NextGEN Gallery Review - Image Management
Table of contents for NextGEN Gallery Review
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Introduction
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Installation
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Configuration
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Image Management
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Displaying Images
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Displaying Images - Singlepic
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Displaying Images - Gallery
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Displaying Images - ImageBrowser
- NextGEN Gallery Review - Displaying Images - Album
Image management is perhaps one of the strongest features of the NextGEN Gallery plugin compared with other image plugins, although until you learn a few concepts it can be a little difficult to use.
Definitions
- Gallery - A collection of images. Think of a gallery as a collection of images that are related, e.g. vacation photos or photos taken on a particular day.
- Album - A collection of galleries. An album is a good way to present multiple collections of related images together, such as photos taken on different days of your vacation.
Once you get these concepts straight, the user interface will fall into place.
Add Gallery
The first thing you will want to do is upload some images. Before you can do that, you have to create a gallery. You do that on the Add Gallery page. Galleries are created below the path specified on the General Options page, typically wp-content/gallery/. Creating a gallery actually creates a new folder on the server to store the images.
Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it. You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk and then modify the gallery record in the database - not for the faint of heart. I’d like to see the plugin modified to support this feature from the admin UI.
Adding Images
Once you’ve created a gallery you can add images to it. There are four different ways to add images to a gallery, two by uploading them and two by copying them to a location accessible by WordPress and then scanning the directory.
Note that when uploading images, check that the php.ini file for your sever sets the maximum file upload size high enough. Alex (the author of the plugin) recommends at least 16MB. I set mine to 20MB.
- Upload images one or more at a time. This is done from the Upload Images tab on the Add Gallery page. (It seems like there should be a separate page for uploading images rather than on the Add Gallery page.) From this page you can select which gallery and also whether to add metadata stored in images to the alt/title text field of each image. With the latest versions of the plugin, you can select multiple files to upload and see progress of each image as it is being uploaded. This is a huge improvement over previous versions which could even timeout if it took took long to upload.
- Upload a zip file of images. This is done from the Upload a Zip-File tab on the Add Gallery page. This can be useful when the link to your site is slow.
- Import a folder already on your web site. This is done from the Import image folder tab on the Add Gallery page.
- Import images already in your gallery folder. This is similar to the previous method but the images are already in the gallery folder. To do this:
- Go to the Manage Gallery page.
- Click on the Edit link for your gallery.
- Click the Scan Folder for New Images button.
Managing Images
Once you get images into a gallery, you can perform a number of different operations on them. Probably the first thing you’ll want to do is to annotate them. While you’re at it you may as well add a description to your gallery.
The Manage Gallery page provides a lot of flexibility and allows you to make a lot of changes at once. One thing you’ll want to be careful of, however, is to avoid doing to many operations that take a lot of time, such as regenerating thumbnails. Doing so can cause the operation to timeout.
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on images on the Manage Gallery page.
- Specify a description for each image. This text can be displayed under thumbnails as well as in slideshows.
- Specify alternate title text for each image. This text can be displayed under thumbnails as well as in slideshows.
- Exclude images from being displayed on gallery pages.
- Specify tags for images. Specifying a tag allows it to be displayed as a related image for posts that use the same value for its category or tag.
- Delete an image. The image file itself will only be deleted if the Delete image files option is enabled on the General Options page.
- Set a watermark on selected images.
- Generate (create) new thumbnails for selected images. This is especially useful when you change the thumbnail options.
- Resize images. This is useful when you set resize parameters on the Images option page.
- It would be nice if resize parameters could be specified at the time that images are resized or as part of the gallery rather than in one place for all images.
- Import metadata (e.g. EXIF, IPTC, or XMP data) from images and set it in the alternate title text field.
- Scan the folder for new images as described above.
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on the gallery on the Manage Gallery page.
- Edit the name and description of the gallery.
- Edit the path (although this only changes the path, it doesn’t rename it).
- Link the gallery to a page which can be displayed when the gallery is clicked on when viewing an album. I mistakenly linked the gallery to the page displaying the album. The correct thing to do is to link it to a different page than the page displaying the album.
- Note that this page is only used if the Deactivate gallery page link checkbox is unchecked on the Gallery Options page.
- In order to display the contents of the gallery on the page you specify, you need to specify a shortcode, like this:
[gallery=#]where # is the ID of the gallery.
- Specify a preview image that will be displayed when albums to which the gallery belongs are displayed. By default no image is displayed. You can select one of the images in the gallery.
- Create a new page for displaying the gallery.
- Delete the gallery.
Albums
An album is a nice way to display a list of galleries. To create an album
- Go to the Album page.
- Type the name of your new album.
- Click the Update button.
Note that there isn’t any way to rename an album through the UI once you’ve created one, which is unfortunate, although I haven’t seen any place where the name of the album is actually displayed.
Once you’ve created an album, you can drag galleries from the Select Gallery box to the Album Page box. The UI also allows you to rearrange galleries in the album by dragging and dropping. This is a very nice interface and easy to use once you figure out that you can drag and drop. Yes, there is some text describing that, but every time I teach someone how to use it I end up having to show them how to use this page.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Hello David,
Excellent Review. I have one (silly) question about NextGen Gallery:
1. How do I view the gallery that I created? Do I have to anything else besides upload the images (folder in my case)?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I’m working on a Usage article to describe how to display all the great images we upload to our galleries, but unfortunately it’s not finished yet.
To display your images you need to use keyword tags to display a gallery, an album, or a single picture, e.g. [gallery=# ] or [album=#,extend ] (without the extra space). Alex’s web site has a number of half-way decent examples showing how to do this.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Hi,
Thanks for the great information!
I have a problem with the actual displaying of the images/gallery. I’ve used the tags as you’ve shown and is also shown on Alex’s website. But, all I get is the actual text of the tags in the post, not the images.
Am I missing a step here?
Thanks
Graham
March 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Great stuff, a huge help in getting this going. A question: I created the Page but how do I now post the thumbnails/slideshow in a post?
Thanks for you work
March 28th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Clearly I need to finish my usage article
@Graham - I went to your site and it looks like you’re displaying images and galleries in posts. Are you still having a problem?
@Mark - You display images and galleries on a post the same way you do on a page. A gallery can refer to a page, but that page must have a keyword for the gallery on it (e.g. [gallery=# ] without the extra space) if you want the gallery to be displayed when you click on the gallery in an album. Does that help? If you’d like I can take a look at your site (but you’ll have to include a link to it in your next comment).
I’ll try to get my usage topic done over the weekend. Hopefully that will clear up any confusion you all are having. There is a bit of a learning curve but once you get the basics everything falls into place.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Hi David,
After leaving the last comment, I had another read through of your tutorial, then something clicked!
I was using the name of the gallery for the tags and not the actual id number!!
Once I tried the number for the id, it worked straight away. I think the reason for my mix-up was the mis-interpretation from the original instructions on Alex’s website. He mentions the id, which I mistook for the name and not the number.
Thanks for the help and the website is great!
Cheers
Graham
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:50 am
I’ve tried installing it with the JW Image Rotator SWF file in the same plugin. All I get is an endlessly spinning image.
http://jigglesprouts.com/wp/?show=slide&pageid=29
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hi David,
thanks for the great website and this article. I too am a little lost when displaying the images. I want to display an entire album on a selected page. When you go tot manage gallery > edit [a gallery] > edit gallery [selected gallery] there is 2 options…
Page Link to:
You Write: Link the gallery to a page which can be displayed when the gallery is clicked on when viewing an album. I mistakenly linked the gallery to the page displaying the album. The correct thing to do is to link it to a different page than the page displaying the album. Note that this page is only used if the Deactivate gallery page link checkbox is unchecked on the Gallery Options page.
Create new page:
You Write: Create a new page for displaying the gallery.
the ‘Page Link to’ explanation I dont get… Are these two items optional or do you need to set these to show the gallery/albums?
thanks for any help you can provide
nic
April 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
@Robin - Hmm, interesting. All I did was download the flash script, extract it, then copy imagerotator.swf to the same folder as the plugin (e.g. wp-content\plugins\nextgen-gallery). I just noticed with v0.92 that the script is now included with the plugin.
@Nicole - The Page Link setting on a gallery is only used if the Deactivate gallery page linke checkbox is NOT checked. What that means is that if you check the checkbox, the gallery will be expanded on the same page as the album. If the checkbox is not checked, the page you select with the Page Link setting will be displayed. In fact, you need to make sure you specify a page in that setting when you leave the checkbox unchecked as you won’t be able to see the contents of a gallery if one is not selected.
Now, for the page that you select to display the contents of the gallery, just put a shortcode like this on it:
[gallery=#]where # is the ID of your gallery.
The Create text is simply to indicate one of the things you can do on the gallery page, which is independent from the other bulleted items.
I’ve modified the article to add this extra bit of information.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Hi there,
I really like this gallery alot, and finally managed to sort it out like an album style based on categories like what you guys suggested above.
Instead of using the [gallery] code..i tried using [album] instead.
this was what i got
http://www.exitmusik.com/2008/wp/?page_id=17
Is there a way to display the thumbnail?
Hope you guys can help me out here..im looking to launch my revamped music website soon! :]
Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
Andy
April 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
To show a thumbnail for each gallery in the thumbnail, you need to specify an image in the “Preview image” dropdown box for the gallery. Once you do that, the image you specify will be displayed as a representation of the gallery in the album.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
hey man..thanks for the help! i finally found it…its buried deep inside man i must say!!
April 12th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Hi David,
Thanks for a great tip on specifying a preview image for gallery that is displayed in the album page. I we been searching for this for some hours. It’s well hidden
Thanks a lot!
Maja
April 12th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Hi David, thank you very much for this article. It has helped me a lot, but I have a question and I have not found it on the Internet. How could I create a page to display all galleries I have been created? I have seen in some weblogs, they have a page, but I cannot.
For example, you could visit this link
Thank you
April 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hello David,
Can you please help me, I want to put a link to the gallery in the column, and I’m quite confused, what link should I write there? or do I need to edit the html file and add something to it? I’m new to wordpress .
Thanks a lot anyway,
best regards,
Lith
April 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
@Javi - There are only two ways I know of to display a gallery: Use the [ gallery ] shortcode or add galleries to an album and use the [ album ] shortcode.
@Lith - Are you asking how to display a gallery on the sidebar? To do that you want to use the NextGen widget which is installed as part of the plugin.
You may want to post your question in Alex’s forum: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/forums/
April 18th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hi David,
Thanks for such a good site. Now coming to my prob, i have created a gallery and added images to it. I have also added the tag correctly. Still all i get is a blank post. (post name is test). Please advise.
Regards,
Dinakar
April 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi David,
Its working now. There was some problem with my firefox. Got it fixed. Thanks.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Hi, i’ve installed NextGen and created 14 galleries for 1 album
I’ve made a page with the albumtag and it shows the 14 galleries all below eachother and only with text. I want it to show a thumbnail for each gallery and 2 or 3 next to each other. I can’t find anywhere in the adminpanel where i can pick a thumbnail for the gallery (as said somewhere above this posting) or how to change the view of the gallery listing.
help!
April 21st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
OK, I’ve been working on this for a couple days now and finally have it figured out (I think). I’m using both the nextgen gallery as well as the nextgen flashviewer (so my galleries are displayed in the simpleviewer style). I have one question though. I have multiple galleries and I have those organized into an Album. I have a page that displays my album. The issue I have is: how do I get the album display to list/organize the galleries alphabetically. Right now, I can’t quite figure out how it’s organizing it. not alphabetically. Not by date. not by ID#. And not by the order in which I added them to the album. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
@ronald- you can pick your gallery thumbnail in “manage gallery > edit gallery > edit gallery” the second edit gallery is once you are in the gallery you want to edit there is a button top right ‘edit gallery’ it will open a few more options for each gellery including picking the thumbnail. on your second question i can not help.
David- i have used the ajaxy drag and drop ordering of galleries in albums but it does not seem to change the rder when i go to the album page. actually the newest gallery ends up being at the bottom. at very least i would like to go newest to oldest newest being at the top. any suggestions?
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 am
@Rob: thanks, found it!
April 25th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hi all,
I have added the plugin NexGen gallery and then added the add on Smooth Gallery for it. I have created the gallery by specying [smooth=7, 400, 400, false, true, false, true]in my post. Am able to get the pictures on my post. But there is one problem. Instead of getting the full image in that 400×400 frame, am getting only some part of the entire image.(as my images are 1600*1200). But i want the entire image to be shown in that 400*400 frame. How can i get this done
Regards
Dinakar
April 29th, 2008 at 7:47 am
@Ronald
I am having THE SAME problem… when using the compact code, my albums appear in on column, all under each other.
I have seen other sites where they are in columns, usually three wide.
THIS is what I want, and not getting it could be a deal breaker, as I have a TON of albums I intend to post.
I have tried switching themes, and don’t see anything in the documentation, or support forums about it. I was beginning to feel like the only one with the issue!
No one else has run into this? Anyone have even the slightest idea how I can display my album thumbnails in a 3 wide column scheme using [album=id,compact]?
Pretty please?
-Jeremy
April 30th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Hi.
I’m just wondering if there are any way to navigate when in album mode. let’s say a make a Page called “Gallery”. In this Gallery-Page I have all my Albums. When I choose to watch a special Album/Gallary I come to a new page with the Gallery. There it would be nice with some kind of “navigation stuff” (like in the plugin Gallery 2) so that you without pressing Back-button returns to the Gallery First Page (with all the albums).
Come to think about it would also be very nice if you could make “levelalbums” like Head Album is Pictures 2008, under that you have the Album “Vacation Australia” and under that you have the Galleries Great Barrier Reef and Gallery Kangaroo Island. Is this possible?
/Björn
May 1st, 2008 at 7:23 am
Hi David…thanks for this series of posts.
Just wondering if you have finished your usage article yet. I stumbled upon nextgen last week, and I’m working on a real estate website.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
David, Many Thanks for the easy to follow notes as they have been quite helpful in helping me get situated with Nextgen. I am satisfied with the end result.
People, take a look at http://www.LuvPix.net.
Pino
May 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Love this article! Very informative.
There is one thing I’ve noticed that has thrown me for a loop. This may be just my problem, but you never know. I use Plesk and before I create any galleries in the NEXT GEN admin panel, I must first create them in Plesk, and additionally I must create the thumbs folder. Not only that, but I have to make both of them writeable (’777′).
If I do things out of order, it generates ghost folders and limits my ability to create galleries or thumbnails. Any idea why this is?
May 7th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Hi. Very nice documentation. I’d like plugin authors to do this themselves as often as they can, but this is ok too, if someone feels it can help others.
My problem: I’m trying to setup this plugin on my “picture blog”:
http://www.townportal.ro/poze
But all the images are shown very weird, and I must scroll down to the bottom to see them. I must qoute Jacob: “Any idea why?”
I’ve made a test: 2 galleries, one with 4 pics and one with just one pic, then an album containing the 2 galleries. I’ve tried to see how they look on a post, and I can’t seem to find out why this is happening…
This is the post:
http://www.townportal.ro/poze/test/galerie-si-album-test/
Any help would be appreciated.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I installed this plugin and had a gud time to learn it thru your documentation but ive got few idoubts…
I have my albums set on this link;
http://sujay.ws/photos/
When ever i browse through the gallery; I see the permalink structure as follows;
http://www.sujay.ws/nggallery/page-20/album-3/gallery-2/
I would had rwally liked if I could see the ALBUM NAME instead of ALBUM-3 …… GALERY NAME instead of GALLERY-2 and I dont inderstand whats page-20 ???
Also How could I eliminate ” nggallery ” ??
Please help me…. It would really enhance SEO
Thanks and Regards;
Sujay
May 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks a lot for this info! What am I doing wrong tho? Check this out:
http://www.amcbacchus.nl/web/fotos/
The thumbnails won’t show up! What am I doing wrong?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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May 14th, 2008 at 1:38 am
@rob - Make sure you click the Update button after changing anything to do with an album. I ran into problems when I thought I made changes but forgot to click the button.
@dinakar - I haven’t played with the Smooth Gallery add on yet, so I probably won’t be of much help. One thing I’d check, though is if the publisher of the add on documents its parameters for the flash player. I learned a few things when I went to the flash object’s documentation.
@Jeremy - What I’ve found is that the number of galleries displayed in compact mode is based on the amount of space provided in the HTML. If you give it more space, it will display more galleries across. It would be nice if the number of galleries across could be specified as a parameter.
@Bjorn - Great idea! I don’t think it’s possible with NextGEN in its current incarnation.
@Harry - I’m part way through a series of articles on displaying images. Check them out
@Jacob - Sorry. I don’t have any experience with Plesk.
@Zoom - It looks like you solved your problem. Either that or you gave up on me. Sorry.
@Sujay - Unfortunately I am far from an expert on the permalink structure, especially since I am running on IIS on Windows where I have even less flexibility. If you find a solution, please post back.
@Johan - The first thing to do is to see if the thumbnail file actually gets created. What operating system/web server are you using?
May 18th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Two things I’ve noticed that confirm what David Potter says:
(1)Make sure you save regularly when in a gallery admin page. The top and botton save buttons seem to work independently in the top and bottom sections of the UI.
(2)I renamed an Album but I had to do it in one of the NGG tables using phpadmin. I also fixed a few gallery entries as well this way after I decided to change the organisational structure after I’d started…
(that should be a third entry - make a proper plan before you start adding pictures!!!)
May 18th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Hello, I have installed this as a plug in - with Word Press Blog and experience a issue when trying to upload images to a gallery where I get “HTTP ERROR”.
I have checked with my server and all is fine. Can you please tell me how I can upload images? And remove this error?
Am I missing Something?
Many thanks.
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hey David, thanks for all the info. I do have a question about linking a specific image to a page/website. I am using this app to display screenshots of photoblogs, and would like to user to be able to click on the image and go to that specific site..Here where I am..ILovePhotoblogs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Not “give up”, but rather busy.
I’ve managed to talk to Alex (the creator) and some other helpfull people here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/173000?replies=7#post-754059
But I still have many problems using NGG here:
http://www.townportal.ro/poze
Maybe you can take a look (if you have time) at that thread and give some advices?
PS: * I know you don’t understand a thing about what I’m writing in romanian, but could you also give some feedback about the general layout and design?
Thanks
June 5th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
David - Any idea why I get this error?
Follow thumbnails could not created.
01052008061.jpg (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 32.28 MByte)
Is this a server issue?
June 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Phil, you can find the answer to your question on the WP forum. It’s an issue concerning the size of the uploaded file. You can find more details there.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Thanks. That solved it.
No - on to the spacing issue!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
My NextGEN Gallery installation doesn’t seem to want to recognize the pictures that I’ve uploaded. The page sits on the “Create New Thumbnails” message and never generates the image(s). The file(s) are there, but the plugin doesn’t recognize them. Do any of you know what I should do to fix this problem?
July 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hey David, thank you for a wonderful tutorial — if only my 3rd grade maths teacher would be so organised — she might have made something out of me
that apart — i wanted to ask a stupid question — what if i want to display the gallery on a page that is not part of the wordpress blog, but a website?
i have a website with simple html pages, and would like to use the Nextgen as a porfolio slideshow,
Any possiblity to do this?
July 1st, 2008 at 11:39 am
I guess it’s time to get caught up on my comments
@Karen - I unfortunately don’t have an answer for you. You might try Alex’s forum. He might be able to help.
@rick - Unfortunately there isn’t currently a way to do this easily, although it is still possible. It’s one of the suggestions I’ve made in the article. What you have to do is get the link to the image you want to display from the source, whether that is the thumbnail, the image displayed by a singlepic shortcode, or the full-size image. Then you have to use that URL in your post for an img tag. At that point you can insert an img tag pointing to that URL in the src attribut (i.e. <img src=”imgurl”>) and enclose that in a link tag (i.e. <a href=”linkurl”>).
@Zoom - I’ll try to take a look at that thread. Sorry it’s taken me so long to get to it.
@Phil - Glad you got it solved
@David Liddle - You might look into the PHP extensions you have installed. Make sure you have the correct set, in particular, gd.
@Dreams - Thanks for the kind word.
Your idea is certainly possible, but I think you’d be in for an awful lot of work to get that to work. That’s not something that is natively supported. You might ask up on Alex’s forum, though. Maybe he’ll have an idea.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Hi David,
Thanks for taking so much time to help everyone with your expertise. Much appreciated!
We’re having some problems with thumbnails for nextgen galleries on our blog. We wanted to increase the thumbnail size, and it worked brilliantly on any portrait pictures, but landscape pictures stubbornly appear exactly the same no matter what we change. What are we missing????
examples: lovely big portrait thumbnails here… http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/tvspy/private-practice/medic-alert-private-practice-is-coming/
stubbornly small landscape thumbnails here… http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/tvspy/dexter/1-day-to-go-a-sneak-peak/
Heth
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
@Heth - The landscape thumbnails actually look pretty good. One thing to note is that NextGEN won’t create a thumbnail any larger than either dimension. For example, if you specify 300×300, thumbnails won’t be any wider or taller than 300. If you specify 600×400, they won’t be any wider than 600 or any taller than 400.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Hi,Congrads for the excellent tutorial for nextgen gallery!
I would like to ask how can i make my compact albums show next to each other in a post,I write the codes ex.[album=1,compact][album=3,compact] next to each other but the albums show up on top of each other…
July 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I have some images that require rotating, as they are displaying sideways. Isn’t this information in the meta data? Can NextGEN help me rotate the applicable photos?
I am certain I am missing something obvious. Thank you.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
When I published the gallery, was unable to see the thumbnails in the post in different browsers. They just appeared as grey columns. How do i get them to appear on all browsers? FYI, they don’t appear on the firefox 2 series of browsers.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I’m having a problem. all the photos look distorted. Obviously, they’re not being resized. Some are squat, some you only see part of a picture. what am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Never mind. In Slideshow tag, I had to set the “Stretch image” to False and that fixed it.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:53 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
No problem, I hope you’ll have the time for this because many people beside me could have those problems without even realizing.
I really need a nice (error free) plugin for my pictures, I have hundreds of them that I want to post and I’ve just began making Flash albums due to the lack of a better tool. But they’re too large and I would rather use something that doesn’t take that much space.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
@inferos - The only way would be by modifying the styles in the ngg style sheet, not an easy task.
@Jym - You’ll have to rotate the images yourself. It would appear that NGG doesn’t pay attention to the rotation flag. You may consider asking Alex about adding that feature.
@clarence - It might help if I could see the page your asking about. I haven’t seen that problem and I’m not sure why it would be happening. I’ve tested on IE7, FF2, Safari (on Windows), and Opera.
@Erika - I’m glad you were able to solve your issue. Thanks for reporting back.
@Zoom - I read the thread up on the WordPress forums you referred to and it looks like this is an issue with your theme. Another commenter on another of these posts had a similar issue. I’m sure it’s solvable, but unfortunately I don’t have the time to investigate. If you do solve it, please post back. Sorry.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Any idea on why my GPS EXIF tags would be stripped when I upload pix thru the Gallery image uploader? I see a number of other EXIF tags preserved, but nothing related to GPS… When I view properties of the jpg file after dragging it from iPhoto to my desktop, I see GPS coords (which place the pic somewhere in Asia, but that’s a different matter), but after uploading it to the gallery and then downloading, those coords are stripped..
I do have some EXIF though:
File name : /tmp/img_0005.jpg
File size : 669738 Bytes
MIME type : image/jpeg
Image size : 1200 x 1600
Camera make : Apple
Camera model : iPhone
Image timestamp : 2008:08:08 10:52:09
…
Aperture : F2.8
Just no GPS data.
Help!
August 13th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
@Kenneth - Sorry, I don’t. I suspect it has to do with the EXIF parser being used, which I think is the PHP EXIF module.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Thanks for the reply.. on the nextgen-gallery main (info) page, I have this:
# PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
# PHP IPTC support : Yes
# PHP XML support : Yes
Would I need to upgrade?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
@Kenneth - I guess what I meant by my previous comment was that the EXIF support in PHP is that it is limited. There might be another place EXIF module for PHP that would have better support. I wish I could be more help. You might try Alex’s forum. Maybe someone there (even Alex) might have an idea. If you do find a solution, please post back here.
Thanks,
David
August 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am
[...] will also need to read NextGEN Gallery Review - Image Management. [...]
August 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for the documentation! I’m just installing things and this page answered my question of how to set the thumb displayed on the gallery “cover.” Big thanks!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I have a question I can’t seem to find the answer to anywhere and so far I’ve gotten my own gallery up and going by reading your great documentation.
My problem is that I’m a doofus and didn’t properly optimize the file sizes of about 50 images I uploaded, tagged and already have displayed in 50 different posts on my site. Is there a way to replace the photos with newer smaller file size versions without doing each one over again?
Also, a question about tags. The tags for WP work great, and of course show up in the posts but those are WP based tags. I’m not understanding the purpose of the tags for NextGen, where they show up and how they show up. Something isn’t clicking lol.
Thanks in advance!
August 29th, 2008 at 7:46 am
[...] NextGEN Gallery Review - Image Management [...]
September 12th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
This is great! Helped me set up my gallery. One thing though, how do I get the compact albums to sort itself horizontally rather than vertically?
Like the one shown here: http://nextgen.boelinger.com/album/
instead of what I have here: http://stereoxide.groupedition.com/?page_id=14
October 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
[...] David’s Technical Musings » Blog Archive » NextGEN Gallery Review - Image Management [...]
October 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Hi David,
Hope this doesn’t sound like a stupid question, but I see that there is a way to use NextGen gallery for displaying photos with certain tags like [tags=name,name,name].
It is a pity that it doesn’t show up as tag cloud like WP’s tags. But I can live with it.
My question is, is it possible to enter a URL which links directly to all the tagged images like this?
http://dpotter.net/?nextgen-tag=MLB
then it shows up all the MLB-tagged photo in my gallery
Cheers,
Eric
October 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Is there a way to link text to an image? I tried implementing a solution posted to the Wordpress forum with no luck:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/207887
Thanks!
October 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I got a tag list working in a *relatively* uncomplicated manner. Here’s the how-to.
There’s a link to a guy, Eric Li, who provided the original code I used - his site includes code to make look like an actual tag cloud instead of just a list. Hope it helps somebody.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 am
Hi David,
Im using NextGen Flash gallery, more specifically the simpleviwer.
Currently, Im able to make the simpleviewer page display by keying in [simpleviwer={galleryid}]
In the non-flash version, If i do not check the option that says,Deactivate gallery page link:, ill get a thubnail wich I can click on. this thumbnail will take mw to a page with the pics in that gallery. Is it possible to link this thumbnail to the simpleviwer pag drectly suc that when the user clicks the thumbnail, he is taken straight to the simpleviewer gallery?
Please advise,
Thanks
November 7th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I downloaded NextGen Gallery plugin, mainly for the slideshow, however, I don’t seem to be able to set the settings right!! my photos are not displaying properly. the landscape photos are cut around the edges and the top and bottom of the portait photos are cut as well…. how do I set the slideshow to display the photos properly?
Your help is much appreciated!!
November 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Does anybody know if there is a way to use the same image in multiple galleries with uploading it multiple times?
November 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
David,
Thank you very much for your info on NextGen Gallery Plugin. I have followed the install instructions correctly I believe, but when I go to upload a .jpg photo (one photo 24k in size) to the Gallery I get the following error code:
“Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: gd-jpeg: JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: in /home/rosebrad/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/thumbnail.inc.php on line 183
Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: ‘/home/rosebrad/public_html/wp-content/gallery/pencil-drawing-portraits/heraunt.jpg’ is not a valid JPEG file in /home/rosebrad/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/thumbnail.inc.php on line 183″
Can you or anyone else give me direction on how to fix this problem.
Thanks!
Jayne
November 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Ok, I think I figured out the problem. It was the images themselves that were off. They looked like jpeg but as I examined them further, did not have the .jpg extension. Once I got the right type of file I was in business.
Jayne
November 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
All I want is a gallery that works! I’ve tried several without success. It’s one thing or another!
NextGEN is unable to create thumbnails. It just stays at 0% when creating thumbnails. Therefore, I can’t even see how it looks. I’ve verified that GD is running with PHP. Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Kurt
November 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I fixed the problem. Apparently there’s a conflict with WP Automatic upgrade. Why? Who knows. I believe 2.7 will have an auto upgrade included. I hope I didn’t waste anyone’s time.
Keep on tweaking…
Kurt
November 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hi David!
Great plugin, but I have the same problem as Kurt: I can’t create thumbnails. For my first gallery, I was able to create them, if I took just 20 images at a time, but now for my second gallery, I have no chance to create even one thumbnail. Any idea?
Thanks!
Dave
December 7th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hi David,
I have the same problem as well. Upload the photo and then it got stuck at 47% with message:
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 43253760) (tried to allocate 11264 bytes) in /home/btsenre/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/thumbnail.inc.php on line 183
any idea?
thanks.
December 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168847?replies=18 take a look there for the “Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings” :/ any idea?
December 17th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I’m having a problem adding a gallery to an album and need some help please.
I’ve read the instructions on how to do this and I understand (in theory) how to add galleries to albums, but I say “in theory” because the plugin doesnt seem to be working rite.
The article says to select an album, then “drag and drop” a gallery into the album window. The problem is, it wont let me drag and drop anything. I tried it on my mac (firefox and opera) as well as on my PC (IE7 and PC firefox) but the browser doesnt seem to make a difference. It just wont let me drag & drop anything…
Does anyone here know why or how to fix it?
December 21st, 2008 at 11:05 am
Hello. got this anoying problem.i set all the options lik ein the guide.. so far so good.i created an galery upload some pictures post the code.perfect. after some days i neded to make more galleries so in order to pos them on same page i ahve to use the other code for albums ( [album=id,extend] ) i creadted albums for every galery. aded galery to each album and tryed to post. but nothing appears on page. i have an img set as tumbnail for every galery. but not even the text of the galery appereas. what could be the problem?
u can look on my website to see in picture section i use for now gallery code but is kinda inestetic so i really ned to put in albums. on HOME page u will se an post named TEST. i puted the code but nothing apears exect the title of article:( (www.emo-life.net)
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
this might seem very amateur, but how do i change my php.ini so that it is high enough. at the moment i think i am unable to upload pictures because it says my ‘upload limit is set to 2Mbytes”
how do u change such limit? cpanel?
thanks alot
January 19th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Thanks for the docs. One clarification. You said:
>Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it.
> You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk and then modify the gallery record in the database - not for the faint of heart.
You don’t have to modify the record in the database, you just change the ‘path’ in the edit gallery admin page, and if you use permalinks, go to the settings for that and ‘update’ the settings. Works fine.
Thanks again.
January 19th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
lex - in php.ini (if you can change it), set:
upload_max_filesize = 20M
or whatever size you want.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:10 am
Hi David, I’m from Greece.
I can’t write Greek in the description, it removes question mark, why?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hello,
I have tried to upload images using many ways, direct upload, zip upload but most of the time, after it shows that its done, it give me a blank page. When I go to see the files, there is only a single image from a total of 6. What may be causing this?
Thank you
A
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hello,
I installed the NextGEN Gallery plugin and everything went smooth, I uploaded a lot of pictures through ftp in different folders, each one for every gallery, then create the albums, but when I try to add a description in the Galery Management, once I finished I update but nothing happen, did I miss apply some permissions in the folders, or there is a bug in this version WEB2.0(beta)
Thank you for any help or advice you can provide.
Calidro
February 25th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Hey David,
I use the plugin on a site with multiple users. Currently if a user creates a gallery under their login, another user under a different login does not have the ability to edit that gallery. Is there a way to change that setting so that gallery’s can be edited by any user?
Chris
February 27th, 2009 at 4:47 am
@Chris Hotz
look under the options of: Gallery > Role s, there you will find a drop down menu at ‘Edit Album’, you can choose subscriber
February 27th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I am having a problem with my php.ini limits. How do I change that in Cpanel? I can access my Cpanel but I have no idea where to find php.ini to change my 10MB upload limit. I have been searching on Google for the past 45 minutes and havent come up with anything…
March 1st, 2009 at 5:56 am
I just installed the NG plugin in WP 2.7.1, created a new gallery and began uploading images, but I get the following error for each image, and then I get locked out of my web server altogether after the 8th image! Any ideas what the problem might be? Thanks.
ERROR HTTP ERROR : 480.jpg : 500
John
March 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Hi david i instaled plugin but its not automatic uploaded trumbail photos. its not open.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hi David
Great plugin.
I’ve created a page called Links.
I’ve created a Gallery called Links.
I’ve uploaded my images to wp-content/gallery/links
I’ve added [gallery=1] to my page
Thumbnails won’t show. Just the image name.
I can’t actually find the thumbnails or thumbnail file.
Where would it be located if it was created and if it wasn’t
created why? and how do I create it?
http://markgrowden.org/blog/links/
That’s the page
Thanks for any help.
Ty
March 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Hi David!
I have a question! I have an older wordpress site with galleries I have build by hand using pages and I just recently got the nextgen plugin and love it so what I now need to do is take all my old hand made galleries and convert them over so I can add them to my albums do you have any idea what I can do!
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 am
I am stumped! I am trying to do my home page as side by side images that I can click to get another page.
Using wordpress gallery I just can’t get the url through to a page to stick; really annoying but the url link just refuses to stick and image clicks through to … image. The wordpress forum is full of unresolved queries on same point; the gallery just won’t let you put in a page url; well it does but it won’t save!
So, I turned to my next gen plug in and I am struggling again. Can someone please give me a quick over view of how I can, once I create a home page gallery; get it (this individual gallery) to be two images side by side down my home page; with url from images to pages and url form the label underneath to my pages. I have achieved this with a single centred image all way down home page but really, really would love to get these images side by side somehow. I use thesis but forum there not cracked this “stack” issue for me; and the wordpress gallery url not working; so before I spend another 20 hours of my life sorting this - ay ideas would be hugely welcomed. Thanks in advance!
March 25th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Hi, David!
I get a very strange behaviour in the image management. After uploading the images either from server folder or from the client machine, I only get the creation date displayed under filename. When I check the database, the filenames were there. There seems not any problem in displaying the filename in the blog. Any options I can apply? Thanks in advance!
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Hey,
is it possible to regenerate all thumbnails of an gallery without go thru all single pages. I have a gallery of 600 images and pages of the image manager only show 50 items per page. So its kind of annoying to go thru all pages and create new thumbnails.
I’m sorry if its already explained on your site but i didn’t find it.
May 4th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Hi, I want to reorder the pictures in my gallery - how can i do this? i seem to remember it being simple but i cant figure out how to do it (quite possibly i did this before installing NextGen). Thanks!
May 4th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Hi, Is it possible to re-order photos in the gallery? i seem to remember easily doing this before but now i can’t find this function. ThankS! Gill
May 12th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Hi David,
I have one question. I want when the visitor clicks the slide show, it will open the page or post which I have defined. How to do that ?
Thanks.
May 17th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Hi David. Gr8 piece of work & I need your help. You Said:
>Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it.
> You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk and then modify the gallery record in the database - not for the faint of heart.
I want to change id & name generated for TITLE of Gallery as well as photos.
How to make changes at the server end? Please advice as soon as possible.
May 17th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Hi David. Gr8 piece of work & I need your help. You Said:
>Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it.
> You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk and then modify the gallery record in the database - not for the faint of heart.
I want to change id & name generated for TITLE of Gallery as well as for photos.
How to make changes at the server end?
I reached wp_ngg_gallery in phpMyAdmin.Then what to do next. Please advice as soon as possible.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I am having a thumbnail issue with the NextGen gallery. Images will upload but the automatic thumbnails wont create. I am sure this is because of a hosting issue - none of the automatic features in WordPress is working (database backup, plugin update ect) I will be changeing to a better hosting environment in Aug when my contract is up.
My questions is this - is there a way to manually create the thumbnails in photoshop then upload them to the correct place and have them show up in the gallery? I tried to upload into the thumbnail folder with the image name the same as the image that is full sized and this did not work.
Dotty
May 26th, 2009 at 5:50 am
** Tagging Question
For my current project I need to upload around 1500 images. In my testing it works great! My question is about tagging though. I would like all of my galleries to be created via tag query because there will be a lot of overlap. Once I upload them however, it is rather cumbersome to tag. Is there any way to tag them offline with an image editor, them upload them so the tags come with the images?
Alternately, if there were a way for me to search all uploaded images for characters in their names, I could then apply tags more easily.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Hi there - how do you set what size a slideshow will display?
thanks
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
hello,
I’m having an issue with the picture sizes. When I upload the picture to my server the picture is (for example) 1 M. Then I go to the gallery to scan for new images and I get an error saying that the image is over 50M which is over the max of my server. Do you know why this is happening? I also tried uploading the image through the gallery and again, it tells me the image is too big but it’s really not. Can you please help?
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Where do i find php.ini???
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I am using Blue Host, I do not have a php.ini file. I researched and looks like I need to create one. Does anyone know how to do this?
June 17th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Hi David,
Great explanation, it really helped me set up my galleries. I just have a few questions:
1- How can I make the back and next buttons appear on top of the photo instead of bottom (I don’t want my users to have to scroll down)
2- When I try to resize my gallery images to make them smaller they get blurry. Can you explain how to resize, and suggest a size that is best?
Thanks so much!
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Cool plugin!
I have multiple galleries and two albums.
On my main Photo page, I call both albums:
[album id=1 template=compact ]
[album id=2 template=compact ]
(without the spaces of course)
When a use clicks on one of the galleries, the url appends it like this:
http://carlisletroop189.com/gallery/?album=1&gallery=9
so they show up twice.
How do I make the url just say this:
http://carlisletroop189.com/gallery/?gallery=9
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Figured it out…
http://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/source/detail?r=558#
June 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
To all you hundreds of people who are using this gallery: My hat is off to you. I’ve run a WordPress blog for years, and have lots of technology, but as of today, I’m on my second attempt in a year to get NextGEN Gallery to work for me and by now I suspect I’m past 20 hours at the computer over the past year and I still cannot display images in albums or galleries. This is perhaps the most frustrating computer experience of the last twenty five years. How you all have done this is perhaps beyond my ability. I have read the directions maybe fifty times and followed slowly but always failed. I feel stupid and I congratulate all of you.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I would like to add a user browse and upload button to allow the users to upload their pictures. Is there a way to incorporate that into NexGen?
June 29th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hey!
Thanks for a BEAUTIFUL plugin! This plugin made my life so much easier… I can only imagine the work and effort there has been putting into this!
Super cool… and easy! LOVE IT!!
Peter
July 7th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Hi,
I upload an image to a directory via Dashboard, but the image doesn’t save to the directory and I get this error:
Directory /home/content/z/a/c/zacharyrs20000/html/mibsolutionsllc/stokes/wp-content/gallery/homes contains no pictures
The directory is chmod 777.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
August 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
hello!
i’ve noticed a strange thing.
even a subscriber that creates a gallery could be able to create pages in the edit gallery feature….may i prevent that in some way?
thank you.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hi David and everyone else. [nextgen gallery]
I am having issues with thumbnails geting the following error - 104-lancia.jpg (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 52.98 MByte
Two responses on this page quote slightly different answers
“Typically that message is displayed when the PHP limit has been exceeded. To fix this, you need to go into your php.ini file and set the upload_max_filesize to something that will accommodate the files you want to upload”
“You need to find your ” memory_limit ” variable in your php.ini file, and raise it to at least 64M. You should also raise your upload size.”
These are great thanks however I cant actually seem to find a file php.ini?
There are loads of files ending in extension .php including one called thumbnails but not the above.
Help would really be appreciated as im obviously not a techy!
August 19th, 2009 at 5:54 am
When will you be publishing instructions on how to use the additional shortcodes for viewing images such as Polaroid, Simpleviewer and Tiltviewer. I’ve been unsuccessful with them
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
You write regarding Adding Images that you can Import a folder already on your web site. You say this is done from the Import image folder tab on the Add Gallery page. I only have “add new gallery” and “import images” tabs, and when I click on the import images tab, and click browse, it browses my computer. How do I add pictures that are already on my website?
August 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Sound like an obvious issue but I am struggling to find an answer
1. I have say 20 photos.
2. I create a gallery
3. I only want one thumbnail to show
4. When the user clicks on that thumbnail, the sideshow starts and they get to advance or click though all 20 photos.
** Right now, all the thumbnails show up on my page, I want to limit that to one, but have all 2 launch when the slideshow is clicked.
What am I missing?
Any help, very much appreciated.
August 25th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Hi David, and everyone!
I am so grateful for your helpful and informative posts and tutorials! I wish I had the knowledge base to fully understand it all..
I recently got the idea to start a blog along with my templated photo website, and so i bought the ProPhoto WordPRess deal. I then really liked a nextGen site I saw, so i downloaded and was able to install that onto my wordpress blog.
So, 2 questions:
• What do i do to make the images and posts I’ve done on wordpress so far go away and my nextgen blog appear?
•It seems I haven’t created the empty gallery within my contents folder, and so i cannot create any galleries or upload images. (i know this kind of simplistic stuff must be annoying to read, but I’ve been trying for so long to figure it out). I went into my cpanel and file tree for my blog, and found the contents folder, but there is no gallery folder in there. Did something go wrong in the upload?
Any help is MUCH appreciated.. And apologies in advance for the beginner lack-o-knowledge!
Sara
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am
I installed the plugin and flash viewer. I then created a gallery. I can get into the NextGen Gallery Overview section, but when I click any other gallery items, like Add Gallery Images, Manage Gallery, or the Upload Images in the Gallery Overview section, all I get then is a BLANK Page?????
Anybody have any ideas?
TIA
Arlie
September 9th, 2009 at 5:24 am
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October 20th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
You said in the above article:
“Once you’ve created an album, you can drag galleries from the Select Gallery box to the Album Page box.”
…but, there is no “Album Page” box. There is a “Select Album” box.
I selected an album. When I drag an gallery over the album I selected… nothing happens. When I try to add an album onto a page… nothing appears. Clearly, there is nothing in the album.
How do I add a gallery to an album?? The drag-and-drop doesn’t seem to do a thing.
Thanks,
jan
November 5th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hi David,
I need a solution where i can upload an image with multiple size variables also getting added from nextgen gallery or something. Is that possible? i am desperately looking for an wordpress solution to a new photo store that i want to launch. cant find any yet. wp estore integrates nextgen gallery but it can help sell only one size per photo. Please help me. i am stuck. i need to be able to offer clients to download 3-6 size options per photo just the way it happens with any other photo site.
I dont know if the solution should be while uploading or while pressing the download button the photos get resized…
Any suggestions or help with the code will be a lifesaviour.
And by the way what plugin are you using for the google search result and related post thing at the top.
thanks a billion in advance
November 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
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November 21st, 2009 at 7:14 am
David -
I have a question for you….
This seems like an obvious requirement, but I can’t seem to make NextGen do this.
I have a large set of high-resolution photos. I want to be able to use the NextGen interface to display these in the lightbox-style. I also want to provide the user some way of downloading the full-resolution image.
I can simply upload my hi-res photos, without resizing them, and this will work. Unfortunately, the lightbox display is just real slow.
If I resize the images, the lightbox certainly works faster, but I cannot provide the user a way to download the original hi-res photo.
What would you suggest? (or am I missing something entirely?)
Thanks,
Tom
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Hello!
Maybe a strange question:
Is there a way to “cross-organize” the images in the different galleies?
I can’t imagine nobody ased this before.
I would like to have es second level of organisation e.g. by tags oder categories without creating new galleries.
If I have different Galleries (e.g. men, women, children), I would like to organize as well into black/white, color,
indoor, outdoor, …
Is there a way oder a workaround?
Thanks
Hans
November 25th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Sorry, but this makes very little sense to me after using Gallery2.
Do I need to create Album from Gallery(ies) and where do I publish album in a separate page if Album is part of gallery? If I want to have a separate page on Wordpress entitled “Photos” do I create Gallery which is called “Photos” and from there create a new page? Or do I create Album called photos and then create Gallery and then put it into album and then create page????
Sorry…it’s completely mindboggling…
January 5th, 2010 at 9:28 am
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January 7th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
David,
I’m pretty new around here and still sorting out how to work with wordpress let alone keep tabs on everything else. Your articles here have no doubt been a great help.
Thanks very much,
Dylan
January 12th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Hi, thatk you for this page. But still i have 1 problem, may be you can help me with it. I need to make a list of differnt Albums. And i do not know how. Once (i do not know how) i made that albom showed where i need it to be, but clicking oth that there was nothing.. but i need there to be lists of galleries.
For example i have a coomon Fotoalbum. In that i have a list of Albums (Museums, Towns, Landscape, Makro and so on). So when i click on Museums there will be page with galleries (Dresden, Ermitazh, Tokyou national Museum and so on)…
I really can’t understand how everything can be linked together. Please help me with it. Because nobody responded to my posts in forum.
January 14th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Hi there,
I’m starting at the beginning just trying to upload images into my gallery, and I’m having a problem when browsing for images. Some are recognized and will upload, others I click when browsing and it won’t be acknowledged. why is this? I’ve tried renaming the photos, they are all the same size. it’s frustrating.
I also tried uploading the zip file for the imagerotator and when I tried to active it failed, saying it didn’t have the proper header.
Thoughts?
January 15th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Hey there!
The galleries in my photo album are automatically displayed from newest (top) to oldest. I need to arrange the galleries manually, as I’m continually adding new galleries to the album that are from different months and years. For example, if I add a gallery of pictures from 2008, I want to be able to put it with other 2008 pics, and not have it as the first gallery displayed. Any idea how I can arrange the galleries manually?
Any help would be great.
Sophie
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Hi all
Anyone know how I can display only certain photos from an album. I’m happy to list them as it’s only a handful, but would be nice to show them in an imagebrowser rather than seperate thumbnails.
Cheers
james
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:13 am
I would very much like to display the album names. Is that possible, and if so how would I do so?
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:21 am
I want to know if anything is there to display images from thirdparty site using nextgen gallery. From html source.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Hi,
You mention: “From this page you can select which gallery and also whether to add metadata stored in images to the alt/title text field of each image”. I have the latest versions of Wordpress & the plugin, yet I see no such option.
You also say that one can: “Import metadata (e.g. EXIF, IPTC, or XMP data) from images and set it in the alternate title text field.” Again, when I click ‘Import Metadata’ for any image(s), it imports the metadata & adds the link ‘Meta’ under each image in the ‘Manage Gallery’ dialog, but doesn’t automatically copy the metadata to the alt/title text/description fields.
How do you do this?
Many thanks,
Rishi
March 9th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Nevermind. I guess it takes the ‘Title’ & ‘Caption’ fields from the metadata. I was wondering if it could possibly take camera specific fields such as ‘Exposure’, etc. & automatically add it to the Alt & Title text fields. Guess not? Can’t quite find the .php that does this metadata parsing… else could code in this behavior.
Rishi