[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] After Upgrading “Rendering of template gallery.php failed” Error

I am experiencing the same error with WP 2.8.6 & NextGen 1.4.2

I don’t belive this is a issue of 1.4 x, otherwise much more used should have the same problem. I can’t reproduce this here. Chcek the permissions of the view folder, this is the only possible problem I know so far

I have resolved the issue. The file in the view folder was named album-extend.php rather than album-extended.php.

??? but the file is namend “extend” since V1.00 ??? (I agree extended is better, but I used the name extend | compact a very very long time )

Don’t know what to tell you. The package I downloaded from the WP site includes “album-extend.php” in the View folder.

The error being thrown on my album page was “Rendering of template album-extended.php failed.”

So I just changed the file name to what the system appeared to be expecting. Nothing more.

Ok, resolved the true issue.

I called the album with “[album id=1 template=extended]” as my shortcode. Turns out I was quickly scanning rather than reading your documentation.

The plugin appears to take that shortcode literally when searching for a file name. The other individual in this thread appears to have made the same user error that I did. I assumed when I saw this thread existed that it was an actual bug…

…the only bug here is lazy users. Thanks for your attention though.

For future reference, the proper format is [album id=X template=extend]

Thanks for the feedback ! Just wondering why this happend AFTER the upgrade. Everytime I release a new version I do my best to ensure that you didn’t get compat issues…

Stupid me. I decided to let this plug in upgrade automatically. Now I have an empty nextgen gallery plug-in folder, a broken nggSlideshowWidget() on my homepage, and now that the zip versions of the plug-in are not available, no way to download the plug-in and fix the issue. So now I’m stuck commenting out the widget call and have no slideshow on my homepage. The nextgen slideshow was the only thing providing any visuals.

I am calling specific nextgen galleries in individual wordpress posts.

[nggallery id=xx]

Yet I still get the following error:

Rendering of template gallery.php failed

I have reinstalled the plugin. I have also downgraded and that hasnt worked for me and then upgraded and nothing has fixed the error. I have changed the permissions to ‘755’ and even ‘777’ to the entire nextgen folder and every sub directory and file underneath and nothing has resolved the issue.