lucianoippolito

I had the same problem in one of my wordpress sites, the slideshow not working due to the “path to the Imagerotator (URL):” window didnt accepted the location I enter. My particular problem was every time I tried to use the search now buton or type it manually the system kept telling me there was no imagerotator.swf file in the directory.

Here are the steps I followed to fix the problem:

The first thing I did was to make 2 new fresh installations (very easy via simplescripts in the cpanel) to check if they worked. They worked fine. Of course I used the same wp verion as in my current website (3.0)

Since it worked I figured out it was a conflict with some plugin or with the theme (by the way my current site runs atahualpa 3.5.1 theme but the fresh instalation tests were with the default theme which is Twenty Ten 1.0)

Then I deactivated all plugins and activated the dafult wp theme.

Next I deleted nextgen plugin installation (I deactivated and then I deleted from the wp plugins manager)

I installed again the nextgen gallery and placed the imagerotatator.swf file into the wp-content/uploads directory

I went to nextgen–>options–>slideswow and the first thin I did was to press the “search now” button for the “path to the image rotator” window and it worked fine, the system recognized the imagerotator.swf file. Problem solved.

Then I re-activated the theme and the plugins. One by one and testing (refreshing) the site every time. everithing was ok.

Done.

I really dont know were was the problem, I suppose one of the installed plugins or theme kept the nextgen slideshow serach now button from finding the file. The important thing is now it is working fine.

I hope this could help someone to solve their problem. I want to apoligize I my gramar is not good, I dont speak english well so I hope the instructions are clear.

Best regards,
Luciano.