Version 1.3
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So you've layed your hands on this plugin.. Great! :)
Altough this is pretty easy to use and you have two great screencasts available here, you should take a quick look at this help manual.
In the downloadable package you will see a minimy.zip archive and a folder with the same name. The folder is basically the dearchivated version of the archive.
To install this plugin you can either:
i. make a copy of the minimy folder in the wp-content/plugins/ folder of your WordPress installation
ii. open the plugins menu from your WordPress admin panel and install the new plugin using the archive
Once it's installed you need to activate it and after this you will notice that a new menu appeard in your admin panel. From that panel you will control the entire gallery.
Note: If you deactivate/uninstall the plugin all galleries will be erased from the database, so don't do this after you create your galleries. Also, to delete all photos and thumbnails created by the gallery you have to completely remove/delete the plugin from your WordPress installation.
Before you start adding new galleries you should know that you first need to have your skin ready in terms of sizes. This is because when you add a picture to the gallery a thumbnail is created, and that thumbnail has the width specified in the skin panel. If you decide to have a custom width you should first define the skin.
So go ahead and click the Add new gallery button. You will see a new menu with four items.
i. Gallery ID
In this panel you only have the unique id that you will use when embedding the gallery in your pages/posts.
ii. Style & Options
From this panel you can set up some gallery options, that will be available only for this gallery. This is the list of options:
| Option name | Option description |
|---|---|
| Enable slideshow | If selected, the lightbox will have the option for a slideshow. |
| Autoplay | If selected, the slideshow will autostart. Please disable this if you don't have the slideshow enabled. |
| Slide timer | This defines how long will a slide stay on the screen until it will change |
| Enable thumbnails | If selected, a set of mini thumbs will appear in the lightbox. |
| Enable captions | If selected, captions will appear in the lightbox. If you don't want captions, you can disable and use them only for SEO purposes. |
| Image resize | If selected, the images will resize if the screen size is smaller than their default size. If disabled, the images will have the same size. |
iii. Images
Obviously, from this panel you can add images. You have two upload methods(flash and non-flash). If you are not on an iPad while creating you galleries please use the Flash upload button. This allows you to upload multiple files at once and it's much more better and easier to use than the regular upload button.
After you upload the images you can arrange or remove them after your desire.
iv. Captions
This panel holds the captions for all of your uploaded images. The description will take the place of the alt attribute in the gallery, while the title will remain..a title :)
And that's it! You can either cancel everything and start from the beginning or you can save your work.
I won't stay here to long. To use the gallery simple open a new/existing page or post and paste this code:
[minimy id="GALLERY_ID_HERE"]As pointed before, you can take the unique id from the gallerie's dashboard panel.
This is a link to [minimy id="GALLERY_ID_HERE" link="true" text="a minimy gallery"]After you create a gallery you need to change the id to fit yours and put the other two variables. The text variable represents the text which will appear inside the tags.
When you open the skins panel you will see a long list of fields. Even if their names are pretty self explanatory, you can take a look at the table below to see each option's role:
| Option name | Option description |
|---|---|
| Total width | This defines the total width of the gallery. It is used for arranging the thumbnails in a fixed area. |
| Thumbs per page | If you decide to go with scrollable thumbs in your gallery, this option defines how many thumbnails you will have on a page. |
| Thumbs width | A thumbnail's width is modified according to this option and the gallery total width. You can't edit this. |
| Thumbs height | This defines the height of a thumbnail. |
| Please try to make all size modifications before you create any galleries, otherwise you will be left with a bunch of wrongly resized thumbnails! | |
| Buttons color | This defines the color of the thumbnails next/prev navigation arrows and also the color of the photo symbol from the left side. |
| Butons color(on roll over) | This defines the color of the thumbnails next/prev navigation arrows, when rolled over or pressed. |
| Thumbnails color accent | This defines the color of the thumbnail's background on roll over. |
| Thumbanils symbol color | This defines the color of the thumbnail's zoom/view icon on roll over. |
| Thumbnails bottom border | This defines the size of the thumbnail's bottom border. |
| Background color | This defines the lightbox background color. |
| Holder color | This defines the lightbox photo holder color. |
| Title color | This defines the lightbox photo title color. |
| Description color | This defines the lightbox photo description color. |
| Menu color | This defines the lightbox menu background color. |
| Buttons color | This defines the lightbox menu buttons color. |
| Butons color(on roll over) | This defines the lightbox menu buttons color, when rolled over or pressed. |
| Slide timer color | This defines the lightbox slide timer color, timer which appears over the play/pause button. |
| New preloader's path | Here you have to put the path to a new preloader, which matches the new style of your gallery. Your preloader needs to be 16x16 and you can generate it using this tool: http://www.ajaxload.info/. The preloader used in my example is the snake one. |
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. Also please check the plugin's page on CodeCanyon for more FAQs and solutions.