first filter
- Improved: Flickr tags with : in them are discarded as they are often undesired
- Improved: NextGEN albums and galleries whose name is a number (e.g. years) are now available to use properly
- Improved: Ability to pull all photos in the Media Library using ids=*
- Improved: FB auth other user ‘return’ page looks a bit better and displays the error message if available
- Improved: WP Image tags and Image categories settings will now search in native WP taxonomies if Media Library Assistant is installed but no results are found looking for the MLA taxonomies
- Improved: When the ID setting (pulling images attached to a post by ID), has multiple IDs, the results intertwine seamlessly and are not ‘put after each other’, so ordering settings are used – multi post IDs option is no longer available for pre-WP3.6, it defaults to the first given post ID
- Improved: The Facebook ‘No albums at all’ error displays more information as it’s more often an SSL problem.
- Bugfix: Carousel lightbox didn’t open Recent posts that link to images. Furthermore, when using Carousel with Recent posts that link to posts or WP attachment pages, an empty lightbox would show. Lightbox is disabled in these cases.
- Bugfix: NextGEN gallery path problems, using the absolute path and not loading images is now fixed!
- Bugfix: NextGEN ‘recent images’ and ‘random images’ modes now make use of custom links properly
- Bugfix: NextGEN breadcrumb gallery element would not display if the album was numeric
- Bugfix: Filtering didn’t work when you used years or other numbers as filter terms (while displaying the All button), this is fixed now
- Bugfix: Filtering feature, when there are no filters present, the All button won’t show as it has no purpose, also the filters_for_JS undefined variable notice is removed
- Bugfix: Filtering feature, when ‘Min count for term’ was set to 0, the filters would become ‘null’
- Bugfix: Vertical caption centering looked double and buggy in older IE versions, it has been improved
- Bugfix: Undefined variable: height and width errors are removed
- Bugfix: A prettyPhoto error, and another about z-index
- Bugfix: Missing semicolons syntax error that only arised when minification was applied to the inline JS.
- Improved: Social Gallery v3 compatibility
- Improved: FooBox 2.0.9.3+ compatibility (recommended version!)
- Updated: Colorbox to v1.4.33
- Updated: MobileDetect to 2.7.2
- Updated: TimThumb to version 2.8.13
- Updated: Localization, documentation
- Bugfix: Instagram video thumbnails were not detected properly
- Bugfix: The lightbox would not activate when the grid is resized due to scrollbar appearing
- Bugfix: FooBox v2 is now detected properly
- New feature: Native Retina ready (even without Photon):
- The device pixel ratio is used to serve larger images by TimThumb
- New settings: “Retina ready”, “Retina quality” and “Overlay icon retina URL”
- Automatically uses scaled, lower quality larger images for managed thumbnail filesize – does not double the size of the site for mobile
- Uses CSS media queries for images such as the overlay icon – if a retina version is specified (without the need to set its dimensions)
- Improved Filtering feature (6 new settings):
- Added: Order filter terms by: In order of appearance in images, Title ascending (A-Z), Title descending (Z-A), Random, Popularity among images (top terms first), Custom (uses the next setting)
- Added: Filter terms custom order: manually set the desired filter terms and their order
- Added: Min count for term: only display filter terms that have a certain amount of photos
- Added: Top x terms: only display the top x number of filter terms, top means that more images belong to them
- Added: Use All button: Yes or No – if not used the first term will be active and loaded by default
- Added: Allow multiple filters: “No, just one at a time”, “OR (expanding selection, union)” or “AND (narrowing selection, intersect)”
- Filtering feature’s tab is moved to be after ‘Load more’ as it is now a more prominent feature, it also has its own tab in the Shortcode Editor as well, in the same position
- Filter tags containing foreign (tested with Russian, Chinese) characters will work from now on
- Bugfix: Filtering feature, when combined with ‘Load more’, after selecting a filter, the extra images would no longer show up in the lightbox, now these two features work together properly. Loading more will increase the visible images for each filter simultaneously.
- Improved self-loading engine and theme compatibility:
- Improved: Old jQuery detection is better and more consistent
- Improved: The plugin detects if its JS file is not loaded
- Improved: If the JIG JS is loaded but the JIG jQuery plugin is not in the jQuery object because of the site has multiple instances of jQuery loaded, it re-adds itself
- Improved: Inline JS of the activation call is now compressed, similar to CSS – reason: It only takes <2ms as I use a lightweight script, also it was getting very long and wasn’t well formatted anyway
- Improved: The JS call now only includes values that are non-default, because there are now defaults in the jQuery plugin part – this allows less code to call the JIG activation (it was beginning to get ternary chaos because of conditional string concatenation)
- Improved: Inline JS does not break when minified with W3 Total Cache
- Improved prettyPhoto feature/experience:
- Important bugfix: prettyPhoto would crash on small screens with lots of text above the image
- Improved: If prettyPhoto JS is loaded but the prettyPhoto jQuery plugin is not in the JS (same reason as above), it’s re-added
- Improved: Now forces the JIG prettyPhoto as the used prettyPhoto in the jQuery object, even if the theme’s prettyPhoto is loaded after JIG’s prettyPhoto – this improves theme compatibility and ensures that JIG’s customized prettyPhoto is the one that gets used
- Improved: prettyPhoto’s re-open (by a deeplinking URL) is now event-based instead of the default 50ms delay, resulting in a snappier performance – prettyPhoto starts to re-open the image as soon as JIG is ready
- Improved: prettyPhoto’s re-open only fires when a JIG instance activates it AND with the event mentioned above, furthermore it waits for other prettyPhoto activation calls to ensure that the lightbox that re-opens is driven by the prettyPhoto settings chosen in JIG
- Improved: JIG no longer de-registers your version(s) of prettyPhoto, as it can simply work around them
- Improved: The plugin now always works with absolute image URLs and not relative URLs (most importantly, this caused sharing problems in prettyPhoto e.g. Pinterest error in prettyPhoto – otherwise it would have been fine with relative URLs too)
- Bugfix: prettyPhoto would crash if the window was resized and at the same time the resize affected JIG behind it (responsive themes), now it’s fixed by not calling lightbox reinitialization script upon re-creating the gallery layout due to a resize
- Improved: If prettyPhoto is called by your theme or a plugin after a window resize, JIG detects that and puts back the prettyPhoto call with your desired settings (without the intent of re-opening the currently open lightbox, thus preventing crashing)
- Bugfix: prettyPhoto didn’t properly recognize https vimeo URLs, also it didn’t detect channel video URLs properly, but now it works well with the RSS feature’s vimeo channels option
- Added: Placeholder image setting for Recent posts – to provide a way to display posts that don’t have a feature image
- Added: New caption setting called “Title background matches text width” so the caption title’s background can be only as wide as the text, covering less from the thumbnails (optional). Works well with vertical centering. Some rounded corners are also available for dossier-style.
- Added: Caption animations are now possible to use in reverse: fade, slide and mixed can happen the other way around. That means all texts are shown by default and they fade/slide out on mouse over. Instead of only showing up on mouse over. These are 3 new options for the caption setting.
- Added: New caption style called “Below the image”, that lets you put captions below the image, outside the thumbnail. This comes with a new setting that sets a uniform height for all these captions to make the result look cool and not random. Caption backgrounds will extend to this full height. Excess text will be cropped by … or removed if it can’t fit. Since the caption below the image is not part of the link that makes the image clickable, links and other HTML are now allowed in the caption below the thumbnails of the grid. This new feature goes especially well with Recent posts that now don’t even have to have a featured image.
- Added: New caption extra: to have Facebook-style gradient background for the captions over the thumbnails
- Added: Exclude posts by ID for Recent posts. It’s useful for related-posts galleries. You can also auto-exclude the current posts by entering the word ‘current’ – much like ‘featured’ for the WP galleries’ exclude (only through JIG).
- Added: Instagram: Restrict images by tags (no matter which Instagram source is used), a pre-filter feature
- Added: Facebook Feed feature to compliment Overview and Timeline album modes. This new Feed feature can show photos by others on a page, or any other photo from your feed. It has limited use for user profiles, but can be useful for pages with user photos.
- Added: New width mode options: Fixed width only on desktop, or Fixed width only on mobile
- Changed: Recent posts default limit was changed from 10 to 50.
- Added: In the Shortcode Editor, you can now select multiple options conveniently with checkboxes for the following options: ng_gallery, ng_album, ng_random_images, recents_post_type by selecting ‘switch to checkboxes’ in the drop-down. It auto switches to checkboxes when loading a shortcode with multiple values for one of these shortcode attributes.
- Added: Ability to set a different row height and deviation for mobile devices
- Added: New setting that enables a background for the thumbnails, which is visible during loading (e.g. gray box like on Flickr)
- Added: Allow transparent PNGs setting (normally they display with white background, intentionally to prevent a browser rendering bug)
- Added: An advanced option to disable TimThumb (useful for logos, testing, advanced users, last resort etc).
- Added: Basic Instagram videos support, now they show up in the grid, and when clicked a new tab opens with the video on Instagram. The Instagram video’s page can’t be opened in the ligtbox due to an Instagram limitation.
- Added: Compatibility with “Simple Custom Post Order” for Recent Posts, using a new order setting (Custom post order).
- Added: Ability to preserve given post order when using the post_ids shortcode attribute. If no specific orderby is selected, it’ll just show them in the order you entered them (expected behavior).
- Improved/Bugfix: Facebook overview feature now works great even with / category / postname / permalink structure (or with permalinks off). Furthermore, now it’s working on all kinds of pages (category listing, blog sidebar, author page – except attachment pages) with a proper link which only changes the JIG gallery on the page, and not anything else. For example, previously it opened the last post from a blog listing view, now this is fixed.
- Improved/Bugfix: Sometimes especially on self-hosted sites this error would appear when trying to add a Facebook user: “The authentication of current user: null is successful.” – Now the following error will display with a useful link: “SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK”
- Improved/Bugfix: Sometimes you’d get the message when adding a Facebook user: “The state does not match. You may be a victim of CSRF.” now the more likely real problem is also pointed out: “Make sure that SESSIONS are enabled in your PHP environment (ask your hosting). It’s more likely that this is the problem!”
- Bugfix: When vertical centering captions and using caption style slide or mixed, if you brought the mouse over the thumbnails in the first five seconds, they’ll align to center again which is not the expected behavior. It’s due to custom fonts checking but was modified so the checking is not affected by your mouse over actions.
- Bugfix: Filtering: Ensuring that ‘All’ button (when present) is always the first one. A slug of ‘0’ would place a term before that.
- Bugfix: PHP errors would appear if you are showing a NextGEN album that had a preview picture manually set but that picture since been removed, this is no longer the case, and instead JIG will just find another image automatically
- Bugfix: Shortcode Editor: NextGEN image source can’t be selected at the same time as other image sources (they can’t be combined anyway)
- Bugfix: When editing a Flickr shortcode with photosets, groups or galleries in it, the AJAX loader will properly block user interactions until the selection area is loaded. Previously it was possible to switch to some other Flickr source type if the user was fast enough, resulting in unexpected behavior.
- Bugfix: When loading a shortcode with Instagram source, all attributes are loaded properly (those that can apply to either IG source mode), previously they were not loaded except the instagram_link
- Bugfix: Loading a shortcode in the Shortcode Editor will only actually load it once, the first time, preventing certain anomalies that are results of double loading (keyup and change events both trigger the load) – yields some performance boost
- Bugfix: There was an SQL error when trying to find Featured images for Recent posts, and it didn’t exist even in NextGEN.
- Bugfix: The border element is no longer unnecessarily created, the result is less DOM elements
- Bugfix: The caption is no longer created, when it’s just a single space
- Bugfix: When using the “Randomize thumbnail width” setting, the randomized width was added to the HTML source version of images which resulted in skewed images when JS was disabled, random width no longer tries to apply for non-JS scenarios
- Bugfix: Selecting a different jQuery load source would have an effect on the jQuery loaded in the admin, this changed to only affect the frontend
- Bugfix: Take over WP gallery shortcode option works properly for completely empty gallery shortcodes too!
- Bugfix: Settings, Facebook tab: ‘To add users’ CSS fix
- Settings page’s Load more tab, “Click to reset to the Light skin or the Dark skin.”, these links didn’t work in Firefox.
- Updated: Documentation
- Updated: MobileDetect to 2.7
- Updated: ColorBox to v1.4.31
- Updated: Localization
- Bugfix: NextGEN tag galleries are not looking into other taxonomies other than ngg_tag resulting in a more consistent behavior (as they are looking into both term names and slugs, it sometimes matched a term from a non-NextGEN taxonomy)
- Bugfix: NextGEN albums and galleries are detected better from the URL, they interfered with some custom taxonomy page views
- Bugfix: NextGEN intersect tags feature now has a prevention for an unnecessary wrong DB query
- Bugfix: Instagram names with a symbol in them caused settings loss or weird behavior, now they are stripped (this was supposed to be added in a previous update, somehow it got left out)
- Updated NextGEN 2.0.14 compatibility: JIG takes over NG shortcodes properly
- Added empty index.html files to every folder of the plugin to disallow directory browsing
- Added: Intersect tags for NextGEN tag galleries to have the ability to display images that match all of the specified tags and not just any of them
- Bugfix: Shortcode editor loads (Youtube, deviantART) feed URLs or other values with an equal mark (=) properly for editing, previously it was cut off at the first occurrence
- Bugfix: Hidden limit is working properly now. In some cases it was incorrectly disabled.
- Updated: Documentation, Localization files
- New image source: RSS/Atom feeds:
- This update is not just about NG2, no! It’s mainly about RSS Feeds and the immense power it brings to JIG
- With RSS you are able to pull images into JIG from a wide range of possible sites
- Semi-dedicated support for the following image sources, using RSS:
- Youtube
- Vimeo
- 500px
- deviantART
- Stumbleupon
- Imgur
- Tumblr
- WordPress.com
- Feed URL generator for the above sites, you supply the regular link and a helper tool converts it to the feed URL
- Any site can become an image source if it has a feed with images in it!
- The RSS feature is not limited to the list of sites above.
- New tab called ‘RSS’ in the shortcode editor with 8 new settings
- Link RSS images to their permalink or the image itself (RSS Reader mode or RSS Gallery mode basically)
- Set description like WP Recent Posts feature (auto excerpt, date and time)
- Optional lightbox backlink when images are opened in the lightbox
- Possibility to load anything into JIG via a custom RSS feed (for advanced users)
- Nextgen 2 compatibility
- Compatibility for both NG 1.9.x and NG 2+
- All functions regarding NG have been rewritten, JIG no longer uses the nggdb class, furthermore the nggGallery class is only used for options getting and internationalization. JIG now has its own functions for creating/interpreting links, communicating with the database (regarding NextGEN contents).
- Database access has been heavily optimized to use the least possible queries since JIG uses its own methods for that. It yields significant performance advantage over NG2 and NG1. You can enjoy the performance benefit by only showing NG content through JIG on a given page. This can save 100 queries or more easily.
- Fixed the chaos that C_Photocrati_Resource_Manager class caused, (modifying the loading and execution order of ALL scripts using object buffer) – when that class is present (or anything else overrides the ‘holy’ order), JIG will use $(document).ready(function(){ ... }); instead of the self-invoking anonymous function (function(){ ... })(); – after I did this, the “run_ngg_resource_manager” hook that was added in NG 2.0.11 so I also made use of that
- Added a new option for the ng_recent_images to display recent images in a way that NG2 does it. It takes into account the EXIF date of the image. If you have just uploaded an image, but it has an old EXIF date, it won’t be the most recent image – this may not be the desired result! So you have the ability to choose to display recent images just by their upload date (NG 1.9.x style) or to take EXIF into account (NG 2 style, often undesired).
- When displaying multiple galleries, combined by entering (comma separated) multiple ids to ng_gallery shortcode attribute, the ordering of pictures is taken into account by a whole, producing the same result as NG2. Previously the ordering got applied to the individual galleries and they were merged afterwards.
- The ng_pics shortcode attribute was checked for NG2 compatibility and got improved to actually display the images in the order they are entered (as comma separated multiple ids) – the single (one) image feature is unaffected by this.
- The ng_random_images now accepts a comma separated list of multiple gallery ids to allow random images from multiple galleries.
- The display of NG albums takes the global sorting setting into account. NG2 only allows you to reverse your custom order by default, but JIG extends this to be able to sort album contents (galleries and subalbums combined) by Title or ID. This is useful for sorting by gallery Title A-Z when displaying multiple albums together (next changelog entry) or in the Overview album (all galleries) mode. The ID can be used to sort gallery/subalbum creation order. Feature is extended to NG1.
- You can now display multiple albums using a comma separated list with the ng_album shortcode attribute. Feature was added with NG2 but JIG makes it available for use with NG1 too.
- The global sort options of NG now apply to tag galleries and tag galleries accessed via tag albums. The tag albums are now in created in the order you specify them in the shortcode. It’s enabled for NG1, even though only NG2 has this natively.
- Everything uses the sort options of NG and reflects the same order as you see in NG2 natively, given the same options. This means ordering is set in NG. The random order is available at all times via JIG’s orderby shortcode attribute.
- Breadcrumbs and permalinks have been checked to work with either permalinks on or off and NG1 or NG2. Tested on a top-level domain and as well as a /wordpress/ directory installation (the latter is significantly different).
- Featured images for Recent posts using NextGEN have been re-checked. NG2 copies the image to the WP media library so it works well. NG1 and old WP (pre media updates) uses ngg_ prefix for _thumbnail_id postmeta, JIG can handle that too for backwards compatibility.
- JIG can now take over ngg_images shortcodes.
- New setting: “Take over NextGEN 2 post inserts” as JIG can take over the new NG2 post inserts (the new way of NG2 that is instead of shortcodes).
- “Remove usually unnecessary NextGEN files from the page” setting is updated to include a NG2 file.
- v1.6 is tested for NextGEN 2.0.11 compatibility
- Added: Using Recent Posts feature, when Click on a thumbnail link to an image (lightbox image gallery of posts), a permalink can be placed in the lightbox as a way to go to the parent post (similar to Flickr, Instagram, RSS backlinks in the lightbox)
- Added: Ability to pre-filter Recent posts by terms of any (including custom) taxonomy
- Added: Recent posts can now make use of WP Sticky posts – no preference or only show sticky posts or exclude them
- Added: Ability to show posts (or pages and custom post type) by manually specifying IDs (Recent posts feature)
- Added: Ability to open images on a new tab, by the browser (a new ‘lightbox’ setting)
- Added: Ability to disregard custom links (as an exception for a particular grid) – new option for Custom link’s target (only in the Shortcode Editor)
- Added: Animated GIF support (skips TimThumb or Jetpack Photon) – a new setting
- Added: Ability to show larger image in the lightbox from Facebook (normal: 720px max, larger: the new default, maximum: up to 4MP – 2048px)
- Added: Facebook overview feature’s breadcrumb’s home element can be a custom text instead of page/profile name
- Added: Custom text to add before & after each gallery (can be disabled on individual instances)
- Added: Import/Export settings (with optional encryption) DB caches are not transferred
- Added: Reset settings (wipe all JIG settings from the options table, DB caches are not wiped) – forces JIG to rebuild the settings and start over from defaults
- Added: Proper uninstall. It’s a setting that provides a way to select how to uninstall the next time you delete the plugin. Comes with 3 options:
- No change: Keep settings and caches in the database (default, allows smooth updates).
- Full removal: Remove settings and caches from the database.
- Partial removal: Remove settings from the database but keep the caches.
- Improved: jQuery source setting is more aggressive, more compatible and has more options with exact version numbers.
- Improved: You can now use category slugs, not just IDs when pre-filtering Recent posts
- Improved: Shortcode editor now supports foreign and all special characters (accented, russian, chinese etc) for loading and generating shortcodes, can match URLs with query strings for RSS url
- Improved: If ‘items’ is empty (the list of images), JIG will display an error, stop processing further code and not add anything else to the source
- Improved: Theme compatibility, countering CSS rule of img elements’ “visibility: hidden;”
- Improved: PrettyPhoto is now able to properly re-open with advanced deeplinking with any website (iframe) or image URL in the deeplinking path
- Changed: NextGEN max limit increased from 500 to 1000 (still not recommended)
- Changed: Recent posts has a default limit of 10 when no limit is set
- Bugfix: When Facebook doesn’t retun an expiry time for the access token, a default of 2 months will be used instead of expiring the entity immediately and raising a false red expiry alert
- Bugfix: Expired Facebook entities weren’t displaying a red border, only on hover (on the Facebook tab in the settings)
- Bugfix: Facebook overview mode would crash if the album cover’s resolution is smaller than max height (row height + deviation), now allowing upscale
- Bugfix: Facebook overview only albums feature included Mobile Uploads album where it’s not a normal album, now they are filtered by type ‘normal’ of the Facebook API
- Bugfix: When thumbnail width is not supplied for any reason, the image is now skipped (in JS), this prevents a crash that could stop further script execution
- Bugfix: When limit is set to 0 then 500 images are pulled from Facebook as intended (limit imposed by API) – previously it loaded none or 100 images.
- Bugfix: All other image sources’ limits have also been improved.
- Bugfix: NextGEN random and recent feaute now only have the default limit of 25 when no limit is set.
- Bugfix: Template tag information alert now correctly appears when NextGEN is not installed. Previously it generated a template tag no matter what, while it needs an image source selected.
- Bugfix: Facebook, Flickr and Instagram keys and secrets can still be used when the user erroneously copies them with surrounding whitespace. Previously this case generated weird errors (can’t find user, invalid key etc.)
- Bugfix: Z-index fixed for the borders, that sometimes interfered with drop down menus
- Checked: for jQuery v1.10.2 and v2.0.3 compatibility with a positive result.
- Checked: for WP 3.6 compatibility, no problems found.
- Updated: Documentation
- Updated: MobileDetect to 2.6.8
- Updated: ColorBox to v1.4.27
- Updated: Localization
v1.5 – June 1, 2013 – The biggest update yet! – Instagram, Filtering, Facebook overview, Fixed aspect ratio, Randomize width, Individual Facebook like with prettyPhoto advanced deeplinking, better SEO, Admin interface improvements, and much more…
v1.4.9 – May 1, 2013 – Vertical caption centering, infinite scroll, Jetpack Carousel…
v1.4.8 – April 4, 2013 – New shortcode options, more bugfixes, some improvements
v1.4.7 – March 21, 2013 – Important bugfixes
v1.4.6 – March 18, 2013 – Jetpack Photon compatibility, NG+WPML, CDN support, better SEO, bugfixes
v1.4.5 – February 12, 2013 – User suggested new features, NextGEN core changes, browser and jQuery compatibility bugfixes for the shortcode editor, mobile experience improvements…
v1.4.4 – January 18, 2013 – Minor update
v1.4.3 – January 15, 2013 – Minor update regarding NextGEN (when soft disabled temporarily)
v1.4.2 – December 28, 2012 – Minor update
v1.4.1 – December 18, 2012 – Minor update
v1.4 – December 17, 2012
v1.3 – September 26, 2012
v1.2 – August 6, 2012
v1.1 – July 6, 2012
v1.0 – July 1, 2012 – Initial CodeCanyon Release
For the complete changelog, check out Updates and changelog on justifiedgrid.com – I’ve managed to reach CodeCanyon’s ~65000 characters item description limit so I had to remove all v1.1-v1.5 changelogs from this page!
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Credits
- Huge thanks for NMH photography: greentzatziki on flickr. The USA photos are mine.
- jQuery
- Pixastic
- hoverFlow
- prettyPhoto
- ColorBox
- PhotoSwipe
- FooBox
- Social Gallery
- NextGEN
- NextGEN Custom Fields plugin
- WordPress SEO plugin
- MobileDetect
- Facebook API
- Flickr API
- Instagram API
- Worldcam
- jQuery tagcloud
- Jetpack
- WordPress
- Music for the podcast is created by Bassinvader on AudioJungle
- Sound effect for the podcast is created by scoringaudiogeeks on AudioJungle
- Particle effect for the podcast is created by sachinjoshi on VideoHive
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