A Really Simple WordPress Gallery
June 13th, 2010
I recently started a project that’s being built in WordPress and requires a gallery to show off photos of recent events, a simple task I thought. How wrong could I of been?!
After trawling the internet, exhausting numerous Google searches and testing a couple of possible gallery plugins – I settled on Lazyest Gallery.
Many of the galleries were much more complicated than what was needed, either in the administration, the uploading of images, or styling it to fit in with the rest of the website. Lazyest Gallery has a simple set of options for the site admin and uploads are done by FTP. No buggy upload scripts, no need to create the galleries and sub galleries first – just upload a folder full of images, with the folder name being used for the gallery name. Simple. There’s no style to the gallery once placed on a page of your site – which is just done with a simple WordPress short code – so it’s pretty easy to apply a few CSS styles to the images and fit it in with the rest of your website.
The only downsides that I can see so far is the lack of captions for the images – which I’m sure some people would want, and the layouts are put together using tables – which may offend some designers.
You can download the plugin here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lazyest-gallery
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