Now I am going further with my experiment and modify PHP Text Widget to allow embedding Menalto Gallery 2 ImageBlock into your blog.

As a result here is for you to try is an actual widget which you can see used to show some of my gallery photos.
You can download widget here – Gallery 2 Widget.

Bellow are steps to follow in order to start using it.

  • Download a ZIP file from location above
  • Unpack it and upload folder into your WordPress plugin folder
  • Visit your WordPress Admin concole and enable Plugin under “Plugins” section
  • Now go to Presentation/Widgets. You will see a new widget available – “Gallery.2”. If you need more then 1 widget to be used in your blog, change a number of available Gallery.2 widgets to desired.
  • Drag “Gallery.2 widget from available list onto your sidebar and go into options by clicking a small button on the widget bar
  • You could specify SideBar widget name, location of your gallery and choose appearance of the ImageBlock in your blog. Description for items is self-explanatory otherwise go to your Gallery.ImageBlock configuration page to find more details about the options.

Enjoy.


2 Comments

Charles · Nov 19, 2009 at 03:08

Hello, I am using your widget. Do you know how I can modify it so that when using the “date” option it shows the full date AND time and not just the date? I did some research and found how to modify the gallery2 tpl file so that gallery itself shows the time along with the date, but the widget is still just showing the date only.

Serguei Dosyukov · Nov 23, 2009 at 08:52

Plug-in by itself does not modify html returned by G2.
The option to include date is inherited in the plug-in and handling is implemented by G2 Imageblock module.
Initial handling is in ImageBlock.tpl and could probably be adjusted (look for $ImageBlockData.show.date).

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