Next Generation Photo Gallery Plugin

December 3, 2008 ·

Display photos on your website in a multitude of different layouts including albums, thumbnail galleries, sidebar galleries and slideshows. The Next Generation Gallery Plugin can all be managed and customised from one easy interface inside your WordPress website.

Thumbnails open in a variety of professional looking lightbox effects with descriptions at the bottom and viewers can use the next button to view other images in the gallery. If you have choosen to have your photos appear in a slideshow, you can select the amount of time between each shot andf the fade effect etc.

Download the Next Generation Gallery Plugin…

Adding Photos to Your Web Pages

Instead of adding individual photos to pages, you can upload new photos, arrange them in albums and give them titles, tags etc inside the Gallery admin.

Login to your WordPress website and select Gallery from the menu bar
Click on Add Gallery on the submenu and create a gallery (I have one called Website Portfolio where I upload screenshots of all the sites I design)
Click on the Upload Images button, choose images from your computer, select a gallery for them to go into and click on Upload Images button at the bottom.
Select Manage Gallery from the menu bar and edit the one you are working on.
Change titles, add descriptions and change the order in which they appear, then save.
Go to the web page where you want your new gallery to display.
Click on the gallery button and select a gallery to insert. (this icon is on the line under bold, italics etc. if you can’t see it, click on the little icon with multi-coloured squares to expand your options)
You choose whether the photos display as thumbnails or slideshow or both in the gallery settings.

Adding Photos to Your Sidebar

When you upload the Next Generation Plugin to your website, you also get the Next Generation Sidebar Widget. Once activated, you will see a slideshow widget and a gallery widget appear under Design/Widgets in your website admin.

Click to add these to your sidebar, then edit to tell them which galleries to display and how many photos they should show. You can also change the size of the thumbnails to suit the width of your sidebar.

Gallery Screenshots Using Gallery Plugin
Click to see larger images in lightbox effect.

Slideshow of my Website Portfolio Gallery below:

Comments

12 Responses to “Next Generation Photo Gallery Plugin”

Karen on December 8th, 2008 9:15 am

I’m trying to insert one photo from my gallery into a post. How do I do this – when I tried previously it shows a different photo from the one I selected?
Jo on December 8th, 2008 12:43 pm

To insert a single photo from your gallery into a post, you click on the gallery icon above the post you are editing. Select Picture from the tabs across the top. select your picture from the drop down list, change the size (in pixels) if required and click on insert.
Jo on December 12th, 2008 10:35 am

South City Auctions use this plugin to display their current items for auction on their homepage and sidebar. Each week they simply delete old photos out of the gallery and add new ones. See in action…
Erum on January 21st, 2009 6:27 am

How do you change the order of the photos in the sidebar widget so that the most recent comes at the end rather than as the first?
Jo on January 28th, 2009 9:17 am

Hi Erum,
The only options for display order are recently added (this is the default) or random. To change to random, go to design/widgets, edit the gallery widget and select the random checkbox. Save changes.
Rachel on February 17th, 2009 1:15 pm

Can you change the order of photos in an ordinary WordPress gallery? I end up deleting them and uploading again in the right order or sometimes pasting them in individually but then you don’t get the extra information when you double click on them. Maybe I need this add-in…
Altaf on April 11th, 2009 5:29 am

I have installed Nextgeneration on my website.However, i cudn’t figure out what is the best size of a image on slide show.Please suggest me with your ideas…
Jo on April 11th, 2009 10:46 pm

I had a quick look at the website you are setting up.
The corporate theme you are using is setup to display a slideshow at the top of the homepage using the featured content gallery plugin.
I would use this one on your homepage (the width is set to 607 pixels) and then if you want a slideshow in your sidebar showing all your Next Generation gallery photos, set it to display at about 250 pixels wide so it fits into the sidebar.
Have a look at this website to see what I mean. http://www.goldensand.co.nz
I will be writing an article about the Featured Content Gallery Plugin in the next few weeks with instructions but if you go to the Studio Press support forum and go to theme tutorials and Corporate, you will see instructions and screenshots there.
Let me know how you go.
rosemary neave on April 17th, 2009 3:25 pm

Hi jo – size of images to upload to the gallery.
I am about to add some images to a gallery and did not want them to be unnecessarily large – what is the max pixel size that we should upload to the gallery.
Jo on April 20th, 2009 8:09 pm

I usually go for about 400 pixels wide but if it is a screenshot or you need to see detail, you might want to try 600 pixels wide.
Jo on August 5th, 2009 9:53 am

In response to a client having trouble inserting a single Next Gen Gallery photo into a post – I think you are probably clicking on the Upload image button, then choosing Next Gen from there.
Instead of doing that, click on the little Next Gen icon (beside the kitchen sink icon with lots of tiny squares). When it opens, select picture, then the one you want and choose left align etc at the bottom.
Jo on September 8th, 2009 5:06 pm

If you can’t change the order of your images in Next Generation Gallery plugin, check custom order is selected under Options/Gallery.

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