Posted 3 years ago #
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi,
Can anyone help or some input from the developer to help please.
Thanks,
Posted 3 years ago #
Not sure if this will help or not. I was having some problems getting my captions to display correctly--they have links embedded in them and were displaying the code rather than the link.
I went into Manage Gallery in the NexGEN dashboard panel and edited one of the image descriptions, and then saved the changes, and ALL the captions for all the thumbnails returned to their proper display.
So I think it has something to do with the database being refreshed. making an edit anywhere in the Manage Gallery section for a given gallery seemed to update the database.
Perhaps that might be worth a try?
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi RGGoode,
Thanks for you input but It did not resolve the issue.
As far as I know the [nggallery id=x template=caption] should automattically add the caption in the V1.1.0b of the NetGEN plugin.
Does anyone know if there is anything else to achive the desired caption below the images?
Cheers
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi,
Can anyone help with this.
Much appriciated.
cheers
Posted 3 years ago #
As I've posted elsewhere, there are LOADS of people asking this question all over the show, and so far nobody seems to have answered it. I'm hving same problem!
Posted 3 years ago #
I Have the very same question bothering me.
Posted 3 years ago #
[nggallery id=x template=caption] worked for me and I am running 1.1.0b.
RGGoode said:
"Not sure if this will help or not. I was having some problems getting my captions to display correctly--they have links embedded in them and were displaying the code rather than the link."
My question is how do you have links embedded in the thumbnails? And if you can do that, how do you keep from having the code displaying underneath the picture? I have posted on this topic, but know one has responded yet. Please help to enlighten me. :)
Anyone?
Thanks!
tdanyo
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi,
Where did you get 1.1.0b from?
I'm using the latest version 1.0.2 from:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
According to http://nextgen.boelinger.com/templates/
Templates were introduced in version 1.0, so my version ought to be able to support them.
I was hoping to just get hold of the new caption.php gallery template and see if I can plug it into 1.0.2
I can't think of anything else to do. Clearly version 1.0.2 seems to have mucked up the old shadoweffect with description text css way of styling the output.
Posted 3 years ago #
OK, I've tried my above idea and it doesn't work. Although I'm not surprised, given that I'm mixing bits of code from different releases.
I got hold of 1.1.0b (from Google Code, doh!) and took out the new gallery templates. I've installed these on my current 1.0.2 install and rejigged the info in my posts. And no it still doesn't show descriptive text.
Checking the HTML, it appears that the new template is working, its added some <span></span> tags where the descriptive text ought to go, which does correspond with the new template, but there's nothing actual data in there.
I'm loathe to update my base working copy of nggallery right now, so will have to wait.
Posted 3 years ago #
I don't have any links, and I don't seem to have a 'caption' template. Is this available as a separate download?
Posted 3 years ago #
OKAY! you guys.. If you EVER changed any codes in the gallery.php or in any other .php files within the nextGEN plugin folder that affected your "imageURL", "alttext", OR "descriptions" then this would be the reason behind not seeing any descriptions.
Because when you add "alttext" to override the original image URL then you automatically are unable to affect the "description". The discriptions only show if the thumbnail is linked to the original image and not some foreign URL.
And whatever you add to the "alttext" automatically becomes your thumbnail's URL.
So I am left to wonder if any of you have made changes to the gallery.php file or if you have made any previous changes to any of your php files that pertain to thumbnail URL's etc.
Posted 3 years ago #
@goodenvy
Thanks for the advice.... but no, I haven't touched any of the core files. Any changes I made were to the CSS files.
I've not quite sure what you are saying, but I've gone in, deleted the alttxt for some images, and there's still no description showing.
But thanks for the idea
Posted 3 years ago #
no I was talking about making those changes to the file: gallery.php which is inside the view folder.
IF all you want to add is a description. You can add the following code to your post:
[singlepic=#,300,300,,right]
Otherwise I suggest reading the programmers support site/forum or visiting my fav:
Dave's Technical Musings
Posted 3 years ago #
IF you are a newbie to NextGEN check a step by step tutorial page that the programmer Alex recommends: http://hqcode.com/next-gen-gallery/working-with-next-gen-gallery/
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi goodenvy,
Yes, well written article, if you're a newbie, however it doesn't help me get any closer to resolving the fact that my descriptions have strangely disappeared, when they've been up and running, on WordPress 2.6 and 2.7. ;)
Since I haven't updated anything, added any plugins or changed any core nggallery code, I'm baffled where they've gone.
Posted 3 years ago #
Ok, had the same problem. This fix worked for me.
Edit your ngg_dkret3.css file (in the css folder of the plugin).
Change this:
.ngg-gallery-thumbnail span {
display:none;
}To this:
.ngg-gallery-thumbnail span {
font-size:9px;
padding-left:5px;
display:block;
}Then it will work, but the styling may be a little out of whack so you may need to fiddle with that a bit.
If that doesn't work for you you may want to check the other .css files in that folder to see if any others have display: none; and change them accordingly.
Posted 3 years ago #
Further to my above post and fix.
I was having other issues with the plugin so I did a complete uninstall of it (by using the Uninstall button in Setup, deactivating plugin, removing all plugin files) and then reinstalled a freshly downloaded clean version of the plugin from scratch (had to re-add all my pics and re-do all my settings).
Then the captions were working properly right off the bat. And I didn't have to edit any CSS files this time.
So if you don't have too many pics and have a bit of time to set everything up again then try a complete uninstall and reinstall.
The v1.1.0 plugin files I used to do my fresh re-install were downloaded from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
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