Jeff Cohan

@mes: Thanks for trying, but you’re missing my point.

Thanks for the info, Mike. I have committed.

It’s actually quite functional, but the plugin installation is buggy. You need to copy a file from the plugin folder to the /wp-admin/ folder. Information is here, in this other thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/406758

What it does:

Once properly installed, clicking on the “IImage Browser” toolbar button (from the HTML edit window) launches a new browser window from which you can navigate to different folders and select images for embedding in a post.

I learned about this from the Digging into WordPress book. The same content is here at https://digwp.com

HTH.

@adbl: Are you wanting to include many images from several Web sites into your NextGen galleries? Or just an occasional one or two?

I was thinking of UPLOAD image from url

NGG doesn’t appear to have that feature.

Neither does the internal Media Library of WordPress, for that matter. Forgive me if you already know this, but the “Add media file from URL” method of WordPress’ internal Media Library does not actually upload or copy the image to your server. It simply adds an image tag whose source attribute is the image’s URL. (Unless I’m majorly misssing something!)

I’d be surprised if NGG supports images from URL.

IMO, images from URL isn’t a reliable choice anyway. Images can change, be renamed, or be deleted. Also, remote sites might prevent your site from serving up their images.

Thanks, @jugoretz.

You wrote:
> largely unnecessary in newer versions of WP which
> have image uploading and editing so much more
> neatly integrated

I find it useful for at least 2 reasons:

1) it doesn’t add unwanted CSS classes;

2) it facilitates embedding into pages and blog posts images that are part of the NextGen gallery.

On point #2: If NextGen gallery images are checked as “excluded”, they don’t appear in the “insert media/image” dialog while editing a page or blog post.

I also kinda like the 1994-ish UI. ??

There are a couple of things I see.

A) If you override (or remove) the “clear:both;” rule in this CSS declaration of the nggallery.css…

.ngg-galleryoverview {
clear:both;
display:block !important;
margin-top:10px;
overflow:hidden;
width:100%;
}

…I think things may move up.

B) Most of the thumbs are 100px wide; some are 109px wide. To make them uniform, go to the gallery in the admin panel and recreate thumbnails.

Hope this helps.

Got it. Thanks to @flowfree!

@flowfree:

Thank you for your post. It solved my problem, which I posted in another thread.

Thanks to you, I was able to display titles and descriptions on gallery pages. Here’s the result:

https://sjwoodfiredpizza.com/gallery

Wish I could help you solve your remaining problems, but I don’t think I can.

BTW, here’s the link to the WP forum post of mine, where I asked how to display titles and descriptions on gallery pages:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/404531

Here is a rough sketch of what I’m looking for:

https://nsiteful.com/special/misc/nextgen01.gif

This thread offers a solution.

I belive I solved the problem (thanks to good ol’ Firebug).

By changing the gallery effect from Shutter to Lightbox, the ghost went away.

Explanation (I think):

I have the Lightbox2 plugin installed. There was probably a conflict with either the Lightbox2 JavaScript or CSS or both.

Ny NextGen options had been set to use the Shutter effect (the default). This, apparently invoked the shutter-reloaded.css stylesheet. The ghost image has a style of opacity: 0.8 and a background-color of #000.

HTH

I am experiencing the same problem and would also like to hear about solutions.

I’m using a custom child theme based on Thematic.