Plans for the future

[ramerika]

One Suggestion I would like to make:

Instead of inputting the category/page/post ids change it to unlimited drop-down box selections pulling the category/page/post ids from wordpress(it's too tedious to remember exact ids and typing them in)

[ChecMark]

One of the showcase sites (sorry, can't remember which one) has images that are also links. Not sure how they did this with FCG, but I'm hoping that this will still be possible when we have multiple galleries?

For my site, being able to add a conditional statement for the page ID, ie, {if page_ID="00"}, which then calls a specific gallery, would be simply awesome.

Cheers!

Gary

[Bytor]

Just installed the FCG on a site I am currently developing, I was wondering if it would be possible to move the Featured Content section ( the thumbnail images) bellow the Gallery itself and for them to rotate along with the Featured content being displayed.

Thanks for all the hard work you have done so far.

Bytor

[touchnova]

I know there is a running thread on the topic, but I feel it would benefit both the plugin and the end-user if FCG took advantage of Google Library's AJAX API. I'm no developer, but I believe it's a very simple change in syntax, as the WordPress API already includes the ability to pull from Google. Not sure if you've seen it, but Yslow is a great plugin for FireFox that helps evaluate site-load times...this tool will give you clear evidence as to the benefits of 'compliance' as presented.

Another thought that occurred to me...because MooTools and jQuery play together like cats and dogs, do you envision ever releasing a jQuery version of FCG? There are many, many commonly used plugins which currently conflict with FCG's use of MooTools, so it seems like viable option to instantly double your potential userbase, if not more.

Props for your efforts thus far, keep it up.

[el_furioso]

I'd point to my previous post and just recap here:

No more having to choose between custom thumbnails (which means the extra work of having to build a bunch of thumbs on your own) and auto-generated ones (which means inevitably getting some poorly-cropped thumbs). If a post contains a custom thumb, use it. Otherwise, generate one.

Oh, and opacity. If you have particularly busy images in the gallery, the opacity level of the popup text panel can sometimes make the text less legible. Being able to adjust that opacity would be really helpful.

[christianareas]

Hello. First of all, this is an amazing plugin! Great work. I have one small suggestion though. Might there be a way to get the <style> tag out of the main body? Doing this would allow sites using FCG to be xhtml valid. Thank you, and I wish you guys continued success.

[docpaul]

Hello. First of all, this is an amazing plugin! Great work. I have one small suggestion though. Might there be a way to get the <style> tag out of the main body? Doing this would allow sites using FCG to be xhtml valid. Thank you, and I wish you guys continued success.

I've left feedback on this on this posting on the feedback thread. Hope this helps with this suggestion for the future.

[nation]

an improvement idea:

Make it where you can have a default image that is shown if you do not have one specified in a post/page.

It could be that one just forgot, or that one really wants the text to be what is rotating with the background being static - either way, having it where "if no custom field is found, show this image" type of option would be great & should be easy to implement.

[Chit Chat Magazine]

I have been having serious problems with this plugin working in Internet Explorer. It is a great plugin when it works in Safari and Firefox but Explorer is used by many and the conflicts re: other plugins and not being able to get it to work even when plugins are deactivated is a major issue. Is there any thought about focusing on making sure it works with this browser.

Darlene

[paulae]

Hi, Kris. I just started using this wonderful plugin at http://www.larchmontgazette.com. I know it would look better if all the images were the same size, but since this is a news site, we get images from many sources and can't always control the sizes.

I would love to be able to easily "turn it off" when we don't have enough stories with accompanying images. Some weeks, our most important articles have no photos with them, so we wouldn't want the gallery to run that week. It would be great to be able to turn it off without having to re-edit index.php to remove the code. Possibility for a future release?