NextGEN Gallery has been updated and is now available in the WordPress plugin directory and in self hosted WordPress installs.
Instructions
Download NextGEN Gallery from WordPress.org or visit your WordPress administration to utilize the auto update feature.
Changes:
- Changed: Branding changes following Photocrati acquisition (removed donation messages and updated links)
- Changed: Added Facebook and Twitter buttons in admin section
- Secured: Use WordPress-bundled JavaScript libraries for swfobject and swfupload instead of bundling our own
- Bugfix: Adjusted thickbox effect styling to ensure that the lightbox is always displayed in the foreground
- Bugfix: Fixed compatibility issues with Contact Form 7 and other plugins by following WordPress Plugin conventions
- Bugfix: Fixed network-wide activation in WordPress 3.4
- Bugfix: Plugin is no longer dependent on its folder name
Report Issues:
We encourage any bugs you experience to be reported at BitBucket.
Martin Bay
18 Jul 2012Super – seems to work great.
Scott
18 Jul 2012Glad you’re liking the update!
Nils
18 Jul 2012Is Alex still working on NGG?
Scott
18 Jul 2012Nope, Alex is no longer involved with the development of NextGEN Gallery.
Mike
18 Jul 2012I am looking forward to seeing where NextGen goes with new direction. I have always been frustrated with the general css and options for layout and captions. I would also love to see multi user support so users can upload there own images and manage their own galleries without being an admin.
Scott
18 Jul 2012Mike,
Users can control their own galleries already. You will just have to give them permission to do so using the roles. The CSS styling updates are coming in the future as well.
Mike
18 Jul 2012I do see the roles section, but I was under the impression that a specific assigned roll could see and edit all galleries, just not one specific user gallery?
Scott
18 Jul 2012The roles section is not under the admin bar menu, only the side menu. You have the ability to limit of editing their own only.
Harry
18 Jul 2012Hi Scott,
Will NGG support Amazon S3 or another CDN? If you will do that, it will be soon? I’m waiting for it and my 17,800 pictures.
Thanks and congratulations.
Harry
Scott
18 Jul 2012Hi Harry, you’re the 2nd person to request that today. Please feel free to send your feature request using the form on our contact page: http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/contact/
Erwin - Good Websites
18 Jul 2012Nice! Is looking good guys… can’t wait to see some more exciting development for the plugin 😉
Scott
18 Jul 2012Thanks!
Ari Salomon
18 Jul 2012Looking forward to all the upcoming changes.
feature request: a robust method of adding a variety of extra data fields to be associated with each image.
i was able to build this myself but i know it would be useful to a variety of others. I can chat with you and give you that code if you want. maybe meet up at wordcamp sf?
Scott
18 Jul 2012We have no set plans to be at WordCamp SF, but please feel free to send your feature request using the form on our contact page: http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/contact/
labro
18 Jul 2012hallo,
i have a wordpress site but for other applications, I am learning joomla.
Can we expect one day nextgen can be used in joomla galery page instead of phoca, exposé 4,… ?
best regards
marc
Scott
19 Jul 2012Most likely no Joomla, sorry Marc.
Joerg
19 Jul 2012WARNING! To all WP admins using NextGen-Gallery in a multisite setup and using not a blog separated folder structure 1.9.5 is broken! I use wp-content/gallery/ as a common source for my gallery images but in the blogs option and import image folder this is not working any longer as behind the scene NextGen is always using wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/ instead of the setup I used to have in the networks setup. This bug is since the last beta and was reported but not fixed right now. So lucky am I that I have a stage setup to check prior to update my plugins on my live environment!
Scott
19 Jul 2012Correct, but we can only fix a certain amount of bugs at once and by priorities. More bug fixes to come.
Joerg
19 Jul 2012But this bug was introduced by your beta and was not there before! And this is an essential thing that needs a high priority as it stops the NextGen Gallery from working to all with a multisite environment!
Scott
19 Jul 2012I see you submitted it on BitBucket – the developers are looking at the problem.
Reggie
19 Jul 2012I’m loving the make-over. Will there be a paid version of this thing?
Scott
19 Jul 2012Down the road there will be a premium version
Liviu
19 Jul 2012With this update, We can finaly center a single photo? Or post two photos side by side, on the same line?
Scott
19 Jul 2012This update took care of important bug fixes that were the highest priority. Styling fixes will come as well.
Joe
19 Jul 2012Hi, Scott, I translated NGG into Simplified Chinese since 1.2.1. I upload language pack to NGG Google Code page before. I’m willing to continue the contribution. Would you let me know where to submit it and hope it’s as simple as before 🙂
Regards
Scott
19 Jul 2012Hi Joe, here are the instructions 🙂 http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/languages/
John Clark
19 Jul 2012Scott-I was hoping the new release would take of the issue I have in that no thumbnails appear of my galleries. When I try to re-generate them, I get a ‘PHP Memory Limit’ error. Any ideas?
Scott
19 Jul 2012Hi John,
That error isn’t a NextGEN Gallery one, it’s actually a limitation with your host more than likely.
SawPanse
19 Jul 2012Is there a way to add comments form for a single picture now?
Scott
19 Jul 2012Currently that is not a feature, but please feel free to send your feature request using the form on our contact page: http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/contact/
Laila
19 Jul 2012After updating to 1.9.5 flash-upload no longer works. I have another site with version 1.9.3. I tested flash-upload before and after updating to 1.9.5. It worked before updating to 1.9.5.
I run af muliti-site, and have used the flash-upload on subsite bornholmeren.net/schleich with no problems, that is until updating to 1.9.5.
I hope that this can be solved?
Scott
19 Jul 2012Hi Laila,
Please be sure to review the support forums for help or submit a bug (http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery for support) (https://bitbucket.org/photocrati/nextgen-gallery/issues/new for bugs)
Laila
19 Jul 2012Hi Scott
I looked at your second link, for bugs, and signed up at bitbucket.org, but I am danish and do not understand what it is all about. Sorry.
I have posted the problem in support instead.
Scott
19 Jul 2012No problem
Harshad Khandare
19 Jul 2012It’s great to see updates..
I’m searching for short codes of this plug in.
Scott
20 Jul 2012In the menu under Old Pages > Shortcodes
Kenn P
20 Jul 2012Looking forward to working with the new changes! Great job so far!
Don
24 Jul 2012I posted in the WordPress forum a couple of times about the font color (contrast) of the description text but received no responses. The description text is important to us but the lack of contrast makes reading difficult for some of our visitors. How can I change the description text color? I am not a programming type guy but I looked at the code I tried a couple of things but, alas, no success.
Other than the above, NextGEN is fantastic.
Thanks,
Scott
24 Jul 2012Have you posted since we acquired the plugin or before? We are trying to get to every support question as fast as we can. Thank you for your patience.
WJ
26 Jul 2012Forgive me if i’m looking in the wrong location, but my NextGen gallery does not offer an upgrade option (i’m on 1.9.3 right now). Why?
Scott
26 Jul 2012Kindly visit the support forum and one of our team members will dig in to see why you’re unable to see the upgrade http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery
Heiko
26 Jul 2012Since Update 1.9.5 the shortcode for own templates doesn’t work any more. All Images are shown but with the standard template.
[nggtags gallery=foo template=bar]
Does someone find a workaround already?
Scott
26 Jul 2012Kindly head over to the support forum so our team can take a look at your site: http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery
Dan Browne
3 Aug 2012Hi guys, I find it absolutely super fantastic and great and well done and everything. I have been an avid user of NGG, and I was pretty annoyed to see it as a small project with great functionality, high ideals, and then it just went kaput over time. I am sure the crew here, now, will make this one of the best and most widely used WP gallery plugins…
Congrats again,
Cheers,
Dan.
Scott
5 Aug 2012We have big plans, so stay tuned Dan. You’ll love what is to come!
ip00
7 Aug 2012Your link: https://bitbucket.org/photocrati/nextgen-gallery/issues/
doesn’t work anymore. I went there to see what is going on with issue I’ve posted but I got this: You do not have access to the issues.
Scott
7 Aug 2012I apologize, but we made bug reporting easier for everyone by creating a dedicated page and form at http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/
Razvan Neagu
9 Aug 2012Scott, one thing I really hope gets addressed is the implementation of the caption in the “Show as Slideshow”. It should show the image TITLE, not the image description. Descriptions are usually longer than titles and longer strings push the slide navigation outside of the image frame so they are not accessible.
Here is an example:
http://www.hoffmanarchitectsinc.com/gallery/additions/?show=slide
And a little nit-pick… if not too late, I think swapping “gallery” with “album” makes more sense (a gallery is customarily thought to being able to contain albums, rather than vice-versa.)
Otherwise, LOVE NGG!
Thanks for listening!
Scott
10 Aug 2012Hi Razvan, please send your feature requests using this form: http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/contact
Flo
11 Aug 2012Amazon S3 support for NGG would be the best on earth!
Scott
11 Aug 2012Hi Flo, feel free to send your feature request using this form: http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/contact
Lynnette
13 Aug 2012I don’t have any questions or concerns. Just want to say THANK YOU Scott for being to open and available to individual questions!!!!
Scott
14 Aug 2012You’re welcome Lynnette. That is our goal 🙂
Dorian Dum
14 Aug 2012you are considering leaving the plugin for free?
Scott
14 Aug 2012The plugin will remain free with an option premium version