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Working with Albums

Overview NextGEN allows you to create collections of galleries, called Albums. For more details, check out our guide on Albums vs Galleries. How to create albums First, create the album. Go to NextGEN Gallery > Manage Albums, type the name of your new album in the box next to Add new album, and then click…

How to customize Lightbox effects

Lightbox effects for thumbnail galleries and single images are set under Gallery > Other Options > Lightbox Effects. You can choose from this list of effects under “What lightbox would you like to use?” to customize your Lightbox: Then you’ll also have several options of how to apply these effects under “What must the lightbox…

Singlepic

NextGEN allows you to display a single image. Singlepic images will also pop up using whichever lightbox effect you’ve selected in the main settings area. Shortcodes allow you to customize various aspects of the image display. You can resize and modify the picture on the fly (with no manipulation or changes to the original picture).…

Teaser: New Interface for Creating and Managing Galleries from within Posts and Pages

One of the big improvements we have planned for NextGEN Gallery is a new interface for adding and managing galleries from the page or post interface. The way NextGEN is currently set up, Galleries are created and managed from the Galleries tab, and displayed from the Post/Page interface. This works great for most task, and…

New site launch!

Welcome to the new and updated home for NextGEN Gallery! We’ve decided to keep it simple, and just provide the basic information the NextGEN Community need to stay informed and engaged. There will be lots of big news to come along with the site relaunch! If you haven’t already, please sign up for email updates…

New Slideshow with a different effect

Adding as custom field : ngg_slideshowFX = toss