Needs a lot of work

  • Unfortunately it’s very hard to find a decent free gallery plugin, but i ended up using this one so i guess that says something about it.

    I had to switch from PhotoSmash because it stopped working with the latest software my hosting company uses on their servers, and they stopped development on it over 2 years ago.
    I mention this because i wanted to reuse those images already on my website, unfortunately Nextgen doesn’t give you the option to use it, you can only upload files, so i had to re-upload 30 images, thankfully they can be batch uploaded. But i have another site to fix which has about 200 images, not looking forward to that.

    It needs a lot of work, for example in the basic thumbnail view, for some odd reason, the number of photos in a gallery (album) is shown far below the title and so close to the next gallery that you think it belongs to it.

    Even their own demo shows it like that so it must be on purpose, why i can never understand.

    Fortunately there is a fairly easy way to add custom CSS so to fix that i added:
    .ngg-album-compact h4 .ngg-album-desc {height: 20px;}

    I only used 5 albums in 1 row, for more rows i suppose that would need more modifications.
    I would have liked to see an option to remove those completely.

    Menu’s are awkwardly made and unnecessarily complicated, for ex. if you make any changes in any but the first “drop-down” menu and save, it reloads the page and takes you back to the first drop-down menu, not where you where, which is quite annoying when trying to get the gallery thumbnail sizes just right, specially because it would load the album thumbnail sizes instead (because it’s the 1st dropdown menu)

    Putting multiple types of galleries on one page seems to brake everything, the carousel type seemed to not even work at all, but then it did, but clicking on any other image in the carousel actually reloads the whole page and it looks pretty bad too. They don’t even demo it on their site, i wonder why.

    I’m not surprised %50 of people say it’s broken. I really don’t know how 10 million people are happy with this.

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  • Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    @joegp – Thanks for all of this feedback, we have a form set up for Feature Request ideas as well that you may like to use here: https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/

    At this time we do not have any “importer” functions for other galleries but we are looking into how best to implement them as we go forward.

    The album view issue you are describing is best addressed with custom CSS as you are suggesting, the spacing is actually to allow for the album description to be displayed as well.

    The issue with multiple galleries on the same page is one that is proving to be difficult for us to address in all cases but we are aware of the problem and are working on it as well.

    If you have any other issues or concerns, please feel free to start a new forum topic, or use our Bug Report (https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/) submission process which provides a more thorough approach.

    Thanks, again!

    – Cais.

    Thread Starter JoeGP

    (@joegp)

    Thanks for answering, it shows you care.

    I voted.

    I didn’t say anything about importing, that would be really nice though. I was saying that the images used in the old gallery are already uploaded to wordpress as individual media files, but sadly those cannot be added. Although adding them 1 by 1 even without reuploading would actually be worse.
    So something like your own media library viewer with checkboxes next to each thumbnail and an add to gallery/album button would be much appreciated. (i guess that qualifies as an importer)

    The spacing for the description should be dynamic in some way, i’m pretty sure you could easily implement a simple switch in the main settings area that would turn off descriptions and remove the spacing for it as well.

    Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    @joegp – Thanks!

    I have put forward the idea of easy to use options (read: checkbox?) as a method to hide the number of photos/description so that spacing is reduced/eliminated … we will be looking into it.

    Please feel free to provide more constructive criticism, we always value genuine feedback meant to help improve the plugin and its functionality.

    – Cais.

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