Features:

• Easy to use.
• Quick Setup.
• Frontend Sortings with different parameters.
• Responsive design.
• Flexibility in Displaying.
• Full screen support
• Touch and support for mobile devices
• Zoom animation
• Social sharing
• Keyboard access

Usage:

In OctoberCMS, This plugin can be used to show PhotoSwipe Gallery on your web pages with custom display options and animations.

How to install:

To install this plugin you have to type ChiragPatel.PhotoSwipe in Backend System Settings > Updates & Plugins > Install plugins.

How to use:

In backend, Click on ‘Photo Swipe’ icon where you can manage your galleries.

Here three components are attached, you can use as per your requirement:

1.) Album List

2.) Gallery

3.) Images of Gallery

To include Album component on your page:

1. Click on CMS in Backend.
2. Select page you want to include this plugin.
3. Click Components and select component from Photo Swipe plugin Album and drag it to the desired position or simple Click on View Gallery and write {% component ‘albums’ %} where you want to place Albums.

Same process for other components: Gallery ( {% component ‘viewGallery’ %} ) & Images of Gallery ( {% component ‘directGallery’ %} ).

Configuration:

In your layout file, you have to write {% placeholder photoswipe %} in the body section.

Important note: This is very important to initialize the PhotoSwipe Gallery. If you forget to implement this, it will not work. And make sure you have added JQuery script in your layout or page.

Different components have different properties as per below:

1. Album List component

   • Sort By: You can sort your albums on frontend by Title, Date modified and Published On with desirable Sort By property.

   • Gallery Page: In Links tab of properties, you have to select gallery page from dropdown to give link to the albums.

   Important Note: Your gallery page should have :slug in URL

   Here is example of Album List component implemented in the page

   title = "Album"  
   url = "/album"  
   layout = "default"  
   is_hidden = 0  
     
   [albums]  
   sortBy = "updated_at-asc"  
   galleryPage = "gallery"  
   ==  
   <div class="container">  
   {% component 'albums' %}  
   </div>
   

2. Gallery component

   • Slug: To show specific gallery, Enter the slug of gallery.

   Note: If you want to show gallery with album links, Please do not change it's default value(:slug).

   • Display Properties: Here you get flexible display properties.

     • Infinite Loop: If set to true you'll be able to swipe from last image to first image. (default value: true)

     • Close On Scroll: If set to true on mouse scroll, gallery will be closed. (default value: false)

     • Close on Vertical Drag: If set to true, gallery will be closed on dragging vertically. (default value: false)

     • Close On Esc Key: If set to true on Esc Key press, gallery will be closed. (default value: false)

     • Pinch To Close: If set to true, the gallery’s background will gradually fade out as the gesture is complete, the gallery will close. (default value: false)

     • Caption: If set to true, Caption will be displayed below image. (default value: true)

   • Zoom Properties:

     • Swipe while Zoomed In: If set to true, It allows swipe navigation to next/prev item when current item is zoomed. (default value: true)

     Note: Option is always false on devices that don't have hardware touch support.

     • Max Spread Zoom: It is integer value that will define maximum zoom level when performing spread(zoom) gesture. (default value: 2)

     • Double Tap Zoom Level: It is integer value that will define zoom level to which image will be zoomed after double-tap gesture, or when user clicks on zoom icon, or mouse-click on image itself. (default value: 1)

   • Buttons: You can change availability of different buttons.

     Button	If set to true	Default value
     Share Button	It will display share button.	false
     Zoom Button	It will show zoom button.	true
     Fullscreen Button	It will display fullscreen button.	true
     Arrows Button	It will show next/prev arrows.	true
     Counter on Screen Button	It will display counter(e.g. 1/5 ) on gallery.	true

   Important Note: Your gallery page URL should contain :slug like Example's URL url = "/gallery/:slug".

   Here is example of Gallery component implemented page:

   title = "Gallery"  
   url = "/gallery/:slug"  
   layout = "default"  
   is_hidden = 0  
     
   [viewGallery]  
   slug = "{{ :slug }}"  
   loop = 1  
   closeOnScroll = 0  
   closeOnVerticalDrag = 0  
   escKey = 0  
   pinchToClose = 0  
   captionEl = 1  
   swipeWhileZoom = 0  
   maxSpreadZoom = 2  
   getDoubleTapZoom = 1  
   shareEl = 0  
   zoomEl = 1  
   fullscreenEl = 1  
   arrowEl = 1  
   counterEl = 1  
   ==  
   {% component 'viewGallery' %}
   

3. Images of Gallery component

   • Gallery: It is dropdown of published galleries. Select the gallery you want to display images of it on the page.

   Other Properties are same as Gallery Component.

• CSS Support:

  • If you want to change the size of the thumbnails of images, you can do by placing this class in your css

      .photo-swipe-gallery figure {
         //particularlly you should adjust only width e.g. width: 269px;
      } 
    

  • If you want to change the area of the albums, you can do by inserting this class in your css

    .responsive {
        //define only width e.g. width: 18%;
    }
    

  Note: If you have good skill on CSS then you can customize custom.css file (path: plugins/chiragpatel/photoswipe/assets/resources/custom.css).

• Credit: PhotoSwipe