[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] how to use NextGen on multi-lingual websites?

Hi Senlin,

I’m currently trying to integrates some NextGen Galleries on a multilingual site also translated with WPML. You seem to have no problems doing that, this is not my case :

On the default language version of a page, when I insert the nggallery tag, everything works fine.

https://www.domaine.com/wp-content/gallery/gal1/thumbs/thumbs_00.jpg

But on the translated version of the page, WPML adds the language tag in the URL, and so NextGen is looking for a wrong directory for the gallery. For example :

https://www.domaine.com/LANGUAGE_TAG/wp-content/gallery/gal1/thumbs/thumbs_00.jpg

How do I get rid of the language tag in the URL of every images ?

Thanks in advance if you can help me on this (and sorry, I don’t have any solutions for your problem).

Hi malletfils,

The gallery tags I use to show a gallery on a translated page are the exact same as on a default language page: [nggallery id=n]

I also don’t understand why that should be a problem as you are calling a gallery that you made in NextGen. That has nothing to do with translations, right?

You are using the same WPML set-up as I do it seems, languages in different directories.

For your information, this is what NextGen outputs on a language other than the default one:

<div class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail" >
<a href="https://domain.com/wp-content/gallery/galname/imgfile.jpg" title=""  >
<img title="" alt="" src="https://domain.com/wp-content/gallery/galname/thumbs/thumbs_imgfile.jpg" width="60" height="56" />
</a>
</div>

Is your gallery linked to a Page? Mine are.

Other than that I don’t really know how I can further help you.

Hi Senlin,

Thanks for your answer. It seems that my config does not behave as yours.

I’ve tried to link pages on every gallery, but it doesn’t change anything. NextGen keeps searching for the gallery in /en/wp-content/gallery/galname.

I’ve tried to change the path in the gallery settings. By default, it is wp-content/gallery/galname (without starting slash). If I add a starting slash to force NextGen to look for the directory from the root, instead, it looks for the gallery in /en//wp-content/gallery/galname.

So the language tag keeps being added at the beginning :-(.

What I believe is that I have a problem in my .htaccess probably. Can you send me a copy of your .htaccess file ?

Thanks for your help.

Hi malletfils,

my .htaccess is the standard one:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

In options of NextGen I have the path as wp-content/gallery/

Activate permalinks is on and then you have to save your permalinks settings one more time

In gallery settings the box “The album will not link to a gallery subpage. The gallery is shown on the same page” is UNticked

Big thanks for your help Senlin.

I’ve tried the exact same settings as you, and keep getting the language tag added to the gallery name :(.

Probably a bug due to the fact that I’m developping the site under the brand new WP 3.0 RC1 ?

Something strange is that I added the plugin Nextgen Gallery Smooth, and that this one is working fine, and get the images from the right directory.

I’ll keep searching because I do want the default gallery of Nextgen to work. I’ve tried to open a topic on WPML forum also, but was unable to (keeps telling me ‘Topic not found’ when I try to open a new topic ?? ).

Anyway, again, big thanks for your time and help.

Don’t know whether it helps, but I have not any effect with NextGen, instead I use “FancyBox for WordPress” (https://blog.moskis.net/downloads/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/) to show the images.

It could very well be a problem with WP 3.0

I am using WP 2.9.2 and WPML 1.7.7 as I found that 1.7.8 and 1.7.8.1 had a few bugs here and there.

I have tried to revert to WPML 1.7.7, but then lost access to all my posts and pages. I should probably start from a brand new wordpress install with 1.7.7 but as far as I have already about 200 posts and pages, I’m not very keen on doing the job again ;). So I hope I will find a way to have the 1.7.8.1 working.

I also deactivate Lightbox plus and installed Fancybox for WordPress like you, but it doesn’t changed anything at all (except the fact that I love Fancybox – thanks for pointing me to it!).

Finally I succeed in creating a post on WPML forum (I think my registration was too fresh before). So I’ll go on with my research there. Sorry for polluting your topic with my problem, and hope you’ll find a solution to your problem.