Hi,
In what view do you want to disable the alt/title tags? We need to know this to be able to help you.
As for other solutions, it might be worth considering the default WordPress Galleries, with a lightbox plugin. Unfortunately I don’t know enough to point you to a good solution, but Google is your friend 🙂
Hi,
Thanks for your answer!
I need to disable Alt/title tags in gallery view/slideshow view/whenver.
I’m not using Nextgen to display separate images, only if there are about 5 or more images grouped to a gallery, then I’m using Nextgen to display the gallery. And there should be no text under (or over) the images. Pictures must be diaplayed clean, without any text.
By default the description field, when left blank, is filled with file name.
I have tested two plugins (“Media File Manager” and “Media File Manager Advanced”) that promised to arrange files in WordPress media library into separate folders. This is just what I need. Unfortunately, neither worked correctly – didn’t display file names afrer moving/copying aso..
There are about 200 photographs displayed on my website today. If I take some 3-4 hours, then I could even download/republish those from zero.
But before doing that, I must have a better solution for future arrangement of media files. Grouping files based on Categories or Tags isn’t what I need.. I want to be able to keep different galleries in different folders. Sounds pretty simple to me.. Maybe because I’m not WP pro 🙂
Google has been my friend for over 15 years, sometimes I feel better talking to real people instead 🙂
Real people do tend to be a little better sometimes 🙂
Anyway, by default, NextCellent does fill in the Description field. It does fill in the alt/title text, but that’s not displayed anywhere, as far is I can see.
Note that I just tried and looked. I might do some full testing if I find some more time, as I’m a little busy right now.
In gallery management window beside images there are two text fields described as “Alt & Title Text / Description”. Upper one contains one line for text, lower contains multiple lines (bigger text box).
In my case the upper text box “alt&title” is filled with file name (without extension) and this text is displayed under the images, when viewed as gallery.
I need to get rid of this text. I know that I could edit the plugin code, but with google search I haven’t found the exact “code lines” that I should delete. I have found some descriptions for older plugin versions, but the code is different in my vers. so I really don’t know which lines I should delete from plugin source.
And that would be really only a hack that eliminates the field display from all galleries on my site globally… but maybe I need those fields displayed in the future for some gallery.. so, changing the code this way isn’t really a good option..
..which brings me back to my original question.. does Nextcellent support disabling of those fields? The PRO version of nextgen has this feature available.
Currently there is no way to disable them in NextCellent.
However, these fields aren’t displayed in normal usage. Could you post which shortcode you’re using?
Just to make sure we’re on the same page, this is what you mean by gallery right? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q3JYyb3ujuw/VIwBvxUd3aI/AAAAAAABRHY/pjVxirbikes/w743-h539-no/Knipsel.PNG
Yes that is what I mean by gallery, but by ‘gallery view’ I ment when you click on one of those images and only one image is displayed.
I’m not a native english speaker and have been WP user only for 10 months, so, sorry if i misspeak in terms a little..
And I’m not using any shortcode (between the square brackets), if that’s what you mean.
If I want to embed a gallery into my post or page I just click a little green icon (labelled: Attach NextGEN Gallery to Post) in the editor menu and this adds the following code to the post:
<img class="ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem" src="http://mysite.net/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--1460" alt="" />
Another question about NextCellent:
I installed NextCellent, turned NextGen off, turned NextCellent on, and… it says, it needs a database update. I did not do it, so NextCellent did not work, it is understandable. The question is: is it safe to do the database update? ..because maybe I want to go back to NextGEN for some reason and if Nextcellent screws up the database with this update then what?
Does the update change any value in the original NextGEN database?
I’m running 2.0.66.33 version of NextGEN atm.
btw, thank you for your input niknetniko!
I see what you mean now.
In NextCellent, adding posts works differently (with shortcodes). All the posibilities are listed on this page: http://wpgetready.com/wiki/nextcellent-plugin/common-shortcodes/shortcode-list/.
Normally it is safe to update your database. NextGEN should still work, without any problems. However, just to be 200% safe, you should make a database backup. (there are nice plugins for this – just use one of those).
