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BP-Gallery Sidebar Widget

Description

NOTE: This plugin works with BP Gallery RC2 and RC3.

I needed a sidebar solution to show links to bp-gallery galleries, so I wrote this widget. This widget selects from galleries of
type β€œphoto”. The widget lets you specify the following parameters

  • Maximum Galleries: the number of galleries to show.
  • Gallery Order: choose from Random, Earliest, and Latest
  • Thumbnail: choose cover, first, or random image to determine which image is used for a thumbail in the sidebar. Cover image is specified in bp-gallery.
  • Thumbnail width/height: the HTML attributes width & height.
  • Thumbnail padding: used for padding-right and padding-bottom for each thumbnail

Kudos

  • Shout out to Brajesh Singh for creating the bp-gallery plugin
  • Shout out to Mathias Geat, whose nextgen-gallery-sidebar widget code was a big help while I was writing this plugin.

Screenshots

  • screenshot-1.jpg - Shows the widget on the front end. Thumbnail size is 120 x 100, and padding is 1.
  • screenshot-2.jpg - Shows the back end.

Installation

  1. Upload bp-gallery-sidebar-widget.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the β€˜Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Use the widget in the widget editor.
  4. For best results, use the same dimensions for thumnail display that are specified for bp-gallery.
    The bp-gallery thumbnail is used for this widget, so using the same size means nice thumbnails.

FAQ

Q: Does this work standalone?
A: No, sorry, it requires the BP Gallery plugin installed in BuddyPress

Q: WordPress single-user vs. WP-MU — does it matter?
A: Nope. It should work fine for both.

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Contributors & Developers

“BP-Gallery Sidebar Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2

  • Added use of gallery slug, so that thumbails link to their galleries instead of their owner profiles.

1.1

  • Modified for WP-MU compatability. Now references the BP Gallery tables using the wpdb->base_prefix variable.