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An Idea Starts with a Grin ;)
Illustrator . Graphics Designer . Mad Scientist
~Where Art meets Code~
Category Grid View Gallery is back and its loaded. This plugin provides a new way to build your Portfolios and Photo Galleries. People who want to show their work using a gallery/portfolio don't have to exclusively install a plugin and upload images on it. Now, you can just upload your work as a blog post every now and then and this plugin will take care of the rest.
Either use it for a photo-blog, or just replace your Blog Post "Loop" with a more visual and artistic approach. With an admin settings panel, shortcode generator, pagination feature, themes and a lot of new customizable options, you just cannot go wrong with this.
Contents:
1. Introduction
Category Grid View Gallery (in short CG View) is a wordpress plugin which displays your blog posts from a specified category/group of categories or tags in form of a grid of thumbnail images. The thumbnails are generated on-the-fly from either the first image attached in your post of from the featured image set for the post. By clicking on the thumbnails there is an option of opening the posts inside a lightbox. For posts which do not have any image, a default image is displayed. User can also upload their own default image.
The Plugin uses a SHORTCODE which can be put anywhere in your post or your page (even the text widget) to display the thumbnails. There is a caching feature which improves the processing of the images and makes the plugin faster. It Also includes a Pagination feature which is great for displaying featured posts on your Home Page. Also a template tag included to put it in your theme file.
UPDATE : New and improved lightbox. Now you can show complete posts with or without comments in the lightbox. Also, shortcodes, other plugins (eg. facebook like button) etc. work inside the lightbox
2. Demo and Download
- For a demo of the plugin in action visit HERE
- Demo with Pagination, visit HERE
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5. Support
Please use the comments section on this page for support, reporting bugs, suggestions or requesting new features.
6. Donate
It takes a lot of hard work in creating and maintaining such works. If you wish to support me in any way, Please Drop a message HERE. or DONATE HERE
You can also write on my WALL (guestbook, Please DO NOT POST support queries there).
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about 7 months ago
you MUST include the abilities to exclude categories!
If you have a post with several categories.
post 1 = categories “bird, dog, twobirds”
post 1 = categories “bird, cat”
and you do
[ catgal name=bird ]
it would show both post 1 and 2.
but I may want ti display only birds on a single page and not have any dogs in there. so I would want
[ catgal name=bird exclude=dogs ]
about 7 months ago
You can. Use it with category ids.
if cat id of birds is 1 and of dogs is 2 then,
about 8 months ago
Hey Anshul,
First of all great plugin. Two questions: 1) How do I stop the hovering effect of the box. I wish a box to be in place all the time at the bottom of the picture. 2) How do I resize the images to a larger size? Many thanks.
Alex
about 8 months ago
lets say you want to make the size 300px X 200px
[cgview id=1 size=300x200 showtitle=always]
for all the options go to http://www.evilgenius.anshulsharma.in/cgview/usage-options/
about 9 months ago
your plugin works wonders, seriously. i was wondering however if there was a way to combine the native search function with it, say if i searched for an image category, if there was a way to display the results within your plugin instead of a typical post return
about 9 months ago
Alex
Yes this can definitely be done. But it will require modifying the theme you are using and using the search query in CGView
about 9 months ago
Hi Anshul,
Your plugin works great but I have a problem. There seems to be a rounded border around the images that is bigger that the image size. It creates a weird side-handle on the left of the image.
Please see under “Asian Recipes and more” on the sidebar at http://nealdafitnesstalk.com
Please help.
Best regards,
Nealda
about 9 months ago
Hi Nealda,
You just need to reduce the border radius from the css.
go to PLUGIN_DIR/category-grid-view-gallery/css/style.css
On line 15 change the border radius property from 10px to something less (0px for no round corners)
Make sure you change the value at all the 3 places.
about 9 months ago
I love the plugin, the only problem I seem to have that I can’t see my Custom default image, I tried uploading different types.
Maybe its because I’m working with multisite.
But then again al the rest seems to work.
Is there a hack to give my “blank” ones a default image?
I would really appreciate the help!!
Thanks in advance
about 9 months ago
Hi,
If you cannot see the custom image that you uploaded, Go to the plugin directory and replace the default image that comes with the plugin (the one that says “No Image Available”) with the your own image.
about 9 months ago
Thanks for the quick reply but I already tried that, still no luck :/
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about 10 months ago
Absolutely love this plugin, so intuitive and simple and flexible. We use it for our online portfolio page as well as a mini randomized version at the bottom of each portfolio post. Really does what it’s supposed to do, and does it well! Thank you! (donation coming soon! Already gave 5 stars at wp repository)
about 11 months ago
Anshul,
Is there a simple way to make the div class=”cgback hover” link to the same location as the “cgtitle hover”?
Thanks!
about 11 months ago
Hello,
Today, I udpated with 2.2.4 version and thumbnail not showing…
My site is http://movie.nepalese.co/
It was working with 2.2.3 version.
I have downloaded 2.2.3 version but i cant install it again. what to do..
Waiting for your support.
Jay
about 11 months ago
Go to [YOUR_PLUGIN_DIR]\category-grid-view-gallery\includes\ and open timthumb.php
Go to line number 40
change
to
about 11 months ago
I too am having this problem and tried your fix above and it did not work.
URL: hypervocal.com (sidebar under editor’s picks)
about 11 months ago
Do you use a cache plugin? if yes then clear your cache after this fix. The error on your site is that its unable to create the cache folder. If the above fix does not work, just check if the folder /plugins/category-grid-view-gallery/includes/cache exists.
If not then create it and set its permissions to chmod 755
about 11 months ago
Tried everything above. Still not working.
Nothing is being generated in the Cache folder after I created it.
Not using a cache plugin, but we do use CDN at WPEngine – our host
about 11 months ago
I got the problem now, stupid error
Go to [YOUR_PLUGIN_DIR]\category-grid-view-gallery\includes\ and open timthumb.php
Go to line number 40
change
to
about 11 months ago
Hi Anshul,
Just to say : thanks you very much !
It works for me !
See U
about 9 months ago
Hi!
It is not working for me.
I use the theme Arras, I don’t see any cache plu-in and I use Watermark Reloaded.
My website is: http://www.mediosmejoresqueganenmas.org/
Please help.
about 9 months ago
What seems to be the problem? the plugin looks fine to me on your website
about 12 months ago
Hi,
I was trying to click on the image, so it takes me to the post, but all it gives me is a blank page?! Can you please help me.
Thanks
about 12 months ago
I love this plugin. So flexible and handy.
One issue: I’ve modified the code so that the hover action fills up 100% of the grid. When we make a tall category grid (250px height) – the text is at the top and links to the article, but the open space beneath the text is not linking to the article.
How would I go about making the transparent hover link to the same location as the text?
Thanks!
-Steve
about 11 months ago
Just to be clear, I’m looking to make the transparent layer behind the text share the same link as the text.
Thanks.
about 12 months ago
Hello Ansul – Could you take a quick look at my site. The plugin is great and working as its should, BUT it’s conflicting with what the Theme developer called JS and he couldn’t help. Please let me know what I need to do to resolve this. The image slider on top right on my website is not working, but does when I deactivate CGVG.
my site url is http://www.panafricantimes.com
Please, anyone else can chime in. Thanks
about 12 months ago
Hi guys,
Thanks for this pugin, it corresponds exactly to what I wanted.
But just a question : I cannot open pictures in the page when I click on the photo. It open a new page, without the style guide.
Could you tell me how what I have to make?
Thanks a lot!
about 11 months ago
add this to your shortcode
[cgview lightbox=0]about 1 year ago
I just installed the Category Grid View Gallery which is definitely a must have. As much as I want to use this Plugin, it is conflicting with – I believe the JS code of the theme this is based on what the Theme vendor told me. Due to this conflict, The slide images on the top right corner of my website is not working. Any thing I can do to resolve the issue. Please, I’m not good with code but can add and subtract codes when they are giving to me with instruction on where to insert them.
Regards
about 1 year ago
Hi,
I’m testing your plugin for a shop to display products and some categories and it’s work very fine.
Thanks you so much
about 1 year ago
After a recent update, the category thumbnails are no longer showing up. I have tried the ./cache fix in your FAQ’s but with no luck
Your help would be greatly appreciated
about 1 year ago
Hi Chris,
I just updated the timthumb script. I have reconfigured it to use the system folder as cache directory. as it was in the previous version. Please take this minor upgrade and see if it fixes anything. If it doesnt. I would suggest you role back to the previous “working” version. I have had enough complaints about timthumb and I plan to remove it in my future release. Im busy with my job right now but will surely release a good version in near future
about 1 year ago
Hi Anshul,
I am having the same problem as Chris. Can you suggest the best version to roll back to?
about 1 year ago
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/category-grid-view-gallery.2.2.1.zip
about 1 year ago
I just upgraded and now none of the thumbnails are showing – all are broken images. I tried the timthumb trick and it did not work. Please help!
about 1 year ago
I had to revert to 2.2.1 to get the thumbnails to show again. I will not be updating until I can get some help as to why the update to 2.2.2 broke the thumbnails. Thank you!
about 1 year ago
I just updated the timthumb script. I have reconfigured it to use the system folder as cache directory. as it was in the previous version. Please take this minor upgrade and see if it fixes anything. If it doesnt. I would suggest you role back to the previous “working” version. I have had enough complaints about timthumb and I plan to remove it in my future release. Im busy with my job right now but will surely release a good version in near future
about 1 year ago
This plugin is conflicting with SuperSlider-Login which runs with mootools 1.4 (Jquery and mootools are not compatible in most cases). As a result pagination is not working. I love both the plugin, please let me know if there is any solution.
about 1 year ago
Hello,
I have moved my website to another domain, and everything works except the thumbnails in CGVIEW …
The shortcode was able to generate the grid with all the settings and the relevant posts, but there are no image thumbnails, eventhough the posts have featured images et up correctly.
Please advise
about 1 year ago
I love this plug-in. So much. It’s perfect for my dummy furniture-maker friend, who needs the most low-maintenance site for himself, possible. Unfortunately right after I installed it though, it broke the DM Albums plug-in.
Both are too too perfect for what I need, namely because of how easy they are to continually create content with, by someone who has no idea what a hex color is.
Is there any chance this could get troubleshooted… or, maybe a CG View Lite plugin made with just CSS (no JQuery or Javascript conflicts).
Ok, I’m exhausted. Just a nice designer trying to help out a friend, and my brain is throbbing from all this right now…
about 1 year ago
Any update for excludeposts shortcode not working?
For some reason, when I add the excludeposts in the short code, followed by the ID number of that post, it still displays the post image.
about 1 year ago
Hello,
I’m having a problem with the pictures I created for each post not filling the whole frame for each panel. I have tried replacing the & with & as detailed above but still no luck.
Here is a test page I have setup to demonstrate the issue – thank! http://www.creeksidechristian.com/test
about 1 year ago
Check your themes css.. it might have some styling (like padding or margin) for list elements (li or ul). Many themes have css styling for bullents and lists. Remove that and this will work as intended
about 1 year ago
Awesome, thanks, that worked! There was a comments li that was set in my theme php file