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Is it possible to install a Wix app on WordPress?

Hi!

I love the Collage Gallery by Wix (http://www.wix.com/app-market/collage-gallery/overview see example here http://www.herwhodreams.com/#!bali/c1gcc) and want to use it on my wordpress site. Is it possible to install it like a plugin? The gallery plugins that I’ve found through the plugins search don’t really do it for me. Fancy Gallery by Dennis Hoppe only generates low res thumbnails and doesn’t create a nice gallery layout at all :slight_frown: I’ve left an example of it up on my website here http://thiswildlife.ca/algonquin-park/

As much as I would like to use a WordPress plugin, I’m just not finding one that meets my standards! Any help is greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Heather

Sun, 1 Feb 2015 5:51:46
  • calvinrogercanas
    • New Recruit

    Hey there @heather_eidinger,

    Welcome to WPMUDEV community! :slight_smile:

    I don’t think there is an existing wordpress plugin that functions like the way you describe besides I think wix + wordpress is an overkill. WordPress itself is enough to accommodate your needs because of a lot of nice and neat themes and plugins available up to date.

    As much as I would like to use a WordPress plugin, I’m just not finding one that meets my standards! Any help is greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

    May I know the standards you are talking about; Maybe we can help you achieve that using wordpress and its components alone :slight_smile:

    Looking forward for your reply! :slight_smile:

    Best Regards,

    Calvin

  • heather_eidinger
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Calvin!

    Thanks for the speedy reply!

    1) Is it possible to install the Wix Collage Gallery as a plugin for my wordpress site? Yes or no?

    2) Minimum Standards:

    – the plugin should not limit the number of photos in an album/collage/post

    – the thumbnails should be hi res

    – roll-over effect

    – click to lightbox with full screen photo and slider

    – I would like to create one collage where I can include all the images intended for the post, be able to adjust the number of columns and rows as well as the size and position of each photo.

    Please visit http://www.herwhodreams.com/#!bali/c1gcc for the exact type of gallery/collage I’m talking about.

    To see what I’ve found so far, please visit http://thiswildlife.ca/algonquin-park/ Notice the lack of customization, the bland layout, the ugly everything. Those plugins do not showcase my photos well at all! I look forward to seeing what suggestions you have :slight_smile:

    Cheers,

    Heather

  • heather_eidinger
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Guys!

    I started using jetpack in hopes of creating a tiled gallery. I’ve followed all the steps and inserted the media into the post. In the dashboard edit view everything seems to be working fine. The problem starts when I hit publish and check out my site – all my beautiful photos are blank with a blue question mark! The photo only appears when I click on it (which takes me to the lightbox, perfect). I’ve tried changing all the different preferences while in the ‘create gallery’ mode, but nothing changes the fact that all my post photos are blank :slight_frown: Please help!

    If anyone can tell me how to install the Wix Collage Gallery (mentioned above) I can avoid using jetpack and get the exact gallery I want! I would prefer to do this rather than fiddle with yet another plugin that is just not working the way it’s supposed to :*(

    – visit thiswildlife.ca to see how things are looking on my site

    – visit http://www.herwhodreams.com/#!bali/c1gcc to see the perfect example of how I want my tiled gallery to work (she is using the Wix Collage Gallery)

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

  • heather_eidinger
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    So I tried to fix my own problem and still nada :slight_frown:

    I thought that maybe my photo files were too big so I installed the ‘Smush’ plugin and smushed all the photos I have, and still no photos – only the blue question mark.

    I tried other gallery and collage plugins and they’re just fugly – low res thumbs and rigid layouts. The Jetpack Tiled Gallery comes close to the Wix Collage Gallery, but doesn’t display my photos in the post when I publish.

    I really do love my theme, and I do love everything that comes with WPMU DEV, but I’m really stuck on this one :slight_frown:

    @Calvin Thanks for your help so far, I hope you haven’t given up on me yet! The standard I’m looking for is the Wix Collage Gallery (sorry if that wasn’t clear before). I’ve searched high and low on both the WPMU plugins and the wordpress.org plugins and haven’t found anything that comes close besides the Jetpack Tiled Gallery, but that is unresponsive so far. What do you suggest?

    Thanks,

    Heather

  • heather_eidinger
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Update:

    I tried out the Scribe theme and my Jetpack Tiled Gallery works perfectly! Which tells me that it’s not so much the plugin…. I’m guessing it’s something else but I can’t figure it out :slight_frown: I’ve republished 2 posts (one with tiled gallery, one with a single photo) to show how the photos are coming up blank with only the blue question mark. Notice that you can click on the photo to bring up a perfectly working lightbox. Super weird!

    PS the Jetpack gallery comes recommended for the Arcade theme, so in theory it should work fine.

    please visit this wildlife.ca to see what’s what

    again: any hints, tips, help, comments, thoughts, questions, anything at all is super appreciated!

  • Vaughan
    • Ex Staff

    Hi Heather,

    Unfortunately, there is no wix collage plugin for wordpress so we are unable to tell you how to install it as you would need to hire a developer to create a plugin for you using their code. That’s a bit beyond the scope of support we can provide here.

    Have you looked at Gmedia gallery? I really like this one myself.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/grand-media/

    Also with regards to the Hi-res, wordpress itself actually compresses jpg image files to 90%.

    You can disable the compression completely by adding the following to your theme functions.php

    add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 100;' ) );

    see https://wpmudev.com/blog/fix-jpeg-compression/

    Be aware, it will only affect new images uploaded after you add this code.

    But you can use a plugin such as regenerate thumbnails which will create new thumbnails for you.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

    Hope this helps

  • heather_eidinger
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Vaughan!

    Thank you so much for telling me that it isn’t possible to install a wix app on wordpress!!!! and here I though I was asking a pretty simple question haha – you’re the only one to answer me straight!

    Thanks for letting me know about the compression on wordpress, I’m just going to make sure all my file sizes are under 5MB and just stay away from modifying my theme functions :slight_smile:

    Thanks for the GMedia suggestion, but it’s not a tiled gallery and the headers don’t mesh with my theme. I’m going to focus on fixing the Jetpack plugin with their support team.

    Thanks for all the help!