Light Gallery is a free Joomla gallery plugin to help you create photo galleries in your Joomla website. Lots of people build galleries in Joomla by adding photos one by one. It is quite a headache problem when you have dozens of photos to upload and insert. After you install Light Gallery in your Joomla website, this problem is solved. It can generate a gallery automatically from one folder. You just need to upload all your photos at one time, then let Light gallery to help you finish the rest.
If your photos are from other website like Flickr, Light Gallery can also create the gallery by loading them into your website. With Light Gallery, it enables all features of light box in your gallery. All your photos in Light Gallery will be viewed in light box. This user guide will show you how to install the Light Gallery and how to create galleries by Light Gallery automatically.
Download Light Gallery Plugin for Joomla
Install Light Gallery Plugin
After you downloaded the plugin file, please follow these steps to install it on your website:
- Go to Extension Manager
- Click Install Tab on the left menu
- Click Browse button on install page
- Select "lightgallery_plugin.zip" and click Upload & Install button
Enable Light Gallery Plugin
After you successfully install the plugin, please follow these steps to enable it on your website:
- Go to Plugin-in Manager
- Search plugin-in by name "Light Gallery"
- Enable the Light Gallery plugin by click "red cross" button
Configure Light Gallery Plugin
If your Joomla website is hosting on the sub-domain, you need to configure the setting "Website Root URL". This step is optional. For example, your domain is http://www.html5components.net, but your website is hosting on http://www.html5components.net/joomla30/. Then you need to set "Website Root URL" as http://www.html5components.net/joomla30/. Please follow these steps to set this option:
- Go to Plugin-in Manager
- Search plugin-in by name "Light Gallery"
- Click on the plugin name
- Input your website root url
- Click save and close
Create Gallery By Light Gallery Plugin
Now you can start to create gallery in your Joomla website by Light Gallery plugin. The following steps will show you how to generate a gallery from your Joomla website folder automatically.
- Upload all your photos in one folder in your Joomla website (by Media Manager in your administrator backend)
- Create an Joomla article
- Put gallery code with caption "Image From Joopolitan":
{lightgallery type=local path=images/lightgallery previewWidth=150}Image From Joompolitan{/lightgallery}
This code will tell Light Gallery to generate a gallery by using photos in folder images/lightgallery on your website. The preview width will be 150px.
- Select the code and remove the formatting on this code.
Create Gallery By Photos from Other Website
I will use following codes to generate a gallery by using photos from Flickr. You can also use images from other website if you know the url of the images. In this way, You can also specify a caption for each image in your gallery.
{lightgallery galleryName=gallery1 type=url path=https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/13418516014_bff8f6bc83_b_d.jpg previewHeight=200}Image Caption 1{/lightgallery}
{lightgallery galleryName=gallery1 type=url path=https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2900/13418266303_1d5442c6cd_b_d.jpg previewHeight=200}Image Caption 2{/lightgallery}
{lightgallery galleryName=gallery1 type=url path=https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/13418149285_2fbb65b16e_b_d.jpg previewHeight=200}Image Caption 3{/lightgallery}
The above 3 pieces of code will create a gallery by importing 3 images from Flickr. When you copy and paste the code, please don't forget to remove format from them.
