| Created: | 17/05/2012 |
| Latest update: | 03/04/2016 |
| By: | LCweb |
| Website: | http://www.lcweb.it |
| E-mail: | support@lcweb.it |
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From v2.1 the plugin comes with the brand new Easy WP Thumb script that replaces TimThumb.
Is important to check if your system is ready to create thumbnails. Simply go in Media Grid settings and at the end of the first tab content you will find the "Easy WP Thumb - Connection Information" panel that will inform you about the status.
To maximize performance, I strongly suggest to display your grids once you've created them, to allow cache images creation.
This option affects only the thumbnails. Here you have to specify the maximum width of your grid. The default value is the classical 960px but if you have a fullscreen grid you must increase the value to avoid fuzzy images.
Filtered items behavior can be changed from the standard masory's one "hide and reorder" to a more static "change opacity".
Disables the deeplinking feature (essential for the plugin SEO). Enable it only if the system conflicts with your existing setup
Enabling this option the lightbox will be closed only clicking on the related "X" button.
You'll enable Easy WP thumbs forcing mode. Enable that ONLY IF you note missing thumbnails or a grid is not showing
This option switch off Easy WP Thumbs and enable Timthumb for the thumbnails creation. To be used only if you have issues with thumbs creation
To solve some incompatibility issues you can turn it on and put the javascript in your website header. Do this ONLY IF you notice problems.
Enable it if your website uses AJAX to load pages or contents. It will add a script setupping new added grids.
If an attribute is deleted or renamed, even the relative field in the item editor page will be cleared. Only uppercase/lowercase changes are allowed.
The slider heigh in PERCENTAGE value is always referred to slider width. This to maintain always the same aspect ratio also on small screens. For example if you set an height of 50% and the slider is 1000px wide, the height will be set to 500px
You can show a caption for each slider image. They are taken from the Description field of the image.
You can reach that field from the media archive of your wordpress installation or from the "Manage Images" button of media-grid.
From v4 you can attach Youtube and Vimeo videos to lightbox slider images. Just copy the video URL into the wizard, clicking on the "play button" of selected images
You can also display the videos uploaded on your website. Supported formats: mp4, m4v, webm, ogv, wmv
Player supports multiple formats at the same time to guarantee cross-browser compatibility. Use video URLs split by a comma
Paste the track's URL into the related field. If something is typed, the tracklist will be ignored
The title shown in the grid item is the one specified in the wordpress media library
This item typecan fetch contents from any post type having an editor in WP (e.g. posts, pages, but also woocommerce products).
The essential requirement is to have at least a taxonomy associated to the post type.
Using WooCommerce products as source, shown items will be directly referred to the Woo product.
This means that lightbox layout and attributes must be set in that product, through the Media Grid options box.
Switch it to on to use featured image as item background. Actually it is used to cover completely the item.
From v4 you ca set also spacer visibility, to hide it on standard or mobile layout.
Custom attributes are always optional. If an option field is not filled, it won't be displayed in the item description
This settings are relative to the each image that is shown in the lightbox. With them you can control the images height to avoid extra-sizing in vertical images.
Setting the maximum height in pixels the images too big will be cropped to fit that size, leave this field empty to use the full image.
In order to avoid issues using portrait and landscape images now you can set a maximum width for the lightbox of each item.
The content will be resized accordingly to the value you set. (minimum value is 320px)
Clicking on wizard you can select with ease the center of the thumbnails that will be shown in the grid.
By default the center of the image will be used.
You can also us the option to calculate automatically the cell's height. It will be sized accordingly with the image proportions.
With this setting the item's image won't be cropped in the grid but just downsized.
In the builder it is rendered as a 1/5 item for technical reasons
Adding this block, you enable the grid pagination. Basically is a 100% wide block you can freely move in the builder to split items as you prefer.
Mainly addressed to grids having many items of similar shapes, it allows fast sorting without masonry involvement
Sometimes things can become complex using drag&drop items positioning. Using these buttons you'll move them one position backwards or forwards.
If you hidden spacers in desktop or mobile mode, this setting is already reflected in grid builder. Then is normal to not see hidden spacers, just switch mode to move them.
You can preview the grid you are building without placing it on a page. Before you have to set the preview container's page in the plugin settings.
Once the grid has been saved the related button will appear on the right of the "save grid" one.
Here's a demo shortcode with all possible parameters
[mediagrid cat="91" title_under="1" search="1" filter="1" filters_align="left" hide_all="1" def_filter="15" r_width="700"]
(Available from v4) Enabling filters now you can choose where to place them. On top, by default, or on item sides.
(Available from v4) Using this option, you'll enable the search bar. Its position will change accordingly with filters one.
Searching function is described in the next documentation chapter.
If this field has been left blank, the plugin will resize dinamically the grid cells basing on the grid container width.
Otherwise the size will be fixed to the specified width. For example, if the value is 800px, an item that is 1/4 x 1/4 will be 200px x 200px big. It will be ignored in mobile mode.
From v4 Media Grid has got a search bar to easily find items in grids.
It is enabled in the shortode wizard and aligned accordingly with filters.
By default the search will be performed on item titles. However you can improve the search results using the helper, in "Edit Item" page.
Here you can write words that will be added to searchable elements. Remember that minimum length for searchable words is 2 characters.
From v3.03 you can also control product enabling individually. Even if global integration is disabled, you can set single products to be usable in grids.
In "edit product" page, the first option in Media Grid box controls this behavior.
The plugin is 100% multilanguage both for the front and the back-end. If a translation of your language has been created, Wordpress will automatically switch between languages. Plus it is WPML certified and compatible with qTranslate!
Create a translationIf you have WPML + String Translation add-on you can simply scan the plugin and translate via its UI all the plugin strings.
Otherwise: going in the plugin folder, then in the one called "languages". Inside you'll find the default.pot file. It contains all the english elements that have to be translated. If you want to create one in your language follow this steps:
To translate the item type options you necessarily need to use the WPML string translation plugin.
If everything goes right, you will be able to use your translation.
If you create new translations, please, contact me at support@lcweb.it sending the .PO and .MO files.
I will put it in the new releases and mention you in the changelog. Thanks