Option suggestions for the NextGEN Gallery/WordPress MU

Thanks for all of your hard work on NextGEN Gallery — it’s a fantastic app, and it works well. That said, there are two issues I’ve run into when running it under WordPress MU. Neither is insurmountable, but they’d be a lot easier to manage with the addition of two new global settings:

Global option for Default Image Rotater location

The plugin attempts to guess the default location for the imagerotator.swf file based on the assumption that the plugin is installed as part of a standard WordPress installation. This makes the path something like:

http://www.example.com/username/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf

Unfortunately, in a WordPress MU install, the plugin is not located in the user’s directory; instead it’s in the main plugins directory. e.g.:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf

It’d be great to have a global option that allows me to specify what the default path should be for all of the NextGEN galleries on the WordPress MU install.

Global option for “Disable Flash Uploader”

The Flash uploader has been problematic on and off for a while. While 2.7 got it working on non-secure sites, there’s a known issue with Flash and https that prevents it from working in sites secured with https.

NextGEN allows users to disable the Flash uploader on a per-site basis, which is helpful, but I’d love a global option that would allow me to disable the Flash uploader site-wide.