Sigplus

Description of Sigplus

Sigplus is great for quickly creating galleries displayed in module positions (using a module) or in the content area (using a plugin). To insert a gallery into the content, use the syntax {gallery}papka{/gallery}.

A nice feature of the extension is the built-in Russian localization, which does not need to be installed separately. The translation is a bit weak in places, but overall it does its job: all options and the text in the tooltips, of which there is a lot, are translated.

A brief sequence of actions for creating a gallery via Sigplus from scratch:

1. Download and install the extension.
2. Activate the plugins (search for the word "sigplus").
3. To display the gallery in a module position:
   1. create a sigplus module,
   2. specify the folder with images and configure the module,
   3. specify the position, placement pages and publish the module.
4. To display the gallery in the content area (for example, in a Joomla material):
   1. click the sigplus button in the editor,
   2. set up a gallery in a modal window and click Insert,
   3. the shortcode {gallery}myfolder{/gallery} will be inserted, where instead of myfolder you need to specify the path to the folder with images (for example, sampledata/parks/landscape).

Sigplus Features

Various variations of pop-up windows for viewing images.

• Various layouts for galleries (table view or carousel).
• Customization of the carousel layout (number of rows, columns, controls).
• Creation of image galleries hosted on the server or on Flickr.
• Support for images of jpg, png formats and gif.
• Multimedia support (HTML tag for <video>).
• Create thumbnails with automatic cropping and centering.
• Insert galleries into module positions and the content area.
• Integrate with the com_search component.
• Global default settings with the ability to override for individual galleries.
• Add a watermark.
• Add signatures to images from a file.
• And other little things.

Sigplus settings

There are settings for the module (when creating a module) and the plugin, applied to galleries inserted into the content area through the editor.

At first glance, there are quite a lot of settings, but if If you look closely, you will see that there is nothing superfluous among them. We will not consider all the settings in detail, since most of them are quite trivial, and each option is accompanied by a good explanation in the tooltip.

Plugin tab

The gallery display method is determined by the Gallery Layout option.

Here you can select a layout that determines the appearance of the gallery:

Fixed (with rotator)

This layout allows you to display the gallery as a carousel with the ability to determine the number of rows and columns.

• Fixed (with rotator)

  This layout allows you to display the gallery as a carousel with the ability to determine the number of rows and columns.

• Floating (without rotator)

  The gallery will be displayed in a classic table view.

• Compacted (without rotator)

  The images will be displayed in one line with a scrollbar.

• Hidden

  The gallery is displayed with the CSS rule display: none, as a result of which it is simply not displayed on the page.

Also in the Plugin tab there are other sections with settings for detailed customization of the gallery display:

• Alignment

  Here you can determine the alignment of the images on the page.

• Preview preview

  Thumbnail size settings.

• Lightbox settings

  Select the type of modal window for detailed viewing, activate its centering, display controls in the lightbox.

• Rotator settings

  Activate loop playback in the Fixed (with rotator) layout.

• Caption settings

  Visibility and position of the caption, as well as default values ​​for the title and description of images.

Advanced settings

• Download and meta data

  Select a levelaccess to download and view text information about images, as well as activating image protection (all explanations in tooltips).

• Image preview style

  Margins, borders and padding for thumbnails displayed in the modal window.

• Image sorting

  Sorting settings and recursion depth value (to limit the output of images from subfolders of a certain nesting level).

• Watermark

  Watermark position.

• Image thumbnails

  The size of the thumbnails displayed in the modal window.

• Advanced Lightbox Settings

  Lightbox transition effect.

• Caption Templates

  Templates for the title and caption of the image (all explanations in the tooltips).

• Image Folders and Quality

  Defining folders for storing thumbnails, preview images, originals, watermarked images, and the quality value of the generated images.

• Caption Test Source and Language

  All explanations in the tooltips.

• Activation Tag

  Here you can override the value of the tags for shortcode (by default gallery to display gallery and lightbox to open image in popup window).

• Backup and restore settings

  Export or import settings to JSON.

Expert settings

Several settings for developers.