ldaniels

The instructions are right there on the Watermark options tab:

“You can upload more fonts in the folder nggallery/fonts “

When you upload fonts, they will appear in the dropdown choices.

Caution: if you are using a non web standard font, not everyone will be able to see it and the font will revert to the default.
There are multiple ways around that, but require using either a plugin like Google Fonts or using the @font face technique.

You can always create an image with your fontstyle and just use that and choose “Use image as watermark” choice on the Watermark tab.

The procedure to drag and drop is:

1. Under Manage Albums, you need to select the Album you want from the dropdown list next to “Select Album”
2. The album will then show up in the left pane of the 3 panes.
3. Drag the gallery you want from the center pane to the left pane.
4. When you are done, click Update next to the Album name by the top dropdown box.

If this is what you are doing and it is still giving you an error, then you may have a conflict with another plugin. You might try deactivating plugins. Or, deactivate NextGEN and reactivate. Last resort: reinstall NextGen.

Let us know!

Lee

Go to Gallery -> Options -> Gallery. UNcheck “integrate slideshow”
Go to Gallery -> Options-> Effects tab and make sure that whatever lightbox you use (Shutter is the default) is showing. Even if it is, save it again. That usually works.
Sometimes you actually have to deactivate NextGEN, then reactivate and Go to Gallery -> Options-> and do the above changes.

Looking at your code, you only have the Slideshow activated. You do not have Shutter or any other lightbox activated.

Let us know!

Lee

Hi Robin,

A couple things. You have a plugin installed – “wp-custom-fields-search” – that will override the gallery search.

Your preference for having the image archive search separate is much easier. Yes, you can do that. A wonderful example of just that function with NextGEN is https://blog.aengusm.com Look at the menu at top and click on “Search Image Database” It only searches his images, nothing else.
The code to accomplish this is here: https://www.vrwebdesign.co.uk/tutorials/search-images-gen-gallery/

That should give you and your designer a head start!

Your site is a great showcase for some stunning work! I like your watermark as well. Well done!

Lee

Just in case anyone needs to know:
There are two separate files named media-rss.php.

One is in wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/

The other is in: wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/

Very easy to get them confused. For the fix described in this thread, you need the media-rss.php file in the LIB directory

To fool with the number of feed items, you need the media-rss.php file in the XML directory

In the sidebar menu, go to Gallery -> Roles
Make sure all the boxes are set to “Administrator.” (or whatever role you choose)
If they are set that way, you might try the plugin “Capability Manager” that is linked at the top of the Roles options page.

If that doesn’t work, try deactivating and reactivating the plugin.

HTH

There are many NextGEN templates that can work for what you want.

The GalleryView template is a good one to start with.
https://nextgen-gallery.com/templates/galleryview/

Look for Carousel type templates for NextGEN if you don’t like GalleryView.

That should give you a start!

If you look at NextGEN-> Options-> Effects, you will see multiple choices in the drop down menu. That is why I asked. There are choices.

You are using Shutter. Shutter closes when you click on the picture. You go from picture to picture by using the navigation arrows under the picture.

You might want to set it to Lightbox and then use one of the many lightbox plugins for WordPress. “Simple Lightbox” plays nicely with all other plugins. “Lightbox Plus” is also a favorite.

Try one of those.

Which lightbox or slideshow are you using with NextGEN? They all have different settings and some are supposed to close when you click on the image and do not display a next or previous link.

I just downloaded a fresh copy of NextGEN Gallery 1.7.4. In the file: /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/media-rss.php, the following code appears on line 39:

$show = isset ($_GET['show']) ? (int) $_GET['show'] : 10;

I changed the number 10 to 40 and it showed 40 pictures in the feed.

You are looking at the media-rss.php file in the nextgen-gallery/lib/ folder. You need to find the media-rss.php file in the nextgen-gallery/xml/ folder.

Easy mistake to make.

Under wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/
find media-rss.php
Around line 39 find:
$show = isset ($_GET['show']) ? (int) $_GET['show'] : 10;

Change the number “10” to whatever you want.

Are you saying the Site is not loading instantly or the Gallery is not loading instantly?

I have 3 sites running NextGEN with WordPress and they all load instantly with no lag time for images to load.
One of them has 30 galleries grouped under 6 albums. There is no lag time loading either the site or the galleries except for one gallery that has 150 images. The lightbox window for that gallery takes a while to load. That is easily solved by splitting the gallery, not only for load time, but to prevent visual fatigue on behalf of the viewer (“isn’t this gallery over yet???)
Make sure, also, that NextGEN-> Options-> Gallery-> Add hidden images is UNchecked, otherwise you will have a long load time with galleries.

I hope this is what you are asking.

WP Test Site is just a sandbox site with a few galleries. The galleries load very quicky. (The site itself is not pretty – just used for testing items)

SF Windsports is a live site that has 30 galleries, including the November 2009 gallery with 150 images. All the galleries load quickly except for the big one which takes a while.

Go to Manage Gallery
Choose a gallery that has a Page ID of “0”
On the gallery page, look at the top right side
Find “Create New Page:”
Click on “Add Page” right below the parent page box.
Click Save Changes

Now you have automatically created a page and it will appear on the top left under “Page Link to:”

If you want the gallery to be a subpage, then choose one of the pages in the dropdown box next to Create New Page AFTER you have added the new page.

That is the easiest method.

The manual method is:
You can always manually create the page in WordPress and insert the gallery shortcode there.
Then on the right side, choose whether it is a main page or a sub-page of another gallery.

I’m familiar with the function and have used Photoshelter for one site and use the great stand-alone gallery program 4images for another stock site. Both have the related images by search keyword function that returns thumbnails.
NextGEN has the beginnings of that and you can choose “Activate related images” on the Options page under General Options and then choose categories.
It is not, however, integrated into the search function yet. I haven’t looked at hacking the code to allow it, but might in the future.
Certainly searching by any keyword or combination of keywords does produce nice thumbnail results, just not the list function you seek.
I look forward to that as well!

Cheers,

Lee

That is actually a Fancybox question and they have a very active forum with lots of tips and tricks. You might want to ask there. Go to the plugin page and it will lead you from there.