Posts Tagged ‘image gallery’

Create A Photoblog With Wordpress Gallery Plugins

October 15th, 2009

Some time ago we have already touched upon the topic of gallery plugins for WordPress which help you to turn your weblog into an impressive online portfolio and showcase your art skills in the best way. Today WPDaddy reviews another set of extensions that are developed for you to spice up your weblog by adding personal photo galleries to it.

1. Cincopa Content Gallery

Cincopa Content Gallery allows you to establish customizable image gallery, audio and video playlists and slideshows in your WordPress page. The plugin possesses automatic uploading and hosting, images resizing and videos transcoding options and is supported by iPhone. Cincopa Content Gallery helps you to manage your galleries easily and publish media to your blog wherever you are.

2. SuperSlider-Show

SuperSlider-Show is a plugin created for animated performance using Mootools 1.2 javascript to turn your photo gallery into a slideshow. This add-on possesses high configuration facilities, CSS based animations, theme based design and is able to create mini thumbnails automatically.

3. Flickr Photo Album

This plugin will be in a real value for you if you are a Flickr user as with its help you can display your Flickr photosets within your WordPress site. The plugin provides a simple template which can be edited according to your own preferences to make it match your website perfectly. The visitors of your WordPress blog are allowed to comment on your Flickr photos without moving to Flickr.com as this gallery plugin supports special commenting options.

4. Media Library Gallery

Media Library Gallery plugin is distinguished by the option of creating gallery from the images that are attached to your blog posts. All you have to do is to install the plugin to your WordPress site, select a post or a page where you want the gallery to be included and the work is done. Besides, Media Library Gallery plugin is thickbox ready.

5. Yet Another Photoblog

This plugin will come in handy if you want to turn your weblog into the full featured photo blog with minimum time and effort. Uploading and managing photos is extremely easily, and also self-learning EXIF filter is enabled which allows to select and make visible your camera tags.

So if you are eager to transform your WordPress blog into an advanced online photo gallery there is nothing difficult - just download and install one of the WordPress gallery plugins!

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WordPress as a CMS: how to build a portfolio website

April 30th, 2009



Deservedly considered to be the best blogging platform WordPress is not just that. Its ease of use and maintenance makes it the most ultimate CMS (Content Management System). CMS is a Web application used for creating and managing HTML content. CMSs usually provide tools that allow creating and managing content with little or no knowledge of programming. The easy to understand and operate WordPress admin tools allow you to create literally every possible type of website without tech skills from your side. There are hundreds of ways to use WordPress not as a blog but as CMS, creating an online portfolio is one of them. So how can you actually do that? Well, there are few ways.


* You can add image gallery WordPress Plugins to your blog thus adding the new functionality to it. This is an easy way to show your pictures to the world.


* The other way is to change your WordPress theme to a pre-made theme that is especially designed to be a gallery. Here you should decide whether you want a free or a premium theme for your online gallery.


Portfolio Extended is a brilliant example of a free wp theme for online galleries. It’s three column, adSence ready skin performed in nice red color palette.


free wordpress portfolio theme


Flipbook photo blog wp flash template is an awesome example of a premium theme for portfolio. The use of Flash makes it live and vivid.


wordpress portfolio


Here are some brilliant examples of WordPress used as a portfolio website to inspire you:


Freshivore. A personal page of a designer from California featuring a very nice portfolio of his works.


wp portfolio


Best web gallery. A brilliant web design showcase built with WordPress.


wordpress gallery


How would you use WordPress as a CMS?

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The best image gallery WordPress Plugins

April 21st, 2009



Running a blog for a while you’ll eventually feel the need of an image gallery, even if your blog is not a personal page but a business oriented one for instance. Creating an image gallery at your weblog is extremely easy, the gallery feature is integrated into WordPress since version 2.5. But if you want your gallery to be something more unique and beautiful you better use plugins, they can make your blog look more attractive and the galleries they create look more pleasant as well. I picked the best of the image gallery WordPress Plugins for you to choose from:


PhotoXhibit


This plugin allows you to upload pictures and create albums as well as use photos from your Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug accounts. Among the main features are the styles editor that allows you to customize each gallery’s appearance, independent gallery creator and the ability to create and upload albums with one thumbnail or two thumbnails of different sizes.


NextGen Gallery Plugin


This is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin with a Flash slideshow option. Among the great number of awesome features are sortable albums, zip file uploads, AJAX thumbnail generator, Lightbox Effects, watermark function and much more.


Lazyest Gallery Plugin


Very good plugin, features include comments on images and folders, automatic thumbnail and slide creation, galleries and sub-galleries, adding captions and much more.


Lightbox Gallery Plugin


This famous plugin gives your galleries a lightbox view and displays the associated metadata with the pictures.


Cleaner WordPress Gallery Plugin


This awesome plugin gives you complete control over your image galleries. It creates valid XHTML code and uses the images that you need to be resized. CSS styling gives you control over the display of your pictures.


FlippingBook Gallery Plugin


Another awesome plugin for working with images in weblogs. All you need to do is download photos, the plugin will create a photo gallery out of them. The Flash gallery created resembles a real book, you’ll have to turn its pages to look through the photos.


These were 6 awesome WordPress plugins for creating image galleries I consider to be the best. Do you know more?

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