This is a short demonstration showing how to display galleries, albums and pictures from a NextGen gallery in a post or a page. This tutorial assumes you already have images in a gallery and the gallery is associated with an album. If you don’t have this done, see the article Adding Images using NextGen Gallery. It demonstrates how to: <<<VIDEO COMING SOON>>>
- Add a gallery to a new post
- Add an album to a new post
- Add a picture to a new post
- Associate a gallery with a page from the gallery manager.
You can add a gallery or album to a post or a page. Let’s assume you want to add your gallery to a post. This is common, as you might create a gallery with images from your recent trip. You might also create a post telling your readers about your trip. To wrap it all in a nice bow you should put your trip gallery in your trip post. Make sense? Here’s how you do it.
- Create a new post. Give it a title and write the main body.
- Click on the NextGen Gallery icon
in the editor toolbar - Choose the gallery and select how you want to display it.
- The image list will show all the images in the gallery.
- The Slideshow will show a slideshow of all the images in the gallery.
- The imagebrowser will show a single image and allow the user to navigate through all the images.
- Click Insert.
- Save and view the post.
The steps to add a gallery to a page are nearly the same.
What if we wanted to add an album to a page? It is almost the same as adding a gallery.
- The extended version will show a single gallery on a row. You’ll see more details too.
- The compact version will show as many galleries as possible on a single row.
You can also add a single image to a page. This may not be the best way to add an image to a post. You should use the regular media manager for this. However, if you have an image that is already part of a gallery this is useful. That way you don’t need to add the image to your website twice.
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I recently updated WordPress to the latest version. 2.7.1 I believe. I updated NextGen Gallery as well. After doing this none of my pages that displayed galleries are working. When I click on the webpage it just show [gallery=7] . I also noticed the NextGen Gallery icon is not showing up in the editor toolbar?
Can anyone help me with this????
Raymond, did you get this fixed? My first guess is to make sure it is activated. If it is, deactivate and reactive the gallery.
That is the same thing that happened to me and I found that the plugin did not reactivate during the shutdown and reactivation of all plugins in the upgrade process.
Does anyone know how to automatically create individual posts for each picture in a gallery?
i’m having a problem with album. I’ve applied album id short code on Photoalbum page. The page displays all the thumbnails of galleries included and the inner thumbnails but when clicked the pop p window never comes and it shifts back to the photo album page.
So i have disabled the imagebrowser from the admin panel. But can you please help me why imagebrowser is not starting when an image is clicked from gallery included in album?
I’m also having the same issue with no nextGen gallery icon showing on the editor toolbar.
Inserting [nggallery id=114] in the post returns a black page with [View with PicLens] visible.
however, my gallery is visible in a page.
Regards
Hey there,
I got the NextGen Album displaying on WordPress 2.9.
Just create a page called ‘Photos’ or ‘Gallery’.
Then insert [album=1,compact] or [album=1,extend] into the page.
Change the album number as required.
Next, goto the Gallery > Album page from the left-hand menu in WordPress Admin and make sure all your galleries are added to your album.
Now you will get a page displayed like this http://snowboardinjapan.com/?page_id=151 Now just make sure each gallery has at least one album in it so it displays a thumbnail pic for the gallery preview.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Leigh.