[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Showing all Galleries Issue

My goal: to show all galleries on one page on which each gallery link will direct the user to my custom gallery template.

How I did it: [album id="0" template="nesn" gallery="nesn"]

First Problem: The pagelink property for each gallery does not include the gallery’s slug or ID number:

[2] => stdClass Object (
[gid] => 2
[name] => tmz-cougars
[slug] => tmz-cougars
[path] => wp-content/gallery/tmz-cougars
[title] => TMZ Cougars
[galdesc] => A collection of cougars according to TMZ.
[pageid] => 160
[previewpic] => 24
[author] => 1
[counter] => 12
[previewname] => wendy2.jpg
[previewurl] => https://local.nesn.wordpress.dev/wp-content/gallery/tmz-cougars/thumbs/thumbs_wendy2.jpg
[pagelink] => https://local.nesn.wordpress.dev/nextgen-gallery-sandbox/gallery
)

Second problem: Appending the gallery slug to the end of the pagelink property in the view template creates a valid link, however, because the page is using the album shortcode, the function nggShowAlbum() is called again and dies with the message [Album not found]. I know this is because there is no value in get_query_var('gallery')

Solution: My current fix is to assign the $album value to $gallery in the function nggShowAlbum(). This works because the value of $album is really a gallery, but it isn’t ideal.

Also, I’m not linking any album or gallery to a WordPress page.

Am I doing something wrong here?

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/