Understand the Structure ::
Next Gen Gallery considers:
~Gallery~ A container for your photos. If you divide your photos into categories you will most likely want a ‘Gallery’ for each collection.
~Album~ An album would be a collection of one or more Galleries
Workflow ::
Create a Page to Display your Work ::
If you have Next Gen Gallery setup already, have created Galleries and Albums then you can use the handy new button in your visual editor (if you use the visual editor)
If you don’t use the visual editor and have yet to add Galleries and Albums…
1.) Lets create a page to display your first Album (which will have a gallery of images within) – Manage>>Pages>>Create New Page – Give your page a title that represents its content. How about “My Next Gen Gallery” Now add the code to draw in the album/s: old foliage
wanders under waves
of seasons sun 7 Photos over the mother's gaze
the first ever smile
from a youngling 8 Photos soldier ferns, soft moss
beside the living moving waters
the sun's rays are warm 9 Photos Visual guides for working with Next Gen Gallery 5 Photos Colorado high country lake ~ Early spring 9 Photos 3 Photos A collection of my favorite shots over the years and lately San Diego Newsletter wallpaper images sent to me by my father Frank Alexander. 13 Photos 4 Photos
Substitute the number one for ID if this is your fist go with Next Gen Gallery. NGG will assign ID’s in succession starting with 1. :: Click Publish.
[Update July 2008] Alternatively with the new version of NextGen Gallery if you have Albums and Gallery/s setup you can use the Edit Gallery screen to create a page.
2.) Lets create a page to display your gallery of images – Manage>>Pages>>Create New Page -
Give your page a title that represents its content. How about “My Cool Photos of Something”
Now add the code to draw in the cool photos: [ gallery=ID ] (note I left a space so don’t copy and paste, write your own) Substitute the number one for ID if this is your fist go with Next Gen Gallery. NGG will assign ID’s in succession starting with 1.
You can also use the handy tool available from your editor to add NextGen Gallery media. See image above for visual reference of where this button is.
Click Publish.
One can have a page to display one or more Album containers of one or more Galleries of work, a page to display a single photo, a page to display a collection of photos (gallery).
Leave Manage Pages and head over to Gallery to get some Albums and Galleries setup.
3.) Create a Gallery and upload photos. Gallery>>Add Gallery – Use one of the links to get images into your gallery. I chose to ftp a folder of images up then tell NGG where they were.
Create additional galleries as needed for your other collections.
4.) Gallery>>Manage Gallery – Edit titles and descriptions for your new photos by accessing the editing interface through the Manage Galleries link in your admin. You will see your gallery with links to edit, delete etc. Click the ‘edit’ link. First select the the page you created to display your collection of images in the Page Link to drop down box. (your page should show up in the list with the title you gave it in step 2 above). Edit Titles and Descriptions as you please. Save your work.
Note: check the ID of the newly created gallery. If it is your first one it should be 1, the same ID we used in step 2 above. If it is something else then be sure they are the same in both places.
5.) Create an album to house this new Gallery of images by accessing the Album link from your admin. Enter the name for your new album and click update.
6.) Access the Select Album drop down box to select the new album you just created. Drag and drop your gallery of images into the big blue box (very cool) . Click update.
Note : Confirm the Album Page ID corresponds to the ID in step 1 above.
More Info ::Next Gen Gallery Blog Site: http://nextgen.boelinger.com
- Overview of the tags to display your albums, galleries and photos.
Review Next Gen Gallery Display Codes>>
I welcome your comments or suggestions.
81 Comments to “Working w/NextGEN Gallery”
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Torben says:
I used to have this plugin running but after upgrading to WP 2.3.1 as well as NGG 0.74 the galleries seem to have been lost. The gallery menues do not work under the “gallery” tab and it is a mess!
I have uninstalled and re-installed without any changes
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Just a quick thank you for all the effort put into this plugin. It has made my life a lot easier after I lost my main site after the host went to the wall. I was looking everywhere for a simple gallery presentation system and this is it
best regards
Kev -
Bibble says:
Under “Create new page” I select a page and click “Save Pages,” but the selection reverts back to “Main page (no parent).”
How can I fix this to save my gallery to a page ID?
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Great article. When you first download the gallery, it does take a little time to get used to it’s functionality…and then to understand how it generates the code on the back-end.
If anyone was wondering, here is a quick tutorial on how to integrate the NEXTGEN Gallery into your blog’s header
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Os. says:
I want all on one page, pictures on top, galleries beneath. And no thickbox popup. Someone seen stg that direction? Tnx!
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I see that your article is a year old.Have you been using the latest version of nextGen?
Your demo images pop up so nice and big whereas mine(no matter what I do in the Options page)pop up so dinky.I could use some tips.I’ve tried resetting the images dimensions but nothing ever works.I’m really close to dropping this plugin because I need to be able to have a say in how big the pop up window is and how large my images will be inside it. -
Whoa! I have no idea why your images come out small. Where is your gallery? On the Images Tab of the Options screen I have my Resize Images set at 640X480, yet when I upload a 1280X960 image (Wallpapers Gallery) I get the full size in the enlargement. I’m using LightBox BTW, I have not had much luck with the others.
I’m using the latest/greatest version as of 8/4/2008 and really enjoying it. Since PhotoPress went belly-up and worse, was broken via WordPress upgrades I have enjoyed converting those old galleries to NextGEN! Kudos to Alex Rabe
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Hi,
I’m using NG Gallery and I want to add more than 10 images in a single gallery.How can I modify that number of images? Because I can’t do this, I tried to use 2 galleries with 10 different images (from different folders) but the gallery display “double 10 images” (I mean those 10 images from the first gallery folder, twice). If anyone can help me ? Thanks in advance! -
I installed the nextgen plugin for a friend of mine. He has his wordpress installation not in the root.
All his images are on
Is it still possible to use the ‘import folder’ function? But how? as I cannot point to dir1 as I get the message that it cannot be found.
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Flash Buddy says:
Hmmmm, never thought of that. I wonder if you could go from the root:
/home/someaccount/public_html/dir1or have you tried ../dir1
I haven’t tried them, just some thoughts.
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@Flash Buddy
Good one, but no, I then get the message:
/home/someaccount/public_html//home/someaccount/public_html/dir1but your seconds suggestion worked! but I had to write:
..//dir1
so 2 slashes!
great! thank you!
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Great plugin!
Can someone please help me? I want to add the gallery to my page template (page.php) but can’t work out how to do it.
I dont want to add it to my sidebar I just want to add it under my loop on the page.php.
Is this at all possible?
Kind Regards
Peter J Harrison -
First of all well done for all the help,
Is there a way to show all albums and galleries on a page (without having to include them manually)?
Something like:
[album= all ,compact]Thanks,
Kieran -
Fabian says:
I have a problem with the NextGen, I create a gallery on my post with [gallery=id] and it works perfect, but when I use “the_excerpt” to get the text of the post it shows the gallery tag too, is there any way to remove this?.
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I have a problem when upload a picture. there is an error “no GD Library Installed.”
So. what should I do?. I am hosting my site in commercial hosting. so I cannot change my php conf. is there any tips or trik ?
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as stated before awsome plugin, cannot wait till the auto tagging functionality is there. I saw in google webmastertools that the crawler suddenly stopped crawling at some urls with galleries; they were slideshows; is there an option to totally disable slideshow?? thank you!
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You will have to have your host install the GD Library or switch hosts. There is no other way.
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I can not get Greybox to work with NextGen
It does not show up, and I use custom along with greybox in quotes
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Trevor says:
Hi there,
Alright,I used this plugin and came across one error that took me weeks to ask for support but still didn’t receive any.Well here’s my query:
I’m someone new to the blogging one but I do have a long-time experience with WordPress.com.I started off with a small website there…and now I have my own-hosted blog.Thing is when I followed all steps and installed the NextGen Gallery…everything went smooth.But when I try to “Add Gallery” after putting in the name,the text box goes blank after hitting Enter.When I go to Manage Galleries,there is no gallery that I can select,but when I check the ftp manager,I can see that a directory is created under /wp-content/gallery/(gallery name) .I tried uploading images to this directory,but still doesn’t work.Please help me guys!!!
PS:-Alex Rabe,could you please help me out with this,I’ve tagged my post in WP Support forums but no one has turned up on me.
Thanks!
Trevor -
Got a litle bit question on nextgen slideshow, it seems it default in center position, how can i make the slideshow align on left position.
Thanks.
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hiya,
first of all thanks for all the help from all you guys.
When i use [singlepic] tag in a post eberything work and looks fine except 1 thing: in the feed and google search results (see the bottom one, “Suzanna’s success story | petimi blog” for example on: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=KOP&q=suzanna+success&btnG=Search&meta= )Not sure if it’s the NextGen gallery malfunction as i have the same issue with jlanguagae plugin. The [english] tag is also shown as you can see.
any help would be much appreciated.
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fer says:
Hi
I have this problem: when I preview the post where I have my album works perfect but when I publish it and I click on the gallery nothing happens.
Does anybody can help me with this issue?
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I have pictures in a Gallery – I also see the Next Gen galley was created when I activated the plugin but can’t figure out how to get the pictures into that gallery?
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I could not get the NextGEN Gallery working until I read your post. A multitude of THANKS
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Hi Guys,
I am a wordpress newbie. I have installed a next gen gallery here: http://villaweddingjamaica.com/about/hummingbird-hall/
is there a reason why it is not full size?
thanks
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Er, scratch the above. I mean a random Preview image for each gallery. Please let me know. Thanks!!
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hi heck, did this support WP-mu ? i had try instll it, run great but i need this to be active by default.. how can i do that?