NEXTGEN 2.0.0 UPDATE: A Personal Note from Erick Danzer

  • Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi fellow NextGEN Gallery users,

    After over a year of hard word, NextGEN Gallery 2.0 is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. Thank you to all the beta testers who provided useful feedback and bug reports. This is an uncommon update, and I just wanted to add some personal notes.

    WHAT’S INCLUDED

    NextGEN 2.0 includes a completely reworked interface for the NextGEN options panel and for adding galleries to pages and posts. The new Attach to Post interface allows you to customize every gallery rather than having global settings that apply to all galleries.

    IF YOU HAVE ISSUES?

    We recognize this is huge update to NextGEN Gallery. We’ve tested it endlessly, and pushed out betas for public testing. Despite all that, an update of this size and scope is going to produce issues, in part because of the enormously wide diversity of environments in which NextGEN is used (NextGEN will be updated on 100,000 WordPress instances within the first week).

    We – and I personally – are very committed to monitoring, responding to, and resolving issues. As always, we’ll try to triage within the support forums to focus on bugs that are either:

    a) serious or
    b) affecting large number of users

    But we’ll be more present in the forums for the next month or two than we generally are to ensure we’re on top of things.

    Users should also expect relatively frequent updates in the next month or two as we track down these issues.

    You can see other notes on what’s included below.

    Thanks very much,

    Erick
    Founder, Photocrati

    MORE DETAILS ON THE UPDATE

    BE AWARE

    • NextGEN Gallery 2.0 contains substantial changes to the plugin structure which means there might be incompatibilities some third-party plugins/extension including mobile apps.
    • Back up your site first (both server files & MySQL Database)

    CHANGES

    • NEW: Improved user experience throughout the plugin, settings and usage.
    • NEW: Plupload queue uploader that allows for bulk and zip uploads within the same interface.
    • NEW: Complete redesign of the NextGEN options panel
    • NEW: Added new interface for adding galleries from pages and posts.
    • NEW: Galleries are now mobile friendly and responsive, which is most noticeable with a responsive theme.
    • NEW: Streamlined functionality for displaying galleries based on tags.
    • NEW: Architecture based on Pope Framework
    • NEW: New shortcode, “ngg_images”, and corresponding Attach to Post interface
    • NEW: Galleries have now global and instance settings
    • NEW: Support for FastCGI environments
    • Changed: Replaces shortcodes with placeholder images, however still supports legacy shortcodes.
    • Changed: Introduced new Growl-like notifications
    • Changed: The container and it’s images are centered for slideshows
    • Changed: NextGEN styles now override vs replace default styles
    • Changed: NextGEN legacy templates have been deprecated (but still function)
    • FIXED: The ability to use NextGEN image as a Featured Image.
    • FIXED: Many bugs and annoyances, such as PHP warnings, errors, etc.
      For the history of changes, view the full changelog.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • Why is the new NGG still not compatible with the WP3.6???

    There is a big yellow warning box at the top of the update page stating:

    Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.

    Shouldn’t it be your top priority to have it at least work with the current version of WordPress?

    Do you really expect all NGG users not to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress?

    This is indeed strange behaviour from a leading plugin developer!

    I think 3.6 is the least of the problems right now. ??

    There’s a heapton of plugins and functionality that is not working.

    Tried upgrading NextGen plugin again after reading that it had been updated to work with the current version of WordPress (again, why the NextGEN developers didn’t feel this was necessary is startling to say the least!). Still breaks my website and throws errors. One such error is this line of code that now appears at the top of pages that have galleries:

    array(1) { ["display_type"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(20) "Invalid display type" } }

    I guess it’s time to roll back again to the previous working version of NextGEN or perhaps just ditch it entirely in favour of a plugin that works.

    @dave333 – if you need help, please start a new thread – here:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery#postform

    If you want to roll-back see this thread:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/do-not-uninstalldelete-nextgen-if-you-are-having-issues?replies=2

    Thanks @wpyogi But I’ve solved the problem – I deleted the faulty plugin from all my client’s websites.

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