#progallery

Changes in this update include:

The RW resources image source now correctly works if the website is published into a subdomain on the hosting server.

Images added via RW resources can be sorted into ascending or descending order.

Automatic updates are supported in both Stacks 4 and Stacks 5. This is the best way to download and install stack updates.

ProGallery v3 features a revised user interface, more content sources, improved thumbnail layouts and 10 different lightbox configurations. Many feature requests have been added, in a hope to “bridge the gap” caused by other notable gallery stacks being discontinued in recent months.

Key features at a glance…

Improved documentation. Added a couple of topics that were frequently asked about and deleted other parts that weren’t needed any more.

Native lazy loading of thumbnail images, for newer web browsers that support it.

Added the option of a simple ‘live search’ box, displayed above the thumbnail grid. Good for letting users quickly filter a large collection of thumbnails.

DeviantArt has been added as a new image source. A popular image sharing platform with photographers, animators and digital artists.

Google Sheets has been added as a new image source. This allows you (or a client) to maintain your database of gallery images or video in spreadsheet format, from Google Docs.

If no lightbox is enabled, you can now set the thumbnail links to open within a new tab or browser window.

Six thumbnail grid tooltip styles to choose from, in addition to the browser default title tooltip style. Available in the ‘No Lightbox’ configuration.

Eight new lightbox plugins have been added. Each one truly unique in its presentation and functionality.

More style options for thumbnail items, thumbnail images, titles and captions.

Additional thumbnail layouts. Take your pick from beautifully modern and responsive grids, columns, flexbox tables and lists. Including a level 3 CSS masonry grid layout. All layouts promote excellent SEO and accessibility standards.

The new ‘custom’ thumbnail layout has been added so that yourself or another developer can use custom CSS code to create totally bespoke thumbnail grid layouts, using the existing ProGallery HTML. This gives ProGallery almost limitless capabilities.

New CloudFront data source. This is similar to the existing CSV source, but requires less setup configuration (e.g. enter the link to the storage location only once). Works for CloudFront, S3 and similar file warehouses.

New YouTube playlist data source. Using the official YouTube Data v3 API, this allows you to pull-in any public YouTube video playlist. Video thumbnails are used in the thumbnail grid, and clicking a video thumbnail reveals the embedded video within a compatible lightbox.

Lots of minor ‘under the hood’ tweaks and optimisations. Publishing is faster. ProGallery only uploads the essential code and other assets as-required by particular thumbnail layouts and lightboxes.

Not forgetting the most important feature of all - the best possible support. Email if you need help deciding if ProGallery is the right choice for you or you want help setting up your first gallery using ProGallery. Plus this update is FREE for existing v2 customers, available via your Paddle account.

Who is ProGallery intended for? Any discerning RapidWeaver user (of almost any skill level) who wants to create an accessible and professionally presented gallery of photographs or video. ProGallery provides a logical process for creating immersive galleries to be proud of. The vast choice of settings lend themselves towards maximum creative freedom.

Changes in this free update include:

If no link is applied to a thumbnail image, we now conditionally hide all the anchor markup and present the image as a static image.

Patched a Chrome bug, that was causing images in columns to vanish if they had animations applied to themselves.

Added a basic Instagram image source (derived from the InstaViewer stack), which was sponsored by a ProGallery user.

Renamed the 'Masonry' image layout to 'Columns' to better-reflect what this layout does.

Simplification of the choice of slideshow options shown for the lightbox.

Major improvements to 'swipe' support on touch devices - now faster, smoother and less error prone.

Swipe support is now permanently enabled at all times. There was no reason to turn this off.

Added a new setting to randomise the ordering of images within your gallery.

Ability to toggle the display of lightbox Titles and Captions independently, rather than all on, all off.

Added tooltip notes to the effect that the download button only works for images published on the same domain that ProGallery is published to.

Improvements to help try and limit the risk of Pinterest / Download lightbox buttons vanishing in some web browsers, for slower loading images.

As requested by a user, both the Pinterest and Download buttons can have their icon markup customised within the ProGallery settings.

Borders can now get applied independently to thumbnail images and thumbnail items.

New image source to load a selection of random images from Lorem Pixel - useful for quickly testing ProGallery with.

The lightbox title no longer has a background colour applied on mobile.

It is now possible to apply rounded corners and basic frame effects to lightbox images.

New 'Vertical Stack' image layout added.

New 'Floating Thumbs' image layout added.

New 'Zig-Zag' image layout added.

Additional font formatting options added for titles and captions presented in the thumbnail grid and lightbox modes.

Added new box shadow settings for the image thumbnails.

It is now possible to trigger the lightbox at any image or video more reliably, using custom anchor triggers (see the website for details).

Updated some of the informational tooltips displayed against some settings.

The grouping and ordering of some ProGallery settings has been changed, to reflect new features being added and to make setup easier.

Additional options to customise thumbnail outlines, when tab navigation is being used in the web browser.

Changes in this free update for version 2.x users include:

Lazy loading of thumbnail images is now an optional setting, available as a checkbox option within the sub-stacks of each source

When zoom effects are applied to thumbnails, the overflow is cropped

Improvements to the rendering of thumbnail images, when placed in masonry layouts and with transitional effects applied

If a user arrives on the webpage with Javascript disabled, the thumbnail image can still be clicked to reveal the fullsize image or video

Added new 'border radius' and 'eclipse' thumbnail mouseover special effects

More hidden localisations within the lightbox can now be customised

Potential fix for layering issues in the Foundations top bar

The lightbox now supports an optional 'download' and 'Pinterest' image sharing buttons, in the top left corner

ALT tags applied to images (from directories of images) now use the image title, as the attribute value

Added some extra meta data, sometimes needed by Stacks 3.5

Updated some of the setup instructions shown in edit mode

Other minor improvements and optimisations

Changes in this exciting free update include the following:

New 'HTML5 Video' source, to make it even faster and easier to add self-hosted HTML5 video content to your ProGallery

New option to change the alignment of thumbnail images displayed within the lightbox gallery

Rewritten the masonry grid module to use pure CSS code (CSS columns) which will bring much-improved reliability and faster page loading

ProGallery stack assets (like video play buttons and font icons) are now stored in a different location, to limit conflicts with other RapidWeaver addons

New 'Social Video' source, to make it even faster and easier to add YouTube or Vimeo video content directly to your ProGallery

New 'HTML5 Video Directory' source, letting you link to a directory of HTML5 video clips and automatically generate a basic video gallery

New 'Total CMS Gallery' source, which can connect to a Total CMS gallery and pull images into your ProGallery stack

Updated several parts of the instructions to make some aspects easier to understand

The previous 'video source' is now marked as deprecated. It will still work for the time being, but it will be going away in a future update. The new system of separate HTML5 video, HTML5 video directory and social video sources is easier to setup and generates cleaner code. Additionally it has allowed us to fix a few problems like fullscreen Vimeo not working. So these new video sources are  definitely the best ones to be using. A couple of the beta testers have commented that this is now by-far the best video gallery stack available for RapidWeaver!

Changes in this FREE stack update include:

New 'none' option for the thumbnail grid, to completely disable the display of thumbnail images

New 'ID' setting, so you can easily give multiple instances of ProGallery (on the same page) unique IDs

Added the ability to trigger a ProGallery stack using a custom image, button or link*

Added the ability to have the page open with a ProGallery image or video open*

We're now using DIV tags for caption content, which should afford more flexible use of HTML markup

*Please see the website for details on how to get either of these new function working. 

If your website uses CloudFlare, please remember to clear your cache after applying this update and publishing your changes!