the Deactivate gallery page link
options dosn't seem to work switched off... the page just reloads\.
actually correction it does work if you make a page for it, see this link for explaination
and when switched on, it shows the gallerys thumnails, but turns off the images of the other gallery thumbnails, weird... i only know this becaise i ave text on the page, which wont be there.
it loads the galleries/albums IN the page, which means i dont think you can have a different page template for the album and gallery pages...
"breadcrumbs..." i am panicking a bit about how to navigate back from the galleries etc.
Options > Effects set to none turn off the lightbox... i wonder how hard to turn it on only for certain galleries...
Thumbnails...
the only problem, i need 2 different sizes for thumbnails?? one for the album, one for the gallery, which i don't want to be previews but the actual final images, full size.
i think before i go to far i want to try the default wp gallery it might be simpler.. then decided not to... cant remember why... dont think it has albums... ??
"How to properly template Nextgen gallery?" Or
"How to modify Nextgen gallery and not loose your modifications when you update?"
OK i have been looking for 4 hours, madness, and finally i find it on the developers blog. I was really looking generally, for
what is best practice in wordpress world for modifying a wordpress plugin?
I assume it is NOT open the plugins folder, find its css files, edit, be happy for 3 months, then update and spend 2 days re-adding your edits back in... but nowhere on wp forums could i find any info on what is best practice... its so important.
anyway maybe it is down to the individual plugin authors files, and if they provide a way to externally override its settings (child plugin..)
anyway look here
and here is how to remove the gallery linking to a large image, and use the large image instead, you take away the link text and you take away the sizing, i think is what it is saying.
i have it working, but i cant post code it dosnt come out right. anyway, key was to do what that forum mentions, but also change the thumbnailURL to imageURL, obviously, so it displays the image, not the thumbnail... (as the thumbnail is permanently resized, you cant unresize it.)
Nextgen gallery templating and Child Themes
AHA!! the templating works in DEFAULT theme, but not my Thematic child theme... because it cant find the path, you need to put the nggallery folder with your customised gallery.php template in your THEMATIC folder, not your THEMATIC CHILD THEME FOLDER. ill write a separate post about this...
Usability issue of Nextgen gallery templating system for average CMS user
OK so another thing I realised, even if I did manage to get a nextgen gallery to use my custom template for both albums and galleries (no idea how to get INTO the galleries when its posted as an album), the user of the cms needs to every time they add a album to the page, add my custom template shortcode. This I think, to get the user to alter shortcodes, is too much to ask. I want to SET the nextgen gallery to use THIS custom template, always. Im sure thats possible but again i dont want to modify nextgen core files, but keep everything modular. I want the best possible backend experience, otherwise whats the point of having a backend if the user has to custom code things...
Looking for alternative to Nextgen - basically anything with simple Album bulk upload and sorting functions...
OK today is started to test a different approach. NOT using a gallery plugin, which seem unsuited generally, but rather using a post, which has the images posted one at a time, in the post, down the page. These posts are assigned a category, and when you click that category, it lists the excerpts (sort of) of all posts in that category.
ie main menu > fashion > (lists excerpts of fashion posts) > click one to get that post, which is a list of images.
The excerpt, or rather the thing that i have replacing the excerpt, is a thumbnail image manually added via a custom field, which links to its post.
This is actually an almost acceptable result, except for:
1/ Uploading of images for the user, is one at a time for adding to the post, and there is not organisation in WP media library, so its all a bit messy... but, its easy, and so shortcodes need to be used
2/ Thumbnail adding to the post is manual, via a custom field, resizing it yourself, and getting the URL path right. This is OK, but for end client usability I' rather use something like:
Simple Post Thumbnails
which has a lovely little panel at the bottom of your post for wsiwug thumbnails adding.
Tossing up whether to try and figure out how to implement it in the child theme (not as easy as 'find the loop, stick it in') since the loop is buried it needs a function... and to output a link aswell... problem is other plugins also mention stick it in the loop...
Or maybe WP built in gallery has some plugins that modify it to be like I want, basically i want the organisation of using a gallery/album structure, but not use the default gallery display which is columns of thumbnails, which link to their larger sizes, i want NO columns, and those thumbs to be The final size, and linked to from an album thumbnail.
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