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With the release of WordPress 5.5 around the corner, there are questions about sitemaps and images. We take a look at what this means for you and FooGallery. What Are Sitemaps? A sitemap is a list or index of all the URLs and other key information on your site that you want search engines to see. A sitemap can also include the images or videos on your site, or at least all of those that you want indexed by search engines. When Google, for example, crawls your site it may not find all of your URLs or see all of … Read more…
WFH, or Working From Home, is now something we are all getting to grips with. This might sound appealing to some of us – fewer distractions, no commuting, and you can wear your pajamas all day if you really want. But it comes with some unique difficulties. Especially, if you’re a parent. Skip ahead to our resources: WFH Tools: Resources for Working at Home WFH Parents: Resources for Moms, Dads and Children Covid-19 Resources The advantage of living in these times, is that we have the ability to work and communicate from home. If you have the internet and a … Read more…
A Detailed, Honest Comparison of FooPlugins, NextGEN and Envira. FooGallery is a WordPress gallery plugin, and we think it is the best on the market. But we wanted to put this to the test. After all, we can’t call ourselves the Best WordPress Gallery Plugin if we don’t measure up. So we decided to take a closer look at what FooGallery has to offer and how it performs, in comparison to two other popular WordPress Galleries. NextGEN and Envira are both well-established galleries with a large following. NextGEN has been around for quite some time, so it has a more … Read more…
Creating a WordPress gallery is really simple. Whether you’re using a WordPress gallery plugin (like FooGallery) or not, it should only take you a few minutes to create your own gallery. Besides, using a gallery has plenty of benefits. What is a WordPress Gallery? A gallery is a collection of images (or media) on your website. With WordPress it’s easy to create and insert galleries into your pages or posts. You can use galleries to showcase your work. Photographers or artists, for example, can make great use of galleries as a portfolio. You could use a gallery to showcase products; … Read more…
Social media plugins are an important addition to any WordPress site. By adding social share buttons, you allow visitors to more easily share your content. More shareable content can translate into more views, which could help your search engine ranking. This might seem overly simplified. There are a lot of other factors that impact on your visibility and SEO. But using a social media plugin does have its benefits. Benefits of Using a Social Media Plugin To begin with, using a social media plugin is a great way to make your content shareable. Whether it’s a post, a video or … Read more…
Are you a photographer? Do you have a WordPress site? Here are 13 free photography plugins for WordPress that you should be using. These are geared towards optimizing your site’s performance and your business, while ensuring your customers see your photos in the best light possible. We’ve checked out these plugins on WordPress.org and they’ve all been updated within the last few months. They all come with a good rating and they’re compatible with WordPress 5.0.3. Gallery & Lightbox Every photography site needs a gallery. FooGallery is an ideal solution, particularly because it eliminates the need for so many other … Read more…
FooGallery is compatible with Gutenberg. The WordPress block editor is now part of the WordPress core. While you can still use the classic editor with WordPress, it is likely that this will fall away after a while. So if you’re not already using Gutenberg, it won’t be to be too long before you are. Luckily for you, FooGallery works with Gutenberg, giving you a live preview of the gallery in the editor itself. As Gutenberg has such a strong emphasis on visual composition, seeing your gallery in the post will be a huge advantage. The live preview will help you … Read more…
What is FooGallery? FooGallery is 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 Gallery Plugin that allows you to easily create beautiful photo galleries. The plugin provides for an intuitive gallery creation and management experience with the added benefit of the powerful features that FooGalley includes. Getting Started The first step in installing the FooGallery plugin. If you haven’t already done so, you can go here to find out how to install it. Once installed, it’s time to create … Read more…
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 more sense for our users and our business to merge the features and benefits of FooVideo into our FooGallery Pro plugin and has now happened.
FooGallery and FooBox both come with plenty of built-in gallery features to help make your WordPress media gallery look amazing. Here’s a quick guide to what you can expect from these plugins. FooGallery Features You’re given a number of choices with FooGallery Free and FooGallery PRO. This starts when you select your gallery template – and there are quite a few to choose from, with additional templates in the Pro version. Once you’ve selected your template, you can customize your media gallery to suit your needs. FooGallery is responsive, so will adjust to the size of the screen on which it … Read more…