Pardon the Mess as I Update My Design and Do Some House Cleaning

fGallery Sidebar Widget

Posted on Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at 6:18 pm by Dave S. – 5 Comments

After a busy weekend of doing holiday related stuff including taking my son on a train ride with Santa on Saturday and having a special visit from Santa at our house on Sunday, I had a ton of great pictures to get in order.

This prompted me to take a good look at my family website which I have been neglecting for some time now. Among the many plugins I have using, I use fGallery by Frederik Fahlstad for our photo gallery because it is reliable, predictable and pretty easy to use. Up until this point it was well integrated into my template, but I decided to upgrade that as well, which in turn broke the plugin to an extent (the images aren’t displaying).

So since I was aleady under the hood, I decided to widgetize my new template and take the functions for fGallery that allowed me to display either the most recently added or random recently added images in my sidebar and create a widget for that as well. You can find the downloadable widget, which I am calling the fGallery Sidebar Widget here. It really isn’t that big of an accomplishment (although it is my first widget), but I think it is inherently easier to work with than having to hard code the function call in the template itself.

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Comments (5)

  1. Matt says:
    December 10, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    I dont want to have to join your site to get this download. Can you make it available to the general public?

  2. paulo says:
    December 11, 2006 at 1:42 am

    hi,
    I can’t download the fgallery widget, have to be a nomadic learner..
    Can you open to everybody ? thanks

  3. Dave S. says:
    December 11, 2006 at 6:03 am

    Matt and Paulo,

    I apologize for having the download locked down. I thought I had save the settings to allow everyone to download…I have now fixed it.

  4. Julie Anne Verbeelen says:
    June 26, 2007 at 10:01 am

    I just found your site and wigit while looking for a sidebar photo solution, but I am not famiiar with the previous fgallery. I downloaded the wigit and got it activated, but it doesn’t do anything and it has made my main page in the middle disapear

  5. Dave S. says:
    June 26, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Julie Anne,

    You need to download the fgallery plugin at Fahlsted.se in order for this widget to be useful. After you download and install it you will be in great shape.