JoomGallery is a gallery component completely integrated into Joomla!

Features include, but are not limited to:

  • Three image sizes: Thumbnails < Detail images < Original images (thumbnails and detail images are created automatically out of the original images)
  • Fullscreen animated JavaScript boxes (Slimbox or Thickbox3), other possibilities of opening the detail or original images may be: A clear new window, JavaScript window, DHTML container or any other method added by additional plugins (there are already some available for Shadowbox, Highslide JS,RokBox and Photoswipe)
  • Manifold possibilities in the detail view: Voting, commenting, BBCode for external linking, "Send to a friend" feature, adding nametags ("That’s me!" and also adding nametags for other users), Slideshow with several transition effects, mini thumbnails of category in a motion gallery
  • Configurable watermark
  • Image rotation
  • Exif and IPTC image data support in detail view
  • Transfer Exif and IPTC data to the database fields during upload is possible
  • Access rights for categories and images according to Joomla's user groups
  • Fully implemented ACL of Joomla!
  • User-created uploads and categories
  • Password-protected categories
  • Time span for upload limit in frontend
  • Favourites: Users may store and download their favourite images (in a zip archive)
  • Option to download single images
  • Counting image downloads
  • Google Maps support (GeoTagging) in detail view
  • Search function in gallery
  • Configurable view of toplists (top rated, last added, last commented, most viewed)
  • Possibility to exclude images from toplists and the search
  • Several upload possibilities from backend and frontend: Single upload, Batch upload (Zip), Java upload, FTP upload (last one only in backend)
  • Image processing using GD2 or ImageMagick
  • Afterwards resizing of detail images and thumbnails
  • Square thumbnails possible
  • Possibility of using content plugins in image and category descriptions
  • Possibility to explicitly reject images and to send message about rejection reason
  • Expand Joomla-Breadcrumbs
  • Unlimited nested categories possible
  • CSS-based layout (table-free, wherever possible)
  • MVC structured code, template overrides possible for every view
  • Module positions inside the gallery
  • Several plugin events triggered by JoomGallery on certain events in order to interact with third-party extensions
  • An interface class (API) gives other extensions (Plugins, Modules, ...) the possibility to integrate JoomGallery content
  • Huge third-party support: There are JoomGallery extensions available for many third-party extensions: Community Builder, JComments, reCaptcha, AlphaUserPoints...
  • Plugins for displaying or linking images in content articles or for automatically creating user categories
  • Any own data fields for categories and images possible
  • Update-Checker and One-Click-Updates for almost all installed extensions of JoomGallery
  • Almost all functions and outputs can be switched off
Available in the following languages:
bosnian brazilian-portuguese bulgarian catalan chinese danish estonian german finnish french englisch indonesian italian japanese croatian latvian lithuanian netherlands
norwegian persian polish portuguese russian swedish serbian serbian (cyrillic) slovakian spanish czech turkish ukrainian hungarian vietnamese slovenian greek arabic