Nextgen Gallery How to use tags?

  • I have searched on the support forum and I’ve noticed that posts dating back to almost 1-2 years ago have not had any resolution on this matter. So I’m starting one again.

    I want to show a gallery on a page based on the image tags, so I have used [nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,… ], according to the brief tutorial.

    The funny thing is some tags work and some do not. For instance, the word “fantasy” does not work in [nggtags gallery=fantasy], as in no images will not appear on the page at all. But when I change the tags in the gallery and rename it to “fantasy-children” and have the code read [nggtags gallery=fantasy-children]. This works which doesn’t make sense. Why didn’t it work for the word “fantasy” in the first place? This has been happening to other tags as well.

    It’s a bit of trial and error for it to get it working but I think I’m just not proficient enough in writing tags.

    Unfortunately there isn’t any more guidelines that actually teach you how to write tags for the nextgen gallery nggtags. I’m not a code expert but I would think just writing the words out in correct spelling, same case would be make the ngg tags work, right?

    Kindly let me know if you can help out. thanks a lot

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  • Apparently, NGG stores the gallery tags in the same table as the regular post tags.

    SOOOOO… if you already have a regular post tag with the same name as a gallery tag, whichever tag is added second will be saved to the database table as “tag-2” to preserve uniqueness.

    Wow.

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