nextgen gallery – filenames’ character encoding issue

I would check the encoding on the database. Make sure it’s set to utf-8 unicode Edit: Here is an article for more indepth reading: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=328641 Also taken from here The reason why I suggest you check the encoding is because if you insert something into a database with encoding set to ISO 8859-7 Greek, then … Read more

How can i count the images that are atacht to NextGEN Gallery

Assuming you actually have something in the $gallery object (hint: confirm that by print_r($gallery) in your template), then your code should work. Perhaps step back and leave the database stuff to NextGEN, just count the image IDs: global $nggdb; $poze = get_field(‘poze’); if ($poze && count($poze)) { $galleryID = $poze[0][‘ngg_id’]; $imageIDs = $nggdb->get_ids_from_gallery($galleryID); $count = … Read more

Can I open a Nextgen gallery into a lightbox from an album listing page

Under Gallery Settings, set “Number of images per page” to 1. Then check the box for “Add hidden images.” This should display just the first thumbnail in you gallery, and when you click on it, you can navigate through them in a lightbox. Then you have to remove the page navigation at the bottom of … Read more