WP Real Media Library folders and top level

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The concept of WP Real Media Library folders is simple. You can use them like regular folders on your computer. Place photos directly in them, or other folders and collections. When shown with JIG, every content inside a folder becomes accessible. Create just one page with one single shortcode, and show your entire neatly organized library easily. It'll automatically reflect any changes.

Showing WP Real Media Library folders with JIG

Demo pictures » Life » People

Show the shortcode

The above example uses the following, generated shortcode (how to use):

[$justified_image_grid preset=19 filterby=attachment_tag filter_style=tags last_row=flexible load_more=click initially_load=10 load_more_limit=25 rml_id=2]

This example shows a folder called "Demo pictures". It contains 3 collections and indirectly, many galleries and several hundred of photos. Observe the breadcrumbs and where the thumbnails link to. Load more and the bespoke design from the home page is just spicing it up.

How does showing WP Real Media Library folders work?

Justified Image Grid aligns with your vision and library setup with RML. Choose a folder from any level - it doesn't matter how mixed content it has. Folders and collections will open on a separate page, but photos open in the lightbox.

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. JIG brings a unique feature of showing the top level objects in RML. Meaning those you haven't placed inside a folder (just to group them together). This is created on the fly.

JIG creates automatic virtual pages for each thumbnail you see which is not just a photo for the lightbox. The grid will change to the linked content in your page, upon navigation. Breadcrumbs ease traversing across all levels and let you know where you are. Check out Collections for additional information.

What can be displayed on the thumbnails?

  • The name of child folders and collections.
  • Photo count of a child folder, for example "48 Photos".
  • Content count of a child folder separately for each type. For example "2 Folders, 7 Collections".
  • Content count of a collection, separately for each type. For example "3 Collections, 8 Galleries".

How does the integration work?

  • JIG ensures that each collection and child folder has a cover photo. If a tree doesn't contain any photo, it's skipped.
  • Each contained folder or collection has a link to its virtual path stemming from your original page.
  • Order the contents of the folder using drag and drop in RML. JIG respects such order automatically.
  • A Folder can only open straight to a lightbox if it has no further subfolders, just images.

I like that breadcrumbs thing, what's the deal with that?

  • Show or hide it. Also whether or not to have it on the topmost level.
  • Change the separator character like arrows, slashes between path elements and optionally at the end.
  • Re-write the home element or automatically get the name of your selected collection.

How do the settings look like?

WP Real Media Library collections
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The best gallery plugin I've used, and I've used all the expensive ones like Envira and NexGen Pro. This is my favorite by far.

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This is exactly what I've been looking for... A script/plugin that has perfectly fused Social sharing, deep linking of images (for SEO) & a lightweight/clean lightbox that works great on Mobile & desktop. But I purchased it because it does WAYYYY More that the 3 simple things I was looking for. One of the biggest surprises I had was the social sharing feature. It works perfectly! I had a client share a single image from a gallery to their Facebook. The format was clean & simple. But the results were amazing. When a Facebook user clicks to view the image, it takes them to my website where the gallery is & opens the lightbox to display the exact image that was shared. My website traffic spiked over the next 24 hours as my clients Facebook friends clicked to view the image. They spent an average of 2 minutes on my site & visited an average of 7 other pages before returning to Facebook. I'd term this method of social sharing a huge WIN! This is by far the most versatile & easy to use plugin. They also make great recommendations of other free & premium plugins to enhance the usability of WP Media Library. Bravo! You've done a fantastic job on this plugin. I'm sure this will become my go to script for galleries & portfolios to display images, videos, & custom posts.

My background: I've used dozens & dozens of gallery & lightbox scripts & plugins. I'm a programmer, so I've coded scripts into plugins & themes to get the functionality I wanted. But I've always been left looking for new scripts, because the next project needs something a little different.

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