NextGen Gallery 0.72

First, this plugin is outstanding.. Hats off to Alex!

Two problems – I think I’ve resolved the first one – but I’m not sure that it isn’t part of the second, so I’ll describe it.

Background – my hosting company, bluehost, who are generally excellent – has three available gallery applications (coppermine, 4images and Gallery2) in its ready-to-install Fantastico open-source menus. I wanted to do more with images in my blogs – tried all three. All had problems with 777 permissions. Bluehost was, for the first time, disappointing. First they said they’d been hearing a lot about this – put a “Level 3” (highest level) person on it – they’d fix it. (Still haven’t heard back from that guy).
So I found NextGen by searching for a plugin. In my sandbox site, worked fine.

Put in one of my working blogsites – got 777 permission errors. After Bluehost (different tech support crew by then, a day later) they said the couldn’t do anything about it.

So I changed the permissions to 777 by right-clicking the folders I’d created as per the plugin.

NextGen started working perfectly.

Finally (where we are now) All the preview pictures of my themes are not visible – the themes won’t load – and I’m now deactiving plugins, reloading, rebooting, try to get down to where I isolate the problem.

Any thoughts, suggestions, happily accepted. Depending on budget, willing to pay or barter for assistance. I’d really like this plugin – but I want the rest of WP working as well.

Jon Soroko