I have been a fan of the Featured Content Gallery plugin since I discovered it about a year ago or so. I’ve used in in multiple websites and found it to be a great way to connect posts or pages to an image. But it does have its issues. For starters it uses Moo Tools for its javascript library. Moo Tools is a great library, but many other plugins (and the WordPress backend) make use of another library called JQuery. The two are not compatible with each other and this often causes problems with either the gallery not displaying or some other error.
My other main issue with Featured Content Gallery is that all I really want it to do is show a picture and have it link to something like a post, page, or even another website. I don’t need the thumbnails, arrows or descriptions. Generally I just edit the plugin to remove these, but it can get a bit tricky.
Recently I came across another good plugin which I’m now using on Organized Themes called WP-Cycle. This plugin has a built in image uploader to get your pictures onto your site. You can then add links (or not) and make a few simple adjustments. It’s pretty simple to use. Nathan Rice, the theme author plans to make some tweaks to it for the next release. You can download it here. Go on and give it a try in your next project.
David McDougal July 22, 2009
I have actually started to use this plugin (http://www.vibethemes.com/wordpress-plugins/vslider-wordpress-image-slider-plugin/) in my testing and like the clean, fast look of it. It is also jquery based. WP-Cycle is awesome, and Nathan is great with any issues that are needed to be fixed.
David McDougal July 22, 2009
I have actually started to use this plugin (http://www.vibethemes.com/wordpress-plugins/vslider-wordpress-image-slider-plugin/) in my testing and like the clean, fast look of it. It is also jquery based. WP-Cycle is awesome, and Nathan is great with any issues that are needed to be fixed.