Wow. Just, wow. Chris Wallace has outdone himself with the advanced Thematic Child Theme he’s released through Smashing Magazine. It’s called Gallery and it’s amazing.
Gallery—like every theme released through Smashing Magazine—is just packed with loads of cool features.
- A jQuery slide hover effect on thumbnails
- Lazyloading for thumbnails
- Built-in social media links for each gallery item
- Seamless integration with the following plugins: WP-PostRatings, BuySellAds plugin, and Contact Form 7
- And, of course, it’s built on Thematic.
Make sure you check this one out if you’re looking at producing a Gallery or Portfolio site. Smashing Magazine calls it “extremely flexible” and recommends it as a “starting point for design galleries and portfolios”. Get the Gallery Theme.
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looks cool !! it’s free right ?
Yep. Every theme released through Smashing Magazine is free.
Ian, thanks for the feature on Gallery. More exciting than launching this theme will be seeing the different ways it is used because of its flexibility.
There are definitely some issues that I plan to resolve in future releases, some visual inconsistencies, some enhancements, some code cleanup, etc. In fact, the project is public on Github for anyone interested in following the project and/or helping maintain it.
Gallery project on Github
Same question, please answer because your theme is wonderfull
Do you know how to increase the number of post on the index page ? Because mine is stuck at only 10 posts…
thx again
It looks great! Is it possible to create Child Theme of Child Theme??
I cant for the life of me get the jquery image hover to work for the thumbnails on the main page…I don’t know why and it’s driving me off the wall. It’s probably something simple.
Hi Ian and Chris, thank you guys to share your knowledge with us.
This examples will open our mind to the power of wordpress, certainly
Hello, this is just a wonderfull theme ! Thx a lot.
Do you know how to increase the number of post on the index page ? Because mine is stuck at only 10 posts…
thx again
Hi! i have the same problem (10 posts only) . Did you have an answer?
me2 ! any ideas guys ?
One of the best wordpress themes I have seen for Galleries. Great share. Must have.
Thanks 4 the share.
Hi
Am I missing a clue or something. I love this theme and have installed it on my blog, but can’t seem to find these ‘ Built-in social media links for each gallery item’.
Is this because I’m using WordPress mu?
Looking forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
Judi
Hi Judi, you need to add a URL for each post to take advantage of the social media links. The theme automatically detects whether or not you’ve entered a URL and will post the appropriate links if you have entered it.
Thanks Chris,
Wow so simple! Thats clever.
I really like your links, but I find it would take ages to change all my posts to include this. Would be nice to see something that would automatically post links into every post and maybe if you didn’t want the links on a few posts there could be an exclude tick box in the posts.
I’ve gone for the sociable plugin, I can also choose whether to include it on pages. It doesn’t have as nice links as yours though!
Thanks
Judi
Hello again
Just wondered how do you make the search box in the sidebar shorter in width. It pokes out a little at the moment.
Thanks Judi
oo also how do you make the home icon in the nav redirect to the homepage
Hi Chris,
I’m interested in whether its possible to add adverts/html into my header, such as a skype button. There are plugins called hooks i’ve tried but these seem to push down the background so are pretty useless.
Would it be possibe for example to add images that are links to other websites within the css. I’ve tried adding php tags in the functions sheet, but I assume I shouldn’t really mess with this. Website = http://www.artygirl.co.uk
Thanks
Judi
Hey there, amazing template. Really is.
However I seem to be having a small problem. When ever i insert a video it pushes the right hand text over to the right even more. Kinda crams it all in there and leaves a gap between the preview and the title/description. I cant for the life of me sort it out so its the same as when i post an image. I dont know if its because the video is flash?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Riley
Any tips on how to change the slider? I’d like the text to slide up instead of the thumbnail.
Hi,
How can i add a sidebar to main page?
hey this a great theme…i just wanted to know…how can i resize the grid? instead of 7 in a row to have just 4 or 3…but bigger…i`ll really apreciate u`r help…thanks
Is it just me, I find these types of little thumbnails to be worthless for a large enough screenshot to use as a Web Gallery.
the Thematic Child themes gallery on the site suffers from the same symptom.
With thumbnails of 159px you’ve got to click each one to be rewarded or penalized.
IT’s just labor intense on users for viewing a gallery…
Not that this kind of layout doesn’t work in some cases, but not most.
I would like to add a Sidebar to the main page. I tried to get rid of the following code from funtions.php file in gallery theme
// Remove sidebar on gallery-style pages
function remove_sidebar() {
if(is_page()){
return TRUE;
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}
add_filter(‘thematic_sidebar’, ‘remove_sidebar’);
But that does not seem to change anything!
HEELPPP!
Hey, testing out your Gallery theme in WP. Found this file with theme: ico-video-trans.png
How do I use it for the thumbs that point to a video post?
Ok, I found out that to get the green new video icon to appear you need to use a youtube video embed link. I look forward to getting this to work for all videos, regardless of source or format.
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