Author: Adam W. Warner

FooGallery discount notice
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

FooGallery Pro Now Includes Video Gallery Features

Today we’re excited to announce that FooGallery Pro now includes the ability to create video galleries with YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia and more including self-hosted videos. Actually, FooGallery has always supported the creation of video galleries through the use of an extension named FooVideo. As we wrote about here, it made

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wordpress-video-galleries
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

News: FooVideo Will Be Merged Into FooGallery Pro

We released our FooVideo extension for FooGallery almost three years ago. It was the direct result of feedback from users of our FooGallery and FooBox plugins. By far, the number one request was for us to create an easy way to create video galleries in FooGallery. We’re proud to have accomplished that with

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WordPress Lightbox Plugin with Social Sharing
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

FooBox Gets Massive Sharing and Feature Updates

FooBox was the first responsive lightbox plugin and the first to introduce a social sharing layer. When we released FooBox more than five years ago, the social network landscape looked much different than it does today. We’re happy to report that FooBox Pro has gotten a massive update to its

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FooBox Pro Free Trial
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

7 Day Free Trial of FooBox Pro! (no credit card required)

In a previous post we detailed some of the challenges of running (and growing) a plugin business. We showed you how we’ve implemented the Freemius platform in our free FooBox image lightbox plugin. One of the things we’ve been testing is allowing trials of FooBox Pro. This feature allows users to

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retina creation metabox in FooGallery plugin
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

FooGallery – Now with Retina Creation and Display Support

FooGallery has just been updated to v1.2.18. It comes with two big features, one for end users and one for developers. Look for this version in your updates list or on the .org repo. This post will cover the new retina support. Look for the developer feature post coming in

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Rules for using images on your website
FooPlugins Guide
Adam W. Warner

4 Rules for Using Images on Your Website

If you have a food blog, a how-to website or if sell anything online, then you should be using images. In fact, anyone who wants their website to get noticed these days needs to use the right images. This might sound obvious, but not everyone gets it right. So here

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The Challenges of Growing a Plugin Business

It might surprise you to know that FooPlugins is comprised of just four people. I’m the Co-founder along with Brad. Steve is our jQuery and Javascript guru, and Leo heads up our support. A Short History of FooPlugins Brad and I met on the Gravity Forms forums in 2012. He

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Astronomy course
FooPlugins Guide
Adam W. Warner

How to Create an Online Video Course in WordPress

If you search Google for “how to create a video course with WordPress” you’ll get a nice list of plugins designed for that very purpose. Most of them come packed with features specific to course management and running membership-type sites. But what if you don’t need all those features? What

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Staff Listing in WordPress
FooPlugins Guide
Adam W. Warner

Create a Staff Listing in WordPress

In this post, we’ll show you how to exactly how to create a staff listing or team directory using our free FooGallery plugin with WordPress.   Whether you’re building sites for clients or for your own business, giving visitors an option to see the people behind the business is important.

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FooBox License
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

We’re Updating Our Plugin Licensing and Pricing Options

Effective October 31st: Business licenses will allow for validation on 25 domains. Unlimited domain validations will no longer be offered. For those customers who need more than the 25 domain limit, you may purchase additional licenses. Why We’re Making This Change FooPlugins has been in business for just over three

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FooGallery screenshot
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

Two Free WordPress Themes for Photobloggers (Video)

A few days ago Themeshaper announced the release of Boardwalk and Cubic, two beautiful new themes that display image-specific content in very unique ways. Because we’re always on the lookout to share tools that our Photography and Photoblogger uses can take advantage of, we decided to play with with a

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The Best WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

Critical FooBox Update for NextGEN Gallery Users

*** Please share this post to help spread the word *** For All FooBox & NextGen Users Today, NextGen 2.0.7.1 was released with some new updates and changes. One of the changes involved the way in which lightboxes are registered within NextGen. In short FooBox broke because it was relying

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FooPlugins Bot
WordPress Guide
Adam W. Warner

We Asked. You Answered. We Listened.

In our last post we asked the question “Should We Build an AdSense Extension for FooBox?” in the form of a user Poll. The answers were surprising at first, but after reading the helpful commentary from you, it became obvious that this was not only something the majority of you

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FooBox Update – Envira Pro Gallery Support – Version 2.3.2.15

We’ve just updated our FooBox Media Lightbox plugin with the following feature additions and updates. You should see this update become available in your plugins listing in the next 24 hours. —————————- * Fixed pixel density check on mobile * Fixed social showOnClick 2014.11.18 – version 2.3.2.14 —————————- * Added

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FooBox WordPress Lightbox
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Adam W. Warner

FooBox Update – Version 2.3.2.10

We’ve just updated our FooBox Media Lightbox plugin with the following feature additions and updates. You should see this update become available in your plugins listing in the next 24 hours. —————————- * Fixed duplicate image settings when image protection enabled and captions disabled 2014.10.14 – version 2.3.2.9 —————————- *

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WordPress image gallery plugin
WordPress Gallery
Adam W. Warner

Simple Portfolio Template for FooGallery

FooGallery 1.1.8 was released recently with two new templates included in the default templates extension. These are the Simple Portfolio and Justified Gallery templates. Simple Portfolio Gallery at a Glance One of the really appealing features of the Simple Portfolio Template is the ability to add Titles and Descriptions below

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Lightbox animation effects plugin
Company Announcements
Adam W. Warner

FooBox Update – Lightbox Animations, Integrations, and Bug Fixes

We’ve just pushed an update to FooBox that brings it to v2.3.1.1. It’s now available as an automatic update for current license holders. This update includes some pretty cool new features. You can read the entire Changelog at the end of this post, but we’ll list some of the most interesting additions

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Slack - Be less busy
Practical Tips
Adam W. Warner

7 Reasons Why Slack Team Communication Strengthens Our Business

If you work on a remote team, much like we do at FooPlugins, or if you’re just starting to work from home, you’ve probably struggled with clear communication. As our business has grown, we’ve found that our team communications were becoming increasingly cluttered and hard to keep track of in

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Media Thumbnail Enlarger Before and After
FooPlugins Guide
Adam W. Warner

How to Enlarge Thumbnails in the Media Library

Our friend Nick Ciske has recently released the Media Thumbnail Enlarger plugin for free on the WordPress repository. What This Plugin Does This plugin increases the size of the media library thumbnails seen when viewing your WordPress Media Library page. By default, it uses the thumbnail size as determined in

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