I am curious about this too, I am trying to use the NextGen Widget and love that it can display random images, is there a way to make that slideshow be a link to your actual gallery page?
mightyaswell
Generally, setting per page sidebars is something that your theme will or will not support.
If your theme does support it, you would be able to create multiple sidebars and assign them to a page on while your editing the page.
If your theme doesn’t support it, you could either ask the author to add support or try to do it yourself.
You could hack together some php in your sidebar file to display a different widget depending on the page, but that isn’t really the “Right Way.”
lapman17
From what I recall (not at work with access to the WP install currently) clicking the image brings up a lightbox with the bigger version, right?
Changing the link would require editing the php file that creates the widget to change the link it generates. This also might be possible with a NextGen gallery plugin…
Here are a few NextGen plugin options:
Sorry, but a plugin plugin?!?
Thanks smigliorato,
But those plugins change the orientation of the thumbnail to almost a distortion level where it looks awful. It did allow me to make the image clickable, but not a nice clear image. Looks like I will need to go into the php and update it, which is what I wanted to stay away from. I am building the site for someone that is not very knowledgeable on updating code, so I want to keep this as simple as possible. I am sure I could hard code this, but I would like to stay away from it if possible.
–wordpress cut off my link Sorry, but a plugin plugin, that’s why it didn’t make sense. I lost the link and I can’t be bothered to recreate it right now–
I hate editing the php code too. I actually had someone on the support forum with a little fix they needed. I decided I would just use javascript to do the dirty work.
This way, you don’t need to edit NextGen’s files directly. That means it should also persist through updates. You could use a plugin like NextGen Custom Fields to attach the URL and then use javascript magic to change the links on the fly.
I would definitely be interested in working on this. I would be able to package it up as a plugin as well, so you can activate and deactivate it like normal. Basically, that means no digging around and pasting in code.
Please email me at:
steven ( at ) simplicity ( dot ) is
if you would want to try and work on this.
