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1. Degrama
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,

   I must be blind because all I can find are shortcode examples which are used in wordpress.

   Does anyone know how I can call nextgen via php particularly an Album.

   Thanks!

2. stefan-vizion
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Our resident PHP genius, Scott Kingsley Clark, found this hidden in the plugin. This is how you can pull a gallery, slideshow or album into a template via PHP hook:

   <?php echo nggShowSlideshow([id],[width],[height]); ?>

   Let me know if that works

3. Degrama
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   yes an no, your answer generated errors not sure why but i googled

   nggShowSlideshow

   and come up with

   function nggShowAlbum($albumID,$mode = "extend")

   =

   <?php echo nggShowAlbum(1) ?>

   And yes that works!

4. zerocelsius13
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php echo nggShowSlideshow([id],[width],[height]); ?>

   This works for me. Just had to replace the entire [id],[width],[height], with values like so:

   <?php echo nggShowSlideshow(1,120,120); ?>

   I do have the JW Image Rotator, so it's working great now. Thanks for the suggestion stefan-vizion.

   -Ben

5. Kruemel
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Are there more php codes I can use for NextGen?
   For example to show the latest 4 images of a special gallery?

6. adamholz
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can look in nggfunctions.php to identify all the NextGen functions, see the parameters used, and try calling them in your php files. you can also use <?php echo do_shortcode('[album=1 template=compact]'); ?>

7. andreas.h
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I use <?php echo nggShowSlideshow(1,120,120); ?> and have the JW Image Rotator.

   Showing two slideshows in the header from two diffrent gallerys, all works fine, until you go to a sub page then the slideshow doesnt display!?

   The homepage and all first level pages work fine!

   Any ideas of what the problem can be!?

8. Alex Rabe
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   have you included wp_head on the theme header ?

9. Jany @ Shambix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I just dont understand why there's a nice documentation about shortcodes but not php functions.

   I mainly work with php and custom template pages... how am I supposed to work with shortcodes... ok I can look in the core files and extract the functions I need... but I just dont understand why the same documentation wasn't done for php functions too.

   Guess the easiest thing to do, to show Album n.1 for example, is:

   <?php echo do_shortcode('[nggallery id=1]'); ?>

   Just get the normal shortcode in there and let wordpress core functions sort it out :D

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