Advanced Image Gallery

If you want to add some advanced feature to your element page builder based site, you can consider looking at element pack advanced image gallery widget.

Advanced Images Gallery With Lightbox is the leading plugin for building responsive galleries with Fancybox & Different Layouts (Grid Gallery , Masonary Gallery , Diamond Gallery, Full Width Gallery , Slick Slider , Hexagonal Gallery)

The Advanced Image Gallery Plugin for Confluence allows users to add Images to your pages in a totally different style and boost the way content is viewed by your team, users and employees. Our plugin lets you choose from three different layouts including masonry, grid, and slider while other features include front end user interface with hassle-free installation and usage, simple drag and drop functionality, image editing, image cropping, and reduced load times by scaling down images to improve your confluence page performance….

FEATURES

Live Copy Paste

Cross Domain & Live Template Copy Addon for Site

Template Library

2000+ ready blocks, header-footer, pages, & templates

Floating Effects

Add awesome floating animation to any elements

Widget Tooltip

Customize tooltip with images, gifs, & backgrounds

Equal Height

Make every widgets & content equal of heights

Visibility Controls

Select content audience from roles and browsers

Wrapper Link

Add dynamic links to any thing on your website

Background Overlay

Add background overlay color to widgets & sections

Confetti Effects

Display lots of party popper particles in any section

Duplicate Option

One-click to duplicate whole page, post & template

Particles Effects

Snappy particle animations for your live website

Transform Effects

Customize widget dimension beyond normal scale

Iframe

Embed content, site, media within your website

Cursor Effects

Customizable cursor button for professional web design

Grid Line

Dynamic grids for easy web design maneuvers

Dynamic Grid & Carousel

Fully custom grid and carousel for posts (single)

Remote Arrows

Discrete navigation controls for carousel widgets

Notation

Highlight text or heading with marker notations

Tile Scroll

Turn section backgrounds into interactive galleries

Horizontal Scroller

Dynamic horizontal scrolling slider widget in action

Pros:

1. Continually promote the same URLs

Because you build dedicated galleries, all your links will point to fewer URLs.  Yes, you can have lots of galleries, but each gallery will be unique in that it’s a dedicated topic.  This is great for focusing your social signals and inbound links to fewer URLs.

You also avoid duplicate content because each gallery is created as a separate topic.  If you manually create posts with images, over time you could end up with 10 different luxury sedan posts which could be too similar.  I know this from experience.

2. Add lots of images quickly

Once your galleries and taxonomies are set up, you just add photos as fast as you can and tag them.  They automatically fall into applicable galleries.  This way you can add loads of new content very, very fast – and then promote it like crazy on social media.

3. Faceted / filtered search capability

When you apply taxonomies to each image or custom post type, you have the potential to add faceted search to your site via FacetWP plugin or Content Views Pro (read my Content Views Pro review here).  I use both and both work really, really well.  Play around with both and choose the one you like most.

4. Create lots of unique content quickly

Once you have thousands of photos all tagged with a variety of taxonomies, you can start creating new, unique galleries very quickly.  Going back to our luxury vehicle website – you could quickly create “yellow luxury sports cars”, “yellow luxury sedans”, “yellow luxury SUVs” etc.  The more taxonomies you have, the more galleries you can create… and each gallery is unique.

Caution:  You don’t want to overdo it.  At some point, if you go really long tail such as “red and black luxury sports cars” that may be getting too long tail and too similar to the individual “red” and “black” luxury sports cars galleries.

5. More page views

As your dynamic galleries grow with multiple pages, visitors will visit more pages on your site to go through the growing galleries.

While there are many pros to dynamic galleries, there are some disadvantages.  I set those out below in the Cons section.

6. Incredibly easy to outsource most of the work

Anyone can get and tag images so outsourcing it is a breeze.  I have 2 full time VAs who get images, write alt text descriptions and tag them.  Every day my galleries are updated with new images, which leads to the last pro…

7. Repeat visitors

Because your galleries update regularly, you can continually promote the same URLs and people will take note and revisit to see what’s new.

Cons:

1. Incompatibility with ad networks and other features

Because most dynamic galleries that incorporate faceted search of some sort are Ajax based, they can conflict with other plugins or features you want to have on your site.  For example, they won’t work on AMP (for now anyway).  I’ve even had an ad network that couldn’t work with them.

2. Ad placement in gallery may be difficult

Because the galleries are created externally to the visually editor, it can be difficult, if not impossible to insert ads inside the gallery such as after every fourth or fifth image.

3. Less control over display

If you like adding captions and perhaps other text under images, dynamic galleries may not enable this unless you do a work around.  I’ve done work-arounds with Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

4. Social media embed issues

If some or many of your photos include social media embeds, that is not possible via the media library.  I’ve tried everything and have hired developers to look into it.  As far as I know it cannot be done.

The workaround for this is to a custom post type for each embed and then have your gallery plugin pull the content of the custom post types.  I’ve done this for one of my sites and it works very well, but it’s more time consuming because you end up creating hundreds or thousands of custom posts.  It’s much faster adding images to the media library and tagging them.

5. No static URL for the image

Have you ever clicked an image on Pinterest or a link on Facebook hoping to find the source and end up not finding it?  It’s annoying.  One problem with dynamic galleries is as more photos are added to the galleries, the older images get pushed to next pages.  I set up my galleries with pagination after 12 or 20 images.  When I add another 12, the previous 12 on the first page get pushed to page 2.

So, if you or a visitor pin an image currently on page 1, at some point that image may get pushed to page 2, yet people who click that pin on Pinterest will end up on page 1 and won’t be able to find the image unless they rip through the pages.  They’ll be annoyed.

One way I’ve attempted to solve this is with the Foobox lightbox which creates a static url for each image in the lightbox.  This is not a perfect fix because not everyone pins or shares an image from the lightbox, but it’s the best solution I have to date.

6. Lots of up-front planning

When building out dynamic galleries, you need to carefully and thoroughly plan out all the taxonomies so that you tag each image thoroughly from the start.  You don’t have to have perfected.  I’ve often added more taxonomies well after the site is launched, but it is good to do some thorough planning from the start and organize your taxonomies.

7. Mobile issue

One issue on mobile is people don’t really click various facets to filter their search.  They just scroll.  Therefore, the faceted search feature is wasted on mobile. However, that doesn’t render dynamic galleries useless on mobile.  The galleries still update automatically as new photos are added via tagging.