GM Community Gallery
GM Community Gallery allows WordPress users to administer a gallery and accept images from site visitors. It requires zero configuration to start using immediately. There’s three basic parts to the GM Community Gallery: 1. GM Submit Form: This is where your site visitors can upload images. 2. GM Pub
GM Community Gallery allows WordPress users to administer a gallery and accept images from site visitors. It requires zero configuration to start using immediately.
There’s three basic parts to the GM Community Gallery: 1. GM Submit Form: This is where your site visitors can upload images. 2. GM Public Gallery: Where uploaded images are displayed. 3. GM Community Gallery Admin: When you administer and make changes to uploaded images. Also (optional) settings!
To create a GM Submit Form on a WordPress Page: – Use the shortcode [gm-submit-form][/gm-submit-form]
To create a GM Public Gallery on a WordPress Page: – Use the shortcode [gm-public-gallery][/gm-public-gallery]
Once the GM Community Gallery plugin is installed, the admin panel is found in the beneath ‘Settings’ in WordPress Admin.
Features
- 01Attractive public facing uploader allows site visitors to upload .jpg/.jpeg, .png and .gif images with a message. Submission data is validated and processed with Ajax. If JavaScript is disabled, a non-Ajax form is displayed instead.
- 02Administrative tools the gallery administrator can use to edit/view image data and move images to ‘trash’ before choosing to permanently delete images.
- 03Public gallery JavaScript lightbox that lets viewers navigate images and view image messages. On desktop the lightbox can be navigated with mouse clicks or keyboard. On mobile the lightbox is navigated by touch and swipes.
Gallery Admin
I. Gallery Options.
Configuration (like many good things in the world) is optional.
To access the the GM Gallery Options:
- From the WordPress Admin Panel, hover or click ‘GM Community Gallery’ and select > ‘Gallery Options’
Here you can set the GM Community Gallery to do some things:
- 04Send Notification – If this is enabled, an email will be sent every time someone submits an image. By default this will be the email address associated with the WordPress administrator, but you can set a different email address in the ‘Notification Email’ field.
- 05Max Image Size (kb): Specifies the maximum file size you want to allow. By default, GM Community Gallery will accept files up to 500 kilobytes. You can raise or lower that value here.
