nick_nielsen
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Posted 3 years ago #
I have managed to hack a gallery template for the NextGen plugin in WordPress so that it renders as per gallery in CSSplay.
You can see it action here :
http://kainielsen.web44.net/galleries/einsteins-monocycle/
I came to the conclusion that the "out of the box" javascript slideshow presentation really isn't my thing.
I am feeling rather smug with myself as my understanding of PHP is close to zero.
However, there are one or two things I would like to get like perhaps an image counter (x/y) and for a further development be able to make it render a tabbed gallery (go to http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/slide_show.htmlfor an example). If there is anyone who understand PHP and can improve on my script I would welcome the advice.
I have made the script and styling available for download go to my blog page for details.
nick_nielsen
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
I have updated the template - simplifying both the CSS and PHP.
To see it is still the same address :
http://kainielsen.web44.net/galleries/einsteins-monocycle/
There is also a link if you wish to download the code where you can also find the code for a prototype of a "tabbed" version of a gallery in the same style.
Looks great ! Why do put the <div id="gallery_box></div> not inside the template itself ?
nick_nielsen
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Two reasons :
I'm not sure of the code to get the gallery description showing, - you could then use that for the introduction to the gallery and put "gallery_box" div in the template.
The second is SEO - you need text on the page for search engines to find you and I don't know whether the data contained in a NextGen gallery is transmitted - all that would be on the page would be [nggallery id=..]
What is the code to show the gallery description ? - I could then build it into the template at least as an option if SEO doesn't matter.
nick_nielsen
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Posted 2 years ago #
I have been using Headspace2 plugin to mix the CSS for the galleries - this means that I have three different presentations using the same template :-
thumbs floated left, image centred - http://kainielsen.web44.net/galleries/einsteins-monocycle/
thumbs left and images floated left -http://kainielsen.web44.net/galleries/einsteins-monocycle/
a narrower one with thumbs over the top http://kainielsen.web44.net/2009/06/plant-life/ for this one you need to use Headspaces global options for it to work.
I am sure that it would be possible to create a .php routine that sends variables to the template but I'm just not up to it.
If there is anyone out there who could give me a hand I would more than grateful. My code is still available, though I haven't updated the zip to include the two new style sheets.
This template is for those who do not like the current style of javascript rendering which presents images in a linear, predefined, order. It allows the user to easily browse among the images, rather in the way that one may leaf through an exhibition catalogue.
