JoomGallery for Joomla 4

Zitat von Oby

Would it be possible to upgrade to Joomla 4, leave Joomgallery 3 installed, and then upgrade to Joomgallery 4 when it is finally released? Should this preserve all images and data?

Yes, this works.

You have to uninstall all JoomGallery 3 modules and plugins but keep the component. Then do the upgrade to Joomla 4.

After upgrade, the JoomGallery views in frontend and backend will throw php errors and will not work anymore. But data is perserved.

In the meantime you could use Joomla 4 compatible image modules or plugins to show all images of a folder. Since JoomGallery is sorting the images in folders according to the category structure you can show this way gallery views with images of a specific category.

Important Note

Zitat von Elfangor93

In the meantime you could use Joomla 4 compatible image modules or plugins to show all images of a folder. Since JoomGallery is sorting the images in folders according to the category structure you can show this way gallery views with images of a specific category.

If you do that just make sure the plugin or module does not create any additional files and folders to create the gallery views. Otherwise you will mess up the file and folder structure and you will have problems later on with your JoomGallery component!

Thank you so much for clarifying! I will proceed with the upgrade then, but retain the JoomGallery component.

First alpha version ready for testing.

It's probably too early to ask about this, since there are still trials of a JoomGallery (JG) test version for Joomla 4 ... But as we know, Joomla 5 is already announced (called "just a J4 upgrade", not a migration as was usually with earlier version changes). So what are the plans of the JG developers to adapt this extension to J5? I mainly mean the expected date, because I have no doubt that it will happen someday. Is this work already underway for the announced next stable JG version?

There are just some minor fixes to be done on JG4 to make it Joomla 5 compatible. I expect JG4 to run under Joomla 5 when the first release.

Hello everyone,

I'm on Joomla 3 still now and it's very urgent to update to joomla 5. I'm waiting for joomgallery to be compatible so to proceed to update.

Some friends tell me to switch to Ignite Gallery but I don't want to leave Joomgallery because I prefer it by using it all these years and also I prefer not to make conversions.

Can you let us know when will it be ready for full update to Joomla 4/5 with all the categories / images we have now on Joomla 3?

Thanks in advance!!!

First of all, its not urgent to update. Joomla 3 still gets security updates within the ELTS program: https://elts.joomla.org

Our internal development timeline forsees to release the next alpha version in the next month. In August we plan to leave the alpha phase and proceed to the beta phase.

Depending on the amount of bugs found by our testers the stable release of JoomGallery 4 will be in Q4 this year.

This dates are mentioned without obligation. Since we are a very small team of volunteers working on the project, we can not guarantee releasing dates (sadly).

We could realy need some further help...