maierma

However, the safest (and most reliable) route for me has always been to upload the pictures via ftp to the desired folder and creating then the thumbnails. NextGen then seems to recognize the files as it is supposed to and even manages to creat thumbnails correctly. ??

For some obscure reasons, the zip-upload does not always work.

Sometimes, odd plugins, even when deactivated, can cause problems. I’d delete them completely to make sure that no part is causing issues here.

It is also always worth switching to the default theme and check if problems continue. I have recently had trouble with some behaviour of a theme that overrides certain styles etc. (IE only that was).

@@ snowowl78
@@ crjahn

I’ve had exactly the same problem (and, apparently, I’m using 1&1!).

The follwoing worked for me:
– deactivate *ALL* Plugins
– activate NextGen again
– create new thumbnails (should work OK with only NextGen activcated!)
– step by step activate the plugins you really need

Can’t remember the plugin that caused the problem but some bugger was responsible …

Good luck!

@@ emorace
@@ Samantha (MaManfile)

Could you please give URLs to your blogs and the pages with these problems?

It is almost impossible to help you if we don’t know what exactly we have to look for. some problems are caused by stylesheets of specific themes, issues with other plugins etc.

If you provide links, we may be able to track down the problem(s).

@@ lightfazer

ImageFlow makes use of one album (album id) so I suggest you create a precise album with the pictures you want here.

But I’m not 100% sure I have understood your problem correctly.

Anyway, it is probably more likely to receve an answer from the homepage of the imageflow plugin (and developer Boris usually helps out fast with a reply!).
https://travel-junkie.com/geeky-stuff/wp-plugin-nextgen-imageflow/

Hm, the site looks OK here (fishinverts.com), don’t have the problem mentioned in the other post.

The slideshow is on “autostart”, so that will start anyway, once the site has loaded fully. The “random video” is not working at all. When I open a picture from the sidebar, they open fine.

No visible problem, sorry …

OK, my next guess:

Have you tried to deactivate all plugins and then re-activate the next-gen plugins only? Any change?

Could perhaps also be a conflict among plugins (sometimes even the ngg-plugin appreciates a reset).

Does this appear in the standard-theme (kubrick), too?

This is a great place here – and lots of geeks around who have an amazing knowledge on various subjects. And, above all, all for free.

Your issue may be a plain css-issue or a conflict between plugins, theme-related …

So, let us now exactly what your problem is and, sooner or later, someone will be around, I’m sure. So, what’s botheing you then?

Not much we can do without a link.

If you use Firefox, Firebug (add-on) will usually guide you pretty well to errors and possible changes to the css. You may also email me privately and I can see what I can do.

@@ laura

Have you considered using one of the reeeeaaaally great plugins from Boris?

https://travel-junkie.com/geeky-stuff/wp-plugin-nextgen-flashviewer/

This may help to achieve very much what you are looking for, I suppose.

Not sure but if you put all the “old files” in proper places and then export the xml-file (and re-import to the new blog), I’d imagine that this might work?

OK, I managed, changed the background clolor in the image-flow css to none.

I couldn’t agree more (best plugin with Alex’ nggallery).

@@ cinematic
I’d be curious how you managed to adjust the imageflow so that you have no white background but it fades nicely in with the background of your post (the greyish box where imageflow carousel occurs).

Could you let me know what you did?

Here is an example:

<div class="imageElement">
					<h3>YOUR HAEDING</h3>
					<p>YOUR SUB-HEADING</p>
					<a href="YOUR LINK" title="YOUR LINK-TEXT" class="open"></a>
					<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/YOUR/PATH/TO/YOURPICTURES.jpg" class="full" alt="Shine" />
				</div>

Hope this helps. ??

(Have I mentioned that it is stupid idea to have a gallery implemented like this in a theme? ?? Sorry, no offence!!)

Diana, there are a couple of things that require editing:

h3:
is the text that appears at the bottom of each (individual) picture.
p: The smaller text on the pictures
<a href="..."> The URL which opens if you click on the picture
?>/smoothgallery/images/shine/1.jpg
That’s the path to the pictures which you need to change to the location to the pictures you want. Or just throw your picture in this directory and rename and change the name to the name of your pictures (‘shine’ is also a sub-directory, the picture is ‘1.jpg’.
alt is the least of your worries, that’s just what visitors see if the pictures can’t get loaded – for whatever reason, most will never see this.

It’s going to be a bit tedious but maybe worthwhile if you only have a specific set of pictures you are going to use here.

It is, however, very unfortunate to have the smoothgallery hardwired into the php and css of a theme. This means you can’t change the content of your slideshow easily without editing the php. The wp-smoothgallery simply makes use of the NGG-pictures where you just need to give the id of a certain gallery et voilà. It only need sme fiddling at the beginning to get it into the header of a theme (but doable).

Feel free to email me if you need more specific help (or some hands-on file-modification).