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Media Defaults allows you to specify default settings for inserting media and galleries into posts, pages and custom post types. The following list shows all the items that can have a custom default 
setting:
<ul>
<li>Inserting Media
<ul>
<li>Attachment Filter – display only items “Uploaded to this post” or any other filter, such as 
“Audio” or “Unattached”</li>
<li>Alignment – the default alignment setting for images</li>
<li>Attachment link – what happens when the user clicks on the media item, e.g., “Embed Media Player”, 
“Link to Attachment Page”, “None”, etc.</li>
<li>Attachment Size – the default size setting for images </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Adding Galleries
<ul>
<li>Thumbnail link – the destination when users click on an image in the gallery</li>
<li>Number of columns – how many images to display in each gallery row</li>
<li>Random order – whether Random will be selected by default for new galleries</li>
<li>Thumbnail size – the default size when creating new galleries</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Media Defaults does this in a way that is unobtrusive and integrates seamlessly with WordPress’ 
native interface. See the screenshots for examples.
Media Defaults uses WordPress’ native defaults when installed so you won’t notice any change until you alter the settings to your liking.
Media Defaults does NOT make changes to existing content, galleries or to WordPress’ [gallery] 
shortcode. It only adds new sections to Settings > Media in the WordPress admin area that allow 
you to specify new defaults for creating galleries or inserting media, and implements those 
defaults in the “Add Media” popup screen.
Requires WordPress 3.6 and PHP 5.

Media Defaults

Set site-wide defaults for creating galleries and inserting media.

Dennis

Gallery Manager is the most innovative state of the art WordPress Gallery Management tool which enables you to organize image galleries easily in your WordPress backend. Furthermore this gallery plugin adds a beautiful awesome javascript lightbox effect (touch-enabled, responsive, optimized for both, mobile and desktop, web browsers) to all links pointing to an image anywhere on your website. This includes images in your posts, galleries, pages, sidebar widgets and anywhere else on your website.
<h4>Lightbox</h4>
All links pointing to an image will automatically opened in a responsive lightbox. You do not need to care about any tag attributes or link classes, the plugins takes care about that for you. When using the default [gallery] shortcode the images will get a “previous”, “next” and a slideshow button. The gallery itself uses your themes gallery style and keeps your common identity untouched.
<h4>Gallery management features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Organize image galleries separated from posts or pages</li>
<li>Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries</li>
<li>Automatically generated index page with all galleries</li>
<li>Every gallery has its own page with unique URL</li>
<li>Taxonomies to classify your galleries: Categories, Tags, Events, Places, Dates, Persons, Photographers.¹</li>
<li>Both, tags and categories, are disjunct from your post tags and post categories</li>
<li>Supports gallery comments²</li>
<li>Supports featured images as gallery thumbnails²</li>
<li>Supports excerpts for your uploaded galleries² (the same way you already know from regular posts)</li>
<li>Excerpts can contain a text description and a random set of preview images</li>
<li>Supports WordPress user permissions and capabilities¹</li>
<li>Supports the WordPress menu system and enables you to add all components of your galleries to any menu</li>
<li>Import and export directly via the official “<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/" rel="ugc">WordPress Importer</a>” by Automattic Inc.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Lightbox features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Javascript lightbox support for all linked images on your website</li>
<li>Has “Previous” and “Next” buttons</li>
<li>Shows image title and description</li>
<li>Lightbox is touch-enabled, responsive and mobile-friendly</li>
<li>Supports swipe function for touch screens – works with every smart phone and tablet</li>
<li>Awesome image slideshow function</li>
<li>Indicator thumbnail images below the full size image</li>
<li>Uses the full screen size for presenting your image</li>
</ul>
<h4>General features</h4>
<ul>
<li>SEO conform URL structure for all kind of pages</li>
<li>Supports WPML flawless</li>
<li>Supports the WordPress theme template hierarchy and the parent-child-theme paradigm</li>
<li>Supports user defined HTML templates</li>
<li>Supports RSS feeds for the gallery index and for the comments of each gallery</li>
<li>Custom thumbnail sizes¹</li>
<li>Fully compatible with all existing themes with archive template</li>
<li>WordPress filter to modify your galleries code and style</li>
<li>Widget to display random images from your galleries in the sidebar</li>
<li>Widget to display galleries as list in the sidebar</li>
<li>Widget to display the gallery taxonomies as list or cloud in the sidebar</li>
<li>Applies your themes gallery style</li>
<li>Completely translatable – .pot file is included</li>
<li>Includes a bunch of filters to give you the control of the behavior of this piece of code</li>
<li>Clean and intuitive user interface</li>
<li>Works great with WordPress Multisite</li>
<li>Personal one-on-one real-time support by the developer¹</li>
<li>No ads or branding anywhere – perfect white label solution¹</li>
</ul>
¹ Available in <a href="https://dennishoppe.de/en/wordpress-plugins/gallery-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Gallery Manager Pro</a>. 
² Your theme needs to support this too.
<h4>Gallery shortcode</h4>
Of course you can use “exclude” and “include” parameters in your [gallery] shortcode like you already know from the traditional gallery shortcode. The Gallery Manager plugin does not touch the mechanic of the default [gallery] shortcode.
<h4>Settings</h4>
You can find the settings page in your Dashboard -> Settings -> Galleries.
<h4>Template files</h4>
All plugin outputs can be changed via user defined HTML templates. Just put the templates you want to overwrite inside your theme folder (no matter if parent theme or child theme). You can find the default templates in the plugin folder in “templates/”. You can find a list of the available template files in documentation of the pro version. Please do not modify the original templates! You would lose all your modifications when updating the plugin!
<h4>Questions and support requests</h4>
Please use the support forum on WordPress.org only for this free lite version of the plugin. For the pro version there is a separate support package available. Please do not use the WordPress.org support forum for questions about the pro version or questions about my services! Of course you can hire me for consulting, support, programming and customizations at any time.
<h4>Pro Version</h4>
Gallery Manager is available as <a href="https://dennishoppe.de/en/wordpress-plugins/gallery-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">premium version</a> too. In the premium version you can use all options and features which are restricted in the lite version.
Possibly even more important, buying the premium edition gives you access to me and my support team. You can email us your questions about usage of the plugin or your problems in setting it up and we will assist you in no time!
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Plugin is available in English.</li>
<li>Diese Erweiterung ist in Deutsch verfügbar. (<a href="https://UlrikeSeddig.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ulrike Seddig</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translate this plugin</h4>
This plugin is community translated. You can help translate it or improve existing translations <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fancy-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">on the official translation plattform</a>.
You can find the Translation.pot file in the languages/ folder in the plugin directory. The textdomain of this plugin is “fancy-gallery”.

Gallery Manager

We integrated the pro version for a client project and needed to show custom content (coypright info) to the lightbox and the image galleries.

Our support requests were answered pretty quickly with some helpful advice as well as an updated plugin code (incorporated new filter hook) in order to enable us implementing our customer requests without code hacks.

Recommended all-in-one plugin solution for galleries so far!

Nice plugin & reliable support

Supercharged image gallery management tool with touch-enabled, responsive, mobile-friendly image lightbox for WordPress!

Media Defaults vs Gallery Manager