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Hi WebsiteDefender, I tend to agree with bigbadboy in this. While the display toggle is certainly an option, the default is on when your plugin is installed. Not only is it unwieldy to go in and toggle the display off for blogs with a large number of users, but the user can still go in and turn it back on, then get confused. Seriously, it happens! So an overall admin option to turn on or off your news feed would be an excellent addition.

Short of that, bigbadboy, you can manually remove the news feed for all by adding the following lines of code to your functions.php file…

add_action('admin_init','remove_dashboard_widgets');

function remove_dashboard_widgets()
	{ remove_meta_box('acx_plugin_dashboard_widget','dashboard','normal'); }

You’re welcome!

Thanks for the idea, Ipstenu. That would be one way to satisfy my urge to “pay it forward.” Obviously, though, the original poster(s) wouldn’t be aware of the solution via the original thread subscription. I’d imagine adding the link as you suggest would “connect” the threads in some way for the search engines, making it easier for folks doing new searches on the issue, so there’s that.

Sorry if my comments came across as overly harsh, they weren’t meant to be. Sure, I don’t agree with everything on here, but yes, it’s an awesome resource to share info, even when it’s about how the resource is managed! Isn’t that how we grow and evolve? 🙂

In that vein, here’s another suggestion: Maybe blog threads (even closed ones) could include a list of “You may also be interested in…” that would display a few related threads based on title? That would make it easier if someone lands on closed question thread “X” that has a solution in thread “Y”. Only thought of this because I’ve seen a similar functionality in several WP sites!

Hi Jānis, thanks for your hard work on this plugin! I just posted a similar question in another thread, how to remove the Profile menu from non-admins. In the meantime, I’ve set my custom admin CSS to include…

#menu-users {display:none !important;}

Quick and dirty, and if they know the URL they can get there, but at least it doesn’t make it super-easy for them.

Looking forward to a better solution!

Okay, here’s an alternative solution that doesn’t require Alex to add anything to the NextGen code *AND* will survive NGG plugin updates. It’s an alteration of the gallery.php code so there’s no need to exclude the Preview Image or alter the NextGen core code to force a display of excluded images in the first place. Neat huh??

1. Replace the standard NextGen gallery presentation with a custom one in your theme by copying the “/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/view/gallery.php” file to “/wp-content/themes/your-theme/nggallery/gallery.php” (You may have to create the “nggallery” folder in your theme.)

2. Now I really customized my gallery, so a lot of the standard code has been removed & changed around in what’s below. The important bits are the lines between “if(!empty($gallery))” and “foreach($images as $image)” as well as the “if($PreviewImgPath==$image->imageURL) { continue; }” line…

if(!empty($gallery))
	{
	global $wpdb;

	$results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ng.path, np.filename FROM wp_ngg_pictures np, wp_ngg_gallery ng WHERE np.galleryid=ng.gid AND np.galleryid=" . $gallery->ID . " AND np.pid=ng.previewpic",ARRAY_A);

	if(!empty($results[0]['path']) && !empty($results[0]['filename']))
		{ $PreviewImgPath = get_bloginfo('url') . '/' . $results[0]['path'] . '/' . $results[0]['filename']; }

	foreach($images as $image)
		{
		if($PreviewImgPath==$image->imageURL) { continue; }

		if($image->hidden) { continue; }

		$ImageCode .= '<div style="float:left; padding:5px;">' .

			'<a href="' . $image->imageURL . '" title="' . $image->description .
			'" ' . $image->thumbcode . '>' . '<img title="' . $image->alttext .
			'" alt="' . $image->alttext . '" src="' . $image->thumbnailURL .
			'" ' . $image->size . ' /></a>' .

		'</div>';
		}

	if($pagination)
		{ $pagination = '<br style="clear:both;" />' . $pagination; }

	echo '<div id="galLery2">' . $ImageCode . $pagination . '</div>';
	}

The code above basically tells the gallery to display everything *BUT* the Preview Image. This is done via a wpdb query to get the gallery’s Preview Image URL, comparing that to each image in the $gallery array, then skipping over the image if the URLs match.

Granted, the wpdb query is a bit kludgy, but it’s the only way I could figure to get the Preview Image info from the gallery.php page. And I looked A LOT. Thanks to GitHub:Gist for getting me started in that direction. However, if anyone has any cleaner way of doing so, I’m happy to hear. Otherwise, hope this helps!

Hi Pär: I see CMS Tree Page View is now up to 0.7.20. Has the conflict with NextGEN Gallery outlined here been worked out in the latest release?

Sounds great, and I’m going to give it a try. BUT, will changes like this get overwritten when the next version of Smart Youtube comes out? Just wondering…

I was just wondering that myself. WP-SpamFree seems to work well on one of my sites, so I wanted to install it on another, but can’t find it using the “Install Plugins” function within the WP admin. Any word, WP?