NextGEN Gallery: Adding drop-down menu widget to gallery view without modifying plugin code [closed]

There aren’t really any good filters/hooks that are going to allow you to place the custom drop down control where you’d like. What you should do instead is create a new template from an existing one, then add your widget code in. I’m going to edit “gallery.php”, but you must edit album.php or whichever gallery … Read more

Get ID of a NextGen album that is linked to a subpage [closed]

I got some help from Benjamin at the WordPress support forums The solution I ended up with is the following: global $nggdb; $galleries = array(); $children = get_children(“post_parent=$post->ID”); foreach($children as $kid) { print_r($kid); $page_id = $kid->ID; $album_mapper = C_Album_Mapper::get_instance(); $albums = $album_mapper->find_all(array(‘pageid = %s’, $page_id), TRUE); foreach ($albums as $albumMap) { $albumID = $albumMap->ID(); After … Read more

Plugins not showing on dashboard?

I had the same problem the site I was developing was utilizing this plugin to show gallery on the homepage. The first few days the site was working well but when I launched a persistent white screen of death error developed. I used the FTP access to rename the plugin file to something like(old_plugins) in … Read more

Seeking recommendations on Gallery plugins , specifically captioning thumbnails [closed]

Have you tried this for NextGen? – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-image-gallery-captions Excerpt (many other useful tips at the linked thread): ENABLING CAPTIONS BELOW GALLERY IMAGES When you add a gallery to a post/page, you get this by default: [nggallery id=1] You need to add this: [nggallery id=1 template=caption] GETTING THE CAPTIONS YOU JUST ENABLED TO SHOW-UP When importing … Read more

next gen gallery thumbnail problem

since the site has a white background, a quick workaround could be to save the pngs as jpeg with white background? this thread mentions a possible solution: wordpress dot org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-problems-with-png-transparency-thumbnails?replies=9 this has an unpdated solution: wordpress dot org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-png-thumbnails-with-transparancy-problem-1?replies=5 and this thread suggests saving as 24bit png’s rather than 8bit wordpress dot org/support/topic/nextgen-gallery-transparent-images-showing-black-background-with-resize?replies=8#post-1921440 ps cant post … Read more