Why is the Facebook source super useful? One of the reasons why Justified Image Grid has a model that lacks its own content source is the ease of use of external sources. Most people are already familiar with uploading pictures to Facebook. This allows to leverage the fact that no technical skills are required to manage and maintain galleries over...
Automatic justified layout
...is Justified Image Grid Justified Image Grid respects the original aspect ratio. No detail is lost due to cropping. The justified layout is automatic. You can turn all your pre-existing and future WordPress galleries into this look with a single setting, if you prefer. Revert if you change you mind. Keep the workflow you already know! Gain visual advantage easily....
WP Real Media Library folders and top level
...Without Justified Image Grid, RML can't show its folders to your visitors. It's only for you, as a means of organizing the usual mess. But since you probably create a meaningful tree hierarchy anyway, why not create a photo grid based on a folder? Furthermore, if you don't use folders at all, the folders concept might sill appeal to you....
I see double lightboxes
...to prevent the other lightbox from getting opened from clicking JIG thumbnails: jQuery('a[rel*="lightbox:not(.justified-image-grid a)"]').fancybox(); Or slightly differently: jQuery('a[rel*="lightbox"]').not('.justified-image-grid a').fancybox(); Observe the use of quotes and the difference between :not() and .not() when using jQuery. In this example it's called fancybox and the selector is based on a rel value, but other scenarios are similar. Change this where the theme applies...
Tag albums
...galleries. Interestingly, this feature is no longer part of the NextGEN Gallery and the only thing that comes close to it is the tag cloud. Still Justified Image Grid makes it available in a form that is even better, because you can see a preview image for each tag before opening its gallery. Tag albums are most useful when you...
Recent images
Showing recent images from NextGEN gallery using Justified Image Grid is a great way to create an automatic grid with your latest content. This feature shows the desired (any) number of photos regardless of gallery - except excluded NextGEN images, of course. It's most useful when you have galleries that you update regularly with a couple of photos each. So...
Single picture
Justified Image Grid will display your single pictures from NextGEN - most likely you need that for the lightbox or caption options and for uniformity's sake. Flow a single picture to the left or right of paragraphs easily - right-to-left reading direction is also supported. The plugin gives you control over spacing and margin for a perfect alignment with your...
WordPress Media Library
The concept: why use the Media Library as a source? WordPress content is the primary content source for Justified Image Grid. The plugin acts as a display while you continue to manage your photos the same way you did before, nothing needs to change except how they look on the front-end. This is why JIG is not another gallery clone...
Images by ID
Adding images by ID to a gallery is the most manual way. It allows you to hand pick which ones to show. Surprisingly, it's also made easy by an optional toggle in Justified Image Grid. Nowadays most normal WordPress galleries are created using images by ID, behind the scenes. You just select the photos you need and create a gallery...
Single album
...Facebook Page. Whenever you add new images to the selected gallery on Facebook, your site will reflect the changess. It's always synchronized from Facebook. Say you delete a picture, it'll get removed from Justified Image Grid too. If you change the description of a photo, that text gets updated on your site as well. Showing photos of a single album...