Page hangs at "Select or enter gallery"

I had this same error on one of the sites I run. Unfortunately, upgrading to WordPress 3.2.1 and updating to the current stable release of Next-Gen Gallery (1.8.2) did not fix it like Paul Chauvet.

However, I was able to fix it. The issue came about that the site uses a different home page than the standard wordpress home page (to allow the blog and custom post types to have similar URLs).

I was able to fix it by changing /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/tinymce/window.php from this code:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery("#gallerytag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'gallery',domain: "<?php echo home_url(); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#albumtag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'album',domain: "<?php echo home_url(); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#singlepictag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'image',domain: "<?php echo home_url(); ?>/"
    });
});

to this code:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery("#gallerytag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'gallery',domain: "<?php echo site_url(); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#albumtag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'album',domain: "<?php echo site_url(); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#singlepictag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'image',domain: "<?php echo site_url(); ?>/"
    });
});

Correctly using the site_url() function of WordPress instead of the home_url() function

@corbanraun
Glad it worked for you!

I took a look through the changes that Alex Rabe did for the NextGen Gallery and he purposefully changed from site_url() to home_url() for this release. However, I did file a bug ticket to change from home_url() to home_url(‘index.php’) which specifies the actual WordPress file so that this should work correctly in all situations. He has made the changes to the code core and it should be in the next release.

To test if this fix works for your system, change the code to:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery("#gallerytag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'gallery',domain: "<?php echo home_url('index.php'); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#albumtag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'album',domain: "<?php echo home_url('index.php'); ?>/"
    });
    jQuery("#singlepictag").nggAutocomplete( {
        type: 'image',domain: "<?php echo home_url('index.php'); ?>/"
    });
});

if not, there may need to be some additional changes to the core (or to your site). My site works with the new code as well, so please test it out on your system.

Thanks again to Alex Rabe for NextGen Gallery and for the quick response to bug tickets!

@mattcav,

Didn’t realize you ran multisite! 😀
If you use site_url(), do you have access (or want access) to all images and galleries of all blogs associated with you multisite installation? If so, site_url() would be the way to go, but if not, network_home_url() might be the way to go. I’m not positive on the separation there as I do not have multisite to test in, but you may want to test both ways to see if it makes a difference and what you have access to. If it turns out that site_url is the way to go, we should try to report the tests to the NextGen bug report as it works either way on my system. Not sure how much has been done to make NextGen friendly with multisite.

I’m having the same issue…I tried both code options above and still am getting the spinning wheel….any help would be much appreciated

http://stylemom.com

I’ve just updated to 1.8.3, but the problem still here.

Thank you so much Sidtheduck. Now I’m working on it with Alex Rabe: I hope to find a solution and post it here for all.

Hi everyone,
i have the same problem: the swirling circle comes up but nothing happens.
Wordpress 3.2.1
NextGen Gallery 1.8.3
I tried both code options above and still am getting the spinning wheel.
Any idea?
Thanks