Hey David,

Unfortunately the gallery block doesn't support this currently.

This is a must for us. Any chance we can see this soon ?
An example of what this will be used for is things like "Top 10 reasons why ..." which you post a gallery with a picture & text bellow ;-)
Would be VERY useful
Thanks
Danny

Hey Danny,

We'll see what we can do about this in 5.1 but the biggest issue here is because we do not store these data into the database so it isn't really possible to have a custom "caption" for each images

The only work around that I could foresee right now (if you are using the new composer editor) is the ability to define a custom caption for each image in the gallery using the blocks property

My current dirty workaround is using RokGallery. Since it's a module I can put it anywhere with the right plugins. The presentation is nice but the way photos are uploaded and edited feels very sluggish. But it's better than nothing.

http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla/extensions/rokgallery

Thanks for sharing this David

Hi,
Thanks David. I use YooTheme templates and therefor have Widgetkits that can do this as modules but this isn't something I can get the authors to generate on their own per se.
This simple addition to the media block in V5 would be rather cool and allow any author to create those famous "Top X reasons" style blog entries.
Danny

I've been thinking about having the ability to allow captions here, http://screencast.com/t/Gr7sQykmug1 . My hands are pretty tied down with support right now but as soon as I have the time to start writing codes, I would

Yup, that would do the trick.
If/when you do this, please allow long descriptions and HTML in there. Perhaps add a popup window with the editor in there ?
But yes, that would be FANTASTIC ;-)
Thanks
Danny

Hm, I would very much keep it a simple text caption for the title of your image rather than it using your image name but I will see what can be done

Why limit it ?

Instead of limiting this to a small text field, you just allow full text. Aesthetically, you don't need to change a thing, just allow more content here. You could add the standard Joomla WYSIWYG editor (through a popup) <- if this is too complex, at the very least let this be a field where one can paste in HTML.

This way, you could allow authors to use the media element to create those "Top X" like posts. Ex: http://meresetcie.com/les-films-a-voir-en-juillet

Danny

It's not limiting the gallery block but the whole idea of a gallery block is so that it works as a gallery block, as simple as that It doesn't / shouldn't be doing anything else. Adding a title and a caption should do what it's supposed to do that is to add a title and a description in the gallery

If you need to inject html codes, you should use the html block

Then, for intuitiveness, why not just copy the entire element as a new one and call it "List"
It would be the exact same concept/code as this updated media element except with a full HTML editor instead of just captions
Once you have the captions done in the current media, you basically have everything done for this new element (win/win).
You're call of course, I just think a lot of users would appreciate that element since Top X type lists are really popular.
Danny

I think what you are looking for a is a module and it has nothing to do with "blocks" Since EasyBlog supports positions, you could enable modules that comes with EasyBlog to achieve this?

A module isn't something authors can intuitively manage. This usually requires a sys admin or a more advanced content manager to build into a blog whereas using your existing block logic (which our bloggers are trained for) make much more sense.

I've created a wire-frame of what I mean. In my opinion, as I suspect many other bloggers would appreciate, this is a cool add on for your extension with very little implications from you to achieve.

It's important to understand that the content bellow the list is bound to the picture in the gallery (just like captions would be). So navigating left/right flips the content as well. This is why we can't just use another text block bellow the image gallery.

Thanks for considering ;-)
Danny

Hey Danny,

Hm, not really sure if I understand you here but in your screen shot, it seems like this is already do-able with the columns block. See my video here, http://screencast.com/t/S0WDQ1IngE

Am I understanding you correctly here or did I misunderstood your point here?

Hi,

No, that's now what I meant.

My wire-frame design was a comparison of what you are proposing to do with captions (left) versus what would be nice to have as a media gallery with content bellow each image in it (right).

Here is another example of what the end results of a Top X list looks like
http://meresetcie.com/10-choses-a-faire-avant-votre-accouchement/

Notice how there's a back & forth navigation and on each pane there,s an image and text bellow it. This is exactly like your media block except there's related text bellow it. You're proposing to simply add captions which is really close but doesn't allow one to quite do this as it requires more than just a quick caption of text. This is why i proposed you do what you had mentioned with the text field in the EB management interface but just allow full HTML in there too.

See attached screenshot ;-)

Danny

Thanks for the heads up on this Danny, I will consider this but I cannot promise anything as of now.

ok thanks

No problem Danny