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Plugin Description
Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin
Social Gallery is the ultimate lightbox plugin for WordPress. Your images deserve to be experienced and shared, to spark a response as they travel the social web, and to work for you by generating more fans and more Likes for your content. That’s why Social Gallery photo viewer transforms a stunning photo gallery into a full social experience.
Your awesome image gallery…
With this quick and responsive lightbox you can present your images in a beautiful grid layout, and users can view each one in epic full screen. The Social Gallery WordPress photo viewer plugin is compatible with NextGen Gallery, Justified Image Grid and Essential Grid, giving you outstanding flexibility and convenience to work with your existing gallery in the way that best suits you. You can also experiment with some eye-popping animations and transitions between images, including bounce in, flip or spin out effects, for a powerful and dynamic image gallery that captures the viewer’s imagination.
…becomes an interactive social sharing experience!
Making your WordPress, NextGen or Justified Image Grid photo gallery interactive and social guarantees that your users get the most out of your images – and so do you! With Social Gallery, you will enjoy more Likes and Shares, Comments and Pins, across every popular social network. You can tag people in photos (just like Facebook), and your users can add instant comments within the image gallery.
Make it your own
Your complete lightbox WordPress plugin is easy to install and fully customizable. The themes and framework give a familiar Facebook feel, but you can apply your own branding for a truly unique and personal photo gallery. Why send your users to Facebook to view and share your images? Drive your traffic to your own site without losing the momentum of intuitive social interaction. The Social Gallery lightbox plugin is mobile and tablet ready, using the mobile add on or your gallery’s existing mobile lightbox. With the Social Gallery WordPress photo viewer plugin there’s no limit to when and where your users can browse your unique photo gallery and share your content.
The name really does say it all – Social Gallery photo viewer is a premium lightbox plugin that does your images justice, while inviting your users to engage, interact and share in the most organic way. With Social Analytics, you’ll be able to see the difference for yourself!
I love SG because now instead of sending all of my traffic to our facebook page to view photos from events, I can drive traffic to our site while still keeping the same look at feel of Facebook. – www.boomentertainment.com
Social Gallery sets my pictures alive with social fire – or will, once
my wife actually promotes the site…. – http://princesseblack.com
I love Social Gallery because it’s the best plugin of all plugins made by mankind. Not just the best of existing plugins… No, it’s allready better than the ones to develop in to the future – http://www.partypica.com
I LOVE SOCIAL GALLERY BECAUSE I’TS SIMPLE TO CUSTOMIZE AND IT WORKS GREAT WITH MY 6500 PIC-NEXTGEN-GALLERY – http://www.jubla-boesingen.ch
- Fully Customizable
- Easily tweak your Social Gallery from the options screen
- Choose your Lightbox Skin
- Customize colors, links and descriptions
- Change margins and image sizes
- Choose Facebook Comments, Disqus, or neither!
Intuitive User Experience
- Users can browse the images on your blog post by clicking the left or right arrow keys
- Users can click on the right side of the image to move horizontally to the next image, or the left side to go back
- Users can Like, Pin, Tweet and Comment on every blog post image you enable
- Set dynamic CSS3 animations for the opening and closing of Social Gallery
Ultimate Social Sharing
Uses jQuery and the latest scripts for Facebook integration, Twitter Tweet It buttons and Pinterest Pin It buttons, as well as Linked In, Google Plus (Google+), StumbleUpon and Tumblr – enjoy 3x, or even 5x+ more engagement!
- Now works with Disqus Comments system
- Choice of Social Gallery pages framework or other fallbacks, including hashbang solution to distinct image comments
- iPhone and iPad compatible!
Lightweight and Fast
Modern CSS and jQuery enhancements
Compressed jQuery (JavaScript) and CSS for faster loading
Lightweight JavaScript (double minified!)
Selectively loaded CSS3 animations, to reduce page load time
Faster than the original Lightbox, and now even faster than older versions of Social Gallery!
Lightbox Features
- The ultimate social lightbox
- Facebook-style image viewing
- Facebook’s 1 billion+ users will be familiar with Social Gallery
- 3x more opportunity for visitors to Like and Share
- Fully Customizable – 50+ new options in V2
- 11 Preset “modes”, including NextGen and Justified Image Grid compatibility
- NextGen gallery plugin support
- Leverage all your existing blog posts
- Base bar and side bar specific to your blog
- Works with posts, pages, widgets and themes
- Image library and social gallery pages
- Full screen mode
- 40+ CSS3 animations and transitions
- Enhanced media navigation for users
- Add custom HTML descriptions New: Now “Per Image”!
- Lightweight JavaScript for fast loading and performance
- Custom URLs and SEO friendly
- Earn more with lightbox ads (Google AdSense)
- Multiple browsers supported (IE7+, IE10, Safari 3+, iOS Safari, Chrome 3+, Firefox 3+, Opera 10+)
- Integrates directly with WordPress – you get an extra menu item for Social Gallery, where you can manage everything; including settings, image library and update engine
- Works out of the box with 99% of WordPress themes
- Even if you have a totally custom theme, it only takes a minute to set up Social Gallery
- Replaces any old lightbox plugin
- Super easy install Now with a Wizard
- No coding required!
- Detailed documentation, with examples
Version 5.01
>>Fix of Facebook read_friendslist permission
>>Support for Twitter Cards in the tweet button
Version 4.6
>>Output of fb:admin to header
Version 4.4
>> Update to Facebook Tagging function to return username of (me)
>> Update to the location of the tagging boundaries to stop them all bunching in the top corner
>> Tidy up of some PHP functions
Version 4.3
>> Update to make compatible with Social Gallery Analytics
Version 4.2
>> Update to make compatible with Final Tiles Grid Plugin
Version 4.1.1 – 2nd June 2015
>> Change to description of "CSS Selector" to ease user experience
Version 4.1
>> Compatible with WordPress v4.2+
>> Compatible with Final Tiles Grid Plugin
Version 4.0.2
>> Fix to DFP Google Ad settings to refresh on lightbox navigation
Version 4.0.1
>> Refinement of image tagging (to remove multiple login boxes)
Version 4.0
>> Added image preloading
>> Added compatibility for Essential Grid WordPress Plugin
>> Refined image scanner to pick up more images
>> Improved image tagging
>> Tested compatibility with WordPress 4.1
Version 3.8.6 – 19th April 2014
>> Improvement of image scanner
>> Update for Universal Analytics (Google)
>> NextGen image scanner fix
>> Sites with lots of images improved performance
Version 3.8.5
>> Addition of
filter to prevent the open + close effect
Version 3.8.4
>> Update to fix the warning on install that headers already sent
Version 3.8 – 25th November 2013
>> Improvement of Social Gallery auto update core
>> Readiness for WordPress 3.8
Version 3.7 – 12th November 2013
>> Improvement to auto update
Version 3.6 – 12th November 2013
>> Fix to Social Gallery Page Template
>> Code added for auto load
>> outsourced for quicker updates
Version 3.5 – 11th November 2013
>>Fix where plugin slug was mentioning sgvideo
Version 3.4 – 9th November 2013
>>CSS fixes to mobile lightbox
Version 3.3 – 5th November 2013
>>Adding settings options for FB share and JiG overlay
>>Improved CSS in certain areas
>>Improved stability when FB is not defined
Version 3.2 – 3rd November 2013
>> Update for verified plugin
>> Minor bug fixes and improvements
v3.1 – 3rd November 2013
- Epic Automatic Update Core built into the plugin
- License code verification
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Stable base for future versions
- Future versions handled through Epic Automatic Updates
v3.0 – 20th October 2013
>> Image Tagging of the Lightbox photos *NEW*
>> Face Detection of faces in images *NEW*
>> Image scanner now scans custom posts *NEW*
>> Welcome page with support resources *NEW*
>> Google Analytics image views tracked *NEW*
>> Social Analytics basic functionality added *NEW*
>> SocialSMART basic functionality added *NEW*
>> Facebook SHARE button added *NEW*
>> NextGen 2.0+ Compatibile *FIX*
>> Justified Image Grid Load More compatibility *FIX*
>> Tumblr share button fixed when using Social Gallery Pages *FIX*
>> Image scanner improved to be more stable and pick up all NextGen images *FIX*
v2.3 – 9th August 2013
» Improved theme compatibility 'out of the box'
» Stronger image scanner which runs more reliably
» Changed references of "get_bloginfo('wpurl')" to "site_url()"
» Fixed a javascript bug in v2.1 with Justified Image Grid (JIG) titles
» Fixed a v2.0 bug which didn't show/hide "specific css selector" option
» ... on changing drop down selection
» Fixed a bug with Justified Image Grid (JIG) setup not working with
» ... Justified Image Grid until whole page has loaded inc scripts.
» Fixed the performance issue which was causing slow-downs for large scale sites
» Removed "You have recently updated your settings, please crawl.."
» ... prompt as it seems to not be helpful any longer
» Added functionality: Delete images from Social Gallery Library via "Image Library"
» Added functionality: "Admin Tools" tab on settings
» Added functionality: "Clear Image Library" - Advanced Admin Management function
» Added functionality: "Clear Scan History" - Advanced Admin Management function
» Added functionality: "Prompt to Download Images" - If enabled web site visitors
» ... clicking "Download" on image - automatically get a prompt to "save file as..."
» Added functionality: On/Off switch for "Prompt to Download" setting
» Improved "Prompt to Download" - uses permalinks for each image download
» ... to stop scrapers + prettify
v2.1 – 15th March 2013 – Many stability improvements & Fixes, Mobile detecting, On/Off for Social Gallery Per-Post & Per-Page, Escaped HTML now allowed for title & Descriptions, Settings Backup and much more!, also pre-cursor update to Social Gallery Mobile & Stat’s Add-ons and Justified Image Grid Improvement
» Fixed bug in social crawler
» Fixed a bug with Social Gallery Pages "title" attribute
» Fixed a bug with facebook app Id's incFBAppID
» Fixed bug in mobile detector
» Fixed sharedeck "undefined" issue
» Fixed "http" -> "https" bug for twitter script include [Thank You David Wilks]
» Fixed bug where tweet links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)
» Fixed bug where g+ links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)
» Fixed Bug in single-social-gallery-image template
» Fixed options in single-social-gallery-image template
» Fixed options in SocialGallery.Library.php
» Fixed bug in title attribution - all titles should display correctly now
» Fixed "X" close character overlap with scroll bar
» Fixed broken link (aka "You do not have sufficient perm..to access this page" bug)
» Removed swipe functionality from js
» Removed SocialGalleryMobile.js
» Removed some old legacy options from header
» Removed "swipe" experimental functionality
» Improved admin notice styling
» Added Social Stats bridge functionality
» Applied Fix for IE10 for navigation backgrounds [Thanks Jan Helleman]
» ...http://forum.socialgalleryplugin.com/showthread.php/67-Problem-with-Internet-Explorer-10-IE10-amp-Navigation
» Added setting: delay for social media stat updates
» Added addon finding functionality
» Added "Addons" to settings screen
» Added field retrieval for social stats
» Added viewing of individual images via admin area (for comment moderation)
» Added facebook comment validation
» Added Social Gallery Page awareness to viewer + Social Gallery Page template
» Added MobileDetect engine
» Added On/Off for mobile switch/option
» Added "Devices" page to settings
» Added On/Off breakdown for mobile AND tablets
» Added Tablet option for mobile switch
» Added settings for Mobile addon
» Added Overrides for Mobile addon
» Added awareness of Mobile addon
» Added option "Custom CSS" for overriding SG default CSS
» Added "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" meta boxes to posts/pages
» Added esc_attr ready titles - you can now include encoded html in your titles [Thanks Firsh]
» Added capacity to specify HTML Descriptions PER IMAGE via HTML5 data attributes
» Added esc_attr HTML ready descriptions:
» ...You can now include encoded html in your description overrides to be output
» ...HTML per images <img src="/images/smileys/laugh.png" alt=" :D" title=" :D" /> [Thanks Firsh]
» Added On/Off for "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" feature to Settings
» Added capacity to properly save "custom-social-gallery-image.php" templates
» Wrote a proper options model/class
» Wrote a "backup" routine for settings
» Wrote migration to new options model
» Settings Model complete with new upgrade path
» Made settings page remember your tab when you save settings (persistent tabs)
» Formally removed option "Include Swipe" [experimental feature]
» Improved Add-on install validation + styling
» Moved "Tweet Via" to settings page - allowing you to set your own Tweet Via @
» Moved Facebook App ID to be included next to "Include FB Source" in settings
» Tweaked Facebook App ID label
» Updated pinterest share code in-line with there latest code
» Despite pinterests' lack of compatability I have written a custom workaround
» Implemented "Custom CSS" via front-end
» Implemented Total disabling of Social Gallery per post/page, including includes
» Moved Mobile Add-on settings to "Add-ons" tab in settings
» Improved Justified Image Grid Mode
» Use's new Selector from Firsh - .jigsSgConnect a.jig-loaded [Thanks Firsh]
v2.0 – 13th December 2012 – Added Google Adsense compatibility, Social Gallery Pages, CSS3 Animations, Super Easy Install Wizard, Tumblr, Linked In, Google+ & Stumble Upon Sharing, Full Screen Mode, Theme Engine, Enhanced Management Area & Admin, Improved code efficiency & robustness and many more tweaks
» Fixed bug in Option Backup
» Fixed Chrome bug causing an undesirable scrollbar
» Fixed a fault which occured when people incorrectly set Disqus options
» Fixed Removed plugin background causing leak effects
» Fixed Object To Array beta bug
» Fixed mis-margin setting by some themes overriding css
» Fixed errors with renamed install zips
» Fixed 4 bugs related to image proportion, gallery margin and scaling
» Improvement: Better css resetting for image vertical-alignment
» Improvement: Re-engineered Image resizing using viewport methodology
» Improvement: Added facebook style shadow
» Improvement: All variables, functions and naming brought inline & cleaned
» Improvement: Seperate inclusion for all CSS3 effects for faster, effecient loading
» Improvement: Settings backed up on upgrade
» Improvement: Added capacity to enable/disable Social Gallery Pages function
» Improvement: Refined "Social Gallery Pages"
» Improvement: Fallback functionality to keep it simpler for users
» Improvement: Re-wrote install wizard to simplify initial settings
» Improvement: Made it easier to share Social Gallery and Earn a commision
» Improvement: Catching of incorrectly loaded urls
» Improvement: Redeveloped Social Gallery Plugin Homepage
» Improvement: Library, Social Statistics & Update Engine Pages
» Improvement: Updated documentation
» Improvement: Tested & Tweaked for IE10
» Improvement: Built specific social gallery encoder to ultimately minify code
» Improvement: Faster loading.
» Added Social Gallery Pages functionality
» Added Social Gallery Pages customisation
» Added ability to use Google Adsense in place of comments
» Added CSS3 Animation's for opening & closing Social Gallery [v2 easter egg]
» Added Tumblr Sharing
» Added Linked In Sharing
» Added Google+ Sharing
» Added FullScreen Mode
» Added Full Image Library
» Added PHP5 & viability checks
» Added Image Library Acquisition (Two Levels of Scanner)
» Added Image Library Social Statistics (Future module)
» Added Social Statistics Acqusition
» Added Install Wizard
» Added Unique Url Formulation (http://blog.com/social-gallery/your-image)
» Added OG + Meta for Each Image.
» Added Pretty Urls for Unique Social Gallery Pages
» Added "As seen on" to unique Social Gallery Pages
» Added FullScreen Mode icon
» Added AJAX admin management
» Added Progress bar and auto-resume to acquisition
» Added Proper auto-resume
» Added Image Viewing to Image Library
» Added Compatible Themes & Plugins feed to homepage
» Added Social Gallery News to homepage
» Added functionality: Image Gallery Margin Setting
» Added functionality: Image Gallery Enlarging via Setting
» Added Proper full screen adjustments
» Added "Forced fullscreen" mode
» Added CSS Deselectors
» Added Theme Engine pre-cursors
» Added Theme Engine
» Added 4 Starter-Themes
» Added library storage of image dimensions
» Added fullscreen mode so as it can deal with images of all sizes
» Added fullscreen to work persistently and on the fly
» Added functionality which allows local + remote images of all sizes
» Added .noLightBox and .noSocialGallery defaults
» Added Integration with Justified Image Grid
» Added Swipe Gestures [experimental] for mobile
» Added Download Image Link Functionality
» Added Automatic Update Checking
» Added "Share your options with developer" functionality
» Added Stronger CSS rules to Social Gallery
» CSS Resets SG to appear the same throughout your differing themes
» Added Automatic NextGen Compatability Features
» Added NextGen Gallery Overview Mode
» Added NextGen Widget Only Mode
» Added NextGen Thumbnails Mode
» Added NextGen Compatability Mode
» Added Gallery Compatability Mode
» Added Compatability Mode
» Added Page Images Mode
» Updated Post Images Mode
» Updated Help Documentation
» Fixed a bug with Disqus script inclusion
v1.3 – 28th August 2012
» Several minor fixes
v1.2 – 26th July 2012
» Added Disqus Commenting
» Added Option to toggle faces on Facebook Like/Send button
» Added Loading image
» Added Social links to config header
» Added capacity to override Facebook App ID
» Added showcase links
» Added upgrade routine (1.0->1.2)
» Fixed Pinterest bug
» Fixed alignment of images Bug
» Improved Documentation
» Numerous tiny tweaks and refactoring
