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For the list to open in the little box when you hover or click JavaScript has to be working and enabled. Do you have Javascript turned off or disabled somehow?

Can you give a link to your page?

Have you tried showing the gallery as thumbnails instead of the flash slideshow?

Just to clarify, you want to click on a thumbnail, which will open a gallery of many thumbnails, and then click on those thumbnails to open the full size images?

It sounds like you’ll need to open an iframe with the first click, or ajax html. It looks like Thickbox is able to do those.

Here’s a list comparing Lightbox clones:
https://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/

Just to warn you, your first link goes directly to a directory of photos. You can block access to directories with an .htaccess file with the line:
Options -Indexes

What is “Softbox”? Is it a Lightbox clone? This is a good comparison of Lightbox clones:
https://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/

I use Slimbox which works like Lightbox but is smaller.

I don’t see any link to a gallery on your page.

Try deleting the nextgen-gallery folder in your plugins folder. Check your admin screen. Then install it again.

If you want different thumbnail sizes you should be able to change the thumbnail settings and generate different sizes.

If you want different styles you could make custom CSS rules for different galleries.

Do you just want the image to be smaller? The easiest way is to go to Gallery – Options – Images and set your Resize Images dimensions. Then go to Manage Gallery and resize the images you want to change.

Hi,
Were you able to get Slimbox to work? I’m using it with NextGen Gallery fine.

Are you using the Slimbox plug-in from here?
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/slimbox-plugin/

You might have to give us some more details to figure out your problem.

Hmm, just be careful though if other people are allowed to administer your nggallery. It might be possible to hide malicious html or JavaScript into the description text.

Justderek,

The problem with $image->description might be a bug, I don’t know the nggallery code enough to say. It’s giving you html entities when you don’t want them.

Luckily PHP has a lot of great functions to deal with strings like htmlspecialchars_decode(). I tested this out with nggallery 1.0.2 and it works ok.

<div class=”description”>
<?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode($image->description) ?>
</div>

Try a lot of special characters in your description like ? ? test & & " ' <br /><a href="#">test</a> and they should come out ok.

In the admin section Gallery – Style there is a drop down menu of several default styles. Try those out and see if you like them.

If you want different looking borders you’ll have to modify the CSS by hand. Copy the file from wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/css/nggallery.css to your theme directory like wp-content/themes/my_theme/nggallery.css and then edit the nggallery.css file there.

1. Does my customized nggallery.css file that goes in the root directory of my theme (right?) have to be a complete copy of /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/css/nggallery.css with my custom template styling added into it?

Yes.

2. You shouldn’t have to change line 17. It already has class="ngg-galleryoverview" and you can change the ngg-galleryoverview styles on lines 15-20 of nggallery.css

3. If your template is named gallery-mytemplate.php then you would show the gallery like this [ nggallery id=1 template=mytemplate ]

4. There’s no reason to put .mytemplate before every style unless you have to.

Are you still working on adding captions below the thumbnails? You’ll need to add some php code to your gallery-mytemplate.php file.

I was just messing around with plug-ins and trying to fix something when I noticed that if I changed the directory of my custom theme from “my theme” to “my_theme” it fixed the problem of the theme preview being blank.

It wasn’t a major problem since the theme worked completely except for the theme preview.

It should be added to the codex though, that theme folders should not have spaces in them.

Where are your WordPress files normally?

You can set up WordPress in a subfolder instead of the root folder. Or, you can also put the files in a subfolder and then copy the index.php file to the root folder so your blog appears to be running in the root folder like this:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Are you using either of these?

This plug-in isn’t 100% compatible with version 2.7 yet. The admin panels look a little funny.

The 2.3 folder is for WordPress version 2.3 and the 2.5 folder is for WordPress versions 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7.

What lines have you changed the “related posts” text on? They should be on lines 86, 87, 553, and 554.