Although Gallerix is a robust module capable of managing all of your image needs, it becomes even more useful and powerful when paired with the Gallerix Widget Engine. When enabled, the engine will allow a variety to widgets to attach themselves to each image. The engine itself is bundled with multiple widgets. A few of these are:

Original Widget:

This is the simplest of all the widgets. It will add a link on all pictures that will take you to the location of the original, full sized image. You will probably want to avoid using this if you plan to resell your pictures.

Date Widget:

This simple widget will use the EXIF field “DateTimeOriginal” to let viewers know when the picture was taken. Note that EXIF extraction must be enabled in the general settings page.

Caption Widget:

Similar to the date widget, this will show the viewer whatever caption you added to the picture. This is very useful if you caption your pictures with management software such as Photoshop Elements.

Browsing Arrows:

These self-explantory arrows will let users rotate through pictures in an orderly fashion.

Story Widget:

Although captions can be useful, they have a length limit since they are displayed right under the picture. Using this widget, you can add a story to each picture, and then submit it using AJAX. Only the album creator can use this widget.

Vote Widget:

The voting widget will allow per-picture AJAX voting. Anonymous voting is available if you enable the correct permissions. Users may vote a picture up or down once.

Comment Widget:

Allows users to comment on each photo using AJAX. Album owners can delete unwanted comments without navigating away from the picture. This is the most elaborate widgets. It's certain to make your albums much more fun to view.

Remember, these are only some of the widgets included with the engine. More widgets are added with each release, and I usually take feature requests if they're popular.

Although Gallerix is open source and available for no charge, the Gallerix Widget Engine is only available for a small $29.99 license, including all of these widgets. Please understand that by purchasing the engine, you are supporting the development of Gallerix directly, and keeping it free. Once you purchase the engine, you'll be able to utilize any of the widgets available, including the bundled ones, some free ones I will release, and a few more commercial ones that will come later. You will get free updates for the engine for one year from the date of purchase.

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