deano_h

@-Cais – I created this site and galleries about 4-5 years ago and can’t recall the exact procedure, I remember seeking help from the forum as I wanted the plugin to do something that it didn’t “out of the box”. I’m wondering if I made some changes to a .php file as I recall something about wanting a single thumbnail that opened up a carousel window to display a range of images, with captions!

It all worked fine, until the plugin upgrade, which would have included new pref php’s presumably?!

Other than a rollback, and perhaps you being able to see it in working order, I can’t see another way of me being able to diagnose the break!

I know I created an album, for each gallery.

Cheers, D.

@-Cais: just tried a reset and it doesn’t appear to have fixed the “no images were found” error…

https://www.diy-sos.co.uk/happy-customers/

Cheers,
D.

@-Cais: thank you for the reply. I understand that support for TinyDesk should be sought from its author; I have initiated this elsewhere (but don’t hold much hope as there is a distinct lack of archived posts for this “app”).
I mentioned it on this thread hoping other ngg users might have some experience with it.

My main concern now, is that my gallery page is broken, due to the ngg upgrade and even after a full, site restore, from an archived backup, the plugin remains at the most recent version, and the fault persists!

I’ll try your advice on resetting, and will report back here.

Cheerz,
D.

WPyogi, now had a ‘tinker’ with this.

It’s a good plugin. Very simple to use and I managed to quickly create a photostream and sync it to a “blog post” on my site.

However, that’s the problem… I don’t want it to create a gallery as a blog post, rather maintain a gallery on a static page!

I can’t see in the documentation for the plugin, how to utilise it for my purpose and have posted to the relevant support pages…

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/photostream-sync-can-i-use-this-to-maintain-a-static-page-gallery?replies=1#post-6379866

Let’s see what I get back.
Thanks for your input.

Roger that!

I’ll post back when I’ve had a tinker ????

Ok. Thanks for the links.
I’ll look into those and have a fiddle!
Wonder why they didn’t show up as possibles when I searched for this topic on the forum/support pages?
What search criteria did you use?

Any takers??

Oh, and Merry Christmas ??

As an added thought…

I’d be happy to add a blog to the website if this was a more practical way of getting a regularly updated photo gallery up and running but as a blog doesn’t exist on the site yet, that would be something else I’d have to study up on ??

Still watching this for replies!

I have found some references regarding this problem and the best so far involves a css hack which seems to have helped some people wishing to do this…

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/next-gen-gallery-single-thumbnail-for-an-album?replies=31

Is the thread where this is discussed. Before I try this route (and perhaps settle for it), I did notice that the post was a year old so wanted to make sure that this workaround was still valid and hasn’t been superseded by something more elegant/founded, such as a mod to NextGen plugin itself?

Any takers?
tnks
d.

Ah. The auto-installer (plugin directory was falling on its ass and not installing the WHOLE of the plugin and all files within it.

A manual d/load from the wp plugin site (in .zip), unzipping on my mac and then an FTP upload to the plugin directory sorted things so far.

I can see the plugin in my wp admin now.

There should be a safeguard against this partial install problem in the wp codex, or at least a warning eh?

Thanks for your help.

Hmmnn…

I have tried to repeat the install, by deleting via FTP and then re-using the plugin page of wp.

Are you saying I should do a manual upload/install via FTP?

Luca,
Can you expand a little? I used the host’s File Manager, in my control panel to 777 the /uploads dir but this wasn’t needed before I u/graded to 3.0.2, before that, they were 755! So what has changed? There must be a back end php or something that the upload media utility uses and this has lost ownership/access to /uploads… that’s my guess anyway.

What do you mean by “be quiet and try to discover what happened in your dirs through a File Manager”

Thanks
deano
(btw: my son’s name is Lucas ??

Having just updated to 3.0.2 and experiencing all sorts of grief with my host not supporting auto updates, backups and restores (that their CP says it does [see my other posts]), I managed to get all back to working and then found I had the same issue as mentioned in this thread. i.e. The upload function of WP media gallery no longer worked.

I got the same message as stated in the 1st thread of this post, albeit with my own directory path(s) etc.

I have just tried James’ permissions fix and made ‘/uploads’ 777, plus all sub-directories.

This worked fine. However, I’m a bit concerned at having this directory and it’s subdirectories world editable!

Should I be? Can this be fixed another way?
It didn’t have to be done for my initial install of WP!
Is there a php file or something that has had it’s access to /uploads removed so that it can no longer write to this directory?

That would seem to make sense as there was no issue previously.

Curious for any suggestions. Tnks,
deano.

Thanks for the help.
I have to fess up now…

After trying this fix this and that, looking at permissions and using the cp tools, the problem still persisted.

Then a moment of clarity and a resort back to the step-by-step debugging that I should have employed in the first place… “check local environment for issues first!”

A quick login from my other laptop to my site and all was working in the admin tools! Back to my laptop>open Safari>Empty Cache and all is now working fine on here too!

Obviously a bad cookie or hinky in the cached pages… I should have recalled from my early days building sites from the ground up… pre WordPress et al.

So, let this be a lesson to others… check both environments!

Thanks again for the info and the links.

Before updating to 3.0.2, I tried an “as is” backup and restore, using the exact files and db that comprised my ‘working’ site and dashboard/wp-admin.

So, it would seem to point towards permissions, as you say. I did notice that when first ftp’ing my public_html directory from the host and then ftp’ing it back for a restore, the permission had changed on that from what it was previously, so I’ll look into what other directories may have been altered. BTW, is the a way to d/load files from the host and ensuring that permission don’t get altered?

Also, my host has a tool in the cp for fixing permissions. Do you think it would be safe to use this?

Ta, Deano.