[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Sidebar Widget – How to link page page anot not the image

I don’t know of a way to this with a widget. And getting NextGen to link to an post or page rather than the images is a bit of work. You need to use the NextGen Custom Fields plugin and tweak the NextGen plugins.

I wrote two articles about this

https://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-link-nextgen-gallery-images-to-an-individual-page-or-post-in-wordpress/

Have you tried this widget?

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

I’m using it and does the job after you define a page link in the gallery settings. Actually you can define a default page for all thumbnails.

Hello, I too am trying to figure out a way to get the widget images to link to their corresponding image page.
I think it’s a little odd how this isn’t provided as a standard option.

The Custom Fields workaround might work, but having to input a link on each image seems rather static and laborious, unless there’s a way to add the link dynamically..?

The other widget plugin, the Sidebar Widget, is good for listing galleries, but I don’t see a way to replicate the random and recent images that the original widget outputs.

Any more ideas anyone?

Right, I’ve been tearing my hair out, and have come up with a solution (and am now bald).

I installed the Custom Fields plugin, and entered a Link attribute to each and every image to tell it what album/gallery it was in.
I then hacked the nextgen-gallery/widgets/widgets.php page a little, replacing $image->imageURL in the anchor tag href for the following on line 319:

$out = ‘pid, “Link”) . ‘?pid=’.$image->pid . ‘” title=”‘ . $description . ‘” ‘ . $thumbcode .’>’;

That seemed to do the trick.

I also edited nextgen-gallery/view/singlepic.php to link to the image page, by replacing line 22 with this:

ngg_custom_fields[“Link”] . ‘?pid=’.$image->pid ?>” title=”<?php echo $image->linktitle ?>” <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> >

Soooo hopefully there should be no links directly to the image now.
If there are please let me know, as image theft is rife on the web, so I wouldn’t want to make it easier for folk to nick my work.

Enought prattle now. Bye!

If it is a static page there is a pretty easy fix.

Open up /nextgen-gallery/widgets/widgets.php.

Edit the line (currently 322) that says

//TODO:For mixed portrait/landscape it's better to use only the height setting, if widht is 0 or vice versa
$out = '<a href="' . $image->imageURL . '" title="' . $description . '" ' . $thumbcode .'>';

And replace the $image->imageURL with your URL (in quotes).

So it becomes
'<a href="' . 'YOUR URL HERE'. '" title="' . $description . '" ' . $thumbcode .'>';