Plans for the future

[exit6]

First of all, this is a great plug in. A couple of things would be nice additions.

It would be nice if you could use the excerpt text easily.

Also, rather than the overlay, it would be nice to have the text under the image, and have it animate along with the image. So as the image slides left, the text goes along with it, rather than slide down vertically etc. For the site I'm doing now, I'm adding 100px of white space to the bottom of the image to simulate this.

I'm a Flash developer primarily and I wonder if you could use some of the same transition types we use in Flash, developed by Robert Penner. The equations are here:http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/. Linear transitions seem very abrupt.

Finally, it would be nice to add custom arrows easily. Anyway you've done a great job so far.

[contactbayne]

1) I'd love to be able to manage my FCG from the Wordpress Dashboard (posts & pages).
2) Also being able to turn on/off in the "quick edit" for post & page.
3) Master List of all articles that have an image associated with the FCG.

[chrisws01]

Hi Guys,

Love the plugin. I am using it on some client sites I'm currently building.

Suggestion... Could you consider placing a pan and zoom (Sony Vegas term or Ken Burns effect - Apple) feature on a slide. It would make the slides very dynamic. I reckon that would make it a very marketable item if you did that.

Anyway, keep up the great work!

Chris
http://www.warwickstuart.com

[luke]

hi Kris
thanks for the great plugin. i installed an was using it very quickly.
However i was in need of a gallery plugin that allowed MULTIPLE galleries. and i couldnt find it anywhere.
the good news is i was able to modify your plugin to allow multiple galleries!
-- it can now handle up to 5 galleries, each pulling from a different category
-- all galleries share the same styling
-- i added a shortcode function to make it easier to embed the gallery in a post or page from the editor

i was in a rush so the above are not fully featured ( would like to allow multiple styles, add new galleries on the fly from the options page, make the shortcode more useful). but its working.

are you all interested in upgrading with my additions and releasing a new version?
thanks in advance,
luke

[quake74]

So, could you share your results with the rest of us?

[SuperMario]

Someone mentioned text opacity earlier in the topic, and I think that should definitely be on the to-do list. It's actually pretty easy to implement, as I did it myself - just make slideInfoZone's opacity 1.0, change its background to a semi-transparent .png tile, and make the backgrounds for h2 and p in slideInfoZone transparent. The catch is that it would limit color/transparency options to the images you include, but at least the text would be opaque, and people could always upload their own background tile.

One other major request/suggestion I have that I'm also trying to work on at the moment is changing the carousel to a vertical one along the right side (to the right of the arrow, not overlapping, and permanently visible) rather than a horizontal one at the top. Of course, I'm just trying to hard code it permanently into mine at the moment, but having it as an option in the WP settings page to choose horizontal vs. vertical, and maybe even left vs. right, top vs. bottom, would be a well received feature.

[ChecMark]

Although I see that having multiple page triggered galleries is on the "to do" list, I am wondering if any php experts out there see any way to modify the plug-ins current include statement. I know nothing about php but, looking at the syntax of the statement, is it not possible to have an IF/THEN type statement, for example, if page_id="XX" then include /galleryXX.php?. This would then correspond to images loaded in the specific /galleryXX folders.

Our city portal site is broken down into various categories, such as Accommodation and Real Estate. To be able to trigger specific images galleries based on page IDs would be a fantastic feature for our site, and we suspect many others. If these same images could include HTML links, there is then the possibility of selling these favored spots to major advertisers, specific to the sections. This also greatly increases the exposure of the plug-in, as right now it is only shown on the home pages. Having it as a consistent feature on most pages would make those sites even more dynamic.

[luke]

HI All
Here is a Quick Sketch of what I did to make Multiple Galleries work on my site.

Disclaimer:
This is not everything, and is not guaranteed to work! This is meant only as a guide! All galleries share the same styles etc. My method is only designed to work with Categories
--thanks, Luke

I did a few things to get this going. Here they are, in sketch form:

-Options Page:
Create 5 fields, each of which is mapped to a category name ( values, for this example are "gal1" and "gal2" etc)

-Shortcode Page ( new ):
Create a shortcode handling method that can parse
[my-shortcode id="gal1" ]
and call the method fcge_get and passes in the value. like
fcge_get("gal1")

-Gallery.php:
Put the contents of gallery.php into a function called fcge_get.
the function takes a parameter: fcge_get($gallcat)

-change the query posts:
query_posts('category_name=' . get_option( $gallcat ) . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));


hope this helps

[ChecMark]

Great info! Thanks. Is there a way to use page IDs instead of categories? Your code shows "category_name" as the trigger for which gallery is loaded, so maybe "page_ID=" would work?

Our primary menu directs users to a specific section of the directory, ie Real Estate, Accommodation and so on, for which we have fixed section home pages. These sections are where we want the unique galleries to appear.

Site is HelloBoquete.com

Thanks.

[moikirsch]

Wordpress has a built in functionality for feature content (sticky posts).

I would love to see the Feature Content Gallery to use this instead of a certain category or a list of IDs.

Just my two cents.