nextgen gallery captions for albums?

Coincidentally, I am having the same problem! I love the “template=caption” for galleries, but I’m using this to call an album on a page:
[album id=1 template=compact]

And wish I could also add “template=caption” at the end before the end bracket to bring them both in!

I was just reading Kim Woodbridge’s post on customizing NextGen (https://www.kimwoodbridge.com/nextgen-custom-fields-plugin-add-more-information-about-an-image-in-the-nextgen-gallery/ ) and noticed she referenced these two files:

nextgen-gallery/view/gallery.php
nextgen-gallery/view/gallery-caption.php

The only difference I could see bet the two was that gallery-caption.php had some code for calling in the captions, so after first making backup copies of these files, I deleted gallery.php, and renamed gallery-caption.php to gallery.php and I am now seeing captions under my gallery thumbs inside an album.

What I am not clear on, tho, is how to preserve this code change if I upgrade the NextGen plugin. I’m sure it’ll get overwritten, and I’m not sure if I just move it to my child theme’s folder if that will store it and if WordPress will know to find it there and not use the default files in the NextGen plugin folder…

ah thank you that worked! i guess the only thing to do is just backup all the changes and reload after doing future updates unless anyone else has a better idea of how to keep the settings with upgrades.

actually that didn’t work…because now my galleries won’t render. but nice idea anyway.
if you don’t use galleries on pages i guess it would work. but i use the galleries on pages for my portfolio.
the albums i use for my photography and random stuff.

no other ideas?

i think it’s something really simple like a line of code in the functions or gallery.php but i can’t figure it out.

hi i found the answer!
https://www.ehow.com/how_8659707_customize-nexgen-gallery-template.html

A great find! Thanks for posting that URL. It’s odd that your galleries wouldn’t render w/my workaround above, but maybe it has something to do with other theme settings, too.

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also strange is that with the new fix that I found the < br / > tag doesn’t work if you have more than one line of text so i’ve had to limit mine to 1 line captions (only on the albums) so it looks right.