Dynamic Content Gallery WordPress Plugin Review

Jul 21, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured Posts or Pages using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or the Galleryview script for jQuery. By associating your gallery images with individual Posts or Pages, using custom fields, the plugin dynamically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured content.

Additionally, default images can be displayed in the event that the necessary custom fields have not been created. A Dashboard Settings page gives access to a comprehensive range of options for populating the gallery and configuring its look and behaviour.

Compatible with WordPress Mu but with some differences in features compared with the WordPress version. Requires WP/WPMU version 2.8+.

Features:

• DCG in a Widget!
• Metabox panel in Write Post/Page screens for easy editing of custom fields used by the plugin.
• Auto custom excerpt option for the Slide Pane Description – automatically pulls text from your Post/Page content
• SmoothGallery javascript image gallery using mootools framework, or an alternative jQuery script.
• A choice of 3 different methods for populating the gallery – Multi Option, One Category or Pages.
• Up to 15 gallery images (One Category method), 9 gallery images (Multi Option), or unlimited for Pages (with custom page Sort Order).
• Provides for a system of default images which will be displayed in the event a custom field image has not been defined.
• Displays the Post/Page title and a user-definable description in the Slide Pane.
• Images can be linked to external URLs.
• User settings for image file management, CSS and javascript options.
• Built-in configuration validation checks and error message reporting.
• Valid xhtml output.
• WPMU compatible (with some differences in the Settings available to the user).

Installation:

1. Download the latest version of the plugin to your computer.
2. Extract and upload the folder dynamic-content-gallery-plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Please ensure that you do not rename any folder or filenames in the process.
3. Activate the plugin in your Dashboard via the “Plugins” menu item.
4. Go to the plugin’s Settings page, and configure your settings.

Download:Dynamic Content Gallery

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