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Imagely
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Hi @retrojimmy,
You can try using a shortcode construction like the one from below to see if that’ll work for you ( please make sure to use your own tag names instead of tag1-3) :
[ngg src="tags" ids="tag1,tag2,tag3" display="basic_thumbnail" order_by="rand()"]
Thanks – that’s superb! I’ve been trying to find documentation on using shortcodes but couldn’t find a definitive resource. the shortcode doesn’t quite mimic the random picture widget because the thumbnails are bigger and there is no limit to the number of picture used (which causes pagination).
I found that adding images_per_page=”6″ limits the images but still the thumbs need to be resized – any ideas on…
– On how to specify the thumbnail size (I will then try number_of_columns=”3″)
– How to hide pagination
Then it would be perfect for me. Thanks again for the original reply and thanks in advance for any follow-up (if can’t be done, that’s also useful to know). James
Plugin Contributor
Imagely
(@imagely)
Hi @retrojimmy
There is such a possibility to use a custom value for the thumbnails’ size:
[ngg src="tags" ids="tag1,tag2,tag3" display="basic_thumbnail" override_thumbnail_settings="1" <strong>thumbnail_width="250" thumbnail_height="150" thumbnail_crop="0"</strong> order_by="rand()"]
Unfortunately, there’s no such a parameter to hide the pagination. You can globally hide the pagination for all of the NGG galleries adding this CSS to "Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS"
.ngg-navigation {
display: none !important;
}
Thanks again – really appreciated!
I settled with
[ngg src="tags" ids="fav" display="basic_thumbnail" override_thumbnail_settings="1" thumbnail_width="100" thumbnail_height="75" thumbnail_crop="0" images_per_page="6" number_of_columns="3" order_by="rand()"]
and for the CSS, I only wanted navigation to be hidden in the sidebar (for my current template) and not in content so I used:
#secondary .ngg-navigation {display: none !important;}
This very closely mimics the original widget. I’ll see if there is a formal feature request for the widget,
Cheers.
