How to set up JoomGallery, a Photo Gallery for Joomla Print

One feature commonly found in websites is a photo gallery. This tutorial will show you a popular Joomla extension called JoomGallery

1) As with all extensions we'll be showing you, start by going to extensions.joomla.org. Then, navigate to the Photos & Images / Photo Gallery category and find the JoomGallery page

 

2) Click Download

 

3) Since we have Joomla 1.5, click JoomlaGallery 1.5

 

 

As you can see, there are many extensions for this component that you can choose to download at a later date

4) Click the component link

 

5) We'll need the installer

 

6) Click Download

 

7) Agree to the terms of the license

 

8) Proceed

 

9) Save the file to your computer

 

Now, it's time to install this extension in Joomla

 

For assistance with finding or installing extensions, watch the first two tutorials in this series

 

10) Once installed, click Components...

 

11) ...then JoomGallery

 

Apparently, an update was released after we downloaded the file. You'll receive update notifications here

 

The developer recommends you back up your site before updating JoomGallery, just in case. If you're not sure how to do this, watch the tutorials in the Setup series

 

You can choose here to update using a ZIP file or to auto update

 

12) Click Start autoupdate

 

13) Return to the JoomGallery menu

 

Configuration Manager has many options for you to customize, if you want to. Most of the defaults should be just fine

 

Check out Help and Information if you run into any problems

 

Let's add a category

 

14) Click Category Manager

 

15) Click New

 

16) Enter a Title

 

17) Type a Description, if you want

 

Scroll down and change the access and display settings, if you wish. Then, scroll right

 

In the future, you'll be able to choose a Parent Category to put a new category into an existing one

 

18) Click Save

 

You can see under Owner and Type that the Administrator created this category using the Admin CP

 

Now, let's upload some pictures

 

19) Click Picture Upload

 

20) Browse for a few pictures

 

Scroll down

 

21) Choose a category

 

22) Enter a Generic Title to apply to every image

23) Click Upload

 

You can save time and upload a compressed ZIP archive of images by using Batch Upload. Or, use images that have already been uploaded with FTP Upload

 

Alternatively, you might prefer the Java Uploader over here

 

Let's take a look at our two images in the Picture Manager

 

24) Click here

 

If you encounter any problems with uploads, contact support and have them check PHP's upload_max_filesize for your server. Attempting to upload files larger than the specified size will result in errors

 

25) Choose one of the pictures

 

26) Change the title or description, if you want, then scroll down

 

As you can see, here are are a thumbnail and a larger preview of the picture

27) Scroll back up and click Save

 

 

You can also Move a picture to a different category, or Recreate a picture's preview images

 

Now let's add a menu link for the gallery

 

28) Click Menus

 

29) Go to Top Menu

 

Scroll right

 

30) Click New

 

31) Select JoomGallery

 

 

You'll only find the standard menu item options here; this component's settings are all in its section of the Admin CP

32) Add a Title

 

33) When finished changing the options here, click Save

 

Let's see the gallery on our Joomla site

 

34) Click Preview

 

35) Click Gallery

 

36) Click here to view the images in this category

 

A preview of the first image in the category is displayed here

 

37) Click one of the two images

 

That's it! You now know how to add a photo gallery to Joomla using JoomGallery