Viewer; a full-featured, lightbox viewing, fullscreen smashing, thumbnail driving piece of awesome sauce.
Viewer is a plugin that transforms your default wordpress into a beautiful gallery experience. With no setup at all, it’s entirely plug-and-play. The best part, is that it will automatically style itself to match your site*.
Features
Lightbox Viewing – Enter into lightbox mode with a completely responsive layout. Easily navigation through a gallery of images with ease, or alternatively turn this option off all together.
Fullscreen Navigation – With one click your viewers can be engaged into a fullscreen immersive experience that will fill the browser from brim to brim. You can also turn this option off completely.
Crop Options – Imagery can come in all shapes and sizes, so there are crop options to suit a wide range of images and their aspect ratios.
Native Gallery – Viewer utilizes the native WordPress shortcode, and can be used anywhere inside of a post, or on a page.
Transition Options – Choose from a variety of transitions from fades, to slides, to pulsing and more.
Image Panning – Some images may be too tall or too wide for the gallery, so enabling Image Panning will let viewers see the rest of the hidden image on mouseover.
Mobile Support – Viewer is amazing on mobile, using native swipe gestures for iOS.
- Provided that you’re using the background color control option.
Update – 1.0.1 The “max-width” option has been removed, as it’s a bit buggered. By default Viewer will fill the parent container, so to set a maximum width, set it on the parent container. My apologies for this inconvenience.
Support
Support is offered through the the forum only. Comments are for pre-sales questions. Please do not leave a review as a support question, they are for reviews. I am not notified of these reviews, and I have no way to respond to you. Please do not email me for support, because you will not receive a reply.
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Note PageLines Framework version 2 or better is required to use this extension.
Note PageLines Framework version 2 or better is required to use this extension.
Support for store products is hosted on the PageLines Forums. The comments below are for Pre-Sales questions only.
105 comments
Hi, I ask for the old price ... I wanted to buy a plug-and such an unpleasant surprise .. ;-/ Regards Kedark
@kedark I'm sorry you fill this way, but these are the new prices. There are many reasons for this, as outlined in a post I made recently. http://nickhaskins.com/2013/01/price-increase/ Also, you're getting support in less than 120 seconds here :)
@nphaskins Ok, I understand, but the gallery now cost 14.99 and 24.99 ... old price still appears on the ... button at the bottom of http://viewer.nichola.us/ ... but it's your decision ... Regards, Yours faithfully .. Kedark
Hi,
I love the look of Viewer & bought it today but can't get it to work...
I created a gallery using 2 images on the following page:
http://branching-out.co.uk/wedding-flowers-hampton-hill/
- being careful to only use images "uploaded to that page".
WP generated a shortcode: [gallery ids="194,195"] and the thumbnails displayed ok. I then activated the Viewer plugin and got a very weird effect, namely, the full size images, interpersed with their thumbnails, arranged horizontally down the page.
I tried changing the shortcode to [gallery] but it made no difference.
All software is up to date.
I tried it on a different site but got exactly the same problem...any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
Many thanks,
Jeremy
@nphaskins Hi Nick, really appreciate your prompt reply. It's better, but still not working I'm afraid.
Since the update to 1.0.6, the Viewer "stage" is displayed, with the controls along the bottom edge as in the demo but the images don't display at all. I just get the "loading" icon spinning in the centre on a grey background and a box saying "Image not found" at top left.
http://branching-out.co.uk/wedding-flowers-hampton-hill/
I tried it on 2 other sites, one running WP pre-3.5 and got exactly the same problem.
I also tried it with some really small images, just in case the images I was using were too big but still no luck....
@jeremyk Hmm, that's not something that I can replicate. The last update didn't change anything else other than where the gallery is displayed and under what conditions. I would try to resave permalinks under General-->Permalinks in Wordpress. Not entirely sure why that would do that, and haven't had any reports of it. hmm
Hi N, Decided to try building what I need not using ozone. I purchased your viewer plugin - have it installed and activated - but I can't figure out how to place the plugin.
I purchased last night and it worked fine on the gallery I placed in the first post but I get the standard WP gallery in subsequent posts and this error: Init failed: Galleria could not find the element "#viewer".
@Clifford P @nphaskins I'm not the house coder (he's on a well deserved vacation) but I believe this is what you need:
/* Flex Galleries */.galleria-bar {background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) !important;background-image: none !important;} .galleria-stage {top: 0 !important;left: 0 !important;right: 0 !important;bottom: 0 !important;}
@Clifford P @ReedBaker Viewer, in addition to every one of my product is styled "for the masses." The rest is up to you.
@ReedBaker Cool, can you share the modification? @nphaskins , maybe add it as a parameter or checkbox? Is there a way to make the image fit only in the display area, not get covered up by the bar (if yes, changing opacity is moot). Thanks both.
@nphaskins Got it. Everything working. FYI, our developer dropped some CSS in the viewer to make the bottom translucent. Looks good. http://theauroramagazine.com/features/inked-athletes/
@ReedBaker So I just went back in to double check everything and it looks like I didn't version it, so of course no notifications were triggered.
You should be seeing an update notice at this point, or after refreshing the store.
@nphaskins So the store never updated - still @ 1.0.4. Think this is a page lines issue? Should I hop on their forum with it?
@nphaskins Been refreshing the store within the pagelines admin for a while. No luck. Any suggestions?
@ReedBaker Ya that was my mistake. I put in a newer [gallery] shortcode check based off of feedback from a previous user but that ended up making the code run on pages that didn't have a gallery.
I just patched this so go ahead and update and you should be set.
@nphaskins Hey there. This is from our developer: One more thing... On stories with no viewer... we get the error message. http://theauroramagazine.com/date-knight/go-ahead-skate-on-thin-ice/ Maybe he can assign a class to the error html that we can target with a display: none. (just for now)Something like: .galleria-error This something we could try or can the error itself be tackled?
@ReedBaker You can actually update right inside PageLines admin in wp-admin. Yeah I think that feed only checks every 12 hours. You can try to refresh the store and the update should show up.
@nphaskins Pagelines says I have no new updates available but I see the new version in the store.
@ReedBaker Looks like I'm going to have to put in more conditionals for different views and only load the js on the pages that have a gallery. Makes more sense this way I reckon. Expect an update in the next 1 - 72 hours.
@nphaskins Now another issue. This is a category archive that gives me the same error as before. Other category archives do not exhibit the behavior IF the posts they show do not have galleries in them. http://auroramag.wpengine.com/category/colorado-table/
@nphaskins That's it. I uploaded to that post instead of just picking from the library. thanks.
@ReedBaker hmm, see the issue is that I can't recreate the problem. I just created 3 galleries here locally with no issues. One thing that's changed in 3.5 is the media library, so you HAVE to make sure that the images your uploading, are "uploaded to this post."
That change they made is really reaking havok with support releated queries lately because I have other sections that use similar logic.
If the gallery you create, if those images are attached to that post, it wont work.
@nphaskins Sure. This is the one I added last night that works. http://auroramag.wpengine.com/coloradical/wheel-could-be-heroes/ this one that I just did. http://auroramag.wpengine.com/uncategorized/test/
@nphaskins Sure. This is the one I added last night that works. http://auroramag.wpengine.com/coloradical/wheel-could-be-heroes/ this one that I just did. http://auroramag.wpengine.com/uncategorized/test/
@ReedBaker Do you have a link I can see? Are there Wordpress galleries added to those pages? All Viewer does is check posts and pages for the gallery shortcode, then outputs its own code.
hey nick - on the demo site there is an error code -
Fatal error: Theme at http://bearded-avenger.com/wp-content/plugins/viewer/js/libs/galleria/themes/viewer/galleria.viewer.js could not load, check theme path.
I bought the plugin last night and I get the exact same error on my site - can you let me know how to fix it?
@dan_davies hi I don't see this error on the demo. Try refreshing as sometimes the script bugs out.
@dan_davies Glad to hear it. FWIW I'm going to be starting on a new gallery plugin within the next couple of weeks. I haven't really been satisfied with this script and how it's completely dependent on js to even work. Keep an eye out for that some time soon.
Hi. Is there a way to display the image counter but not the title and alt info?
With "show info" checkbox checked, I see this: http://screencast.com/t/CrOWLf7sKSS
With "show info" unchecked, I see this: http://screencast.com/t/ZgsQBnvDxn
Is there a way to do this? Maybe a checkbox in a future update, or maybe something to hack myself?
Thank you.
