Title: NextGen and Multisite Issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# NextGen and Multisite Issue

 *  [laskowv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laskowv/)
 * (@laskowv)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/)
 * Had 1.9.3 version with several albums & galleries working fine. Converted main
   site to multisite; no issues. Upgraded to 2.0.7; no issues. Added subsite and
   then created new gallery for subsite. In a new page on subsite, won’t let me 
   have option to pick from subsite gallery; only main site gallery.
 * FTP’d site and found subsite gallery in blogs.dir/3/files directory and main 
   site is still in wp-content/gallery folder. Network Gallery settings are for:
   wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/
    HOWEVER… main site Gallery->Other Options
   has wp-content/gallery/ and will not save the change to “wp-content/blogs.dir/%
   BLOG_ID%/files/”
 * What am I doing wrong? Have no problem with FTP or editing files, just need instructions
   on what to move and to where and what settings to correct.
    Thanks, Valerie
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [pixelyzed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyzed/)
 * (@pixelyzed)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017070)
 * I see the same thing on multisite. I have an 85 sites multisite network running
   NetxGen 1.9.13. Been running NextGen on it for over 2 years starting at version
   1.7.x I think with no issues.
 * I recently tested the update to 2.0.0 and to 2.0.7 on a dev copy of the site 
   and I see the same issue as laskowv. No matter what site I’m on in the network,
   if I try to insert a gallery in a page or post from the NextGen button it only
   shows me the galleries from the main site, not the actual site I’m on.
 * Also, it may also be multisite related as I didn’t get that issue updating a 
   regular standalone site but, if I go to the Gallery Settings page, none of the
   options labels are displaying. Many of the actual options are empty too.
 * If I do an options reset in Other Options, the options labels show but, I would
   have to go through 80+ sites on the network to reset options then redo the settings
   the way they were before… in the new system which is completely different than
   the old (which was SOOOO much easier to use with tabs than it is now).
 * So basically, I’m stuck at 1.9.13 until you can make it work correctly on multisite
   again or I find an alternative. I was going to go Pro with all the new features
   and thumbails pagination now works with any lightbox option which I’ve waited
   on since I started to use NextGen. But the broken state of this update does not
   instill confidence and load time on pages with galleries seems much slower than
   before too.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [laskowv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laskowv/)
 * (@laskowv)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017073)
 * pixelyzed … here’s what I have learned so far.
 * I also rolled back to 1.9.13. FTP’d and removed all of the galleries from the
   blog directories from each (ex: blog.2.dir->files). Reset the Network Settings
   and changed the path to be wp-content/gallery for ALL sites, including subsites.
 * All sites can see their own galleries. Tested another theory; had a gallery (
   call it trees) on subsite that I wanted to duplicate on main site with same name.
   Used “import folder” option on main site to import the “trees” gallery on main
   site. It imported it and gave it a new gallery id on main site and nothing was
   harmed on the physical folder (most probably overwrote it).
 * Now, what I did find is that I have a galleryid = 17 in main site with and a 
   galleryid = 5 on the subsite. ALL sites still have wp-content/gallery as their
   path. RESULTS: the gallery databases for each site are registering each gallery
   and giving them new id’s — regardless of the path.
 * What this proves is that all versions are not correctly following the directory
   path settings when it comes to “inserting into the post”. I have seen a few corrections
   to code variables posted in this support area that might be the solution for 
   multisites to work correctly. Maybe the developers should try these out?
 *  [pixelyzed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyzed/)
 * (@pixelyzed)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017160)
 * laskowv
 * Thanks for the heads up on this fix although, with a network as large as this,
   it would take a while to do the change. I’ll test this out though.
 * But I would appreciate if someone from Photocrati could post here and tell us
   if they are aware of this issue. I tested the update on 4 multisite installs 
   that worked fine beofre and that show this problem after update: intserting a
   gallery from sub site shows only the main site’s galleries although the path 
   setting is wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/ as always.
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017166)
 * [@laskowv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laskowv/), [@pixelyzed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyzed/):
   I just want to confirm that 2.0 is not fully multisite compatible and will cause
   issue on sub-blogs. Actually, I’m surprised you’ve had the Legacy version working,
   since that one actually also tends to cause issues on multisite. We’ve been aware
   of that from Legacy onward, and it’s very high priority once we get through the
   current slate of issues from the upgrade.
 * For now, if you have it working with 1.9.x, you should definitely just hold there
   until you see explicit confirmation that 2.x is now fully multisite compatible.
 *  Thread Starter [laskowv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laskowv/)
 * (@laskowv)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017177)
 * photocrati, this should be a very simple fix for you guys…..
 * Obviously, the app that is executed within a page/post is looking at the path
   defined in the options for single sites. On multisites, the full path is also
   defined for those sites, but the full path is not being referenced — it is just
   using the standard wp-content/gallery. The code needs to be changed to include
   the database or path variable as the prefix; this will fix it. I found another
   posting where they had modified theirs and posted in one of these threads. Of
   course, an update will wipe it all out again. (I think it was either $path or
   $dbase; something like that).
 * My “fix” was to change the path to all of my multisites to be the same as the
   parent site; however it all depended on whether or not the plugin on each site
   wrote a valid record in it’s on nextgen database — which I have proved that it
   does. If it had not, then I stood the chance of corrupting another gallery that
   would have an identitcal ID as the other site.
 * I do not currently have as many multisites as others, but soon will.
    Thanks
 *  [Norbert McDorbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dadreviewed/)
 * (@dadreviewed)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017178)
 * laskowv, help them do it 🙂
 * I will send you a bag of apples!
 *  [pixelyzed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyzed/)
 * (@pixelyzed)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-and-multisite-issue/#post-4017234)
 * [@laskowv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laskowv/)
 * With your fix to move all galleries to a single wp-content/gallery, do users 
   see all the galleries in there or just their own? If they see all galleries, 
   this solution is not workable for me. I need each site and user access isolated
   from one another. And you’d imagine that with 85 sites on the network, if users
   see everyone’s galleries, it would get very confusing very fast for them.
 * For now I’m just waiting for Photocrati to make NetxGen multisite compatible 
   or at least get it to the state 1.9.13 was before I upgrade. The UI changes will
   cause me enough trouble with users that I don’t want to complicate things any
   further for them.
 * Thanks!

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