****Quick Review****
 

****Quick Review****

I've only been playing with it for about 20 minutes, but here are my findings so far.

Install
The script installed with ease. Activation was as simple as inputting the registrant's name and email address.

Use
It couldn't be simpler to use. The Gallery Magic button is easily found in the formatting menu at the top of the WordPress editor. I used both the button and copy/paste of the shortcode as methods of generating the post. The results were the same as if I had dragged and dropped into WordPress.

Performance
The script was quick to fetch the images from the FHG's. Of course, the speed will depend on the connection between your server and the other host's. Most galleries were fetched within 2-3 seconds, including thumbnail processing times.

Issues
Only one program's galleries wouldn't import. NastyDollars.com's galleries would only import the first image, but that could be some form of protection on their end, a communication issue, or something else.

Remember that the images have to be DIRECTLY linked, so no images from galleries that embed the images in attachment pages. That also means no pulling galleries from affiliate hosts like LinkBucks, ImageFap, or similar free hosts (how about an anti-container add-on???).

Improvements
I would love to see an anti-container add-on, like that of DownThemAll or Bulk Image Downloader, as either a free or paid add-on.

Perhaps an option to keep it from posting if no images are found or scraped, to prevent empty galleries.

Final Thoughts
The script did exactly what it said it would. Installation through first completed gallery took about 60-90 seconds. Success rate (other than NastyDollars) was 100% when images were linked directly.

It's definitely worth the $30, if you're looking to use FHG content on your site, while still having unique pages.

Note
This IS NOT a compensated review. I am a CyberSEO user and have been for years, but that in NO WAY influenced this review. It did however influence my decision to buy this script, as I've had very good luck generating sites/traffic with CyberSEO.

I bought it also,
nothing more to add to schiz review, a good script that is definately worth its money.

Thanks for you guys for your reviews/posts :thumbsup

schiz could you please give me an example of the NastyDollars FHG you were unable to import. I wanna play with it.

Updated review
 

****Updated Review****

Having been unable to recreate the NastyDollars issue with FHG's, I'm guessing it was just a connection between my host and theirs. I've successfully fetched more than a dozen galleries from the ND servers without issue.

My apologies for the issues I had earlier.

*Note* I couldn't find a place to edit the original post, so I'm either blind or there's a time limit on it.

:)

Sounds cool.

Hmm, not sure that I've got your question. You can insert the gallery into any existing post. Just open it in a visual editor, put the shortcode where you want and click the "Update" button. The shortcode will be replaced with the actual gallery and you'll see it in the editor.

i still have the pms just checking :) when users click the thumbs do they go to the full url of the image?

Sorry, CyberSEO. I meant that I couldn't find the edit on GFY, so I must have exceeded the time limit to edit. Gallery Magic works exactly as touted.

Just got my copy. Thank you

The full-sized image or WP gallery will be open, depends on your settings (note the "link to" option there).

Ah, I see :)

yes what are the options? im sure you remember what we talked about.

You can't link the WordPress gallery to another site. Please read this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode. You should use banners and text links instead.

yes i'd love to have a script like this, pls let me know if it's for sale or where to get it :)

thx

You can get it here: http://www.cyberseo.net/gallery-magic/

Can it rip galleries that host the images on html pages?

Yes of course. That's the main purpose of the plugin.

:) hehehehe ill show you something when its done

Sorry let me clarify.. most hosted galleries have the thumbs link to images.. but some galleries have the thumbs lead to another html page with the image on it..

The second ones can not be imported. It's not a problem for the script to pare the linked HTML page and get the image from there. However it's a problem to find out which exactly image must be taken in case if there is more than one picture.

Just added a mass import function with a post scheduler. It works as easy as follows:

http://www.cyberseo.net/image/img/gallery-magic-5.jpg

Don't hesitate and get your unlimited copy for only $29.95 :pimp

Very nice! :thumbsup

Many customers ask me by email on how the plugin imports lots of galleries from a text dump that fast (say 1000 FHG's at once). So I decided to explain it here.

The plugin does not physically import the galleries in the bunch import mode when the "Import" button is pressed. It just creates the posts (one gallery = one post) and inserts the gallery_magic shortcodes there, so it doesn't take a lot of time to process even a huge dump. To make it import the actual images and crop the thumbnails, you have to open the post in the browser. When you do that for the first time, the gallery_magic shortcode will be replaced with the actual gallery. Thus it may take some time till the post will be finally displayed. This is for the first time only! After that the post will appear w/o any delays.

yeah I would be interested in a plugin to make posting galleries less tedious. my site is young-girls [ com

can you see what im doing at the Young Videos link - that is what i want, and i want to be able to insert flash/animated ads between blocks of galleries.

Just saw this, it looks good but is it much different from Remote Images Grabber?
http://andrey.eto-ya.com/wordpress/m...images-grabber

Don't know it just doesn't work for me. I've just installed it on my test blog, tried to grab the following gallery: http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2011/...y-of-the-week/ and got this message:

Please try it by yourself, maybe you'll be more lucky.

Also from the description of "Remote Images Grabber", it looks like the plugin does only import the images into the library but does not use them to generate the posts. So, I don't understand how it could be used in this industry. E.g. you can't simple give it an FHG dump and make it to generate 1000's of posts on autopilot (there is no scheduler etc). On the other hand, my plugin does it all just easily.

P.S. And course my plugin won't be asking you to provide the "Base URL for relative paths" (like Remote Images Grabber does) when it grabs the images. It will take care of such things by itself.

I use the remote images grabber, it pulls in the pics from fhgs pretty well though it does fail depending on the gallery setups. You're right it works best importing each gallery individually but I have used it to pull in the images from a bulk list a few times.
I didn't see yours had a scheduler and I am confused since you say you have to update/save each post before the gallery is created then how does the bulk importing really save time?
I'm sure yours imports better then the one I listed so that alone is probably worth paying for.

Note the "Start Date" and "Frequency" fields on a screenshot above. Using these values you can schedule the post generation process.

No, you just didn't get it right. When you import a bunch of galleries from a dump, the plugin does not physically pull the actual images from the remote galleries because such an operation may take many hours. Just imagine parsing of 1000's remote galleries, downloading all the detected images and cropping the thumbnails at once. This is just insane.

So the plugin simple creates 1000's of posts (one post per FHG from a dump) and inserts the gallery_magic shortcodes into them. This operation does not require a lot of time. After that when you, a surfer or an SE spider open one of these posts, the plugin creates the actual gallery (downloads the remote images, crops the thumbnails etc), inserts it into that post and displays it. This operation will be performed for every post only once and it's fully automatic. I.e. it does not require any manual actions from you or from anybody else.

Ah ok then yours is by far a more advanced option. I misunderstood and will probably be buying soon.

is the price per blog, per server or pay once and use it everywhere ??
no details about that on your site if i see right...

The 3rd. The license is unlimited, so you can use the plugin on the unlimited number of sites and/or hosts.

It works fantastic :)

Just added a possibility to insert custom HTML blocks (banners, text ads, whatever) above and/or under every gallery, created via bunch import mode.

Please make sure to click the "Check for Updates" button to update your copy of the plugin.

Fixed a plugin a bit. Now the plugin imports correctly the galleries with an exotic HTML structure. E.g. this one: http://gallys.realitykings.com/we/1392

Tech support is Solid
 

I have bought multiple products from this poster and have experienced incredible tech support.

is the new plugin part of the cyberSOE plug in

I bought it a couple of days ago and I'm impressed. It is simple and powerful. It does just what I wanted to do. I also did not realize the license is unlimited, so that's a nice bonus.

Just bought this plugin and used it for a couple of sponsors fhg.. so far its great! :)

No, it is not. But those plugins can be used together w/o any problems. I.e. they are fully compatible. For example, you can easily to import the galleries from any sponsor-hosted feed (like this or like that) on autopilot with CyberSEO and the Gallery Magic plugins.

Hey quick question.. is there a setting on how it labels the files.. seems like it always starts with 06 and for some reason every gallery I rip the first 2 thumbs/files are always showing up at the end of the gallery making me manually sort those 2 to the top