NextGen Smooth Gallery for Wordpress
Smooth Gallery is a nice little addon for the NextGen gallery, but I had a couple of problems getting it to do what I wanted.
First of all I got the error message “Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery”. To solve this, I renamed the nextgen-smooth-gallery folder to nggsmoothgallery and the plugin activated no bother.
Then I couldn’t find the admin panel for the gallery in Wordpress. It turned out to be in the Settings area, rather than the Gallery area. Duh.
Finally, my images were displaying with a black border and background and I wanted to change this to white. To do this, look in nggsmoothgallery/SmoothGallery/css/jd.gallery.css and change instances of #000 to #FFF (or whatever your preferred colour is).
And I guess you could also customise the arrows by uploading your own images to nggsmoothgallery/SmoothGallery/css/img, replacing fleche1.gif, fleche1.png, fleche2.gif and fleche2.png.
Now if I could just work out how to change the colour of the info pane…
Update: The info pane properties can be changed in the same jd.gallery.css file. For .jdGallery .slideInfoZone, change “background” from #333 to your chosen colour - simple as that.
hello would you know how to have a url in the info which can allow user to click on the link and be directed to another page?
I am a novice here.. and I been starring at my blog for many many days.. I hope you can help me.
cheers. hubba
Hello Hubba, I’m not sure, but I’m working with Smooth Gallery at the moment and will comment here if I find an answer…
Solution posted here!
hello,
ive been searching all over the web for a fix to the problem that you mentioned “Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery”.
i noticed that to fix the issue you say that you simply renamed the nextgen-smooth-gallery folder to nggsmoothgallery, and it allowed you to active. ive just tried this and i seem to still be having the same issue. i had recently upgraded to wp2.7, and i believe that im instlalling both latest version to nextgen, and the smooth gallery pluggin.
im wondering if there is something that im doing wrong and or whether there is a certain order that i need to be doing this.
i would appreciate any advice, thank you
Hmm… the site on which I got this working has NextGEN Gallery version 0.99.1 and NextGEN Smooth Gallery 1.0 and is running on Wordpress 2.6.5 - but I’d be surprised if the Wordpress version made a difference.
I think my steps were: 1. Installed and activated NextGEN Gallery; 2. Created a sample gallery to make sure it was working; 3. Installed and tried to activate Smooth Gallery (failed); 4. Renamed Smooth Gallery folder and successfully activated.
If it still doesn’t work, I suppose you could contact the plugin author - and let us know if you get any helpful advice.