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Giux-Lab Gallery

WordPress gallery plugin with Viewer and Catalog modes, multilingual support, Gutenberg block, ZIP downloads and XML import/export.

by Giux-Lab · github.com/giuxlab-hub/giuxlab-gallery

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/giuxlab-hub/giuxlab-gallery/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/giuxlab-hub/giuxlab-gallery ↗

Giux-Lab Gallery is a lightweight WordPress plugin for technical image galleries. It provides a manual Viewer and a metadata-rich Catalogue, with no autoplay or automatic loop.

Version: 0.2.0
License: GNU GPL v3 or later
Encoding: UTF-8
WordPress: 6.6+ (tested up to 7.1)
PHP: 7.4+

Main features

  • Manual Viewer with stable responsive canvas, keyboard/touch navigation, overlay mode and hi-res zoom.
  • Catalogue mode with title, ALT, caption, description and per-image download.
  • Optional Viewer / Catalogue switch saved per gallery and overridable per block/shortcode.
  • Multiple galleries and switches on one page keep independent state.
  • Public full-gallery page and portable ZIP export (index.html + hi-res images).
  • Optional watermark for anonymous hi-res/ZIP downloads; authenticated users receive originals.
  • Gutenberg block (Block API 3) and compatibility shortcode.
  • Gallery languages: Universal, Italian and English.
  • Public multilingual integration hooks; no dependency on private implementation details of another plugin.
  • XML import/export 1.2 with complete pre-validation, preview and rollback; imports 1.0 and 1.1 remain supported.
  • Optional WordPress Dashboard widget with accessible-gallery count and recent galleries.
  • Italian/English admin, Gutenberg and frontend strings.

Shortcode

[giuxlab_gallery id="123"]
[giuxlab_gallery id="123" mode="viewer|catalog" switch="on|off" lang="it|en"]

All optional attributes fall back to the gallery/content defaults.

Viewer / Catalogue switch

Each gallery stores:

  • display mode: viewer or catalog;
  • mode switch: enabled or disabled.

Existing galleries keep the switch disabled by default. A Gutenberg block or shortcode can override both settings for a single insertion.

Multilingual behaviour

A gallery can be it, en or universal.

  • IT and EN galleries always use their own effective language.
  • Universal galleries follow the embedding content language.
  • The effective language is propagated to the Viewer, Catalogue, full gallery page, REST/editor preview and portable ZIP.
  • Without a multilingual integration, standard WordPress Media Library fields are used.

Public integration points are documented in docs/INTEGRATION.md.

XML import/export

New exports use XML 1.2 and include:

<display-mode>viewer</display-mode>
<mode-switch>on</mode-switch>

The importer still accepts XML 1.0 and 1.1. XML 1.0 defaults to Viewer + switch off; XML 1.1 adds display-mode and defaults the switch to off; XML 1.2 requires both nodes.

Full format: docs/XML-FORMAT.md.

Dashboard widget

When enabled under Giux-Lab Gallery → Settings, the WordPress Dashboard widget shows:

  • number of galleries the current user can edit;
  • five most recently modified accessible galleries;
  • New gallery and Manage galleries actions.

Each user can hide it through normal WordPress Screen Options.

Installation

  1. Upload the release ZIP from Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
  2. Activate Giux-Lab Gallery.
  3. Configure watermark, colours and Dashboard widget under Giux-Lab Gallery → Settings.
  4. Create a gallery or insert the Giux-Lab Gallery block in a post/page.

Development

Repository files are deliberately usable both as a GitHub source tree and as an installable WordPress plugin directory. See CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

GNU General Public License v3 or later. See LICENSE.txt.