[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Several NextGen issues I need help with.

  • First of all, thank you for taking the time to read my post. And thanks in advance if you can offer any assistance!

    WordPress v. 2.7, NextGen v. 1.1.0

    My first two issues have to do with the way Thumbnails are being displayed.

    You can see what I’m working on here:

    https://www.gailtrobertson.com/gallery

    If you scroll down to the sections “Fog and Rain” and “Figure-Scapes”, you’ll notice there is a problem with the way the Thumbnails are being displayed and they seem to be falling out of the grid. The issue appears to be related to having thumbnails that are not all of the same height. If I have a row of thumbnails where they are of varying heights, it causes the next row of thumbnails to display incorrectly. It looks like the first thumb of the next row, is putting itself under the lowest height thumb from the row above rather than the 1st spot in the next row.

    The second issue is relating to the sorting of thumbs when using the [thumb id=] shortcode. I have the Sort Thumbnails option set to “Custom” in the Options section. And I’m wanting the thumbnails to be displayed in the order I put them in the shortcode ie [thumb id=3,5,6,1,6,2,4] but they display in sequential order ie [thumb id=1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. I have had to go into the actual database and reorder the photo ID’s to get close to the order I’m wanting to achieve, which is obviously going to be a problem when I hand this site over to the owner to manage herself.

    The other area I’m having problems with is with PicLense/Cooliris, For some reason the icon that is supposed to display on the Thumbs only seems to be showing up on a select number of the thumbnails and not all of them. Currently its just the last thumbnails towards the bottom of the Gallery Page.

    Also, when I click on the link that I created at the top of the Gallery page “View with PicLense/Cooliris”, all of the photos from the Gallery will display in 3D mode assuming the end user has the plugin installed in their browser. However, if they don’t have the plugin installed nothing will show up in the Flash version of Cooliris? I could probably deal with just removing the “View with Piclense/Cooliris” link altogether, assuming that when the end user does have the plugin installed that the Cooliris thumbnail icon appears on every thumbnail and not just the few at the end that are displaying now.

    Lastly, see the home page here:

    https://www.gailtrobertson.com

    (and I know this isn’t really a NextGen issue), but I’m wondering if anyone knows a way that you can set the “Screen” color option of the JW Image Rotator to be transparent. So that when a image that doesn’t fill the entire screen in the Flash slideshow is displayed that the textured background behind it displays rather than having to display a solid color. I realize that I probably can’t do this with the NextGen settings directly, but if anyone has input on how I could do it manually I would be very grateful **FYI, this would be a great setting addition for future releases. Maybe having the option of setting a Background Color or Toggling to Transparent as an alternative option.

    Thanks again!

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  • Thread Starter jb1013

    (@jb1013)

    FYI, I was able to resolve the issue of only some of the Thumbs displaying the PicLense icon. You can correct it by going to:

    /nextgen-gallery/xml/media-rss.php

    And changing line 47 to the number of thumbs you need to display. By default its set to 10

    $show = 10;

    I changed it to 100, and now all the thumbs are showing the icon.

    Thread Starter jb1013

    (@jb1013)

    sorry double post

    Thread Starter jb1013

    (@jb1013)

    I think I’ve also found a solution for the making the background on the JW Image Rotator slideshow transparent. It involves removing the black background on the “back” symbol in the library on the source .fla and then adding a parameter to the SWFobject code.

    s1.addParam("wmode", "transparent");

    Changing the source .fla and recompiling a new .swf is no problem.

    Unfortunately, I don’t know how to add the extra parameter. I’m assuming the change needs to be made to:

    /nextgen-gallery/lib/swfobject.php

    I’m referencing information I found here:

    https://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/10238/image-rotator-wmode-transparent-background

    If anyone can offer advice on how to make the modification I would appreciate it.

    Thread Starter jb1013

    (@jb1013)

    I also resolved the problem with the Flash Version of Cooliris.

    Still need help with the transparent background in JW Image Rotator, and the problem with the Thumbnails sorting and displaying correctly.

    Thread Starter jb1013

    (@jb1013)

    OK, I found a fix for the thumbnail display problem as well, by adding a fixed height to the class.

    /* ----------- Gallery style -------------*/

.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box {
	float: left;
        height: 120px;
}

    I still need help with the Sort order problem when using the [thumb id] shortcode. And if possible help with the transparent background in the JW Image Rotator slideshow. So close to finishing this one up.

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