Description

This is a neat image gallery plugin for jQuery. It offers different possible configurations while still being lightweight and easy to work with.

Here are some of its features:

• The images can have different appearance effects: fade, slide, quick slide, stack and none.
• The body can be set to have a constant dimension for all images or automatically resize based on the size of the current image.
• The description can be under the image, on the side of it or can be disabled.
• The thumbs panel can be under the images, on the side of them or disabled.
• The arrows can be on the outside or on the inside.
• It has lightbox functionality included which can be enabled so that images are opened in a bigger view when clicked.
• It has autoplay support that can be enabled so that images are changed automatically at an interval of time.
• Keyboard arrows can be used for navigation.
• There are 25 JS settings available to be configured.
• It comes with 7 templates showcasing the gallery in different configurations.
• It is lightweight. The minified JS plugin file is under 15KB.
• It is fully responsive.
• It has cross browser support.
• It has smooth and fast animations.
• It is easy to work with and implement.
• It has continued support.
• And free updates.

Have a look over the preview page to see the gallery in action.

This is the jQuery plugin version of the gallery. A WordPress plugin version is also available here: Nice Gallery for WordPress.

Updates

• Added a new accepted value to the “defaultOpen” setting, called “random”, which will make the gallery open a random image by default.
• Moved the JS source file from the “Sources/js” folder to the “Main/nice-gallery/js” folder, next to the minified version.

• Added a new setting called “lightboxImageUrls” to be able to specify the image URLs for the gallery lightbox when using a lazy loader plugin on the page.
• Changed the “scrollTime” setting to “scrollAnimate” so that it now accepts an ease value as well alongside the time value.
• Added a new method called “scrollPage” which scrolls the page a certain position using the scroll animate settings.
• Added a new method called “onPageScroll” to be able to specify a function to be called when the page is scrolled.
• Added a new method called “onPageAutoScrollFinish” to be able to specify a function to be called when the page automatic scroll finishes.

• Added a new setting called “lightboxOnClick” to be able to specify the behaviour when the lightbox is clicked, either close it or show the next image.
• Added a new setting called “lightboxDevice” to be able to specify the type of devices that the lightbox is enabled for: “all”, “computer” or “mobile”.
• Added a new setting called “scrollToImage” to be able to specify if the page should scroll to the image if it is not in view on the page when opened.
• Added a new setting called “scrollDevice” to be able to specify the devices for which scrolling to the image is enabled for: “all”, “computer” or “mobile”.
• Added a new setting called “scrollTime” to be able to specify the time duration of the scrolling animation.

• Fixed an issue that was causing the lightbox image not to display properly on Bootstrap sites.

• Added the possibility to have links on the gallery images.
• Added support for autoplay. A new setting is available called “autoplay” which can be set to the image display time (in ms) or to false.
• Added 2 new settings called “insideArrowColor” and “outsideArrowColor” to be able to control which of the default arrow versions are used in each case, either “white” or “black”.
• Added lightbox functionality which can be enabled so that images open in a bigger view when clicked.
  There are 7 new settings available, related to the lightbox:
  • lightboxEnabled: If the lightbox functionality should be enabled.
  • lightboxDesc: If the lightbox should display the image description text.
  • lightboxArrows: If the lightbox should have the prev and next navigation arrows.
  • lightboxDescHide: If the lightbox should have the description text hidden by default and shown on mouseover.
  • lightboxControlsHide: If the lightbox should have the controls (close button and navigation arrows) hidden by default and shown on mouseover.
  • lightboxControlsColor: The color of the lightbox controls (close button and navigation arrows).
  • lightboxAnimate: The animation parameters of the lightbox.
• Added 5 new methods that can be called through the code:
  • open: Opens an image based on the order number supplied.
  • next: Opens the next image of the gallery.
  • prev: Opens the previous image of the gallery.
  • startAutoplay: Starts the gallery autoplay.
  • stopAutoplay: Stops the gallery autoplay.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the right navigation arrow not to be positioned properly when the image description was on the side and the arrows on the inside.
• Other small modifications and improvements.

• Launched.