What is FooGallery? The Most Intuitive and Extensible Gallery Creation and Management Tool Ever Created for WordPress; built to be simple for users and highly flexible for developers. FooGallery is a WordPress Media Gallery Plugin that allows you to easily create beautiful galleries. The plugin provides for an intuitive gallery creation and management experience with… [Read More]
How To Add Hover Effects To Your Image Gallery
FooGallery Free and FooGallery PRO both come with hover effects for your thumbnails. You can put these to good use on your image galleries; here’s how. Hover Effects and How They’re Handy The Hover Effect is the animation that appears when you hover over a thumbnail in your image gallery. The thumbnail might change appearance, zoom… [Read More]
How To Setup Advanced Filtering In FooGallery PRO
FooGallery PRO’s latest feature, Gallery Filtering, comes with a number of Simple and Advanced Filtering settings. The Advanced Filtering gives you a bit more versatility when it comes to customising your gallery. Below are the settings, with a guide on how to set each up. Selection Mode You can change the Selection Mode from Single… [Read More]
How To Setup Gallery Filtering In FooGallery PRO
Gallery Filtering, the latest feature on FooGallery PRO, allows you to filter your gallery using Media Tags and Categories. Here is a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create a filtered gallery, including assigning tags to individual images. Step 1: Add Images As with any image gallery, you first need to add your media. Once you… [Read More]
FooGallery: How to Add Captions to your Image Gallery
FooGallery makes it easy to add captions to your image gallery. Available on both the Free and Pro versions, the caption settings on FooGallery allow you to choose a title and a description for your thumbnails. Here we show you just how easy it is. Add Images to Your Gallery The first step is loading… [Read More]
FooGallery is the best NextGen Alternative
The NextGen gallery plugin recently had some trouble with PHP 7 compatibility, and we had a lot of people asking how they can migrate hundreds of galleries that they had created using NextGen, into a good alternative, like FooGallery. It turns out this is really simple and effortless to do, using the NextGen Importer extension,… [Read More]
How to use Image Titles and Alt Text on your WordPress Blog
Using images is a great way to add visual content to your WordPress site. But for this to be really effective, you need to use image titles, alt text and descriptions. Read on to find out why and how you can do this. What is metadata? Metadata provides information about the other data on a… [Read More]
How to Create a Responsive Image Gallery on your WordPress Blog
Using images is key to any blog, and the best way to showcase your images is with a Responsive Image Gallery. Images – photos, graphics and the like – add visual appeal to your WordPress blog. This gets you a better response and return traffic. But you need to display them properly by using way… [Read More]
How to Use a Photo Gallery for your DIY WordPress Blog
Using a photo gallery on your DIY blog can give you an advantage. Whether you blog about a DIY project, craft or hobby, using good quality images can set you apart from the competition. Here are our reasons for using one. There are thousands of DIY blogs and websites available online. From home projects to… [Read More]
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 a few days. What Is… [Read More]
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 are a few tips to… [Read More]
How to Make a WordPress Resource Links Gallery with FooGallery and FooGrid
Our new FooGrid template for FooGallery was released recently and days after, we released an update with a new External Link feature. This new feature has a variety of uses such as creating a visual resource list, a slick portfolio, and even a gallery of affiliate products. Here’s an Example Click a thumbnail to open… [Read More]
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 if you just want to… [Read More]
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. Not only is great for personalizing… [Read More]
How to Create a YouTube Video Gallery in WordPress
Embedding a single YouTube video in WordPress is much easier these days than it used to be. Because WordPress has built-in oEmbed support for YouTube, you simply paste a YouTube video url into the Visual Editor and it will be embedded automatically. But what if you want to create and display an entire YouTube video… [Read More]
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 bit and show you how… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: FooBox OnLoad Shortcode
Seriously, ask yourself this question: “Is there anything FooBox CAN’T do!?” I mean, it’s a lightbox for images, galleries, maps, videos, slides, PDFs, forms. Now this short article will show you how it can also be a lead generation tool. FooBox OnLoad Shortcode First, go check out our detailed documentation on making FooBox load when… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: Embed PDFs with FooBox Lightbox
Reliably embedding PDFs in a website is not as straight-forward as one might think. This is primarily because each browser handles PDFs differently. Some treat it only as a file, others as media, and Chrome even created its own unique PDF viewer. This means that users in every different browser will have a different experience… [Read More]
Slides.com and FooBox
As a frequent presenter in various venues, I always have an eye out for new and unique tools for doing presentations. Gone are the days when PowerPoint ruled the presentation ecosphere. A favorite among WordCamp presenters is SpeakerDeck. It’s great because it has some really useful social sharing options. You can follow “speakers” and get… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: Custom Captions in FooBox
Today I’m starting a new series called “Gems of Docs”. I want to use this to highlight some features of our plugins that we’ve documented, but that seem overlooked. I also want to highlight great use-cases for how you can implement them on your site to excellent effect. Custom Captions in FooBox To kick off… [Read More]