Multiverse

Multiverse Gallery

A responsive theme for Zenphoto

Demo video, Supported extensions, License, Installation, Download, Contributing, Credits, Comments.

This theme was initially developed for use on my own website, as a single album theme, just for some special presentations. Later I’ve added support for a complete gallery and for Zenpage extension too, so it can now also be used as the main theme of a Zenphoto gallery or a Zenphoto/Zenpage CMS. It has been adapted for Zenphoto and extended to a multi-page theme from HTML5 UP’s Multiverse, a single-page web gallery, with some new JavaScript functionality as well:

Following the original nature of Multiverse layout, I have not included a real single image page. The image.php file is actually just a redirect script that acts to open the image popup in its album page.

Edit - Feb. 12, 2021: a regular image.php page for single images has been added since v2.0.

Currently, only image objects are supported in albums, so Multiverse is not yet suitable for a full multimedia gallery. I may add support for medias other than images sooner or later, but I can’t really say if and when. However, videos and other medias can of course be embedded in pages and news articles, like every other Zenpage theme allows to do.

Edit - Dec. 30, 2022: since version 2.2, I added support for the other multimedia elements: video, audio and Zenphoto class-textobject.

Demo video

From a desktop screen capture @ 1248x820 pixels.

Supported Zenphoto extensions

The list includes only plugins that require specific support, not those that can be used independently of the theme. They are grouped according to the version of Multiverse since which their support was implemented.

License

Multiverse for Zenphoto is licensed under the GPL-2.0 License or later, Copyright (c) 2020 Antonio Ranesi.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Installation

  1. download latest version below and extract the content from the zip file
  2. use an ftp client (or the elFinder extension) to upload just the multiverse folder into the themes folder of your Zenphoto installation
  3. visit Multiverse option page in your admin area
  4. activate Multiverse to use it as the main theme of your gallery or assign it to any album you wish

Note: Since option names were changed in version 2.2, if upgrading from a previuos version you must visit the theme options page to allow automatic import of existing settings.

Download

See the Changelog for more info about different versions. The section Unreleased, when present, lists any changes not yet released but already made and available on GitHub.

  1. multiverse-2.2.zip (978.76 kB) - 301 downloads

Earlier versions, not suitable for Zenphoto v1.6 or higher.

  1. multiverse-2.1.zip (943.36 kB) - 1564 downloads
  2. multiverse-1.2.zip (940.08 kB) - 387 downloads
  3. multiverse-1.1.zip (939.9 kB) - 1759 downloads

Contributing

If you like this theme and use it for your site, you can help with a free donation to support its maintenance and development.

If you wish to report a bug or provide a translation other than Italian, German or Dutch, already included at the moment, please visit Multiverse repository on GitHub.

Following Zenphoto guidelines, Multiverse is translatable by configuring a Poedit catalogue with the keywords gettext_th, ngettext_th:1,2. Be sure to uncheck the box Also use default keywords... in your catalogue properties, so that you don’t have to translate strings already managed by Zenphoto translators, but just a few theme defined strings.

Poedit additional keywords

Credits

This theme is based on Multiverse by HTML5 UP, a web gallery licensed under the CC BY 3.0 license, Copyright (c) @ajlkn. All JavaScript and CSS files of the original program have been included unchanged (but minified and merged) in this software, except for main.js and style.css files, which have also been edited to adapt them to Zenphoto design and add some JavaScript functionalities and some CSS rules.

Since Multiverse v2.2, the file jquery.poptrox.min.js, which came from jquery-poptrox v2.5.2-dev, has been replaced with jquery.poptrox.mod.min.js, a customized version of the former, adapted to handle audio and video files.

To run touch events, Matt Brison’s TouchSwipe Jquery Plugin has been included, which is dual licensed under the MIT or GPL-2 licenses.

Multiverse also includes Font Awesome by Dave Gandy.

Published on: 21 Jul 2020
Last update:

6 Comments

Tony Marshall: on 27 December 2020

Hello. I just wanted to thank you for creating this theme for ZenPhoto. It's the best I have seen so far and I will use it for my personal and hobby photo galleries. As far as I can tell, it doesn't allow one to view the full resolution photo; it would be fantastic if that were possible.

Once again, thanks for the theme; I appreciate your generosity in providing this to the public.

Regards

Tony

Antonio Ranesi: on 27 December 2020

Hi, thanks for your comment Tony, I'm glad you appreciate the theme.
I'm actually already working on adding a single image page to Multiverse, from which it will be possible to open the full size image, although at the moment I can't say when the new version will be released.
As for now, it is already possible to zoom on the image in the popup to display it at the custom resolution set in the theme options.

paul burgman: on 12 August 2021

Hi Antonio, I am experimenting with Zenphoto & currently trying your Theme, which looks great, however, is there a way to display IPTC caption data along with the file name on the images?

Many thanks

Antonio Ranesi: on 13 August 2021

Hi Paul, do you mean display caption in the image popup from album pages? IPTC caption is processed by Zenphoto and it's used as the image description, which is displayed by Multiverse in single image pages since v2.0. In previous versions, the description was printed in image popup, under the title, as there was not a real image page of the theme.
I could add an option to have the description again in the popup as well, but not anytime soon, I'm afraid, because I'm on vacations right now.

paul burgman: on 13 August 2021

It seems rather random, on some images it displays the caption field over laid on the thumbnail, and below the image on the large image. Then in another folder it just shows the file name. I have tried updating the metadata, but it doesn't appear to have done anything.

Antonio Ranesi: on 14 August 2021

I guess you cannot have caption overlaid over thumbs, can you link any example? Maybe you just have some long titles on some images.
About where it only shows the filename without description below the image, probably there is no proper IPTC caption or Zenphoto is unable to extract that data for some reason. That should not be related with Multiverse.

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