[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Upgrade loop

I had the same issue and for now my solution was to disable the plugin and then enable it on a blog by blog basis rather than site-wide.

The good thing is that once disabled, then enabled again, it didn’t touch any of the galleries created already. However, in the blogs that I had the gallery up and running in there was a strange error message, this occurred only once upon visiting the plugin page after – it didn’t seem to be an issue but it might frighten your users into sending a support email.

It’s a great plugin and would benefit from something that would simply tell a user that they need to create the tables (as do plugins like Contact Form 7 that tell you that the tables need creating on first use).

Thanks for the time you put into a great plugin Alex.

Hi, I am having the same problem now. I am using WordPress 2.9.2 and just after upgrading to Nextgen 1.5.0 I have this never ending message “upgrade database structure” and nothing happens. I tried to deactivate and reactivate the plugin, just as said above, but I still have the same problem. Then I tried to find, as simplistik said above, the $dbversion, but it already had the right version 1.5.0 written inside the php file.

I am not a programmer so I don’t have a real understanding of what I am doing here.

Should I completely delete the plugin and reinstall it again? Will I loose all my pictures and captions doing so?

I would be very grateful if someone could help me over here, thanks…

Same thing. WP 2.9.2 with a clean NextGen install from within the plugin manager.

Can’t anyone help on this?

Thanks,

Andy

Andy, I found a radical solution, as no one is answering over here, I downgraded NextGen back to version 1.4.3 and everything is working as it was before… I’ll think a 100 times before doing a new upgrade.

I had the same problem, and finally got it working by…
1. deactivate the plugin from sitewide
2. activate for main blog only
3. deactivate
4. activate sitewide
I have no idea why – but that worked.

I also was able to fix this by activating per-site and not sitewide. (Inweb’s solution didn’t work for me, but it would have been nice!)

I’m using WordPress 3.0 and NexGen 1.5.0. Not many other plugins, and nothing of significant impact.

This is a fine solution, though. NexGen is a pretty incredible plugin, I have to say.

Just wanted to say that this is still happening in 1.5.5 & WP 3.0.1.
Works fine after manually creating the tables.

I updated the code for Multisite installation and can in this environment (WPMU) reproduce the loop issue. You can follow my current dev here :

https://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/issues/detail?id=286

I need to fix some minor things and will release in the next month a first beta for download, php hackers can look for this code changes :

https://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/source/diff?spec=svn779&r=779&format=side&path=/trunk/nggallery.php

Use this on your own RISK !

I have the same loop problem right now. Once I am not a programmer, I don’t know how to manually create the tables. Any help with this please?

Test the new beta of Nextgen Gallery

I’m testing the new beta, using WP 3.0.1 and getting the same issue….or a similar issue. I am also not a programmer so keep that in mind. Here is the error I get:

Could not find NextGEN Gallery database tables, upgrade failed !

Upgrade sucessful

I like how it says upgrade failed and then upgrade successful. ?? Anyway if I hit continue I get the following:

The script detect that you upgrade from a older version. Your database tables for NextGEN Gallery is out-of-date, and must be upgraded before you can continue. If you would like to downgrade later, please make first a complete backup of your database and the images.

The upgrade process may take a while, so please be patient.

Then and endless loop. Could someone help me in layman’s terms please?

You need to deactive the plugin and then reactive it again as “site wide plugin”

Thanks for the help Alex! How does one active as a site wide plugin? I don’t see that option?

Are you using is this plugin in a multisite environment ?

Forgive my stupidity, but I don’t think so. I’m only using it for my personal site. Again, I’m quite the newb, but I see no network activation options for any of the plugins..including “Hello Dolly”.