Support » Plugin: NextGEN Custom Fields » Gotta Problem, on a deadline.

  • Hello,
    I’ve finally given up on solving this problem myself; as I’m up against a deadline.
    If you’ve got the knowledge/creativity to help clear this up; I’ve got the beer.
    Sorry if this runs long, but I want to give anyone willing to help me a complete understanding.

    I started building my first site a few months ago.
    HTML, CSS, etc are very new to me; but I follow instructions well enough.
    Hoping you can help. Here’s the problem.

    My site is composed of dozens of pages of galleries – 3 or 4 columns, of up to 16 thumbs in each gallery.
    Each thumbnail is of a unique work of art and linked to a large jpeg.
    Under each thumbnail is a 3 or 4 line caption – title, artist, etc.
    I’ve spent several months putting these together using NextGen Gallery.
    When a thumbnail is clicked, a large lightbox pops up

      – On the Same Page-

    gets looked at for a moment, closed, and then others opened.
    If the visitor has to leave the gallery page, they’re not likely to return.
    The lightbox effect works great. That’s not the problem.

    It’s important that when a thumbnail is hovered on, a unique block of descriptive text pops-up, near the thumbnail.
    I’ve written over 200 unique text-blocks for this.
    And tried three “content-box/bubble” plugins described as “also compatible with Nextgen Gallery.”
    Wordpress Tooltips worked the best; but there’s a problem I don’t know how to fix, though I’ve been working on it for a couple of days.

    Tooltips recognizes the Nextgen thumbnail by reading the image’s alt/description box content in the gallery-manager.
    However, I use the alt/description box for my 3 or 4 line captions.
    So all that happens with Tooltips is a balloon on hover that repeats the caption.

    Though I’m sure you “get it” better than I finally did, the way that these plugins are “compatible” with Nextgen, is that they default to not using the text created in there app; and read the same text from the alt/description box.

    If I paste the full text block into the alt/description box, it comes up just fine as a Tooltips balloon, but, of course, it’s just a repeat of a 15-20 line thumbnail caption.
    No good.

    Today, I decided that – as much as I like having captions- the balloon is more important;
    so I switched off the caption template.
    But then Tooltips didn’t work any more either.

    I installed NextGEN Custom Fields ; then realized I’d need a longer learning curve than I had time, so didn’t take the time to learn to use it.
    I have a beginner’s hunch that the solution is going to involve using NCF to make WordPress Tooltips recognize a different location for the texts.
    If that’s the answer, I’d appreciate instructions.

    But also hoping there’s a plugin I don’t know about that would just work out of the box with Nextgen.

    Thanks very much.
    Sam
    PS. I’m restarting my business, on a budget, after recovering from an illness, and will need someone knowledgable to continue building out, and maintaining my site, once I’m back to selling art. So, if you’re in Chicago, and do website work, it would be good to hear from you.

    My site – http://samhellerfineart.com
    Some of the other plugin solutions I’ve tried, which either didn’t work, or I didn’t understand enough to configure properly include:
    SlideDeck 2 lite; Smooth Slider; Infopopup; and Alligator Popup.
    Alligator PU did work, but by opening a new small browser window on top of the gallery, and seemed likely to be to slow to open to be useful.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery-custom-fields/

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  • Plugin Author shauno

    (@shauno)

    Hey man

    This goes a little outside of the scope of the support I can provide for this plugin. If you have a specific question about using the plugin, I will be able to help.
    Good luck with your project.

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