[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Compatibility issues with other plugins (FCB)

  • I am having compatibility issues between NGG and other WP plugins: “SFC – Like” and “SFC – Share” which are part of the Simple Facebook Connect plugin. Whenever I activate either of these SFC plugins the NGG fails to display galleries.

    Without the SFC plugins activated, the HTML code is as follows:

    <!-- main START -->
		<div id="main">
	<div class="post">
		<h3 class="title">Photos</h3>
		<div class="content">
			<p>Gallery Desc</p>  <div class="ngg-galleryoverview" id="ngg-gallery-5-86">
	<!-- Slideshow link -->

    But once I activate either plugin, the NGG plugin fails to generate the gallery:

    <!-- main START -->
		<div id="main">
	<div class="post">
		<h3 class="title">Photos</h3>
		<div class="content">
			<p>Gallery Desc</p>			<div class="fixed"></div>
		</div>
		<div class="meta">

    As you can see, the entire DIV which should contain the images is omitted.
    I have found a topic in SFC support which is almost identical to my issue and several months old. I have also contacted the SFC dev, however he says this is an issue with NGG.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated..

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  • same problem here. I’m using:

    [album id=2 template=compact]

    on activated “SFC – Like Button” the Albums are displayed but if i click on a gallery it will display an empty page.

    Thread Starter ViperBe

    (@viperbe)

    Same here.. I use [album=2,compact]. Albums and sub-albums show, but where galleries are supposed to be, it s left empty.

    I had not noticed this before though, but I have checked now and the gallery shortcode ([nggallery id=25 images=8]) does work fine.
    It is only when galleries are approached through an album that they fail to display..

    OK, now I can work on this… I will come back when I have a fix for this

    Ok, I’m able to track down “my main fault” : A Album show just one instance in the case use use more than one shortcode in a post . As Otto mentioned his plugin call already the content filter in the head. So my internal function “think” the shortcode is used twice or more… You can disable the check in the follow file :

    https://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/source/browse/trunk/nggfunctions.php

    line 417 : $GLOBALS['nggShowGallery'] = true;
    line 427 : $GLOBALS['subalbum'] = true;

    Just delete or comment out these two lines and it should show up. This work’s fine as long as you are not using two album shortcode in one post, the you will receive the content twice. So I need to look here for a better solution.

    My gallery does now show, but it does show twice. Thanks for working on this, hope you find the better solution.

    Mike

    thanks for your feedback, I will add a note to the plugin description that it’s imcompatible with Simple Facebook Connect. There are other plugins you can use, so it’s not top urgent and I will rework my function

    Thread Starter ViperBe

    (@viperbe)

    Those 2 edits fix the issue for me. Since I don’t have any places where I use multiple gallery shortcodes in a single post yet, I don’t have the issue where it shows twice.

    Thanks for the patch. Looking forward to a more permanent solution!

    the problem is not solved for me.
    I have pages with multiple galleries, organized in albums.

    from what I understand the fix for nextgen, only solve if you do NOT use album and, for me, this is a great limitation.
    Albums are a great feature which is a shame to limit it, also because there is no other way to represent various galleries.

    This is an example of my page:
    https://www.teatrogolden.it/teatro/photo-gallery/
    Activating SFC – Like Button Version 0.25, the galleries are a blank page

    Nextgen Version 1.7.4
    SFC – Like Button Version 12:25

    OT:
    Take this opportunity to say that would be a good idea if the NextGen Gallery Slideshow, without title, it does not put a default and recover the space. This is to allow its use in different contexts from classical widgets.

    Wetail

    (@pierrewiberg)

    Hi, I just took over a site.
    Its running wpmu 3.0.1 and the Nextgen plugin is 1.7.3

    One of the former admins installed simple facebook connect and the Nextgen gallery stopped working. Any way, before my jobb started I told them to uninstall the SFC plugin but the slideshow carousel is still not working.
    Please take a look https://www.aveny.se/?vimmel=yaki-da-29

    What to do?

    Thread Starter ViperBe

    (@viperbe)

    Is there any chance of a more permanent solution for this being implemented…
    The workaround works, but I have to remember to edit the source code after every update.. I also keep running into the “multiple album short codes in 1 post” issue caused by the workaround, so a more permanent fix for this would be nice..

    Ok, I did edit the lines (430 and 440 in the 1.8.3 version). I installed this a while ago and was not aware of the bug.

    The good news are that there is a solution, the bad news are that I actually will have to update the lines in every update.

    Of all Facebook plugins I tested SFC is the best one, for functionality and design. And for Galleries I do like this one (updating all my current galleries would be a enormous task to do).

    Sportivo

    (@sportivo)

    Editing the lines did the job for me as well.

    [email protected]

    (@keithsykestelecomsensecouk)

    Hi Alex and Otto,
    Would it be possible for you guys to work together to ressolve this issue.

    I have a page with the short code

    [album id=5 template=compact]

    [album id=6 template=compact]

    [album id=1 template=compact]

    this level displays ok but when drilling down I get a blank screen with SFC enabled, if I delete the lines as suggested I get multiple albums,

    I currently have to enable SFC every time I need to publish to facebook, this soluiton is not suitible for the rest of the website editior. As you both have a high profile plugin it would be GREAT if if didn’t clash.

    Yours hopedfully
    Keith

    The reason for Nextgen’s incompatibility was discovered 8 months ago and Alex has bee made aware. It’s related to this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-ngg-and-featured-image-issue?replies=17

    The issue is that nextgen modifies the thumbnail ID from wordpress standards and saves the ID as a non-integer when WP expects ID to be saved as an integer.

    That would make Nextgen incompatible with a lot of different plugins. Alex has said he will look into fixing this but i’m unsure if he’s even started. It would be nice to see in the next release…that would benefit a lot of users and make Nextgen a enterprise level product.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    @mykkal: That is not in fact the problem, although it is a problem, certainly.

    Nextgen Gallery is using shortcodes and filters incorrectly. This is a deep problem with the plugin, one which I doubt he’ll be able to easily fix without a major amount of rewriting.

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