I’ve volunteered to create a website for the local amateur camera club that I’m part of. After recently re-doing my own website, I’m struggling with displaying images in a gallery that pleases me. I currently use Envira Gallery, but it may be a combination of the Theme I’ve chosen and the basic package of Envira, but the gallery on my website at the mo looks a bit lacklustre. Ironic really, as I wanted it to really showcase what I can do!
So, in the new website, I’m trying a new plug-in called NextGEN Gallery, which according to the plug-in blurb is “The most popular gallery plugin for WordPress and one of the most popular plugins of all time with over 27 million downloads.”
I watched the 2 minute tutorial video and it is quite user friendly on the whole. But I’m still struggling to achieve what I want!
It’s relatively easy to create a Gallery. Once the gallery has images and is named and saved, you can then go to a page and add a NextGEN Gallery using the document block items.
I had previously set up 3 test galleries (all containing the same images). These were all inserted into the above gallery just to see how they would be displayed. Sadly, all the images were displayed together, with no distinction between the galleries.
So this attempt got deleted and then I attempted to manage Albums instead. With this album I included all 3 test galleries, and I linked it to the Gallery page in the website.
The linking to the Gallery page didn’t seem to do anything…but that’s probably me! However, when I went to the Gallery page in the website I was creating and did the following, it created the results I was after:
- Add block
- Select NextGEN gallery
- Click on Add NextGEN gallery
- Select Albums
- Select the Album you want to insert
- Choose ‘Basic Extended Album’ from the 2 free display options
- Insert Gallery
…And it was going so well, until I clicked on a flamin’ album and got a 404 error message – this page doesn’t exist! So close…