View Pictures across Site on Media Gallery
- Thread starter The Dark Wizard
- Start date
dknife
Well-known member
Make sure you Like the first post. It helps gauge the popularity and determine if it should become a feature or not.
The Dark Wizard
Well-known member
This pretty much. It's still getting likes to this day since I constantly get push notifications about it, so maybe one day we will see something.
beerForo
Well-known member
I didn't read this whole thread so maybe this was stated, but...
Basically it would work like Facebook. Similar to posting a pic to your timeline, and not directly to an album. But it also appears in an album called Timeline Photos, etc. So let's say you upload a pic to a forum post. This pic would then appear in an auto-generated gallery album called Forum Posts. You could go to a user's gallery, and view all the pics they ever uploaded by the various auto-generated albums.
It would require a user have Gallery of course, and the image should not be stored twice. So I would assume the best way would be the images are stored the same way, but the album displays it.
Basically it would work like Facebook. Similar to posting a pic to your timeline, and not directly to an album. But it also appears in an album called Timeline Photos, etc. So let's say you upload a pic to a forum post. This pic would then appear in an auto-generated gallery album called Forum Posts. You could go to a user's gallery, and view all the pics they ever uploaded by the various auto-generated albums.
It would require a user have Gallery of course, and the image should not be stored twice. So I would assume the best way would be the images are stored the same way, but the album displays it.
Last edited:
While this quote is roughly 5 years old I feel it’s a cause for the gallery to be very underused on our forum. I’d like to share two separate quotes from users of the community from the last few days;
So I’m now left to explain that even though you can view the photos on the forum page via a widget, insert these photos into your new posts and view these photos from a post inside of the forum, they’re not really part of the forum......they’re in the gallery.
I'm getting ready to install MG because its the best option right now, but I will be in the same situation you're in once it starts getting used. My site is for one specific classic car and there is a LOT of very useful information and photos on the forum. Restorations with hundreds of "how to" image files, photos taken with the car taken completely apart ready for metal work or paint, etc. My plan is to create a "vault" so to speak of images that will only be related to that particular model of car, always stored on the same server so the content and images will never be separated (photobucket, etc.). That said, there will still be challenges for users to find content related to images and I have a feeling I'll be explaining it over and over to them.
This is a great idea. The specifics could be worked out, or there could be options for each admin to use to customize. But the basic idea is an awesome one, and one that I get asked for pretty frequently.
markoroots
Well-known member
Wow it is from 2014 that many people is asking this function. Too me I thought that was just present in the Gallery, is a basic and foundamental function for a plugin like this. @Brogan @Chris D can you please see if you can add these function with the options as per suggestions?
Because in this way it seems an Album plugin not a Gallery one.
Because in this way it seems an Album plugin not a Gallery one.
markoroots
Well-known member
Yes it's really. I have bought this plugin with the last money I had (earned with the donation of the forum) just to have this function. And now that I have test it I have seen that there isn't. In this way is not a forum gallery but an album gallery, that is another thing.
These images files are just in the section Content - Attachments, so why we cannot bring in the gallery?
Is simple to add these functions where you can decide the name of a gallery section that take the images added from a forum node you select.
These images files are just in the section Content - Attachments, so why we cannot bring in the gallery?
Is simple to add these functions where you can decide the name of a gallery section that take the images added from a forum node you select.
markoroots
Well-known member
The first post of this thread have 50 like. Maybe one of most voted post in the forum.
So for what about my opinion and seems that I'm not the only, as it is now is not a very useful plugin. I didn't need an album plugin.
Please guys let's try to let it work good if must be a paid plugin that cost also more.
Last edited:
Ozzy47
Well-known member
It is the most popular media gallery suggestion.
Although that does not necessarily mean it will be added:
Although that does not necessarily mean it will be added:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/guide-to-suggestions.2285/
markoroots
Well-known member
Yes Ozzy, but this is a basic function for a "forum Gallery" plugin. Without this function I really don't know what to do with it, this is an album gallery that I don't need because no one user will add photos in an empty section of albums.
If the name of the plugin was "Albums" no one have sayd anything, but it is sold as media forum gallery that is another thing. And it is a function that all these users here are asking from years I have seen, so it's mean that all of us were expecting these functions, for a plugin like this.
If the name of the plugin was "Albums" no one have sayd anything, but it is sold as media forum gallery that is another thing. And it is a function that all these users here are asking from years I have seen, so it's mean that all of us were expecting these functions, for a plugin like this.
Last edited:
markoroots
Well-known member
Scuse me Brogan but is not possible to make this simple thing that will make great this addon?
Look here, if you only add a field, in the Create Category (or subcategory) section of the plugin, where it appear also a list of the nodes present in the forum and where the admin can let it unchecked if him want to create only an empty new category,
or by selecting one or more nodes in this node list window, is it possible to load the media present in that forum.
An option to select what media you want import in this new Album/Gallery category, as "Video", "Images" etc.
and the system have only to run a simple query to found in all the post of that node/s, that contain the bbcode relative to the media searched. (Example: )
Then the system have only to show an album with a list of the images, loaded by the same links searched by the query, and the gallery is ready.
So that if you click on an image you can vote or comment the image, or also by a button, follow where this image is posted in the realtive thread, because you can also be interested in the discussion just active about that image.
Imagine to have a forum about animals with thousands of photo loaded from the users in the time, is sure useful to use this images, (in my forum I have 22.000 images) so that for example if there are these nodes inside it:
Animals
Best Dogs
Best Cats
Best Horses
an admin for example can create a public album in the Gallery, named "Best Dogs", where all the photos inside the posts of the node "Best Dogs" are token, that quite sure are all good images to show and really useful for a forum to show this, also increasing the user participation by giving them a link to follow the thread where the people is talking about it.
The same creating others albums in this way with the others interesting nodes that an admin know where there are interesting images or video for example inside.
In the end the plugin have to only to run a query and use the links found to generate the album, as just made with the links of the users personal albums.
Don't you think that is a simple modification that can have a strong impact about the utility of the plugin?
markoroots
Well-known member
Any news?
Last edited:
biometrics
Member
I just bought the Media Gallery assuming I can use it on a photo thread, are you saying I can’t?!
RobinHood
Well-known member
You can using pull thread images into the gallery using attachment mirroring
xenforo.com
MG 2.2 - Media Gallery 2.2 - Lightbox navigation, attachment mirroring and more!
XenForo Media Gallery (XFMG) 2.2 sees a range of new features and improvements. Some of these are a result of new integrations with XenForo 2.2 itself, while others are exclusive new features to XFMG itself. Lightbox navigation Starting with XenForo 2.2 we are introducing a brand new lightbox...
xenforo.com
Digital Doctor
Well-known member
needs to be automatic. and it looks like it is.You can using pull thread images into the gallery using attachment mirroring
MG 2.2 - Media Gallery 2.2 - Lightbox navigation, attachment mirroring and more!
XenForo Media Gallery (XFMG) 2.2 sees a range of new features and improvements. Some of these are a result of new integrations with XenForo 2.2 itself, while others are exclusive new features to XFMG itself. Lightbox navigation Starting with XenForo 2.2 we are introducing a brand new lightbox...
It's dated to have a separate media section. So photopost 2001.
Entry into the media section needs to happen from an image clicked on in a thread.
Just like it works on reddit - either rpan or images
Similar threads
- Question
- Question
