I am using wordpress Thematic child theme Monochromatic.
Error message where my gallery should be:
Rendering of template gallery.php failed
After about 3 hours of testing this and that situation I isolated the problem to be CHILD THEMES.
As in it works when i use WP Default theme, or put the required nextgen folder containing my altered templates IN THE THEMATIC FOLDER.
Which, if you follow and use child themes which I am all for right now, means that your child theme structure just started becoming messed up and pointless, impure etc...
but, i see that the developers of Nextgen are hard at work fixing this for the next release,
Changed : Support templates for child themes, use STYLESHEETPATH instead TEMPLATEPATH (THX to Prollius)
As my site needs to be launched like yesterday I cant wait for another release I am currently tossing up 2 options:
1/ alter the TEMPLATEPATH as mentioned above if i can find it in the code (making my nextgen plugin then 'impure' with my customisations) (This could fail if the nextgen next update dosn't end up including the script as i have put it...)
2/ Put my nggallery template folder in BOTH Monchromatic AND Thematic folders, ready for the switch when it comes... (This could fail if thematic is updated BEFORE nextgen is... how likely is that...??) think nextgen is updated more often than thematic...
ok i just did a find on TEMPLATEPATH in the plugins files and realised i dont know how exaclty to do that edit or in which file, i am assuming its more complex than just replacing the word... might try it if i have time, but for now... just bunging it in my thematic folder... this testing out the nextgen plugin to see if it meets my needs stage has ended up taking 3 days...
got to check which is more likely to get an update red flag thing that my client might decide to click and do themselves...
its such a pain this updating thing, like every few weeks something needs updating, how am i meant to hand this over to the client to self manage when all the software constantly needs updating... i can just see now, all these photobased blogs all updating at once and them calling me panicking because their whole site isn't working, (eg, the whole site is a photogallery and something has broken with upgrading... really risky...)
its like i need to have a clone of every site i make, somewhere, and try updating it there before it gets done on live site just to warn them asap not to self update if anything breaks...
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