Announcing PrettyGallery My Second MODx Plugin

Posted on Aug 20, 2011 | Tags: MODx, Gallery, PrettyGallery, Modal, Pop Up | Comments (4)

After working on NivoGallery and learning a lot about MODx I decided to port yet another gallery plugin into MODx I'm happy to announce... PrettyGallery.

It is NoMarginForErrors PrettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone with 6 themes and some other cool features, although PrettyPhoto has many features Prettygallery does not support all of them at the moment since my main focus of using PrettyGallery was to create a lightbox plugin that works using MODx Gallery plugin.

So what features does PrettyGallery have?

It allows you to select the gallery you want to display and select one of 6 themes, select if you want to display thumbnails over the displayed image, specify your galleries thumbnail width, height, auto slide show start and slide show time out which is the amount of seconds your image transitions from one to the next.

How does it work?

First make sure you have Gallery installed in MODx and a gallery album created then create a new resource and select the prettyGallery template.

Then go to the Templates Variable tab and select the gallery you want to display in PrettyGallery, choose your theme, options and specify your thumbnail with and height settings save the resource and preview your page.

It's that simple now to get a lightbox gallery in MODx, here are some samples of the themes.

Dark Rounded

Dark Square

Default

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Light Rounded

Light Square

Here is a barebones example of what PrettyGallery looks like.

I would like to send a special shout out to my friend Mark Hamstra for helping me out with some issues.

Remember if your like PrettyGallery or NivoGallery please consider buying me a beer by making a donation.

Thanks and remember to leave your feedback either here or in this MODx forum post.

Ben.

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