honza.skypala

The standard gallery in WordPress has one limitation — it always shows all the pictures in the gallery. I know there are alternative galleries available, which support pagination, but I never thought this is a good approach. The reader never wants to see n-th page of the gallery — if the first page got his attention, then he wants to see all of the rest, not split into pages anymore. At least, this is how I see it.
So, if you run a blog, on which you publish huge galleries with many many many pictures, maybe you want to show only preview of the gallery on archive pages (homepage, categories, archives etc.), so the individual posts are not too long. The gallery-preview then contains a link, which loads the rest of the gallery if the reader wishes so, via Ajax. Well, this plugin brings exactly that, all with standard WordPress gallery.
Single posts are untouched, they still show full galleries, at least for now.
You can reach similar functionality just by creating two galleries and putting the <!–more–> tag in between them — and the archive page shows only the first gallery, while single post shows the whole gallery. But, this plugin has several advantages: it can be set and forget, and then the plugin automatically applies it for every post/gallery published. If the gallery is followed by another text, then this text is still displayed on the archives page. Loading of the rest of gallery is handled by Ajax (with fallback to single-post URL if Ajax fails).
In options, you specify two values: first one threshold — amount of images, if the gallery exceeds this many, it is sliced into a preview. This is the second value, how many images should be shown in a preview. This allows to have 2 different values for that, e.g. 9 images for preview, but 12 images for threshold, which makes some flexibility, that if the gallery is 10 images big, then it is not shortening by jsut one image. Anyway, you can also specify the same values, if you wish.
These two values are specified on three levels: global (per blog), per post and per gallery tag. You can also specify not to slice a gallery in specific post, resp. not to slice a specific gallery.
Plugin supports several lightbox implementations.
<h3>License</h3>
WTFPL License 2.0 applies
<pre><code> DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
 Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

 DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.<h3>ToDo's</h3>* enable plugin to work in opposite manner - do not automatically slice down galleries, but only on posts / tags where the downto attr is set
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* re-check WP-Minify on possibility to use the compiled JS files (internal) 
* enable slicing w/ Ajax loading on single posts

Gallery Slice

Slice down galleries on archive pages to preview-only, with link to load full gallery via Ajax

Parakoos

This wordpress plugin allows visitors to browse posts or pages by their images, displayed randomly on an infinitely scrollable Image Wall. The images link back to the post or page on which they are attached.
Images are powerful. They catch our attention like nothing else. You probably use them in your blog posts to anchor the fickle attention span of today’s readers. Display all these great images on a nice looking page, and your visitors will browse for a while, captivated. Hopefully, one image will stand out for whatever reason and compel the visitor to click it to find out more. And just like that, some old blog post you thought buried by the sands of time has gotten another view, thanks to your Image Wall.
You can see the plugin in action on my own <a href="http://www.themodernnomad.com/image-wall/#utm_campaign=Image_Wall&utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=website&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Image Wall</a> and the full plugin documentation on the <a href="http://www.themodernnomad.com/image-wall-plugin/#utm_campaign=Image_Wall&utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=website&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Image Wall Plugin page</a>.

Image Wall

Simply Cool!

Browse posts/pages by their images, displayed randomly on an infinitely scrollable page. The images link back to where they are attached.

Gallery Slice vs Image Wall