Features

Grid & layout

• Responsive CSS grid (1–6 columns)
• Optional masonry layout
• Themes: Modern 2026, Minimal, Dark + accent colour
• Aspect-ratio lock for uniform thumbs
• Hover zoom, lazy loading, loading skeletons
• Responsive srcset thumbnails (multiple sizes)
• WebP thumbnail generation + cache under images/fullscreen/
• Category filter pills
• Load more / pagination for large folders

Lightbox experience

• True OS fullscreen (Fullscreen API)
• Previous / next, keyboard arrows, swipe on touch
• Play / pause slideshow + progress bar
• Download button
• Share: copy link + WhatsApp / X / Facebook
• Scroll zoom + pan, plus pinch-zoom on mobile
• Optional filmstrip
• Fit modes: contain or cover
• Deep-link hash to open a specific image
• Prefetch next/prev for smoother browsing
• Focus trap + screen-reader announcements (“Image 3 of 12”)

Content & media

• Folder mode or individual slides
• Auto captions from filenames
• Folder categories from filename prefix or subfolders
• Alt text, captions, categories per slide
• Video slides: MP4, YouTube, Vimeo
• Optional right-click / drag protect
• Schema.org ImageGallery JSON-LD for SEO

Module vs plugin vs editor button

• Module — full settings UI, positions, menu assignment
• Content plugin — shortcodes inside articles and HTML modules
• Editor button — insert a shortcode from a friendly popup

Technical

• Joomla 4 / 5 / 6 services architecture
• Vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery required for the lightbox)
• Works on modern PHP versions used by current Joomla installs