faridjame

Hello Cais,

I’m a web developer and have propbably worked on more than 70-80 WordPress websites. I have used NextGEN in many projects and I thank you all for it; however, during my development time, I have come to the conclusion that NextGEN is not an overall reliable plugin to use:

1) I’ve instances where NextGEN hasn’t played nicely with other popular plugins
2) Have received a complete blank page experience on WP websites installed on certain servers (ex: RackSpace)
3) Not good/enough documentation on the usage of shortcodes.
4) Causing jQuery conflicts
5) Not good/enough documentation on the usage of API (functions on how to retrive galleries and albums in the code vs using the UI).

Some of these might have already been fixed. That review was just my instant reaction to the overall experience I’ve had with NextGEN over the years.

Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any JavaScript event that I can manually use to hook every slide click to go to the next one?

@ryanoelke,

Please make sure you have correctly defined WP_CONTNT_URL in your wp-config.php:

Correct:
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'https://example.com/wp-content');

Wrong:
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', '/wp-content');

Wrong:
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'wp-content');

I’ve had this issue with NextGen several times and that’s been the way I’ve fixed the issue.

Hope it helps.

I was able to fix the thumbnail issue by changing line 601 of ngg_nivoslider.php to this:

$output .= "\" " . $image_description . " border=\"0\" class=\"nivo_image\" data-thumb=\"" . $image->thumbURL . "\" alt=\"nivo slider image\" />";

and in css,
.nivo_slider_controlNavImages .nivo-controlNav{visibility: visible;}