GalleryLab Pro Demo
This GalleryLab Pro demo shows how a Joomla site can manage and publish polished media galleries without a custom build. It includes a gallery page, a gallery listing, lightbox presentation, and Showcase module examples for slideshow, slider, carousel, and featured image layouts.
The demo is suited to portfolios, creative studios, venues, product showcases, case studies, and visual brands that need media presentation to feel integrated with the rest of the site.
Key Features:
- Joomla-Native Gallery Management - create galleries and manage image records from familiar Joomla administrator screens.
- Responsive Frontend Gallery Pages - publish individual gallery pages with responsive image output, titles, captions, and lightbox-ready media.
- Multiple Gallery Layouts - choose grid, masonry, justified, or video gallery layouts per gallery.
- Gallery Listing View - create a browsable index of published galleries using cover images, descriptions, and image counts.
- Lightbox Presentation - let visitors open gallery images in a focused viewing experience with navigation and captions.
- Lightbox Slideshow and Sharing - add play/pause slideshow controls, fullscreen viewing, and optional sharing actions.
- Image Metadata - manage title, alt text, caption, tags, ordering, media type, link URL, thumbnail path, and publication state per image.
- Video Items - add video media records with YouTube, Vimeo, embed, or self-hosted video sources and poster images.
- Quick Add From Media Folders - preview and import multiple images from Joomla Media Manager folders, with optional subfolder scanning and duplicate handling.
- Image Tags, Filters, and Search - organise media by campaign, product range, project, room, event type, featured status, or any editorial grouping, then enable frontend filters and search.
- Custom CSS Per Gallery - add scoped CSS for individual galleries without editing extension files.
- Showcase Module - publish gallery-driven slideshows, sliders, carousels, and featured image blocks in Joomla module positions.
- Slideshow Mode - show one image at a time with autoplay, controls, dots, captions, title overlays, and fade or slide transitions.
- Slider Mode - create hero-style image sections with overlay text, overlay styling, canvas width, and optional call-to-action buttons.
- Carousel Mode - display multiple images per view with responsive desktop, tablet, and mobile item counts.
- Featured Mode - display one large primary image with thumbnail buttons underneath for product highlights, portfolio teasers, and visual landing sections.
- Showcase Image Source Controls - show all gallery images, move the cover image first, or show only tagged images.
- Showcase Ordering Controls - use gallery order, reverse order, title order, newest, oldest, or random image ordering.
- Menu-Aware Full Gallery Links - Showcase links that open the full gallery use the matching Joomla gallery menu item when one exists.
- Free-To-Pro Import - copy existing GalleryLab Free galleries and images into GalleryLab Pro without modifying the Free tables.
- Licence Sync Support - save a licence key in the component options and let the system plugin sync it to the Joomla update site.
Getting Started
- Install the GalleryLab Pro package in Joomla.
- Open Components > GalleryLab Pro > Galleries.
- Create a gallery and add a clear title, alias, description, and cover image.
- Add images with titles, alt text, captions, tags, and ordering.
- Create a Gallery menu item for the gallery.
- Create a Galleries menu item if the site needs a browsable gallery index.
- Add a GalleryLab Pro Showcase module for homepage or landing-page presentation.
- Test the gallery and Showcase module on mobile, tablet, and desktop.