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Someone mentioned that I could set a PageLabel custom field for the page. I tried adding pageLabel, PageLabel and page_label… However, the value I set for them would not show in the Nice Navigation menu.

So I wonder what type of field is set by All-In-One-SEO for the page label?…

Plymouthdesign,

I tried following the suggestion:

– Went to the Edit Page back-end
– Went to Custom Fields section
– Created a new custom field called PageLabel and gave it a value

However, the label appearing in my Nice Navigation in the sidebar did not change… Here is the page:
https://komotion.com/learn/planning/gallery/

I also tried creating a field page_label with same result.

Did I miss something? Maybe I need to also tweak the widget PHP code to ensure it is using that specific variable. Does WordPress officially have a variable called “PageLabel“?

It is interesting though that when I used the All-In-One-SEO to change the label, that did indeed change the page name appearing in the Nice Navigation widget…

UPDATE: Further digging reveals that All-In-One-SEO was providing Page Label functionality using code from the Page Menu Editor plugin. So would it be possible to have that code incorporated into the WordPress SEO plugin?

For now I will use that plugin separately:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/page-menu-editor/
https://www.stuffbysarah.net/wordpress-plugins/page-menu-editor/

I have this issue too…

Yoast’s SEO plugin shows now in the setup, under Taxonomies, a place to set the template for “Ngg_tag”. What should be entered in that template?

Based on other settings I’ve seen from https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-seo-plugin-by-yoast/

• Title template = %%term_title%% – %%sitename%%
• Meta description template = %%term_description%%
• Meta keywords template = %%term_title%%

But I think this would be WRONG (particularly the meta description part).

Anyone knows what should be entered there??

NO one knows how to have the NextGen Gallery slideshow display the Alt/Title field instead of the Description field?

Interesting, though I find that the NGG template “caption” does this by default – displays the alttext, not the long description.

Using the shortcode [nggallery id=1 template=caption] does display the short title for me, not the long description.

I am wondering though if you may have an answer to a similar issue I am facing. I use the NGG slideshow since I don’t care for the CoolIris links going to another site when using PicLens. Everything works great except that the text displayed in the slideshow is the long description, rather than the short title. Not only that, but the longer text pushes the navigation (and full screen mode) buttons out so they no longer are accessible.

Would you know what I need to change to have the flash player show the short title instead of the long description?

Thanks!

I would like to know this too…

I can see the Description field be displayed in the Slideshow but it messes up the Slideshow interface button (e.g. longer descriptions make the full-screen button disappear) so I want to display the shorter Alt/Text field instead.

I think this may be somewhere in nggfunctions.php… anyone know what would need to be edited?

I tried changing from “description” to “alttext”:

$picturelist[$key]->caption = ( empty($picture->description) ) ? ' ' : html_entity_decode ( stripslashes(nggGallery::i18n($picture->description)) );
        $picturelist[$key]->description = ( empty($picture->description) ) ? ' ' : htmlspecialchars ( stripslashes(nggGallery::i18n($picture->description)) );
        $picturelist[$key]->alttext = ( empty($picture->alttext) ) ?  ' ' : htmlspecialchars ( stripslashes(nggGallery::i18n($picture->alttext)) );

but that did not seem to have any effect.

Do you mind explaining what you figured out and how you ended up setting things? I am working on a gallery and still not sure how to best leverage the possibilities opened by the “Deactivate gallery page link” checkbox.

I am searching for the same thing. The single one I found is a commercial plugin – https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-pdf-stamper-plugin-2332

Did you find anything else?

In the interim I started using a different plugin to display navigation links to subpages. Thanks for looking into this and providing a solution.

Alex/Viper – brilliant! I am documenting something about the gallery shortcode and was racking my brain to find a way to escape it and nothing worked. Find it hard to believe others writing help files in blogs would not have raised this as an issue. Your suggestion for using [<strong></strong>gallery] worked like a charm.

Many thanks!!

Alex/Viper – brilliant! I am documenting something about the gallery shortcode and was racking my brain to find a way to escape it and nothing worked. Find it hard to believe others writing help files in blogs would not have raised this as an issue. Your suggestion for using [<strong></strong>gallery] worked like a charm.

Many thanks!!

I tried to escape the gallery shortcode by putting it in double brackets and as soon as I view the page in the Visual tab and save it, WP still processes the gallery shortcode inside the outer brackets… any way to prevent it from doing that.

I assume that all WP devs with blogs would need to be able to escape shortcodes when explaining usage but I’ve been researching this for some time now and not \finding a reliable workaround.

Any suggestions?

gallery

(See above how it displays, even though I entered double brackets and below if I add backticks…)

<a href="https://codex.www.ads-software.com/gallery">gallery</a>

Resolved.

Mystery uncovered. FYI – It was my mistake… I revert to the original version of widgts.php but that was on my client side and from a previous version of NGG. When I uploaded, it over-wrote the correct version on the server.