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50 Responses to “NextGEN Gallery Review – Installation”

1. Brian Elliottsays:
   April 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

   Thanks for this post. I had overlooked the JW Image Rotator and I just added it thanx to you!

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3. Rob Heijnensays:
   May 28th, 2008 at 11:56 am

   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

4. Álvaro Degives-Mássays:
   July 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

   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).

5. jfg69says:
   July 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am

   Does Highslide need anything else installed? I can’t get HS to work, nor will anything else but Thickbox work.

6. strottrotsays:
   July 27th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

   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!

7. strottrotsays:
   July 28th, 2008 at 6:15 am
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9. David Pottersays:
   August 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

   @jfg69 – Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to look at Highslide. Sorry.

   @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.

10. Ivansays:
    August 24th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    Hi David, I’m having some problems getting the flash to come up on my website i follow all the steps as I found on many blogs samething. any help that you could offer will be really appriciatted. Thanks

11. Alex Teosays:
    September 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Hi David, thanks for all your support,

    I am trying to upload pics in my NG gallery, and I get this message
    “You do not have the GD Library installed. This class requires the GD library to function properly”

    where do I download it from and where do i upload it on my server?

    thanks in advance,
    Alex

12. andiannesays:
    November 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Hello ALex,

    I had the same problem as you and I resolved this by installing the php gd library on my webserver. If you have a Linux webserver and have acces to it, you can do the following (on Debian/Ubuntu with Apache running, at least):

    dpkg –get-selections | grep php (to find out which php version is installed);
    apt-get install php4-gd (or php5-gd, or maybe both if it doesn’t work);
    /etc/init.d/apache restart (to restart your webserver).

    Now it should work fine. If your server runs another distribution, search on Google how to install the php gd package.

    Good Luck!

13. t.nguyensays:
    November 25th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Hello David,
    I just install NextGEN on my blog,
    for some reasons it couldn’t activated
    Error mnessage:
    Fatal error: Class ‘nggallery’ not found in /home1/vivanint/public_html/wpLAB/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggallery.php on line 171

    Any suggestions?

    Regards,
    t.nguyen

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15. bensays:
    December 11th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    I’m getting an error similar to t.nguyens on install, fatal error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_uninstall_hook() in /home/content/e/l/i/eliotdudik/html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggallery.php on line 76

    any help would be appreciated.

16. scricalsays:
    February 1st, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Hi David,

    maybe you can help me.
    I’ve upgraded to 1.0.2 and to 1.1.0 version of NextGen using the automatic upgrade now available in WP 2.7 plugin page.

    Everything works fine a part from the slideshow which doesn’t work anymore. I looked around but I really can’t find the reason.

    Here a link with some galleries for you to check.

    http://www.scrical.it/itinerari/viaggi-allestero/viaggio-in-polonia/viaggio-in-polonia-foto/?page_id=286

    Have you a any suggestion?

    Many thanks.

17. Kay Aubrey-Chimenesays:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    I am interested in using the galleries that I create for my blog as a tool for my website as well. Is there any way to reference an album or gallery from outside WordPress? It makes no sense for me to maintain two separate galleries of photos on my website.

    Thanks for the great tool!

18. alsays:
    March 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    I uploaded imagerotator.swf to the plugins/nggallery. I do not see an option to activate it and my slideshow’s clearly don’t work because of this. Any idea what could be the problem.

19. Atomsays:
    April 9th, 2009 at 7:15 am

    How do I activate the slide show? What is the code for that?

20. Alvarosays:
    May 10th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    I also dont know how to activate it……

21. Valeriesays:
    May 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    It is not clear to me exactly where to copy the imagerotator.swf file. Can anyone help me out? My slideshow is not showing anything on the page. If I put in an ID that doesn’t exist, it does give me the error message that the gallery does not exist. So I am assuming my imagerotator.swf file is in the incorrect place.

    I have copied it (tried it)in the following locations:
    (1) /wp-content/uploads/imagerotator
    (2) /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery
    (3) /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/widgets

    OR… I activated the plugin prior to downloading the imagerotator…. I tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin, but that did not work either…

    Any help would be appreciated.

22. PTsays:
    May 17th, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    Valerie,

    I had same problem. This worked:

    1. Place swf file in wp-content/uploads
    2. In WordPress administration panel, go to Gallery | Options | Slideshow (top menu tab)
    3. Next to “Path to the imagerotator” click “Search now” (It should put your uploads path in)
    4. Go to “Plugins” and deactivate and reactivate NextGen Gallery
    5. Enjoy.

23. Adamsays:
    June 10th, 2009 at 5:35 am

    Are their any issues if you automatically install from within wordpresses latest plugin search facility? Since they added this function I’ve not done an awful lot of ftp work for my plugins.

24. Bobsays:
    June 14th, 2009 at 11:49 am

    I wasted an afternoon on this piece of **** plug-in. It does not work. The instructions are absolute crap. It shows preview pictures that are not even in my gallery folder and the display format is terrible. It gets a big one star!

25. Davesays:
    June 18th, 2009 at 3:02 am

    Yes it’s a waist of time…. this plugin sucks deeply

26. abenziosays:
    July 17th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    helo david

    i activate the plugin, when i try to create a new gallery it say gallery folder not found, i manually create a folder name gallery and its work, now my main problem is that after uploading images on the gallery its shows error public_html/celebrityhairstyles/wp-content/gallery/rew contains no pictures, please help. i have changes all the folder properties to 777, its still not working.

27. Davesays:
    July 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Same problem as abenzio above!

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29. simonsays:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Thanks PT, your tip there worked

30. Sergeysays:
    August 8th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    Hi! I`ve got this: “Sorry, NextGEN Gallery works only with a Memory Limit of 16 MB higher” when I`m trying to activate this plugin – why? Whats wrong?
    Thank you in advance!

31. philsays:
    August 15th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    I’ve tried for hours to get this slideshow to work

    I’ve uploaded the
    imagerotator.swf
    to every folder and it won’t work

    the gallery works, but not slide show

32. Joshsays:
    August 18th, 2009 at 7:33 am

    Hi, looking for some guidance…
    Working with WordPress 2.8.4. Uploaded the nextgen-gallery folder and imagerotator.swf file to wp-content/plugins and activated the plug in in WP admin area. However, no Options or Settings are available for “NextGEN Gallery” plug-in. It only shows Deactivate and Edit?? Also, I dont have the NextGEN Gallery Widget plugin?

33. Bryansays:
    August 25th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    Uploaded NextGEN Gallery, Gallery working but slide show not working or showing any images I used- [slideshow id=x]
    Also image browser – [imagebrowser id=x] only shows first image click on arrow to go to next photo inop.?

34. jaideesays:
    September 6th, 2009 at 1:38 am

    @phil, Josh, Bryan

    upload the IMAGEROTATOR.SWF to and folder you wish (preferably the ../plugin/nextgen-gallery

    2. go to the gallery in the admin panel (look near the bottom left)
    3. goto OPTIONS–>SLIDESHOW
    4 you should see a button to search for IMAGEROTATOR.SWF, click it and it will search you wordpress installation for the file, once its found it will fill in the correct path next to the button
    5 scroll down and click save to save settings

    thats it!!!

35. Yellowstar09says:
    October 25th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Jaide, I Love you. Thanks for saving me so much time. This was my problem. Now, on the watermark step.

36. Aneessays:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 3:57 am

    I want to add plugins in ranaanees.wordpress.com wordpress blog. Is it possible? Please help me in this
    regards. Thanks

37. Joe McLsays:
    November 24th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    jaidee, thanks, you solved my imagerotator problem as well

38. Victor Bireaudsays:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 am

    Hello there,

    I recently installed the NEXTGEN Gallery and it seems to be working fine.
    However I am looking to setup the widget plugin on my sidebar, but I can’t figure out where is its setup (in the admin).

    Can anyone help on that ?

    Thanks

39. onlinemommysays:
    December 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Many thanks to you PT Your tips worked.

40. John Glynnsays:
    December 29th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Spent a day setting this gallery software up. Eventually got it working about as well as it’s going to. The documentation is appalling and, even working 100%, I think the best it can get is still nowhere good enough. I’d much rather pay for good software than spend 20 hours getting free stuff to work. Kudos to the designer for his efforts – if he can find someone to come in and do the last ten percent to get it really amazing, I’ll happily pay for the finished product.

41. Jacksays:
    January 21st, 2010 at 5:20 am

    I followed Dave’s instructions exactly, but I can’t get the compact mode for album views to work. It appears that I’m missing the template files that the shortcodes use. Is there something I should do to install templates?

    I’ve tried:
    [album id=1, compact]
    [album id=1,compact]
    [album id=1 mode=compact]
    [album id=1 template=compact]

    All of them continue to give me the exttended mode view.

42. Lisasays:
    March 3rd, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    I cannot activate the plugin, I just get “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    What’s going on?

43. Ginnysays:
    March 8th, 2010 at 11:43 am

    Every time I try to find documentation that makes sense, it is too old and thus not relevant to the current version of the plugin or it is so badly written that I can’t understand it. Guess I will have to delete the plugin.

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45. Revreesesays:
    April 6th, 2010 at 9:44 am

    I have been trying for months to get NextGen working properly!
    Finally pulled it all out and started again, so I can follow detailed instructions this time around rather than guess!

    Thanks for this!

46. Andysays:
    April 17th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    I’ve got the nextgen gallery setup and it’s working for me, but my contributors can’t upload images to it.. They can setup a gallery just fine and the upload images appears to work, but they aren’t being written anywhere.

    I have Upload_Files and all the Nextgen options selected for contributor using the Members plugin.

47. Naeemsays:
    May 1st, 2010 at 5:35 am

    Hi,
    Please help. I am using NG Gallery since couple of years and had been working very fine. Still there is no problem in my existing setup, but when I go to add New Gallery, page gets refresh and nothing happen. I tried to add gallery from both of 2 options. 1: Dashboard –> Gallery –> Add Gallery/Images & 2: Dashboard –> Gallery –> Manage Gallery –> Add New Gallery.

    Page get refresh and no Gallery adds :(. What I did that stopped me adding gallery is just updated my WP to 2.9 and to latest NG Gallery versions. Can anyone please help me how to fix or find the problem. Thanks a lot. My blog where i am using NG Gallery as eBooks is : http://www.buy92.com/faqr

    Thanks in advance

48. Nailsays:
    June 5th, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    I followed your instructions and installed the plugin, added the image rotator but it does not work.

49. Lucysays:
    June 12th, 2010 at 2:04 am

    I get this message when I activated NextGen:

    NextGEN Gallery : Tables could not created, please check your database settings

    What does this mean? How do I check database settings and what should they be?

    I also could not see the NextGEN Gallery Widget plugin, so can’t activate that, do I need to do something else to get it to appear?

50. Sharonsays:
    August 18th, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Can anyone please tell me how to retrieve ALL the photos from my wordpress gallery and put them in NextGen?

    Right now everything is working fine – I can upload NEW photos and galleries to NextGen but I do not have access to my other photos.

    I really hope I do not have to upload again!!!

    Thank you for your help.

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