Title: Hello, old friend!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hello, old friend!

 *  Resolved [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/)
 * Hi OpaJaap. I hope all is well in your part of the world. It’s Josh Lobe, developer
   of Ultimate Tinymce. Long time, no talk 🙂
 * Well, I don’t know if you are aware.. but the NextGen Gallery plugin has been
   having some pretty extreme [issues](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery)
   lately.
 * There have been a substantial number of people contact me, thinking it was my
   plugin. In each and every circumstance, we were able to trace the issue back 
   to the NextGen plugin.
 * Now… I have been dropping your plugin name each opportunity I can get. It appears
   many people are “married” to NextGen… and are afraid of losing photos/galleries
   when switching to another plugin.
 * I was thinking… if you can take a look at NextGen and see where images are stored
   from that plugin… and find a way to “import” them into your structure… I believe
   you will gain a ton of new users!
 * What do you think?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038133)
 * Of course i still know you! You helped me a lot in the past.
 * Brilliant idea! So, i have to investigate the internals of NextGen afterall….
   That will not be my favorite spend of time but i will surely do as soon as i 
   have the current hi priority topics done.
 *  Thread Starter [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038136)
 * Thanks, OpaJaap!
 * If I may be of any assistance whatsoever, please don’t hesitate to ask.
 * I’m not sure what happened with NextGen… but I do have quite a few threads floating
   around really pushing your plugin here 🙂
 * I’ll get some more feedback over the next couple of days, and see what we might
   be dealing with here.
 * I think.. if you had a “magic” button, that would import all photos created with
   NextGen, and put them into your directories for manipulation… that would be ideal!
 * Perhaps you can check NextGen; see where/how they are storing their images; and
   copy them into your folders.
 * Then, the user can access them via your control panel, and organize them however
   they like.
 * Lemme know if I can do anything for ya!
 * Talk to you soon 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038154)
 * To begin with: the next version will have the wp-content/gallery/… tree added
   in the ‘Import photos from’ selection box on the Import photos admin screen. 
   That was not so much work. The photos are there, orginized by subdir=gallery 
   name.
 * What i worry about is the meta data like descriptions, tags etc…
 *  Thread Starter [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038155)
 * Gotcha.
 * Is the meta data something that NextGen allows you to add to each photo?
 * Sorry, I’ve never experimented with the NextGen plugin… but, I’m going to go 
   install it on my test site.. and see how they are doing things.
 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038156)
 * I am gaining enthousiasm for this project.
 * It looks they simply use iptc/exif data, well, so can i…
 * You have still an admin account ( joshlobe ) on my **alfa** site: [http://beta.opajaap.nl/](http://beta.opajaap.nl/)
   where you can follow the progressions in my programming.
 * See the Import page. ( The creation of the album with the ngg gallery name doesn’t
   work yet, its weekend and my wife needs me. How is your laptop in the bedroom??)
   You may add ngg galleries and/or wppa albums, there is over 40 gb disk space 
   available.
 * If you want to help me, please find out if the root of the ngg galleries is indeed(
   as i assume now ): `ABSPATH.'wp-content/gallery/'`, if the user can change it(
   maybe an option that can be tweaked?? ), and how it is on a multi site installation.
 * Have a nice weekend, all systems going down now, as i explained above…
 *  Thread Starter [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038157)
 * Lol – Yes Yes. The wife is number one!! Never let your work interfere with the
   wife! You will surely suffer 😉
 * I will check it out tonight and post back here.
 * Thank you for the access!
 * Please have a wonderful weekend, yourself!
 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038172)
 * It looks i have the magic button working!!
 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038190)
 * I found the setting in:
 *     ```
       $ngg_opts = get_option('ngg_options', false);
       if ( $ngg_opts ) $ngg_root = $ngg_opts['gallerypath'];
       ```
   
 * the default being `'wp-content/gallery/'`
 *  Thread Starter [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hello-old-friend/#post-4038191)
 * Sorry, my friend.
 * Would you mind using my contact form?
    [http://joshlobe.com/contact-me/](http://joshlobe.com/contact-me/)
 * I wasn’t able to log into your beta environment. I tried locating the emails 
   from our previous conversations, but I have since switched computers.
 * I also have a client who was very ‘hung’ on the NextGen plugin. I have convinced
   her to switch to your plugin… but she has some questions… and will probably be
   a valuable resource in “testing” these changes.
 * I’d like to put her in touch with you as well.

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