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Details: Created: 26 February 2026

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Details: Created: 10 May 2025

Is the jump from Canon's excellent EF 85mm f/1.4L to the premium RF 85mm f/1.2L worth the hefty price tag? Join me as I dive deep into a personal comparison, justifying my recent (and significant!) investment. We'll look beyond the spec sheets, comparing real-world image quality, handling, and that elusive "magic" that makes a lens truly special. If you've ever battled Gear Acquisition Syndrome or wondered if the latest RF glass lives up to the hype, this one's for you.

Details: Created: 22 September 2024

I need to inform you about upcoming changes to the Google Photos APIs that will impact how Event Gallery integrates with Google Photos.

Unfortunately, as of March 31, 2025, Google is removing certain features that Event Gallery currently relies on. This means that directly accessing Google Photos within Event Gallery will no longer be possible. Existing Events/albums will stop working. We know this kind of behavior already from the changes to Picasa back then. Honestly, the Google usage policy forbids creating a clone of Google Photos. Some users notified me about blocked apps in the recent past. So it might be not the worst thing to retire this kind of integration.

Details: Created: 05 March 2024

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Details: Created: 30 January 2023

Joomla 4 is out there since August 2021. It brings some new coding styles with a compatibility layer for the old Joomla 3 way of coding. Event Gallery 4 supports Joomla 3 and Joomla 4, which blows up the code and complexity. There are only several months left where Joomla 3 is officially supported. I'm currently re-coding to support the J4 coding style fully.

With Event Gallery 5, I'll drop any Joomla 3 support. Event Gallery 4 will continue supporting Joomla 3, but will get only bug-fixes in emergency cases.

Do you need to worry? Not really, since all of you already made the jump to Joomla 4, right? ;) For those who have not, it is not that hard. Here is how I did it with several sites:

Update to Joomla 3.10
grab a copy of your Joomla 3 site with https://www.akeeba.com/products/akeeba-backup.html
create a running server
practice the Joomla 4 update and write down all the necessary steps. If you fail, return to step 3
apply your steps to your production server

I had only a few issues. The template needs an update, that is for sure. Maybe you need to uninstall unused components and install all available updates for the rest.

There is an article for the migration: https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_3.x_to_4.x_Step_by_Step_Migration

Details: Created: 06 December 2021

Event Gallery 4.0 is available. Between version 3.12.10 and the latest version, more than 50 tickets made it into the gallery component. Most of the changes are around the Joomla 4 support. Thanks to some engaged users, I was able to tackle many details to optimize your user experience, especially in the back end. Thanks a lot and keep reporting! The release notes you can find here: Release Notes

One mayor change you noticed: there is version 4.0 now! For about 8 years, I kept the 3 in front of the version number. But this makes it hard for you to notice how severe the changes between different versions are. Now we're back to a common version schema. Changes in the first number indicate that you need to carefully test your site with the new version. There will be no problem if you don't use any template overrides or custom CSS adjustments. If you do, check that your modifications are still working. I'll be careful with breaking changes, but they will happen.

With Joomla 4, the place where you need to enter the download id for Event Gallery Extended changed. If you encounter any update issues, please update the download ID. This page will show your download ID and the process to add it: How to add a Download ID

Details: Created: 03 June 2021

Today you might have seen emails from Google telling you details about your Google App which handles your Google Photos credentials.

First, don't worry! But you might need to do something.

Details: Created: 01 October 2020

Coding, blogging, reviewing, photographing, RC-racing, full-time-jobbing. That takes a lot of time. Time which is missing for writing new articles and let this site look alive. So, I want to give you a quick update on how Event Gallery is doing. If you ask yourself: "WTF is Event Gallery"? Simple! It is a gallery component for Joomla. Display images from Google Photos, Flickr, Amazon S3 or your local webspace on your Joomla site. Modules, plugins, it is all there. On top, you can sell your images with a tiny e-commerce shop. But enough advertising. Event Gallery is around for 7 years not. At least as a public available version. I started developing it for Joomla 1.5! For Joomla 2.5 you had the opportunity using it too. We're now in the Joomla 3-age, but hopefully, this ends soon. Joomla 4 is around the corner (this time for real ;) and there are many changes necessary to adapt Joomla components to work with the new system.

Nearly two years back I started with the first tiny steps to support Joomla 4 Alpha. Tiny in terms of spending weeks removing jQuery from the backend and implementing things with Vue instead. I thought great, that was easy. During the last few weeks I adapted my workflow to Joomla 4, migrated all the automated tests. The result: a huge pile of things I overlooked! The good news now: they are fixed and I can proudly say, that Event Gallery is ready for Joomla 4 and you can welcome it with open arms!