[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Widget Functionality

Think I hope for the same as the requester.
Make the text of the widget clickable so that it opens the full gallery.
(just like you would add [gallery=8] in a page)

If you are at the wordpress controll panel and go to :
Design – Widgets – Nextgen gallery Widgets

you can add 1-xx nextgen widgets to the sidebar where you can display a number of thumbnails from your gallery and give it a name.
But that’s it.. you see as seen on my page 4 images per gallery and there is no way using that part of the widget to go to the full gallery.
Had to make a page button to make the full gallery pages.

let’s use an example.

http://www.japantale.com/blog/

You see to the right the nextgen widget “waterfalls”, there exist 6 images but no way you can see the other 2 by clicking for example on the “waterfalls” text.
Even clicking on the small thumbnail gives you a 4 image “slideshow”. (bit confusing that)

What I (we?) want is that the text will be clickable and that it reacts the same way as you would select a page-button where entered a [gallery=x] statement.

I have almost the same problem, activated NextGen Gallery widget 1.22, added Nextgen Slideshow widget to sidebar, is it possible to point all the images showed to an external link?

Thanks, Simone

This type of thing was driving me nuts!!!!! Was looking for the same solution with Nextgen Gallery. Unfortunately the slideshow widget that comes with NextGen out of the box won’t link its displaying images… Here’s a solution to… (no widget support though).

Get Nextgen Smooth Gallery
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-smooth-gallery/
to use along side Nextgen Gallery

In the Smooth Gallery plugins folder open up the file:
nggSmoothSharedFunctions.php

Go to line 99 and find this

$aux["link"]  = BASE_URL . "/" . $picture->path ."/" . $picture->filename;

change it to this

$aux["link"]  = $picture->alttext;

Now what you’re doing is pulling the Alt Text info from Nextgen gallery images… You can now go into Nextgen Gallery and change any images Alt Text to be an internal or external link. I’m sure you could get even more creative with this possibilty.