New Stack - Ultimate Gallery

Wesley · October 2011

Finally, after months of work, we're ready to release our newest and biggest stack yet: Ultimate Gallery.

What the stack does

At it's core, this stack set allows you to create galleries based on 500px, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Drag and Drop or Warehoused content; 7 data sources in all.

This stack set is available for the low price of $18.95 (this includes all the data sources listed above).

If you want to, you can choose to buy only the gallery you need. Each gallery is available for $12.95 separately.

Key Features

4 Layout Types
Each gallery can be styled in 4 different ways: 1. Grid - 2. List - 3. Sequence - 4. Carousel

2 Lightbox Skins
You can choose between 2 completely different layouts for the lightbox.

Advanced Preloading
Images are automatically preloaded so that the loading indicator is shown as few times as possible.

Lightbox Can be Used Separately
The included lightbox can be used as a standalone lightbox. This is a $9.95 value.

Protect Your Images
Prevent right clicking and dragging of images.

Display More Than Just Your User Feed
You can also showcase search results, favorites, etc.. (all depending on the gallery - see the documentation)

Lots and Lots of Settings
Choose your opening animation, border width, rounded corners, background image, shadow, opacity, zoom, rotation, etc etc...

Built-In Documentation
Documentation is built right in to the stack.

Demo Time

We've created about 10 different demos, just to show you all that is possible with this stack set:
You can view them all here:

http://www.weaveraddons.com/stacks/ultimate-gallery/

Ed Brenner · October 2011

Nice job on this new addition for Stacks. Keep up the great work!

niguli · October 2011

Just purchased the whole stack !

hansvanbrugge · October 2011

on 1318267997:

Just purchased the whole stack !

²

Thanks Wesley

Bedankt Wesley (Dutch)

Joost · October 2011

Congrats mate, nice work!

Cheers,
Joost

Colorwave · October 2011

Beautifully implemented, Wesley. There are a wealth of options, and the interface seems quite slick.

mikex · October 2011

Wow. Just what the doctor ordered. I've been dying for a full fledged gallery stack and this seems fantastic.

I've set up a test page and I'm wondering one thing... I receive a notice on my page saying "Notice: Undefined offset 3 in"... and then it shows my path to my pics. What have I missed (or included) that shows this notice?

One additional question, can the warehoused images be from any warehouse source (Images in Warehouse 1 - To be displayed in Site 2?) or do they have to be from the site your linking to. I have numerous images in a separate folder under another sites name and the Warehouse stack was unable to find it.

Will you be listing a series of answers for the various "Notices'? Kind of like a troubleshooting guide?

Otherwise, This stack set is awesome. I was up and running in about 10 minutes (so far.)

Thanks in advance.

Mike X

Henk Vrieselaar · October 2011

Congratulations, Wesley! Great stack with a bunch of options.
Henk

Wesley · October 2011

mikex, that notice you see is a PHP notice, a small bug in the code, I will be sending out an update later today to fix that.

For now, images have to be on the same server. I could make this work only if the directory on the other website shows a list of all files when you navigate to it directly in your browser. Is that the way it is? Of course, if there is no way to read that directory, I cannot.

Thanks to everyone for the nice comments!
Wesley

joeworkman · October 2011

Nice job buddy!

LazarovDesign · October 2011

Instant purchase! What a beautiful collection Wesley. Many, many thanks.

pl_svn · October 2011

looks great :-)

pre-purchase questions:
- any issue with jQuery based themes?
- does PlusKit @import work fine (importing Ultimate Gallery in another page, I mean) and, if so, does it also work in RW's Preview mode?
- ... what's the "pin" in bottom right corner for?

thanks

Wesley · October 2011

Hi Paolo,

To answer your questions:

- Pluskit @import from a styled text page works great, no issues there.
- The pin in the info bar allows the user to define whether or not the info bar should auto-hide after a specified amount of time. So the user can "pin" it making it show the entire time. You can set the default for this in rapidweaver: auto-hide or show all the time.
- jQuery based themes: I don't think there should be any issues, I have tested in quite a few themes but of course it's impossible to say that it will work in all themes. If you do come across an issue, just let me know and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.

Regards,
Wesley

pl_svn · October 2011

hhhmmm... when a stack has issues with the theme I use, I'm usually told, at the end: "Sorry, but there's nothing I can do: ask the guy who made the theme! " :-p

but Ultimate Gallery looks so great that I believe I'll take the risk... once more ;-)

thank you Wesley

chambers · October 2011

WOW! This is one Ultimate Gallery!! Great work here, and the implementation with all the options etc is very well thought out. It's worth buying the whole package for the price being asked.. Wesley could have priced this higher and punters would still have a bargain.

Thanks, really enjoying working with this.
chambers

niguli · October 2011

after read all the documentation and seen all the examples, what can I add more ?! very impressive !
Now let's go to some of my website and try some combinations ! thanks again !

mikex · October 2011

Hello again.

I'm wondering when the update will be released, or if it's already sent out, oops, I missed it.

One more question...

Is the Grid Gallery capable of displaying anything other than the actual image name? Or is it just going to rely on the image name itself?

Thanks again.
Mike X

Wesley · October 2011

No, it's not out yet, I'm working on another issue with the warehouse gallery with someone else which I'd like to get fixed as well before sending out an update. However if you want you can send me an email info at my domain and I'll send you the stack manually.

The warehouse grid can display your own image titles in two ways;

1) set nr descriptions in the HUD to the total nr of images you have. Then add descriptions inside RW. Type the filename in field 1, then the title, and then a possible description.

2) Via a tab delimited file. You can do this in excel and save as a text file (tab delimited) In the first column again the filename, then the title, and then the description. Save this as descriptions.txt and upload it to the source folder.

Wesley · October 2011

The update to the warehouse stack is now out, available via automatic update (sparkle). Restart RW and it should notify you.

Changes:

New: Choose whether or not to crop images to fixed dimensions. (so no longer just square thumbnails in the warehouse gallery)
New: Choose whether or not to display the image filename if no title has been specified.
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where certain hosts were not displaying the images correctly.
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue with error message "Notice: Undefined offset".

Also made a change to the youtube gallery:

New: Specify your video dimensions (instead of automatic).
Bug Fix: Number of results returned is now correct.

And the drag and drop gallery:

Bug Fix: Fixed layout issue with certain themes

Colorwave · October 2011

Nicely done, Wesley. Great to see how responsive you are to user feedback. A great gallery just got even better.

Rob Montanez · October 2011

Wonderful set of stacks! Nicely done.

derhannes · November 2011

I also bought the whole stack and this is a really nice thing!

But I have issues with the Picasa Gallery.
I want to show a non-public album on my website. Picasa tells me that only people having the link to this album can display it.
But when I insert this link in the HUD I get the error message "Picasa stack encountered an error while retrieving data".
The link from Picasa is this link and the short form also works.
I tried both of them in the HUD but neither of them works.

I need help, please!

Wesley · November 2011

Hi derhannes,

unfortunately it's not possible at the moment to display non-public albums. This is because the google api requires authorization when requesting such albums. That would be fine to make, but the problem is that the returned authorization is only short-lived (which means it only works for 2 weeks max, obviously not a good solution).

However, I'm thinking about making a PHP version of the picasa version, in that case, authorization could be included and the results cached locally so that it does not expire. But this is all premature, I will have to investigate that a little more.

For now, best would be to set the album to public, or create another account that no one knows about.

If you need any more help, you can contact me via my site.

FootnotesFaulkner · November 2011

This is a phenomenal stack - thanks! I'd call it a "must-buy" for any RW user who regularly deals with photo and video.

derhannes · November 2011

This is indeed a "must-have" - a multi-talented stack and really useful!

And it's worth to mention the excellent support by Wesley in case of trouble.

ervenwill · December 2011

Hi there!

This is indeed a lovely stack, but I'm afraid I'm having an issue. I'm using both the Vimeo and Flickr stacks for my portfolio site. In Rapidweaver, both populate just fine, (I correctly entered the API for the Flickr and specific albums for the Vimeo)
However when I publish the site, neither stack populates with anything.

Here's the site: http://ervenfernandez.com/work/
Attached is a screenshot from the same page in preview mode.
Any ideas?

Thanks!

EDIT: Never mind! Re-publishing seemed to correct the issue!

ervenwill · December 2011

Well.. problem NOT solved. Now it seems that I can see my galleries on my home computer in any browser, but can NOT see the galleries on any OTHER computer on any browser.

Any thoughts??

-Erven

The page is ervenfernandez.com/work
Attached is what it is supposed to look like:

Wesley · December 2011

Hi, I will investigate this tomorrow and let you know. Have a bit of a backlog at the moment, but fixing some issues with Ultimate Gallery is next.

ervenwill · April 2012

Hello,

For a while I was able to get around the above issue by simply adding "www." before "ervenfernandez.com" in my browser. However that no longer works. (strange!)

Any ideas? I can't get the content to appear on any machine or browser I try :-/

Thanks!

ervenwill · April 2012

Sorry to be bothersome.. any insight from anyone on this matter? Maybe I'll start a fresh thread.
I appreciate any advice anyone might have.

Thanks!
ervenwill

VickersCreative · April 2012

Hi Wesley, nice stack. But I have a question:

Is it possible to create a slideshow on a webpage which automatically displays the contents of a Picasa album? I need to put a slideshow on the front page of a site, and play without interaction of the visitor. The images need to be full width of the body (960px). I've had a look through the Ultimate Gallery help and HUD but I can't find a way of doing this...

Is it possible, or maybe a future feature?

Thanks, Lee

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