[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] I need the gallery without thumbs

Yessssssss! You are great! In fact I’ve forgotten completely to copy that ngg folder to the new theme. Rendering of template gallery-gifview.php failed wasn’t shown because I deleted it, trying everything.

#4 I gave the folders gallery/aliens/ and gallery/ampeln permission 777 also the thumbs folders. Nothing changes. The rest of the folders have 710.

The code behind the place where the thumbnail should appear looks like this:

<td class="thumbnail column-thumbnail"><a href="https://animierte-gifs.gifwelt.info/wp-content/gallery/aliens/001.gif" class="thickbox" title="001.gif">
  <img class="thumb" src="https://animierte-gifs.gifwelt.info/wp-content/gallery/aliens/thumbs/thumbs_001.gif" id="thumb1">
</a>
</td>

So when I enter https://animierte-gifs.gifwelt.info/wp-content/gallery/aliens/001.gif, the picture get shown. When I try to see the corresponding thumb https://animierte-gifs.gifwelt.info/wp-content/gallery/aliens/thumbs/thumbs_001.gif, I geht 403. The paths are correct.

Mysterious! A new chapter of X-files? ??

Appart from all that, what is your general advise in organising all these pictures? I can’t decide whether I should use categories or pages. I don’t really understand the difference. I would like the numbers of pictures shown in each category, but I don’t have a clou how to do that. The album I created is not shown (inhalt). And also one of the big problems are the different sizes of the pictures. I need quite a big flexibility in the appearance of the page. There are e.g. also animated lines with a width of 500 and a hight of maybe 30 px. The management and design of this project is absolutely challenging. And I would be very glad when you can help me with your experience. ??

Hi bee, in which file do I have to fix the hight and width for the thumbs? I can’t find it. I use NGG 1.2.1. Does the gifs get correctly resized then?

Hi,
regarding the thumbs, can you find which permissions the thumbs have or try to set permissions to the thumbs, or try to generate new ones again, as you can see i have no clue.

In general a classical blog is using posts categories for daily thoughts and you can browse through them by category or the archive, pages are more for the purposes of the classical website.

I dont know why theres no album shown dont see a trace of the expected code.

Regarding the different sizes: this is not easy as the resizing is globally set as an option as the columns are too.

And what i was talking about height is not about resizing pics but giving them a uniform container with a fixed height around them to bring order to the look. Problem is you have to take the highest pic as a measure, advantage you can get rid of columns as even only two are to much for 500 width.

This fixed height could be individualised a little bit more but only to the point of having it per gallery as this would have to be made possible by calling an altered copy of the gallery-gif.php.

To try this the first step would be to put a copy the file “nggallery.css” thats inside the “css” folder of ngg inside your themes folder (this to keep changes after updating ngg) and then alter it by looking for .ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box {
and put a height eg height:300px; inside the brackets.

best regards
bee

You are right again! (who wonders?). The thumbs itselfs had 600, the pictures have 740. I gave the thumbs also 740 and now they are shown. Very good!

It is not necessarily about NGG, but allow me the question. Along with pages, I can not use categories and tag-cloud, right?

Anyway, I probably can not use NGG for my site, since not all images can be displayed properly. Do you know a gallery that serves better my needs? Otherwise, I create the pages by hand.

Hi,
with categories right with tag cloud do you mean that: https://nextgen.boelinger.com/tag-cloud/ works on pages. For general tagcloud, tags for pages there could be plugins? https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simple-tags/

And sorry im not experienced with other gallery plugs my search ended a long time ago left me sticking with ngg. But if you still wan to try it with ngg, you should try to switch off columns and sort the pics (now you can as you see the thumbs) manually by height in each gallery this should bring order and correct display.

best regards
bee

Thank you so much for your patience.

Yes, I would like to use NGG. I switched off columns now and it looks better. But I don’t know how to sort the pics manually by height. I see the thumbs, but the all have the same size and lots of the pictures are corrupt. That happens very often with animated gifs when they get transformed to thumbs. But anyway, how can I sort pics?

I would prefer to have all animated pics on a page in the same size and when someone clicks a gif, the original size is shown. Is this possible?

Hi,
you can sort them manually there adim->gallery->manage->gallery->yourchosengallery look for the button sort pictures its close to the actions for selected thumbnails. hit it and you can move them in order with your mouse.

The only thing that comes to my mind is to resize gifs locally and rename them according to ngg conventions then upload in thumbsfolder replacing the others.

best regards
bee

Morning bee,

When you say I shall sort the pics by hight, do you mean, that I sort them by the format landscape and portrait (Hoch- und Querformat) to get a minimum order on a page?

Next question: Is it possible to show the number of pics per categorie somewhere?

Hi,
ok forgot something first you have to set admin->gallery->options->gallery Sorting to user defined.

Yes thats what i meant to say to avoid empty spaces.

And for the count could be done per gallery, but i can see no way of doing that without changing nggfunctions.php which is nothing i like to do very much because changes are lost after updating ngg.

best regards
bee

Hi,

I understand. I found out myself that I have to change the settings to user defined. About changing nggfunctions.php we’ll think later. It won’t be a big problem to do that. I can handle that.

What I try to do for one hour now is to get a bigger distance between the lines. I tried everything I know (margin-bottom: 20px;). I activated ngg_dkret3.css and copied it to the theme. I have no clou where add the margin or change settings. Do you know it? I use firebug for ff, but it did not help this time.

And I test the possibility to make all thumbs myself (batch in fireworks). Look at aliens and arzt so far. It looks good.

Hi,
i would choose
.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box {
float: left;
}
for the margin, but i think you have to rename ngg_dkret3.css to nggallery.css first because that is the only one that gets included automatically if found in theme folder.

best regards
bee

Where do you see, that nggallery.css is the only one that gets included automaticallly? I added margin-bottom: 20 px; to ngg_dkret3.css directly. That’s the only way it works. But not a elegant solution. Copy to the theme folder don’t work.

I would like to have the preview windows always in the same size. Do you know where I have to define that? I found TB_window or element.style. But I could not really find where I can set a fix height and width.

Hi,
i meant for keeping the changes when upgrading ngg it would make sense to rename a copy of the changed ngg_dkret3.css to nggallery.css and put it in your themes folder, this will make ngg using it instead of others.

If you mean the thickbox overlay effect? Maybe the javascript would be a place to look for that.

best regards
bee

Hi,

I am back with the same old problem. The thumbs are not shown anymore, also no pictures. Take a look at “augen”. I try for 3 days now – no way. Folders and files have 777. I deleted them several thimes, uploaded them again, imported again. What else can I try?