Start here
All documentation Installing JMGallery Your first gallery How JMGallery stores thingsFilling the library
Adding photos Custom fields The library and bulk editing CSV export and importShowing photos
Building a display Grid, masonry and list Shortcodes The archive page and filters Single item pages The Elementor widgetPro features
Video Captions, backgrounds, hover Protecting your photos Downloads and sellingReference
Settings reference Licences and updates For developers TroubleshootingEverything about JMarzTech Gallery and the JMGallery Pro add-on, one page per topic.
Start here
- Installing JMGalleryTwo plugins, what each needs, and the one permalink step everybody skips.
- Your first galleryUpload, describe, save a display, paste the shortcode.
- How JMGallery stores thingsItems rather than albums, and where every value is stored.
Filling the library
- Adding photosDrag a batch in, pull from the Media Library, or add everything automatically.
- Custom fieldsDefine what a photo record holds. Eight types and four switches.
- The library and bulk editingSpreadsheet editing, bulk edits, add / replace / remove on tag fields.
- CSV export and importThe column format, the import matching rules, and moving a library between sites.
Showing photos
- Building a displayWhich items, what they look like, and the shortcode that renders them.
- Grid, masonry and listThree styles, what each suits, and the settings that only apply to one.
- ShortcodesBoth shortcodes, every key you can override, and the template pair.
- The archive page and filtersThe front-end archive, tag archive URLs, the lightbox and canonical tags.
- Single item pagesThe nine layouts, related items, previous / next links, comments, and the action buttons.
- The Elementor widgetThe widget’s controls, and when to use it instead of a shortcode.
Pro features
- VideoYouTube and Vimeo links, self-hosted files, and what gets sent where.
- Captions, backgrounds, hoverTwo caption lines, before and after text, backgrounds, and seven hover effects.
- Protecting your photosThe preview cap, watermarking, and what neither of them can prevent.
- Downloads and sellingThe three fields, zip downloads, prices, and why the Buy button links out.
Reference
The short version
JMGallery treats every photo and video as a record you can describe with your own fields, gives you a spreadsheet to edit hundreds of them at once, and saves the galleries you build as displays you drop on any page with a shortcode.
Two plugins: JMarzTech Gallery, which is free and does the work, and JMGallery Pro, an add-on for video, watermarking, four more field types, caption styling, downloads, selling, CSV import and an Elementor widget. Pages that need Pro are marked PRO.
If you have just installed it, start with Your first gallery.