Album covers

 

Cover Types

Basically there are 3 types of album covers: Standard, Long Description and Image Factory.
They mainly differ in lay-out.
The default cover type to be used in your site can be set in Basic settings -> Albums -> III: Album cover layout settings -> Item 4: Cover type.
For individual albums you can set a different cover type on the albums admin page.

You can configure a lot of layout features, like size and position of the cover image, height of the cover, link type from the cover image and much more in Basic settings -> Albums and Basic settings -> Links -> II: Links from standard images -> Item 1: Cover Image.

Columns

If you want to display the covers in multiple columns, you can set the maximum width for a cover in Basic settings -> Albums -> I: Album cover size specifications -> Item 1: Max Cover width. If done so, wppa will compute how many covers will fit on a row.
On responsive themes, this number will be dynamicly adjusted if needed.

If you run on a responsive theme and you want the albums to be displayed in multiple columns, select the album type you want with the addition mcr. Mcr stand for 'Multi Column Responsive'.
If the display consists out of one album cover only, the max coverwidth restriction is ignored, the cover will fill the whole available width on the page (unless your shortcode contains a size="..." specification).

Examples

All examples on this page use 'mcr' cover types.

Exaple #1 Standard mcr:

The cover photo placed at the right hand side, and the sub-album links display set to micro thumbnails, (see Basic settings -> links -> IV: Other links -> Item 12: Album cover subalbums link).

Docs by subjectAlbum covers

First album

This is the description of the first album. It has a € sign in the description.
3237
Views: 64168
Download album
Category: Demo
2286
Bronze medal
Views: 181487
Child album
Album 5
Piet's Photo album
Birds
Microscope
Crane
Download album

Album # 4

This is album four. It has (') and (") quotes in its description as well as html.
24
Silver medal
Views: 101288
Turkey
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Bogolyubov

A contribution from wlukas
This album displays the thumbnails in the alternative size
2217
Views: 30673
Download album
Categories: Art, Demo

Fractals

Fractals made by OpaJaaps program Fractals 1.0
3305
Views: 20595
Download album

Exaple #2 Long description mcr:

The cover photo at the left

Docs by subjectAlbum covers
3237
Views: 64168
This is the description of the first album. It has a € sign in the description.
Download album
Category: Demo
2286
Bronze medal
Views: 181487
Just another album
You can even have a link here!
Download album
24
Silver medal
Views: 101288
This is album four. It has (') and (") quotes in its description as well as html.
Download album
2217
Views: 30673
A contribution from wlukas
This album displays the thumbnails in the alternative size
Download album
Categories: Art, Demo
3305
Views: 20595
Fractals made by OpaJaaps program Fractals 1.0
Download album

Exaple #3 Image Factory mcr:

The cover photos placed at the top, and the sub-album links display set to A list with (sub)subalbums.

Docs by subjectAlbum covers

First album

This is the description of the first album. It has a € sign in the description.
3237
2
Silver medal
2029
Gold medal
1985
Silver medal
1
Gold medal
3
Gold medal
Download album
Category: Demo

Album # 4

This is album four. It has (') and (") quotes in its description as well as html.
24
Silver medal
19
1951
Silver medal
671
Bronze medal
23
22
Download album

Bogolyubov

A contribution from wlukas
This album displays the thumbnails in the alternative size
2217
2212
2208
2222
2211
2204
Download album
Categories: Art, Demo

Fractals

Fractals made by OpaJaaps program Fractals 1.0
3305
3757
3476
3468
3695
3766
Download album

Displaying single covers

The shortcode:
[wppa type="cover" album="..."] displays the cover of the given album(s). If you want to display one or only a few covers, use this type of shortcode.

If you want to display the covers of all sub-albums of a certain parent album, use the shortcode:
[wppa type="covers" album="..."]

The album specification can be one of the following:

  • A positive integer number, being the id of an album
  • A $-sign followed by an album name. Note: the name is case sensitive and also language sensitive if you use qTranslate!
  • An enumeration and/or range of album numbers. An enumeration is a sequence of numbers seperated by single dots: e.g. 3.7.12.8.24 A range is a number, two dots followed by anothe number: e.g. 3..7 Both methods can be combined: e.g. 3..7.12.56.34..36

This example shows the covers of albums 2, 35 and 50.
[wppa type="cover" album="2.35.50"]

Docs by subjectAlbum coversVarious albums

Photo of the day

Here are the photos used in the photo of the day widget.
1595
Views: 149374
Download album
2286
Bronze medal
Views: 181487
Download album

Microscope

All these pictures are from the book 'Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London.
1914
Views: 31792
Download album

The second example shows the cover of the album with title Microscope.
Note that the display of one cover only uses the whole available width.
[wppa type="cover" album="$Microscope"]

Microscope

All these pictures are from the book 'Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London.
1914
Views: 31792
Download album

The third example shows the covers of the sub-albums of album number 2.
[wppa type="covers" album="2"]

Docs by subjectAlbum coversSecond album

Child album

This is a child album
It's parent is "Second album"
12
Bronze medal
Views: 51668
Download album

Microscope

All these pictures are from the book 'Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London.
1914
Views: 31792
Download album