- Offizieller Beitrag
After announcing the functions of the new blog, we now proceed with the update of the gallery plug-in. Some of the new functions of the blog will also be found in the new gallery in a similar way.
Global Categories
The gallery now also gets "global categories". The administrator can set them up and give users or user groups the permission to use them. Images as well as albums may be categorized by one ore more categories.
Overview page for images
The gallery overview page has also been subject to a major overhaul. There is a brand new side-bar, providing an overview of the newest or top-rated albums and their images. The side-bar also offers a bunch of useful filtering options to be able to find interesting images more efficiently. You can now filter by category, or find the most-commented ones for example. The side-bar is most flexible, all boxes can be moved and disabled by the admin and even be extended by plugins.
There is a new overall statistics box at the bottom of the overview page like the one you already know from the forum.
Overview page for albums
There's a new overview page for albums also now. It's identical with the one for images, but you'll be able to filter albums here instead of images.
Global map
Image geo-tagging is a very useful feature and we wanted it to be even more involved in the new gallery. We start with a central map where the shooting location of all images of the gallery as well as images within a given radius can be found.