=== NextGEN Gallery === Contributors: Alex Rabe Donate link: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/donation/ Tags: photos, flash, slideshow, images, gallery, media, admin, post, photo-albums, pictures, widgets, photo, picture Requires at least: 2.7 Stable tag: trunk NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. == Description == NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all image and gallery plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple galleries and albums. Important Links: * Demonstration * Language files * Changelog * NextGEN Gallery FAQ * Support Forum = NEW in VERSION 1.0 for WordPress 2.7 = * Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme. See here for some example * Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery * More role settings : Each gallery has now a author * AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process * New Shortcodes : You can now insert thumbnails for one or more images (that are not necessarly inside the same gallery). * Copy/Move : Now you can copy or move images between galleries Other features: * Sortable Albums : Create your own sets of images * Upload a Zip-File with pictures : Upload pictures in a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode) * Watermark function : You can add a watermark image or text * JavaScript Effect : Use any available popular image effect : Shutter, Thickbox, Lightbox or Highslide * Multiple CSS Stylesheet : Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file * Slideshow : Full integrated flash slideshow * TinyMCE : Button integration for easy adding the gallery tags * Sidebar Widget : Show a slideshow, random or recent picture at your sidebar * Language support : Translated in more than 30 languages * Upload tab integration : You have access to all pictures via the upload tab * Tag support for images : Append related images to your post * Meta data support : Import EXIF, IPTC or XMP meta data * Sort images feature * Cool flash addons here : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-flashviewer/ == Credits == Copyright 2007-2009 Alex Rabe & NextGEN DEV-Team The NextGEN button is taken from the Fugue Icons of http://www.pinvoke.com/. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ** Please note ** The JW Image Rotator (Slideshow) is not part of this license and is available under a Creative Commons License, which allowing you to use, modify and redistribute them for noncommercial purposes. For commercial use please look at the Jeroen's homepage : http://www.longtailvideo.com/ == Installation == 1. Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery 2. If you would like to use a Flash slideshow (only a option), go to Longtail Video, download the JW Image Rotator and unpack the conent. Upload the file imagerotator.swf to the NextGEN-Gallery folder 3. Activate the plugin 4. Add a gallery and upload some images (the main gallery folder must have write permission) 5. Go to your post/page an enter the tag '[nggallery id=x]' or '[slideshow id=x]'. See more tags in the FAQ section That's it ... Have fun == Screenshots == 1. Screenshot Admin Area 2. Screenshot Album Selection 3. Screenshot Shutter Effect 4. Screenshot Watermark function 5. Screenshot Flexible template layout 6. Screenshot Show Exif data == Frequently Asked Questions == **Read as startup :** http://dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/2008/03/04/nextgen-gallery-review-introduction/ When writing a page/post, you can use the follow tags: For a slideshow : **[slideshow id=x w=width h=height]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/slideshow/ For a album : **[album id=x template=extend]** or **[album id=x template=compact]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/album/ For a gallery : **[nggallery id=x]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/gallery-page/ For a single picture : **[singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/singlepic/ For a image browser : **[imagebrowser id=x]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/image-browser/ To show image sorted by tags : **[nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,... ]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/gallery-tags/ To show tag albums : **[nggtags album=mytag,wordpress,... ]** Example : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/albumtags/ **A further FAQ you can found here :** http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/faq/ **And at least request your question here :** http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/forums/