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v1.0

This is the first release in 1.0 series and is being considered as stable.

Here is the list of features present in 1.0 release:-

  • Unlimited profile Photo Gallery
  • Unlimited profile Video Gallery
  • Unlimited Profile Audio Gallery
  • Group Gallery support
  • Gallery can be enabled/disabled for a particular user/particular group
  • Gallery can be enabled disabled for User profile(You can disallow profile gallery and keep it as group only gallery)
  • Gallery can be disabled for groups completely and can be used as profile only gallery
  • Multilevel privacy for profile gallery(public, friends only, private)
  • Multilevel privacy for groups gallery(public, private)
  • Privacy is applicable to gallery as well as individual media level
  • You can enable disable allowed media type(keep it as photo only, audio only or video only gallery)
  • Integrated to activity for media commenting/publishing to activity
  • Publishing media to activity can be automated
  • Publishing media to activity can be set as Bulk Publishing(Multiple photos/media in one activity entry) or  just single media item per activity
  • Media can be uploaded from  computer or added from web
  • Uploader will work with Non flash based device(Not tested with mobile device though, I tested by disabling flash in browser)
  • You can add images from flickr/photobucket(and extend for any site which provides oembed support with a single filter and 2 line of code)
  • Videos can be added from youtube and Vimeo(Can be extended for any site which supports oembed with a filter and 2 lines of code)
  • Light box everywhere(You can have light box in activity for image view/on directory page/on gallery listing page or even on directory page(using Pretty Gallery plugin)
  • Group Galleries available from profile
  • Improved Gallery directory(lists my galleries/my group galleries)
  • Multiple templates(with flowplayer/mediaelement.js player, you will have  to download templates separately)
  • Delete Audio from Play List[in case of flowplayer template]
  • Delete Video from Playlist[In case of flowplayer template]
  • Comment on video playlist page[ with flowplayer template]
  • Comment on audio playlist page(When an audio is played, the comments are loaded for that video/audio and user can comment further)
  • Square Thumbnails support
  • Original Image can be preserved now
  • You can create any number of thumbnails(It is using media meta) and access it(will need you to register the sizes with key name)
  • Uploader fallback for html5/non flash based device
  • New filters for allowing size limitations based on roles/individual user
  • Gallery API to create new Media types easily with gallery(*say pdf documents and so on, It is not finished yet but can be done with current gallery, will have fully functional api in 1.1)
  • Gallery API to attach gallery to any other component
  • Group Admin Can enable/disable gallery tab
  • All the widgets are re-written for better compatibility and flexibility(see the screenshots below)
  • Improved shortcodes
  • Embedding of gallery media in other places possible.
  • Fixing css conflict with WordPress gallery
  • Improved privacy(fixing the bugs)
  • You can easily enable gallery to show external media only or uploaded media If you want
  • Complete code refraction and organization
  • Powerful template system, allows you to customize almost everything from gallery template/functions.php
  • Removed the notice plugin
  • The video/audio player is decoupled from plugin, so you can use any video player of your choice and change player if you want.
  • Uploader is decoupled from Gallery to allow you to switch to other uploader if you want
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