Crop all images after the first image in gallery

Hi Graeme,
Thank you for using the plugin and the kind words.

Yes, It doable but I will need a little more details before we can have it.

In MediaPress, we call the displayable layout views. We have different views for Single Gallery display as well as activity display and other things.

The view that you are looking to achieve is it for single gallery or activity or something else?

Also do you plan to use any javscript library for image switching, If you can provide details, May be I will be able to put an example on github to do it.

PS:- Though, It is possible to stop MediaPress from generting any thumbnail using mpp_deregister_media_size() function, I strongly not recommend it. The thumbnails are used at multiple places like showing the upload status etc. It is pretty easy to display full image instead of the thumbnails on gallery or activity pages though.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Brajesh, thanks for your quick response.

I’m looking to use this layout in the activity stream. I’ve uploaded a quick screenshot as an example here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a68tgzdug1zw76y/Screen%20Shot%202016-02-11%20at%2009.05.37.png?dl=0

Ideally, I’m just looking to display the first 4 images of a gallery that could, for example, actually have 10 images inside. As you’ve seen, the first image should be full size, with the next 3 stacked underneath as 300×300 thumbnails. Clicking any of these 4 images will launch the full gallery of 10 in a lightbox as normal.

Thanks again for your help!
Graeme

Hi Graeme,
Thank you.
Here is what I did in a few minutes.
https://i.imgur.com/IXvxjgl.png

Is this something on the line you are looking for?

It is without any custom css at the moment. I will cleanup a little bit and make it public in a day or two.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Brajesh – yeah, that looks ideal. If you could that would be great, but if you’re busy I’m more than happy to work out the CSS myself – just let me know!

Thanks again for all your help, it’s massively appreciated.

Graeme

Hey Brajesh – have you managed to make any progress with this layout? If you’re struggling for time to style it, I’m more than happy to work with whatever you’ve got so far as the functionally seems spot on in your screenshot.

Hi Graeme,
I am sorry for the delayed reply.
I had put the code here a week ago(You may download from there)

https://github.com/mediapress/mpp-simple-activity-photo-grid

It is in the form of a plugin at the moment and I wanted to write a post to explain how to do it in themes/plugins as well.

I will post the details here too.

1. Do you want to keep the default photo grid for activity available too or not?

If your answer is no, You don’t need this plugin. All you need to do is copy

wp-content/plugins/mediapress/templates/mediapress/default/buddypress/activity/views/grid-photo.php

to your

theme/mediapress/default/buddypress/activity/views/grid-photo.php

and then you may replace the content of this file in your theme by the content from following page

https://github.com/mediapress/mpp-simple-activity-photo-grid/blob/master/templates/buddypress/activity/views/simple-activity-photo-grid.php

That is the simplest method.

If you want to keep the default activity grid and add the new layout as extra that can be enabled/disabled from the Settings page, you can install and activate the above plugin and visit
MediaPress->Settings->BuddyPress and choose “Simple Activity Grid” for the Activity View.

If you want to overwrite the template in your theme you can follow the same process again like copying this file

templates/buddypress/activity/views/simple-activity-photo-grid.php

from the plugin to

yourtheme/mediapress/default/buddypress/activity/views/simple-activity-photo-grid.php

and modify it as you wish. You may use any of the two methods as both produce same results.

Hope this helps

Please do let me know if you need any further help.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Brajesh,

This is absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for your help – I know you must have gone out of your way to build this option for me, and I really appreciate it.

I’ll make the CSS I use available on this thread for any future users to make use of.

Thanks again,
Graeme

Hi Graeme,
Thank you. I am happy it helped ??

I appreciate the kind words and your generosity in sharing css. That will certainly help others.

Please do mark the thread resolved when you feel it is done.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Graeme,
Marking it as resolved.