alex.rabe

My last and hopefully best plugin for WordPress is a new Gallery plugin called NextGEN Gallery . It’s named als “NextGeneration” according to the the development of the game consoles . More over it should indicate that I (try) to use all new possibilities of the great JQuery and the so called Web 2.0. Before I start writing the plugin I study all image and gallery plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple galleries.

At the moment I’m not sure if all my ideas comes reality, but I have a lot of fun in the work for now. It’s fantastic how the jQuery and the WordPress community creates daily new plugins and ideas and I hope I can integrate at lot of this stuff in the future. 

Demonstration / Example pages

Here are some examples of a integration into a running WordPress blog. I’m not responsible for the content, but you can see the NextGEN Gallery plugin live in action. Send me your link if you would like to show your integration of the plugin.

Example of a integration into the header :

Installation of this plugin

Unpack the zip file and upload the content into the folder wp-content/plugins/nggallery (the WordPress plugins folder). Note : Do not change the folder names.
For the slideshow you need also the free (for personal use) JW Image Rotator from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the website and upload it (only imagerotator.swf) also into the NextGEN gallery folder. Now you can activate the plugin.

How it works / First steps

I apologize that during the running development the documentation is missing for now. Please have a look at the follow description for your first steps :

Please read also the FAQ section if you have further problems or post a message in the forums.

Screenshots of the admin menu

Live Preview of the image gallery

Overview / Functions

Requirements

Language support

NextGEN Gallery is prepared for the translation in other languages, to support the plugin in your language , see here.

The actual list of all available languages you can find here :

Download your NextGEN Gallery language

Just upload the .mo file in the nggallery/langs folder. WordPress will automatically load the language file from this directory, where ‘locale’ is the value you defined in your wp-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation.

Download version

Download nggallery.zip V0.97
Last Changed : 10.July.2008

For older version look here. This plugin is a brand-new ALPHA software — if you don’t understand what this means, then it’s probably best you don’t use it!

Support & Feature request

I integrated a forum for all question around this plugin. Please request your wishes and problems there.

History list / Changelog

Follow the actual : ToDo list

Here you find the : Changelog

License / Last note

This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. I take care and respect all copyrights for other code or programs. If you find code in this free plugin which is didn’t marked with the orginal copyright note , please contact me. Some code of this plugin is not released unter the terms of the GNU General Public License (like the Imagerotator Flash Player), these code must be separated downloaded and you must check by your self if you agree with the license terms.

Warranty

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.