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How to Use the Pro Lightbox

The Pro Lightbox is a premium lightbox effect that displays images full screen on desktop and mobile devices. Users can comment on images and share them on social media within the lightbox. How to enable the Pro Lightbox To enable this feature, go to Imagely > Settings > Lightbox Effects. In the Lightbox Configuration section,…

Miscellaneous

For those who need to clear their image cache (helpful when applying watermarks – use this setting after applying the watermark) and modify the permalink slug that appears in URLs to galleries and images (great for SEO), this is where you would make those changes; Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous. Add MediaRSS link?: When enabled,…

Adjusting roles and capabilities

Select the lowest role that should be able to access the following capabilities within NextGEN Gallery. NextGEN Gallery supports the standard roles of WordPress: subscriber, contributor, author, editor, and administrator. For example, if you set Add Gallery/Upload Images to be editor, only an editor and administrator can add images to a gallery and create a…

Adding watermarks to protect your images

Imagely allows you to add watermarks to your images individually or as a batch. Watermarks are text or graphics that are placed on a photo to identify who owns the copyright. These are a great way to prevent your images from being stolen or resold! To set your watermark settings, go to Imagely > Settings >…

Setting Up the Global Image Options

With NextGEN Gallery’s Image Options, you can define specific rules across all your galleries. This guide will walk you through how to access the Image Options and give a quick overview of the default options available. First, go to Gallery > Other Options > Image Options… to open the settings page. When you open the…

Excluding Images

Sometimes you want an image to stay in a gallery without appearing on the page – a shot you are not ready to publish, or one that only belongs in a different layout. Imagely calls this hiding an image. (In older versions it was called excluding.) Hiding keeps the image and all its details. It…