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.
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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)?
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
@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.
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
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.
hey man..thanks for the help! i finally found it…its buried deep inside man i must say!!
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
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
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
@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/
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
Hi David,
Its working now. There was some problem with my firefox. Got it fixed. Thanks.
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!
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.
@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?
@Rob: thanks, found it!
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
@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
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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?
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@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?
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!!!)
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Thanks. That solved it.
No - on to the spacing issue!
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?
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?
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.
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
@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.
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…
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.
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.
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?
Never mind. In Slideshow tag, I had to set the “Stretch image” to False and that fixed it.
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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.
@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.
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!
@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.
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?
@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
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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!
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!
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