Title: Theme templates Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Theme templates * Resolved [inTOWN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intown/) * (@intown) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/) * I created a template by copying album-compact.php to mytheme/nggallery/album- myname.php and by adding `echo do_shortcode('[album id=1 template=myname]');` to my theme. After I added something to this template, I was surprised the browser( or any other browser) would not show my changes. It took me a long time of trying to find the problem (was it calling the right template? Emptying cache 20 times? Other interfering files? ) Only after changing some settings in the backend before my changes would show up (any settings like f.e. gallery settings) . How is this possible? If I change or add html/php to a template, why doesn’t it show up right away? Where is the ‘delay’? * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [ericwilmoth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericwilmoth/) * (@ericwilmoth) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450265) * My guess is that you need to delete the wordpress cache itself (i’m assuming you’ve just been deleting the browser cache; if so, I ran into the same confusion long ago). * I’ve been out of the scene for a while and am going back through and re-familiarizing myself with things, but assuming there isn’t a simpler way of doing this now, what works for me is the WP Super Cache plugin. install/activate it, then go to the contents tab. There you’ll see ‘delete expired’ and ‘delete cache’ — i usually hit both, since sometimes I’ve experienced updates still not ‘showing’ otherwise. * hope that helps! * Thread Starter [inTOWN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intown/) * (@intown) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450268) * Hey there Eric, You are right, it has to do with cache, but inside NextGen. The same thing I can also do by going to Gallery > Other Options > Misc > clear image cache. Very annoying however, since now I have to do that at every little change while developing. * Thanks for the suggestion, at least I know now what the problem is so I won’t have to spend hours finding the mysterious bug 😉 ! * Good luck with getting back in things! * [ericwilmoth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericwilmoth/) * (@ericwilmoth) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450274) * Thanks–and glad you found your solution; I actually save a bookmark to the cache clearing page to make it quickly accessible–maybe you could do the same? * BTW, you may be able to do me a really simple favor–i already posted for help on this, but still waiting for answer: under other options>lightbox effects>show advanced settings, with lightbox selected, what is the ‘code’? I accidentally deleted it! * Thread Starter [inTOWN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intown/) * (@intown) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450275) * **Code =** class=’ngg_lightbox’ * [ericwilmoth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericwilmoth/) * (@ericwilmoth) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450279) * thanks! just to be sure, it doesn’t also have something like %GALLERY_NAME% in it? the other ones all seem to have some variation on that… * Thread Starter [inTOWN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intown/) * (@intown) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450281) * hi, * Not when lightbox effects are selected, only when you select one of the other effects it seems… * Can I ask you an off topic question as well? I am looking for a way to select the amount of galleries shown in an album. I need to be able to set a different amount on different pages (home page x amount of galleries, photo page another x amount of galleries). Right now I am using the echo short code to show an album, but is there another way you might now of? * [ericwilmoth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericwilmoth/) * (@ericwilmoth) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450283) * Thanks for the prompt reply–also i tested it, and the code is working! * Wish i could offer some input on the album issue, but i have yet to even use that feature, so I’m clueless. Hope you find what you’re after! * BTW, hope you have a happy new year! * Thread Starter [inTOWN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intown/) * (@intown) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-templates/#post-4450286) * Same to you on both subjects! 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