FotoAndyAfter setting up and tweaking NextGEN the last while (see how it runs my site), I noticed there's not much talk regarding Alex's excellent plugin to NextGEN itself, NextGEN Gallery Search Engine (NGSE).
So, using NGSE myself, I've been quite happy with it. It opens up a lot of possibilities, and I'd argue it's very much worth adding to the next core update, hopefully with an options menu in the tags admin.
I bring up options because, really, the current build of NGSE is simple and solid, so a set of options would be the logical next step in development.
I would myself would love:
1. On/off switch to display images in search results, obviously.
2. Option to include images marked as 'excluded' within a gallery show. *
3. Option to exclude image titles & descriptions from search. Not a high priority, but it would be useful, as benryerson points out here.
Lastly, I've been working with a php buddy on coding tags to display within an images' lightbox viewer (see thread here), it would be very *nice* if tags under the image were integrated as I'm working towards.
Thoughts, opinions, wishes?
* PS: #2 would open up a lot of possibilities within Content Management, meaning you could put images in a gallery, have them hidden from the gallery show (as they're marked 'excluded'), but still available for tag searches. Your very own stock agency, one step closer.
