NextGen Gallery: Galleries don’t display after 2.8!

Bump. Would REALLY like a fix for this. This is annoying.

I think I’m going to just go ahead and delete the plugin and its database tables and reinstall it. That oughtta work, anyway. I think.

Alex, if it helps with the debugging I am willing to provide full access to website/server so you can investigate the problem

I can’t delete the database tables and reinstall the entire plugin — I have like 1000 photos stored.

I had some problems after upgrading nextgen and wp. A couple of things that fixed it, just in case.

1. Nextgen actually prompted me to update my nextgen gallery because it was out of date. I don’t remember which page this prompt was on. I think it was on the main gallery page. This was just a click of the button and easy.

2. I needed to update my permalink structure in WordPress from the settings page.

These probably aren’t your problems but thought I would post in case.

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!

On the options part of NGG, just remove the rel=”%GALLERY_NAME%” and the Thickbox will work. So, I guess this is a temporary fix until Alex figures out a way to get the REL’s back working properly.

aimeeish…

I looked at ur html… I can’t see anything for thickbox, lightbox, shutter etc…

You should rename the nextgen gallery folder to something else, upload a brand new folder… and then disable the bad behaviour plugin… see if that works…

I just did two things, and my test gallery is fixed. I just updated my development site to 2.8.1-beta1, and then I re-imported some images into the Gallery database (they had been inadvertently deleted). I don’t know which step fixed the problem.

Here’s my development site gallery, which also demonstrates how my 2.7 theme fails in 2.8. I haven’t taken the time to fix that, but since I didn’t want to ugprade and break my gallery, I didn’t have much incentive.

@othellobloke What are you looking at? I don’t have the bad behavior plugin, and I’m pretty sure I have Thickbox installed. I’m using it now.

I think othellobloke was looking at my page. I have bad behaviour installed.
However in my case renaming, deleting and re-uploading suff is not an option ’cause I have something like 2000-3000 images on my site.

Hi all,

I have solved the my problem today!

I describe the steps now, please write here if this way was successfully for you too!

at the first of all, i know this from “the old ways” and it helped again – for me!

Here the steps!
– Go to your WordPress Admin Page
– Options ? Permalinks
– klick some other option and click update, I have used Standard because I normally use Day and Name
– after the saving progress you can check your Picture page again, it should be work now!
– now go back to the options (Options ? Permalinks)
– activate your favorite settings and click Update Settings again!
– end

This was my way out of this issue.

Best Regards

Chris

Hi Chris,

your method is the normal way I ‘fix’ my site after a nextgen upgrade but I tried it when I upgraded to wp2.8 and nextgen 1.3.3 without the expected success. I’ve recently updated to 2.8.1-beta and again tried the ‘fix’ without any change in the situation.

Until Alex comes up with a bug fix I think I’m stuck with horrible looking website

Ignore my prior post.. The problem must have been “fixed” by replacing most of the images in my test gallery. I tried the various methods above on an operational site, and the gallery is still hosed. Thumbnails work fine, but when I click on one, it just churns away with the animated “wait” icon. I’m in the process of (again) restoring my 2.7.1 backup files and database.

Alex, my server settings are as follows:

* Operating System : Linux
* Server : Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
* Memory usage : 16.97 MByte
* MYSQL Version : 5.1.30
* SQL Mode : Not set
* PHP Version : 5.2.8
* PHP Safe Mode : Off
* PHP Allow URL fopen : On
* PHP Memory Limit : 64M
* PHP Max Upload Size : 64M
* PHP Max Post Size : 64M
* PHP Max Script Execute Time : 30s
* PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
* PHP IPTC support : Yes
* PHP XML support : Yes

The link to my site’s gallery is https://www.kungfu-silat.com/photos – however, that gallery works, because I’ve reverted to WordPress 2.7.1. When I upgrade to 2.8, I can see the three galleries and the thumbnails in each, but attempting to display any image fails. I can, however, view a gallery with PicLens after upgrading WordPress.

@ac1969: Deactivating the original Lightbox plugin by Lokesh Dakar and instead uploading and activating the Lightbox2-pugin found at stimuli.ca fixed the issue here with thumbnails showing fine after upgrade to 2.8 but lightbox not working.

Now the lightbox is working again.

Just for additional info, I did the upgrade of NextGen Gallery before as well. There was a note in my “Gallerie” menu item saying I needed to update the Gallery first. Before that picture galleries didn’t even show up…

Stimuli Lightbox2-plugin

Still I think is is a major issue and needs fixing. Why does the stimuli.ca-plugin work with 2.8 while internal NextGen lightbox function as well as Lightbox2-plugin don’t?