Inserting gallery into page: not working II

@nacinla – This sort of effect is often theme related, are you seeing this if you temporarily switch to a default WordPress Twenty series theme as well?

– Cais.

Thanks, photocrati. I switched to two different Twenty themes (12 and 13) and got the same result. It inserts this code, which is not shortccode for a gallery:

<img class=”ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem” src=”https://localhost:8888/studiohs/index.php/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id–492&#8243; alt=”” />

So I’m guessing there’s something wrong with the plugin (corrupted?), or I’m missing a step when I generate the gallery to begin with. I have already tried resetting the options. As I said previously, I can insert shortcode manually, and set transitions, but I can’t resize thumbnails, for one thing.

Perhaps at this point I should deactivate the plugin, delete it and reinstall to see if something’s gotten corrupted….

OK. I just deactivated the plugin, deleted it from the theme and then reinstalled. I got wary right away when I saw that it had remembered my settings from the previous version, but I went ahead and tried a new gallery. Same thing; it’s generating an image link, as in my post above, not gallery shortcode.

I have EXACTLY the same problem. The code in the text editor is <img class="ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem" src="https://localhost:8888/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--2148" alt="" /> which is exactly the same (apart from the localhost address) as on the live site, where the gallery works fine. Though I don’t believe this actually has anything to do with what is causing the problem.
I have spent many many hours on this getting no-where. Reinstalling things etc etc. I would very much like to know the answer.
And I too have tried different themes, with the same result

Aaaah the same for me…
Tried to uninstall-reinstall / change theme but always the same code for displayinf a single image.
Do not esitate to post the solution, if there is.
Thanks beside that, it seems to be a great plugin.

OK. I’ve tried again to create a slideshow gallery using this plugin on a locally hosted site I’m building, but no success. It just adds a link to the first image. On a live site, I switched to an earlier version of the plugin, and when I try to create a gallery I get an error message that the gallery folder doesn’t exist. So I have a support ticket into the webhost to fix permissions on the site. Still, I can’t see why my local site doesn’t work. And there doesn’t seem to be a solution coming from anyone…. Does anyone have a suggestion for another slideshow/gallery plugin that’s bugfree?

@nacinla – If this wasn’t theme related, it could be a conflict with another plugin that is not allowing NextGEN Gallery to use the placeholder <img> tag to dynamically render the gallery.

Did you test to see if that may be the case?

– Cais.

If you’re saying disable all other plugins and see if the gallery works it doesn’t on my localhost setup.

Thanks, photocrati. I disabled all my other plugins in a site on my MAMP localhost and tried inserting a slideshow. All I got was the first photo in the show, static, as thumbnail. Here’s the code it inserted:

<img class=”ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem” src=”https://localhost:8888/studiohs/index.php/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id–727&#8243; alt=”” />

I thought it was supposed to be inserting shortcode like [nggallery id=…]

BTW, I found another slideshow plugin that I got to work in about 5 minutes. I’m having a hard time believing I can’t get this one, the most popular one on the market, to behave.

Which one is the one you found???
I’m still struggling with that one and I’m waiting an answer for more than a week now but I can’t wait anymore.
Please let me know.
Thank you

It’s called simply “Slideshow”; it’s by StefanBoonstra. It’s pretty basic, no lightbox, no thumbnails. So if you want that type of display it won’t be your thing. But it has been downloaded 495,849 times. Rated 5 stars by 728 users. To find it, search for slideshow, not gallery. Here’s a link: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/

Thank you very much nacinla, I’ll check that asap.

It’s a shame that Next gen doesn’t work.

Regards ??

Good luck, rmoraly. Perhaps we’ll hear of a solution with NextGen at some point. BTW, with the Slideshow I spoke about, you can edit the CSS right in the plugin interface though i found that a little tricky and will need to spend more time with it. As I said, it’s very basic.