This view is used to create a grid based gallery of images which open in a lightbox gallery when any one of the grid thumbnails is clicked. The grid will be in the form of a masonry layout. This means all images will have the same widths but may have differing height values. The parameters available for this view are as follows:
Input data = Gallery
Use Gallery | Select the gallery (created previously) from which you would like to use to define the slider's content. | |
Link | Custom - This means that the link on the image will be that link set in the "Gallery Image Settings", accessible via the edit gallery page. (edit image icon on each gallery thumbnail). |
Input data = Posts
Max | Set the maximum amount of posts to be shown. Leave this field empty for unlimited posts. | |
Selection | Use this control to manually pick posts to be included in the view. | |
Categories | Includes items in the view only from the selected categories. | |
Tags | Includes items in the view only featuring the selected tags. | |
Format | Includes items in the view which correspond to the selected format. |
Gallery Grid Settings
Filter by | Shows filters for the grid images based on the selection made. Filters allow users to reduce the number of thumbnails displayed by narrowing the topic to which the displayed thumbnails are related. | |
Layout | The layout of the grid of images. Boxed - The grid will be restricted to a maximum width of 940px. The actual width of the grid may be much smaller than this, it will depend on its containing element. | |
Thumbnail Width | Here the width of the grid module is specified. This will determine the number of columns of images displayed in the grid. The the boxed grid situation ideally the width of the grid's containing element should be equally divisible by the figure entered here. While in the case of the full width grid, the standard screen resolutions width values should be equally revisable by the figure entered here. | |
Thumbnail Height | The images in this grid may be forced to all adopt a fixed height, essentially turning the grid into a regular format and not a masonry format. Use this setting to specify this fixed height. Leave this field empty to allow each image to use its own height figure. | |
Lightbox Gallery Transition | Set the image transition. Slide - The images slide left to right while fading out. Shutter - The images transition using a black and white to color effect plus a zooming effect. | |
Scale Mode | Set the way image scaling is handled. Fit - No matter the size of the image it will be shown in full on screen and surrounded by black space. No cropping will occur. Fill - The Image will be resized so that it fills the screen. Depending on the image aspect ration and that of the screen, the image may be cropped. Max - There is a max version of both Fit and Fill, which basically means that if the image is small, upscaling is permitted if required. So basically the image will be shown at its largest possible size, even if it is needed to be scaled up. Should the image have a small resolution and the user have a large screen, some pixelation of the image may result. |
Caption Settings
Title | None - No caption title. | |
Description | None - No description. |