[Plugin: NextGEN Download Gallery] Download button and checkboxes disappear

G’day, and very nice dresses too.

I reckon you might need a custom template for this one, to take the AJAX loads into account. You can customise the download template by copying from the templates folder within the plugin into a folder named “nggallery” within your theme.

If I get some time (ha!) I’ll look at this on Sunday, but I’ve already slated part of Sunday for something else so I’m not confident it will happen this weekend. Best bet is to have a go yourself, if you have the requisite AJAX-fu.

cheers,
Ross

Hi, thanks for the super quick response. I’ll have a go. If you do have time it would be appreciated 2 heads better than one and all that. Not my style of dress really ??

Thanks,
nichola

Yeah, probably wouldn’t look too good on me either, to be honest…

SWMBO has already told me about the AJAX issue so it is definitely on the cards to be addressed “sometime in the future”, but work is piling up so I’m very happy to accept any help on offer ??

cheers,
Ross

I don’t think my Ajax skills are that good unfortunately ?? would love to otherwise. Nichola

No worries, just turn off the AJAX loads for now and I’ll get to it when I can (will leave this support thread as unresolved as an action item and will log it in my bug tracker). I reckon it might be a good week before I can get to look at it, but it will definitely be sorted in the near future.

cheers,
Ross

(now off to finish the last few lines of something before the Friday night bourbon kicks in…)

@nicholam: this isn’t going to be fixed any time soon, from my reading of the problem. Here’s what I just reported to Photocrati:

Essentially, the AJAX navigation code doesn’t pick up the gallery template, so it’s unusable for anything but the default gallery template.

templates — nowhere to put the gallery template name
nextgen-gallery/js/ngg.js — doesn’t pick up template name (from where?)
nextgen-gallery/xml/ajax.php — calls nggShowGallery() with default template name

Also, NGG is not using standard WP AJAX API, and js/ngg.js is really badly written. In short, AJAX navigation needs a complete rewrite, and template writers will need to be notified how to mark the gallery div (encoding it into the id of div.ngg-galleryoverview via $gallery->anchor would be a poor choice).