NextGEN Gallery Review – Introduction
Published by David Potter on March 4, 2008
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
I’d been looking for a better way to manage and display photos on my blogs when I ran across Alex Rabe’s fantastic NextGEN Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very professional.
Overall Grade: A+
Plugin Name: NextGEN Gallery Plugin URI: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/ Download URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ Version: 0.83 Description: A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the WEB2.0(beta) Author: Alex Rabe Author URI: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/ Support Forum: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/forums/
Alex has some good information on his site about this plugin. I will fill in some of the details in this series of articles.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
hi, do you have any idea where are the nextgen gallery options in wordpress 2.5, in wordpress 2.3 “gallery” appears in “options” but in the new version 2.5 … there is no “options” thnaks for your answer … (i m usind the 0.90 version of the plugin
March 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
sorry it’s in the admin menu in version 2.3 but i can’t found it in the new version 2.5
March 31st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
tchouf – I installed Wordpress 2.5 and the NextGen Gallery and found that the menu comes along side the write/manage/design etc. toolbar on the admin pages (I also nearly missed it at first). It’s labelled as gallery…
April 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
[...] maiores informações, visite David’s Technical Musings (em inglês), com mais dicas sobre utilização do [...]
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
[...] I do hope you enjoy these pics, this is what we call the first draft and the pictures is not organize. i am also using a new program which I am not too familiar with, it’s “NextGen Gallery”, and you can download it an use it on your wordpress blog, if you got one. You can NextGen Gallery here… [...]
May 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Slightly off topic, but I’ve used a admin menu plugin for some time now as it’s a better interface than the old or new WordPress admin pages. It’s called Ext JS Admin Menu
Currently, my problem with NGG is that preview pictures don’t show on the galleries within an album on a page when the argument is set to “compact” instead of “extend”.
Can anyone help?
May 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
*i can’t figure out how to get this to work, i in the back end uploaded a ton of photos.. yes it still says i only uploaded the 40 from wordpress, if all of the other photos are sitting in the same folder as the ones uploaded in wordpress, why don’t they show up? … also I added the tag, how come the gallery or album doesn’t show up? help please!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I had a problem with the NGG preview not working and a recent email from a guy called Dennis who’s obviously read this area has prompted this reply…
My NGG previews are now working and my possible fix is on a post http://strangelyperfect.tv/402/wordpress-251-fix-for-tinymce-visual-editor-malfunction/
I say “possible” as after I fixed the TinyMCE the gallery preview started working properly as a side effect!
This could be co-incidence as I’d deleted and re-installed the full WP2.51 several times, as well as the same procedure for NGG as well as the swf file from elsewhere as detailed in the install instructions. However, I only noticed that the NGG preview was working after the TinyMCE trouble cleared.
I reckon it’s either:-
– a gzip compression effect, as that’s what the TinyMCE fix fixes. Somehow it’s affecting the NGG, that’s all I know for now with my limited knowledge and time.
or:-
– something to do with my host. I have several dedicated IP addresses and the problem only manifests on one site (a single IP). The others, using the same software and plugins work fine. I checked by swapping themes if the theme was affecting anything. Answer, no they don’t!
It took me a weekend of checks, installs and tests to get everything going so for now, I’m loath to twiddle anything else even though the behaviour is un-explainable.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:06 am
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June 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
hi there, why in my blog this plugins not display the images, only display the image name with link.
the popup will display when I clicked on that link
June 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
@janu – Hmm, not sure. If you post a link to your site (maybe as part of the comment) I can take a look.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
[...] Click here for an excellent detailed review of NextGen by David Potter. [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Has anyone any suggestions as to why the slide show on http://www.bonzerplus.org.au has stopped working? It was going OK but all it will do now is show an empty black box.
Any ideas gratefully received.
Regards
Nick
July 14th, 2008 at 4:31 am
[...] tutorial series on how to use shortcode and many other tips and tricks for NextGEN Gallery at David’s Technical Musings. These tutorials helped me immensely and I’m sure they’ll be of help to [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
[...] just did a ton of work to make that slick gallery work on my last post. I found a great guide online that helped a lot. You might want to go check the gallery out. It was a fun trip. The photos almost [...]
August 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
@Nick – Sorry, I couldn’t see a problem there. Maybe you removed it already (since it took me so long to reply). Sorry for that.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hi,
I installed the plugin and got it up and running. I put the gallery in the sidebar but nothing shows up. I can see a thin line that if you scroll over it can give you a link to the pic. So it is working but somehow it isn’t showing up properly. Same result in IE7 and FireFox3. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And I’ve already made sure max-width: 100% is deleted from the stylesheet. Thanks.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:13 am
[...] I studied NextGEN gallery homepage and NextGEN gallery review introduction. I upload all the previous post images using this plugin. And just write [ gallery=id ] in the [...]
September 15th, 2008 at 1:05 am
When I click “Gallery” and “Upload Images” nothing happens. I do not get an upload form.
WP is version 2.6.2 and it happens in FF and IE.
Please help
September 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
[...] intro to how it all works (in great detail) is here: http://dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/2008/03/04/nextgen-gallery-review-introduction/ [Show as slideshow] September 20th, 2008 No [...]
September 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
[...] in terms of compatibility and performance, was the NextGEN Gallery from Alex Rabe. After following David Potter’s excellent tutorial, we had it functioning in the header of their site. I then turned to one of my commercial sites [...]
October 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hi David,
Thanks for all of this info!
Answers many questions that I had about nextGen.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:38 am
My portrait photos are uploaded into nextgen as landscape meaning that they are not the right way up.. Any thoughts of how to rectify this? I am using wordpress 2.1. Thanks much..
October 12th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Oops meant to say that I am using wordpress 2.6.1 (not 2.1) above….
Also, my NextGEN is 0.99.1 ..
My problem again is that my portrait photos are uploaded into nextgen as landscape meaning that they are not the right way up.. Any thoughts of how to rectify this? Thanks again..
October 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Hello Everyone!
I installed the program (unpacked the files and dropped them into a folder “wp-content/plugins/nggallery” as instructed by the program author), but I can’t find the Plugin in Wordpress in order to Activate it. I must have missed an obvious first-step somewhere, but I have no idea where I went wrong.
WordPress v2.6.2
NGallery V0.99 – 27.09.2008
Any thoughts or suggestions?
October 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hi, i was trying to use your feature. unfortunately i do see the “galery” plug in on the write page. but, I can not upload the pictures (just as i was used when i wrote an post/page), or manage them somehow. also does every editor has access to the new NextGen feature?
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
When I first installed NextGEN all images had the ESC/CLOSE option in lower right hand corner. Now that is gone for some reason. Image in gallery manager still have them. I deleted and uploaded again but same thing. All the rest of NGen is working fine.
Thanks for any input.
JIM
November 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
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December 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am
[...] I’ve been very impressed with the initial setup, which was helped by reading some simple instructions that I found at David Potter’s website. [...]
December 14th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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December 16th, 2008 at 6:30 am
When I go to upload pictures I get this error? Unable to create directory D:/Hosting/2919675/html/2dogweb/blog/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/portfolio/thumbs !
Any thoughts? Also when I go to create a new gallery I get this error: Unable to create directory wp-content/gallery/web!
Directory wp-content/gallery/web is not writeable !
Unable to create directory wp-content/gallery/web/thumbs !
But I checked the permissions and they all seem fine.
Thanks in advance for your help.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hey all.
I’m using the plugin with great results. The only problem is – as a widget I’m get ONE slideshow widget. After that it’s greyed out and wont let me have more than one.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Thanks,
Ben
December 29th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Hi,
I was wondering if one could add download links to the images in the Nextgen gallery plugin. I am somewhat of a newbie and I’d like to put the preview images of wordpress themes in the gallery with a download from them.
Any ideas?
My site is http://www.googleloveswordpress.com if anyone wants to have a look and give me some advice.
Thanks
Deon
January 12th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
[...] By the way if anyone else is just getting started with NextGEN Gallery plugin, there are some helpful instructions available from this guy. [...]
January 31st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I have the same problem as Mike Mckearin on December 16th, 2008.
I can’t add new gallery or upload images.
Of course I do have the right permissions to do so, but no luck.
Any idea?
February 8th, 2009 at 7:12 am
[...] finally spent the time reading the documentation, and figured out how to make my photos page easier to navigate *and* while remaining dynamic in how [...]
February 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Hi,
I really like this plugin. However, how do I make the gallery similar to this one – http://www.dibtych.de/art? (It almost of the touch and feel of Lightbox) you see their navigation is on the photo (left & right of photo) rather than on the bottom.
thanks
February 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Can I link the gallery with txt or an image? Like this:
Now i get this message:
Error 403 – Forbidden
You tried to access a document for which you don’t have privileges.
Take a look: http://humanvision.eu/dizajn/web-site-dizajn/?pid=25
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
[...] gave NextGen Gallery from WordPress a try. Thank you Jay for the hint! I found David Potter’s instructions most useful to learn how to use the plugin. Here my first slideshow with some pics from our trip to [...]
February 27th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
After creating initial gallery I get a blank page with all expected WP admin menus on top and in left margin.
From WP dashboard, when I click on Add Gallery / Images I get a blank page. I also get a blank page when clicking on Manage Gallery.
All other options generate the expected pages.
Fresh, new install
WordPress 2.7.1
NextGEN Gallery 1.1.0
Earthlink UNIX hosting
Anyone have an idea what the problem is?
Thanks in advance for your help!
March 4th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
[...] gallery plugin! About the plugin and how it works: nextGEN gallery review Galleries and images can be added and deleted from the dashboard > gallery Important shortcodes: [...]
March 7th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I have WP 2.7 installed with Divvaflip and Nextgen plugins and ran into :
Fatal error: Class ‘nggallery’ not found in /home/w5248574/…./public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_divvaflip/display_gallery.php on line 212
The code is:
211 $picture = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->nggpictures WHERE pid = ‘$picid’”);
212 $thumbsrc = nggallery::get_thumbnail_url($picid);
Can some give me a hint where to look for a solution? Divvaflip seems not to have been tested with 2.7.
Thanks you for your help!
March 10th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hi,
I installed the gallery three times, but while uploading some images, there occurs an error when making the thumbnails.
result:
- images are uploaden
- no thumbnails when checking the ftp
I could upload them manually, but I don’t know how they are supposed to called. When I pick the original name of the picture, it doens’t display the tumbnail I putted myself in the “tumbnail” folder.
Is there someone who has got a solution?
March 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Thank you for the great tips! Now I can upload my portfolio with this nice little plugin…
March 19th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Hi there,
Fantastic walkthrough. I wonder if you could help me on a couple of points. (I posted these in Wordpress support but with no replies, I hoped I could ask you too)
1. Can I repeat a gallery’s description on it’s gallery page along with all it’s thumbnails. I tried to drop the gallery_desc tag in to gallery.php but no luck/
2. Can I list the titles of my five latest gallerys on my homepage. I already have the slideshow widget running in my header at the site, but I would like to list the titles (which link through to their galleries too if possible)
Thanks for your help,
Andy
March 21st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
When I click on [Show as slideshow] link, on the next page show ‘The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..’, but when i add a post with [slideshow id=gallery-name] it works.
Why [Show as slideshow] link don’t work?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Yeah, I can’t get the slideshow to work either? The only reason I downloaded it was for the slideshow feature and I guess that feature is broken. There is no feedback from the plug-in as to why the code “[slideshow id=1]” does not work?
Yes, I downloaded the imagerotator.swf and placed in the “wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery” folder.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Hi i am using [album id=2 template=extend] to display my album on an the default but wider (1024px) page in wordpress. if i add another it goes under the other one and so on, i was wondering if there is a way to make it go next to it, like have 2 colums of albums, my solution was to add a table with 2 colums making each 50% wide but when i clicked the album they images would also get displayed on the 50% part of the table.
basically what i want is:
[album id=1 template=extend][album id=2 template=extend]
[album id=3 template=extend][album id=4 template=extend]
[album id=5 template=extend]
and the albums to be graphically displayed like that instead of:
[album id=1 template=extend]
[album id=2 template=extend]
[album id=3 template=extend]
[album id=4 template=extend]
[album id=5 template=extend]
any help?
thanks
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
[SOLUTION FOUND - PLEASE READ]
Hi Guys,
I just installed this gallery and – like some of you –
I found that adding the tag to a page or a post was NOT
working.
When you create a gallery, it tells you that you can
add that gallery to a page manually by inserting
[gallery id=1]
Well, this wasn’t working for me. I found however in
the settings of the gallery that you can ADD a page…
and when you do so, the gallery appears on the page.
Check the HTL tab on the page and you’ll see this:
[nggallery id=1]
So it looks like the gallery msg is a legacy from
previous code?
Either way, add [nggallery id=1] (repalce number
with your gallery id) and that works.
I hope this helps anybody with the same issue.
Great gallery btw – FULL of features…
Jose
April 29th, 2009 at 1:13 am
@Moises
Try using template=compact. I think that is the setting to use to set albums in a row.
Cheers
Andy
April 29th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hi there,
I am having trouble uploading more than one image at a time. I’ve tried several ways to do this, including importing folder, uploading zip files, uploading all of the pictures via FTP, uploading the pictures using the Nextgen uploader… the pictures are all in the gallery folder, but it will only add one of them at a time (ie: when I scan the folder for new images). Each time I scan the folder for new images, it will add the next image located in the folder. I have to manually do this for each image… Can anyone help me?
April 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am
I just figured this out at http://www.cuckoomoon.ca – when you click “browse” you can select more than one image (hold down the shift key to select a range of files or the control key and click on them in scattershot mode) and then click Open. They will all be selected, then you can click “Upload images” and they all upload.
I’m quite impressed by this plugin so far.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Heather,
Thanks… I tried that, but stll have the same issue. I have tried using the flash uploader and the regular one. Nothing… I have to add images one at a time, and it is such a pain. I am wondering if it is an issue with my WP theme (Sliding Door).
Thanks for commenting…
Amelia
p.s. Your site is nice!
May 9th, 2009 at 8:41 am
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May 11th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I think I finally figured out what the issue was… the reason I had to upload photos one at a time was because the photos were too large. I exported the whole library in a smaller resolution using Picasa (which made the process super simple, too). Then I was able to upload all the photos with Nextgen. Also, I discovered that I had issues with installing it at first, but was successful after disabling all the other plugins, installing and activating Nextgen, then reactivating the other plugins. Works great, now! As soon as I have time, I’ll be adding some galleries all over my site. I really like this plugin!
Amelia
May 14th, 2009 at 3:17 am
How to make the image link to URL when the visitor click the image ?
Thanks.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:39 am
This plugin works fine. The only think I can not find is how to insert and activate the sound /music/ for the gallery because I can see the loudspeaker at the bottom of the NGG and how to tell the gallery which sound to play. I dont know which formats of sound are supported….. If ….
May 27th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Thanks for your plugins. I needed it so much. Thanks again.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:11 am
The problem below is enumerated many times in the WordPress forum but I have never seen a solution. It seems to be unique to Earthlink as the host. Any help is greatly appreciated!
After creating initial gallery I get a blank page with all expected WP admin menus on top and in left margin.
From WP dashboard, when I click on Add Gallery / Images I get a blank page. I also get a blank page when clicking on Manage Gallery.
All other options generate the expected pages.
Fresh, new install
WordPress 2.7.1
NextGEN Gallery 1.1.0
Earthlink UNIX hosting
Anyone have an idea what the problem is?
Thanks in advance for your help!
June 8th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I have the same problem as “CHP Webmaster”. It seems to be Earthlink related but they are not of any help since they will only support Wordpress 2.0.4 or below. Their version of MySQL seem to be compliant (4.1.21). Earthlink support say they would “try and pass this on to their engineers”.
I have tried clean installs of both Wordpress 2.71 and the new BETA of 2.8.
The version of Nextgen Gallery is 1.3.1.
I am hosted by Earthlink and I have tried deleting and recreating the MySQL database with no luck.
Hope some one figures this one out. I really only need to use one plugin on my blog and Nextgen Gallery is it! sigh…
Thanks,
Brion McCarthy
June 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
This problem is definitely related to the Earthlink host. I installed on a GoDaddy host and NO PROBLEM! Everything went smooth as silk and works perfectly.
A GoDaddy account for a Wordpress blog is $5 per month. That’s the way I’m going for now. In the past 10 days I spent countless hours trying to solve this so $5 is a tiny price to pay.
If anyone has any clues as to what needs to be changed in Earthink please post. From reading other forum posts this problem is pervasive on Earthlink accounts.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I am trying to put a description under each picture on the home page of my site. I created a post and put in the following code:
[slideshow id=3 w=588 h=400]
For each thumbnail in the gallery I have defined a alt title text/description as well as tags (which were the same) but nothing displays on the home page. What tag is missing from above to get the description to display.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I’m sure this has been asked a lot, but I haven’t been able to find an answer anywhere – so if you can point me to some spot where this is explained, it would be appreciated. (You can see what I’ve done on my home page.)
All I would like to do is set a link to a thumbnail, so that it takes you directly to a particular post. What I was able to do is put the url in the description so that you get the pop up which has a link to the post in my store; but I would like to skip the pop up and go directly to the post.
Anyone have an idea of how to do this? Thanks. Dave Beckerman
June 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am
[...] eine deutsche externe Anleitung, die auch recht gut beschrieben ist, jedoch weiche ich immer zur englischen Anleitung ab. In meinem privaten Blog nutze ich selber die Galerie, so dass ich mich dort auch einarbeiten [...]
June 28th, 2009 at 10:46 am
I’m trying to figure out if there is a way to put swf animations in a gallery. Does anyone know if this is possible with this gallery?
July 13th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Hi!
What is the syntax used on this demo page?
http://nextgen.boelinger.com/tag/shortcodes/
I want to post only one image of a gallery, but when the user clicks on that, he/she can click through the whole gallery.
That’s what is on this demo page.
The random shortcode itself doesn’t solve it!
So what is the syntax for this?
Thanks!
Peter
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Hi, I wanted to ask, is there any chance to show all pictures from the album, which consists from several galleries, in one view? Same as it is now with gallery, user can see continuously view all images in gallery when click on it.
Thanks.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
[...] eine deutsche externe Anleitung, die auch recht gut beschrieben ist, jedoch weiche ich immer zur englischen Anleitung ab. In meinem privaten Blog nutze ich selber die Galerie, so dass ich mich dort auch einarbeiten [...]
August 7th, 2009 at 1:27 am
David,
Your blog is referenced numerous places on the web (including by Alex, the author of the plug-in) as one of the definitive sources of documentation. However, the code examples are perhaps out of date in some places. An update to this blog entry might help the uninitiated. Correct short code documentation for the current version can be found at http://nextgen.boelinger.com/
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
[...] [...]
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hi..can I know beside running on wordpress plugins, can you also run it on a single php file? because i have 2 sidebar so displaying on a sigle sidebar is to small so i have create a column on top of the two sidebar in hoping to display the pictures
September 7th, 2009 at 9:19 am
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September 12th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
With NextGen 1.3.5 I could not get it to recognize the imagerotator.swf in the wp-content/uploads folder. As soon as I moved it to the nextgen plugin folder it found it just fine.
-Bryan
September 20th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hi: Thanks so much for all of the work everyone has done on this FANTASTIC gallery plug in. Its just what I needed. Is there any way to control the transitions between images? I would like have them slide across the viewer – a lot like http://www.surfacemag.com/
Thanks so much! (PS I’m a newbie so any simple directions of what exactly to do would be great.)
September 21st, 2009 at 9:59 am
Hi! I’m unable to change the order/ID number of the images in any of my galleries. Can someone help?
Thanks!
Wendy
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 am
Hi: Thanks so much for all of the work on this plugin
I’m unable to use Slide show. Can someone help?
bye
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 am
sorry I forgotten say that I want have a gallery smail to “Night architecture shoot BenJacobsen” gallery.
this Address is one of Example that you set in the home page.
when I set the gallery for my site it wrked succesfully.but I want chenged this face.
when I click on one of the picture in my gallery, show my pic in a dark background. for back or close I must click on pic.
but I want chenge it smile the “Night architecture shoot BenJacobsen”.
in the “Night architecture shoot BenJacobsen”gallery when I clicked on one of the picturs, show picture and background will be darken equanimity.so add a “close” button under the pic for back or close the pic.
Im unable to chenge it.
and so I cant use the slide show part.
I dont know where uploade imagerotator.swf file.
I have this Address in my site: wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery
which of thises Address is correct?
1-wp-content/imagerotator.swf
2-wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf
Thanks!
October 10th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I can’t figure out how to turn on the white border for the gallery when it shows the images large with a description. It used to be white until I upgraded a while back. Hope you can tell me. Thanks!
October 11th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Hi! I have to add gallerry directly to the wp template via gallery id. But i dont know how i can do that.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Hi!
i have a problem with pages in the gallery:
http://www.freak-cabaret.com/photo/white-show/
there are 3 pages but the next button doesn’t work… so i can see only one page with pictures…
what to do?
thanks for great gallery!!! it’s amazing!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I finally got NextGEN Gallery working but in compact mode it places the 1 album thumbnail per row. Is there a setting to change it to have 5 per each row?
Thanks!
November 8th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Hi,
with the new release of the Nextgen plugin, it seems that an ‘author’ role can be set to edit one particulary gallery.
However this does not seem to work:
> Roles/capabilities
> manage gallery > set to ‘author’: result it automatically changed into ‘administrator’.
Has anyone experienced the same problem?
- my subscribers are able to edit one page, with one gallery,
- but they may not be able to create new galleries, only change the pictures in one gallery, assigned to them..
Thanks for reading,
Diederik
November 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
How can I rollback from new version 4 to 3.1.6?
Upgrade has messed up it says ( this version only works with wordpress 2.8.5 ) I use 2.7.1
November 12th, 2009 at 6:16 am
anyone got a solution for this please email me asap! pleeeease.
Tried everything. cant for the life of me figure it out!
The server setting Safe-Mode is on !
If you have problems, please create directory wp-content/gallery/mk and the thumbnails directory wp-content/gallery/mk/thumbs with permission 777 manually !
Unable to create directory wp-content/gallery/mk/thumbs !
November 26th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
A couple of hours ago I installed this plugin along with the NextGen smooth plkugin and it was working great, I then upgraded WP to version 2.8.6 and moved my WP files into the root of my site. Now the galleries don’t work I just get a with box where the galleries should be. I’ve tried deactivatin/reactivating,uninstalling/reinstalling, adding more galleries etc everything looks fine in wp-admin but when I preview the gallery page I get this white square. Any ideas? As I said it was working great and I was really happy, now Im panicing a bit.
seewhat I mean here http://tinyurl.com/yfk8xvh
Many thanks in advanced.
Tom
December 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Hi all. Has anybody here figured out how to upload photos from their iPhone to NGG?
December 31st, 2009 at 11:56 am
Is there an easy way to speed up the nextgen plugin? It looks for ipnation and has basically destroyed my site. It loads so slow not even I would stay there long enough to see the site.
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Hello,
I cannot seem to activate the slideshow aspect of this plugin.
What do I need to do to add photos to a slideshow? (Galleries and albums work).
Thank you.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Hello!
I have lost the sort button when amending the gallery on WordPress – is this because I downloaded a newer version?
If someone could advise me it would be great – am baffled!
Many Thanks
February 20th, 2010 at 6:46 am
Thanks for this information. I think this is a great site. I trying to convert a static site to a wordpress blog and I like this plugin and wanted to know how to use it. thanks again.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for the post. I have been using NextGEN Gallery plugin for a while now on other blogs and would recommend it to anyone.
March 12th, 2010 at 3:48 am
@Ines
I experience the same problem:
Since I moved the site from a test location to the root, creating thumbnails while uploaden is not working.
I see this error message : ‘ID 34: A failure occurred’.
(I contacted the hosting firm. They say that ’safe mode’ is not on)
Can somebody help me? I have been seraching the alex rabe and wordpress forum: the problem occurs several times but no answer or solution.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Lynn
March 26th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I am new to NextGen and I am trying to set-up an image gallery. I have all of my photos in the gallery and displaying on the page I want. My problem is when clicking on the thumbnail, they open in the window instead of w/ the thickbox effect. Can you explain how to set-up the effects in the plug-in.
Thanks
March 29th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Help!
I am a complete novice and can’t work out how to add a white border (4px) around ngen photos in my sidebar? I would like the sidebar to look like our header.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:22 am
Hey, I really enjoy working with NextGen Gallery and this documentation.
I have one question. In the site I;m am working on now (http://www.boazarad.net) there is an “Exhibitions” page which contains a NextGen album with three galleries. I would like to have each gallery open in it’s own page (so the title would change from being “Exhibitions”). In the gallery management there is an “Page link to” is that it? If it is, it doesn’t seem to work for me. If not, what is it for and is there a way to open galleries in own page? also whats the “create new page” option? I’ve been looking around and couldn’t find an answer…
Thanks,
Lior.
May 7th, 2010 at 12:12 am
How come none of the effects work only Shutter? I actually prefer lightbox myself. Do I need to install that as well?
June 1st, 2010 at 1:25 am
Can this be installed in a sidebar via a widget or other means
Would this work to create a slide show
I am new to wordpress and not very technical
Thanks Stuart
June 19th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I customized some of my thumbnails and it stopped lining up the thumbnails sequentially. It moves the images to a new line – can’t figure out a pattern but it doesn’t seem to like when I customize many thumbnails.
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:54 pm
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July 11th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Hi there & thanks David for this contintuity & thanks for the genius of Alex.
Can anyone advise me where I can reverse the order that Manage Gallery lists the id’s.
Typically I want the latest addition at the top and the first one at the bottom. I have installed Nextgen Search which does help the finding process but a simple ASC DESC would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance.
Ally
August 21st, 2010 at 2:58 am
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September 28th, 2010 at 4:03 am
It really sucks that i didnt get into the beta =(
September 29th, 2010 at 3:44 am
I’ve got my gallery in the middle of the page, and I’m using carousel view. The problem I keep getting, is that the whole page reloads everytime I click on an image, which takes me to the top of the page. I want it to stay at the pictures. How can I fix this?
Please, I’ve tried three other forums, and still nobody can help me.
November 21st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
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December 3rd, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Hi David,
I have just read your tutorial on how to use the NextGen Gallery plugin and I would like to thank you very much for your effort to make such detailed document. Congratulation.
But I find problem to use it correctly.
I tried it in local, no problem for implementing this plugin except when I want to display images using the slideshow function, it is pooling and no image is displayed.
Is it due to :
1) the fact that I am in localhost?
2) Some missing software for viewing slideshow? I am in W7.
3) Some conflict with another application?
4) Doesn’t find the image which is in Gallery libray?
4) Wrong parameter somewhere in options?
Thank you very much in advance to help me.
Regards,
December 23rd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Thank you for this excellent series! Follwing your instructions I had no trouble at all setting up my galleries and pages for them. Thank you for taking the time and for being so thorough.
January 19th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Hello,
I have a wordpress site.
I am an Agent who deals only in portrait format photography for his clients.
I made the mistake initially of setting up the next gen slideshow in landscape format. This was done because it has the effect of chopping off the top and bottom of my clients photographs (Which are always portrait format).
I have attempted to reset this in images settings to no avail.
Please can you give me a global setting to reset the slideshow to portrait format.
Thank you.
February 8th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I am getting an error message when trying to download pics to my gallery to use.
ERROR: 00433093.jpg:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function ssd_getoption() in /home4/lifeand5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ss-downloads/ss-downloads.php on line 179
I don’t understand this.
May 28th, 2011 at 8:15 am
Hello there,
i recently installed the nextgen wordpress plugin and created different slideshow galleries with it on one page.
I’d like to know if it’s possible to adapt different slideshow effects to each slideshow on my page.
Thanks a lot in advance
June 27th, 2011 at 8:26 am
I’m using NextGen in the header on http://www.renzogracierockaway.com. For some reason I can’t figure out how to make the slideshow loop. Anyone?
December 28th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
And the winner is NextGen. I have settled on NextGen as my gallery of choice. There is a code line that ended up in my last gallery that when a picture is clicked on it would link to a bigger copy of the same picture. The bigger copy had buy buttons that when clicked would go to Fotomo where the customer could order prints. Where the code go in NextGen?
Thank you.
January 12th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
My problem is how to put picture of user in that little box. Menu profile I have tried but there is nothing about it, so if someone know please HELP !!!
January 29th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I am having problems generating thumbnails in the Studio Press Crystal Theme. The images upload and work fine in slideshow mode, but I cannot generate thumbnail images. I have searched many forums, but cannot find any help for my problem.
I get the following errors:
Warning: Division by zero in /data/26/2/41/96/2530422/user/2772614/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/imagemagick.inc.php on line 257
Warning: Division by zero in /data/26/2/41/96/2530422/user/2772614/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/imagemagick.inc.php on line 269
Warning: Division by zero in /data/26/2/41/96/2530422/user/2772614/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/edit-thumbnail.php on line 42
Any suggestions for solving this ?
March 22nd, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Hello,
I just accidently erased some picture from a folder in the next gen gallery!!! Is there any possibility to find those pics back?
Thx
Magali
March 26th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Hi!
Thanks for a great plugin. I have it up and running but now want to do more which leads to my questions: is it possible to have a mouse over image swap with each image show in the lightbox?
I’m a professional illustrator and like to show just the art and then the art as it appears on each magazine/book cover/whatever. It might also be nice to have an imbedded link in some of the lightbox images.
Possible? Thanks in advance!
April 10th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I am new to Wordpress, and am struggling with uploading images. When I go onto the page to do this, there is no drop down menu when you are asked to chose gallery. Previously, Wordpress was working beautifully for me, but it was upgraded to 3.3.1, and with the newGen gallery plug in 1.9.2. I have tried going through the support forum questions and solutions but cannot find one that solves this one.
I have spoken to the guy who wrote my website initially, and when he goes onto it as an administrator, he gets the full page up and can upload images, and is working with the same versions of the plug in and Wordpress.
I have deleted cookies and TIFs, and checked my broadband speed is around 550kbps. Any other suggestions?
Please keep the response simple- I am not technical, and much that has been suggested, I’m afraid, goes over my head.
Looking forward to hearing from someone soon as I am absolutely stuck and tearing my hair out at present!
May 22nd, 2012 at 3:34 am
Hi David, My galleries are only showing/loading one image instead of the amount I have specified.(some 2 , some 5) It worked before and on each page it states the gallery number correctly. site is http://www.atlanticsuzuki.co.za Can you give me some direction? Not sure what I did wrong?
May 24th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Hi There, is it possible to get a single photo to display a gallery, i have tried a few things but no joy. If you look on my page http://www.gremlintacticalassault.com/photos/airsoft-reloaded-photos/ you can see the photos that i would like to use cheers.
May 25th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
I find Nextgen completely overrated. Featured image doesn’t work with photos from NextGen, tags and categories are separate from the other tags and categories (as much as i can see), and of course, there is no manual that would explain anything that goes beyond the obvious. time to uninstall it! Has only been wasting my time.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I agree Aloysius, no instructions what so ever. How about some YouTube video instructions and we can also see what your thinking, as nothing is obvious here. I don’t mind donating money, but when you can’t even get it to work, come on. All the Geeks are so far out in space they are out of touch with the normal web guy that looking for a decent album. The only reason, I’m writing this note, is I see some positive feedback on this, but not the product itself. Show me what your all about, don’t just brag about it. If you have a good product, it’s usually because it is explained in a real simple way. You don’t even have any demos to see what your about. I don’t mean to blow your bubble, but come on, show me something. Doug
June 13th, 2012 at 6:46 am
I cant upload photos anymore! is there an update for 3.3.2 and is that the reason nextgen wont let me upload
July 3rd, 2012 at 10:31 am
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