NextGEN Gallery Review - Installation
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
The installation instructions in the readme.txt file indicate that the plugin should be copied to a folder called nggallery, but Alex must have removed that requirement since writing that as the code clearly allows the plugin to be installed in any directory below wp-content\plugins. I initially installed it in the nextgen-gallery directory and it worked fine.
Before the plugin will work, you need to install JW Image Rotator in the NextGEN Gallery plugin directory. You can get that from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/. Once you’ve downloaded it, just copy the imagerotator.swf file to the NextGEN Gallery plugin directory.
Now you can activate the plugin. You’ll notice that there are two NextGEN plugins - a NextGEN Gallery plugin and a NextGEN Gallery Widget plugin. If you want to display images on your sidebar, activate the widget plugin as well.
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Thanks for this post. I had overlooked the JW Image Rotator and I just added it thanx to you!
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Hello, I just installed NextGen and i noticed that the file imagerotator.swf is already in the directory of NextGen. So i suppose that it is not necessary anymore to upload the *.swf file. Is this correct?
regards rob
Yes and no. Strictly speaking, the included imagerotator.swf file probably works. But it’s not the same as the one on Jeroen Wijering’s site - to be on the safe side, use JW’s latest release; go to his site and download it (pay attention to the license to be sure you meet its conditions).
Does Highslide need anything else installed? I can’t get HS to work, nor will anything else but Thickbox work.
I’ve installed the plugin, and been able to set all of the options, create a gallery, and upload a photo. But whenever I try to save changes to the Gallery Settings under ‘Manage Gallery’ or click on ‘Upload Pictures’ from the Gallery main page, I get a 403 error: The requested URL /themes/nextgen-gallery/admin/wp25/admin.php was not found on this server. I don’t know why it is pointing to the themes directory. When I do a search of the directory wp-content:plugins:nextgen-gallery:admin I find many links to the themes directory. Any suggestions or clues?
Thanks!
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@strottrot - Do you have the plugin files below the themes directory? I don’t think it will work from there. You should make sure you have them below the plugins directory. Sorry if I’ve misunderstood your issue.