sigplus adds a photo and video gallery to a Joomla article with a short tag: popup viewer, slider, grid, thumbnails, EXIF and IPTC data. Completely free, with no PRO edition.
sigplus is a content plugin by the Hungarian developer Levente Hunyadi. A gallery is added to an article with a simple construct pointing to an image folder; basic setup takes minutes, and advanced users get a large set of parameters. The plugin is entirely free, with no paid edition or club membership.
Features
- A choice of popup viewer engines: boxplus (its own), Bootstrap Modal, Fancybox, Slimbox2; an image slider and carousel.
- Layouts: free flow or grid, rows and columns; responsive and mobile-friendly.
- Sources: an image folder on the site or a Flickr account; jpg, png and gif formats, transparency and animation included; video through the HTML5 video tag.
- Automatic thumbnails with cropping and centring, progressive loading that fetches only visible images.
- Captions and descriptions per image, multilingual ones included, caption templates, IPTC and EXIF metadata extraction, RTL support.
- Download of the high-resolution original, sort order options, restricted-access galleries, site-wide defaults with per-gallery overrides.
Compatibility
Supports Joomla 4, 5 and 6. The current version is 1.5.0, last updated in JED on 29 July 2026. It integrates with the Joomla editor and search and handles galleries of a hundred images or more.
