Miscellaneous settings

The Miscellaneous tab holds a few site-wide options: Media RSS, the permalink slug used in gallery and album web addresses, and some limits for image queries and random galleries.

To open it:

1. Go to Imagely > Settings.
2. Click the Miscellaneous tab.

Changes save on their own. You’ll see a “Settings saved automatically” message after each change. There is no Save button.

Media RSS

• Add MediaRSS link?: When turned on, adds a MediaRSS link to your site’s header. Third-party services can use this feed to show your galleries. Off by default.

When it’s on, your page source includes a line like this:

<link id=’MediaRSS’ rel=’alternate’ type=’application/rss+xml’ title=’NextGEN Gallery RSS Feed’ href=’https://example.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/src/Legacy/xml/media-rss.php’ />

• Display galleries in feeds: NextGEN Gallery hides its galleries in feeds other than MediaRSS. Turn this on to show galleries in your site’s RSS and Atom feeds. Off by default.

Other Settings

• Permalink slug: The word used in web addresses when a visitor opens a gallery from an album. The default is nggallery. For example, a gallery opened from an album might have an address like example.com/album-page/nggallery/album-name/gallery-name. You can change it to a word that suits your site better.

• Maximum image count: The most images NextGEN Gallery will load in a single query. The default is 500. This limit doesn’t apply to slideshow widgets or random galleries that set their own image limit.

• Random widget cache duration: How long, in minutes, “random” widget galleries are cached. The default is 30. Set it to 0 to turn off caching.

• Use alternative method of retrieving random image galleries: Some web hosts block or slow down the database query used to pick random images (ORDER BY RAND()), so random galleries stop being random. Turn this on to use a different method. It’s close to random, but not fully random. This is on by default only on WP Engine.

• Disable the /ngg_tag/ page: NextGEN Gallery creates a page that lists images by tag, which can help with SEO. Turn this on if you don’t want visitors to see your image tags. Off by default.

• Use dashes instead of underscores when generating new image files: Uses dashes (photo-name-800×600) instead of underscores (photo-name_800x600) in the file names of resized images. Search engines treat dashes as word breaks, so dashes are better for SEO. This is on by default for new sites. If you change it, clear the image cache afterward (see below).

Clear image cache

The Clear image cache button has moved to the Reset Options tab.

Clearing the cache removes all resized and cached copies of your images. NextGEN Gallery makes new copies the next time they’re needed. This is helpful after you add or change a watermark, when the watermark doesn’t show up right away.

1. Go to Imagely > Settings.

1. Click the Reset Options tab.

1. Click Clear Image Cache.

1. In the pop-up, click Clear Cache to confirm.

Your original images are not touched.

Do not enqueue FontAwesome

The Do not enqueue FontAwesome option is no longer on the Miscellaneous tab. It’s on a settings screen that isn’t listed in the Settings menu. You can open it directly at:

https://your-site.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=imagely-settings&tab=hidden

Look for the FontAwesome section.

Only turn this on if your theme or another plugin already loads FontAwesome. If nothing else loads it, gallery icons may not show up correctly.