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Introduction

Galleries

"The sleekest media gallery for Joomla!"

SIMGallery 7.0 has been released and it works with Joomla 4 natively!

SIMGallery is the TRUE community-driven gallery. Integrated seamlessly with JomSocial, EasySocial, Community Builder and JomWall (JS/ES/CB/JW) it allows your users to create and manage their own albums, photos and videos. SIMGallery mirrors the gallery feature of Facebook EXACTLY! Browsing is as easy as using the arrow keys.

Key features:
- Media type: Photos, Profile Pictures, Videos, Wall photos/videos
- Fully responsive: displays beautifully on ALL devices
- Theater mode
- Watermark
- Facebook photos import
- Upload/link videos
- Remote storage (Amazon S3)
- Advanced access settings
- Multiple profile pictures management (optional)
- Google Maps
- Categories (optional). Search albums/photos based on categories
- Tag media, post comments, like media, like comments, report media, set photo as profile picture, download photos, set access levels etc etc
- 3 different types of tags: tags of users, custom tags, and keyword tags (that can be set in the configuration). If you have keyword tags set, users can search for media based on these tags.
- Migrate existing media from JomSocial and EasySocial.

Combine categories with keywords for a truly powerful community gallery! Eg. Categories: Houses, Condos and Apartments; Keywords: 2-room, 3-room, refurbished, new. SIMGallery will now display meaningful search results. Allows you to run specific themed websites for real estate, pets, model agency, photography etc or just general community. The sky's the limit!

SIMGallery can be used standalone without the need for JS/ES/CB/JW. However, if you're integrating with them, there are 2 levels of integration:

Level 1) Post new activities on JS/ES's wall, JomWall, and CB Activity. Also post notifications for JS and ES users. SIMGallery will remain its own separate gallery, while your users will still be able to use JS/ES's gallery. Useful if you need a community gallery with category features.

Level 2) SIMGallery will completely take over JS/ES's photo and/or video gallery (ES does not have videos, so SIMGallery fixes that). All links to JS/ES's gallery will be redirected to the relevant SIMGallery links. SIMGallery will automatically create a new Wall Photos album for every user and display wall photos in them! Your users can continue to post wall photos or videos on JS/ES, and they will be linked to SIMGallery.

SIMGallery allows admins to set 2 types of user group permissions:

1) Admins - access and delete all media in the frontend regardless of permissions.

2) Media - create albums and upload photos/videos. Instead of all registered users, you can limit this to particular user group(s).

SIMGallery comes with 4 modules: the Albums module, Photos module, Videos module and Ranking module. These modules are super highly configurable, and the Ranking module even allows you to run contests on your website.

It also comes with JS, ES and CB plugins that will display a user's latest albums, photos or videos on their profiles.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to describe everything here! Please check the documentation for full description.

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Posted on 10 April 2018
Functionality
As a stand alone product it might work, but it DOES NOT integrate with EasySocial as advertised.
Ease of use
Never managed to actually get it working.
Support
Posted on forum and sent a message through their internal system, 3 days later not even an automated answer.
Documentation
There is some documentation but it references settings that don't exist, so I assume it is for a much older version.
Value for money
Not worth it! Do not Buy!
I used this to: I was trying to replace the EasySocial photo system, this is NOT the way to do it.

Excellent Picture and Video Gallery for Jomsocial!



Posted on 19 September 2016
Functionality
Excellent Fonctionnalites. I use it with jomsocial 3.2.16 and Jomsocial 4.2.4 and each time i have good results
Ease of use
you have only to install the extensions (and if not the developer will resolve the problem)
Support
Support is great. Each Time you have an issue with the extension the developer found a solution.
Documentation
Forum, Documentation, many pieces to have an idea and a solution..
Value for money
Great!
I used this to: I use SIMGALLERY with différents versions of Jomsocial. Every Time i'm satisfied

Most amazing gallery I've seen!



Posted on 20 February 2016
Functionality
It has everything I need. I love the theater mode (like on Facebook) and support for sub-categories. Must-have for all photography websites
Ease of use
Super easy to install with next to no need for configuration. Works out of the box.
Support
I needed to know where the language file is located. Got a response almost immediately.
Documentation
Clear and easily understood.
Value for money
10/10! With all these features, it's astonishing it costs so little
I used this to: Pets photography website

SimGallery is THE BEST for LARGE community Sites



Posted on 16 February 2016
Functionality
The number one aspect to this extension is that it allows you to make categories for organizing a large photo collection.
Ease of use
This is a very deep and complex app, BUT it is very user friendly, It really cannot be better. Perfect!
Support
The developer, Mike Feng is great to work with, he responds promptly he is willing to help and make the app work for you. He's proferssional
Documentation
The documentation is well organized, and it is easy to read and use.
Value for money
This extension is a very very good deal, and well worth the price.
I used this to: I use this app to replace the JomSocial issue and oversight of not providing photo categories. I have asked JomSocial since 2009 to make categories for photo collections, they flat out said NOT, use tags. Well that just does not work. I have 16,500 photos in 2,000 albums. Works!!

Component is not working



Posted on 10 July 2014
This component was quite promising. I bought a license for my website during the development: I was looking for a media plugin for JomSocial.



Unfortunately, the component is not working correctly with JomSocial. A few bugs makes this plugin not working with JomSocial. As stated on their website I contacted their support desk with a few questions regarding this errors.



Unfortunately, I haven't heard anything from their support desk. I paid for the extension, it's not working and they have a no money refund policy.



Please consider buying this extension twice.
Owner's reply: Hi
Sorry for the late support as it was the holiday period here. All support tickets have been responded now.

The best gallery for community websites that I have found



Posted on 30 January 2014
I have used Simbunch products for a few years now, sometimes having ditched them for other easier to use, less buggy components (ie inviter)

I had used Simgallery once before 2 years ago but gave up as it was very buggy

HOWEVER

This latest version of Simgallery provides the enhancements that any social site would benefit from.

It was easy to install and cfg.

I only had one problem which was dealt with efficiently by support within a couple of days

It seems that Simbunch has really picked up its customer service levels and now providing products that do match their claims.

New version not quite there yet



Posted on 14 August 2013
Although there are a lot of good reviews for this product, I feel they may be for the previous version. This new, re-written version had a lot of bugs when I installed it, although to be fair they spent over a week fixing everything I reported. I am still wary of using it though in case other as yet un-found bugs may be there. I also have found that their own website shows error messages and often won't load at all most mornings I try to access it so I do wonder just how well they test things.



There is no support for animated GIF files and limited interaction with Community builder activity stream, so that plus the bugs means I will not be installing on my live server at present.



If you want a 'Facebook image gallery' replacement this is probably great but as a community Builder integrated replacement for CB Gallery, I think it has the potential to be the best there is out there but unfortunately it is not there yet.
Owner's reply: Hi
We have actually already fixed all known bugs that have been reported by our many users, so you have no worries about that. I have also repeatedly told you that the problem you were having with the scrolling is not a bug, but because you have a top panel from another extension with a z-index of over 2 million (yes, over 2000000!!!) which is covering up everything, but I cannot help if you do not believe me.

Also, I have also repeatedly told you the integration with the activity stream is not limited but designed like that on purpose, so there won't be unnecessary spam appearing on user's activity stream. This is also identical to the kind of activities Facebook allow on users' timelines.

We are sorry that after assisting you with the extension actively throughout that you are still unhappy, but the problems you have with the software aren't bugs. They are designed that way on purpose as I've explained to you, and we simply cannot modify it to suit individual user's needs. Such changes can only be rolled out step by step, or be custom modified as with any other opensource software.

Lastly, the errors you saw on our site was because we were upgrading mysql and cpanel, that's all.

6-Star Extension



Posted on 11 July 2013
I have just finished setting up my website (I run a minecraft gaming site) with SIMGallery, and I must say this is one extension that deserves all the credit it can get.



First of, they weren't kidding when they say SIMGallery works just like Facebook. There are so many details that went into this extension, it's just breathtaking. I especially like how you can leave comments and like photos when viewing a list of photos without having to view each photo. Other things I found really useful include:

- how you can change a photo or album's privacy level in 1 click

- how you can delete photos and set them as profile picture in 1 click

- the uploading is very sleek. Just for fun, I tested it with my android tablet and it works too!

- the keyword tagging is especially useful for my users. Now they can tag their photos based on the list of minecraft mods keywords I've set.

- all the drag and drop features



The installation was straightforward. The only support I needed was finding the language file. For some reason the language file is not in the normal Joomla language folder, but in the component's folder itself.



All in all I am very pleased with the extension. Like I said, it's just stunning how much attention is paid to small details that really improve the user friendliness. If I could, I'd give it 6 stars!
Owner's reply: Hi
Thanks! Appreciate the review. We have several new things planned, so do check back often :)

Nice idea but several major bugs



Posted on 09 May 2013
I have given 2 stars for the idea, which is good - take jomsocial and present as an image gallery, grab images and collate (a simple version of Pinterest).



Unfortunately this plugin DOES NOT integrate with Jomsocial at all.



The developer has told me he is working on it, but until this is done I would not go near it.
Owner's reply: Hi
Version 4 has been released, do check it out! Integration with JomSocial is much tighter now, with several new integrations introduced.

Serious Bug with JomSocial and NO SUPPORT



Posted on 02 September 2012
Integration with JomSocial is not complete.. uploading a photo directly to activity stream is broken. Upload a photo, click on the resulting thumbnail, and it takes me to an album. And no, the photo is not in the album. This is a pretty serious bug and it needs fixed.



Support is unresponsive. I submitted a support ticket Thursday evening, made sure the correct domain is registered with the license, as required, and even provided a login for SimBunch. It is now Saturday evening and I have yet to get a response.



I wouldn't mind so much if they at least showed some willingness to work with me. If they can't fix it, maybe help me find a work-around. But to just leave me hanging is not acceptable. I now have a choice - find my own way to work around this issue or let almost $100 go down the drain. A simple reply could have avoided this review.
Owner's reply: Hi

We regret the inconvenience caused. However, please note that we are committed to respond to support tickets within 2 working days, as stated on our Support page. Also, do note that as our time zone is +8 GMT, we received your ticket in the middle of Friday, not Thursday. Since we do not work on weekends (everyone has families to attend to), there was nobody to respond to your ticket.

That said, we've had actually cleared all outstanding tickets a few hours ago (on a Sunday, no less). Your ticket should have received a response already.
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SIMGallery

Version:
7.0.0
Developer:
Mike Feng
Last updated:
Feb 26 2020
4 years ago
Date added:
Aug 25 2008
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4
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