@deckingman – Have you looked at your other active plugins to see if there is a conflict coming from them with the Permalinks issue?
– Cais.
@photocrati – I don’t know what you mean. If I allow Yoast SEO to change the permalinks to include “postname”, then I have the problems with Nextgen not being able to show the second page of my gallery. Nothing else on the site is affected by this change to Permalinks – only NextGen. If if put the Permalinks back to “default”, then NextGen behaves itself but Yoast SEO tells me that from an SEO point of view, the permalinks should include “postname”.
@deckingman – Are you setting (not WordPress SEO) the Permalinks under Settings > Permalinks to “Post name”?
– Cais.
@photocrati – Yes. To be clear, in the WordPress Dashboard under Settings – Permalinks there is a list called “Common Settings”. The top one is “Default”, then there is “Day and Name”, “Month and Name”, “Numeric”, “Post Name” and “Custom Structure”. Next to each option is a circle and the one that is selected has a blue dot in the middle of the circle. If I set this to “Post Name” I get the problems with NextGen gallery. If I select “Default”, I don’t get these problems.
@deckingman – Thanks for the details explanation, that makes it very clear you are trying to set the Permalinks correctly.
Do you still have this problem if you temporarily switch to a default WordPress Twenty series theme, deactivate all plugins, then reactivate NextGEN Gallery only?
– Cais.
@photocrati – I don’t feel confident about doing that. The thing is, my web site is working well at the moment in terms of delivering enquiries from people who want my services. I don’t want to do anything which might disrupt that.
I seem to have some other problems with the site such as xml site maps not working and there are a couple of minor issues with the responsive layout, so I’m going to seek professional help when I find someone I can trust who doesn’t want to charge the earth.
I’m guessing that this Permalinks issue is not a Nextgen problem but rather something fundamentally wrong with my site. Thanks for your help though.
@photocrati
Just one quick thing that I have discovered. If I change the permalink structure to anything other than default, then when I go to my site and click on the slide show and get the 404 error, the url is shown as “mywebsite”/index.php/index.php/gallery/nggallery/slideshow. i.e. there is and extra “index.php” showing in the url. Any thoughts as to where to look for what might be causing it?
@deckingman – Please update to the latest release of NextGEN Gallery and let us know if that issue persists … it should be sorted out.
You may also need to clear the image cache under Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous after changing the WordPress Permalinks.
Thanks!
– Cais.
@photocrati – Yes that’s fixed it! Many thanks.
@deckingman – Thanks for the update!
– Cais.
