NextCellent Gallery – NextGEN Legacy free WordPress plugin

1.9.35 – 2017-10-16

Fixes for 1.9.34

What’s in it for you?

• fix: missing library preventing main window insert tags. Fixed

VERY IMPORTANT: Read ON!

NextCellent Gallery provides backward compatibility for older NextGEN until version 1.9.13 .

• this plugin will gracefully deactivate if detects NextGEN is working (any version) to avoid compatibility issues.

• Please remember to READ THE FAQ!!! Issues for failing to read the FAQ will be IGNORED!!!

• If you like it, please spread the word and rate it accordingly. I guess a lot of annoyed users can take advantage of NextCellent. Thank you!

• WE APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK. Be our voice and comment it!!!!

What is Nextcellent?

• NextCellent is a image gallery plugin, based on older NextGen gallery code

• NextCellent provides an alternative for traditional NextGEN users to keep their sites updated without breaking compatibility.

• Older subplugins NextGen-compatible will be compatible (prior NextGen 1.9.13 or earlier).

• Compatibility issues? Please check NextCellent Wiki (in construction) http://wpgetready.com/wiki/nextcellent-plugin/

What do you get with NextCellent Gallery?

• This is a compatibility branch with the older NextGen 1.9.13. As such, it will steadily improving and keeping update with software upgrades.
  For example, Nextcellent is not supporting Flash slideshow as 2017 for vulnerability reasons. In the same way Nextcellent should work fine with PHP 7.

• Backward compatibility with NextGEN plugin version (1.9.13). When we say ‘backward’ we mean to software level: most filters, actions and shortcodes should work.

• Slow evolving code path. Yep, you read it right: slow in counterpart as fast. Older code is good enough to keep a community and it worked (and works) for most people. Versions will rollup about once a month. There is another reason for that: we don’t have resources to keep a fast pace. So we’ll try to improve the code as much as possible, keeping a stable plugin instead developing new features here and there.

• A reliable way to work with already installed NextGEN galleries.

• Development on Bitbucket open to developers suggestions. (https://bitbucket.org/wpgetready/nextcellent). You are free to download , test and make suggestions and requests.

Being said that, here are the usual classic features:

NextCellent Gallery provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.

NextCellent WordPress Gallery Plugin Features

Upload Galleries

• Our WordPress gallery plugin offers diverse and powerful functionality for getting images from your desktop to your website. You can easily upload batches of images via a standard WordPress-style uploader, or upload images via zip file or FTP. NextCellent will automatically import your images meta data.

Manage Galleries

• Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries.
• Edit galleries. Add or exclude images, change gallery title and description, reorder of images, resize thumbnails.
• Thumbnail Management. Turn thumbnail cropping on and off, customize how individual thumbnails are cropped, and bulk resize thumbnails across one or more galleries.
• Edit Individual Images. Edit meta data and image tags, rotate images, and exclude images.
• Watermarks. Quickly add watermarks to batches or galleries of images.
• Albums. Create and organize collections of galleries, and display them in either compact or extended format.

Display Galleries

• Two Gallery Types. Choose between two main display styles: Slideshow and Thumbnail, and allow visitors to toggle between the two.
• Slideshow Galleries. Choose from a vast array of options for slideshows, including slideshow size, transition style, speed, image order, and optional navigation bar.
• Thumbnail Galleries. Choose from a wide range of options to customize thumbnail galleries, including 5 different lightboxes for individual images, optional thumbnail cropping and editing, thumbnail styles, captions, and more.
• Single Image Displays. Display and format single images.
• Work with Options Panel or Shortcodes.

NextCellent WordPress Gallery Plugin Community & Extensions

NextCellent will provide backward compatibility for NextGEN 1.9.13 and it will evolve according user requirements.

As a result, there is large and great community of users and developers, as well as a large number of dedicated extension plugins. For a list of extension plugins, just search for NextGEN in the WordPress.org plugin repository, or visit Complete List of NextGEN Extension Plugins.

Credits

Copyright:
WpGetReady 2013-2017
Photocrati Media 2012
Alex Rabe 2007-2011

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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Shortcode

NextCellent Plugin Shortcodes should be backward compatible with older NGG shortcodes.

Examples

Use Image Tags to Create Galleries/Albums – [ nggtags album=”WordPress,Cologne,Ireland” ]

Display Captions in Thumbnail Galleries – [ nggallery id=1 template=caption ]

Basic Filmstrip Galleries – [ nggallery id=2 template=carousel images=7 ]

Display Exif Data – [ imagebrowser id=28 template=exif ]

Sort Images in a Gallery Based on Their Tags – [ nggtags gallery=”cologne,wordpress,..” ]

Add Tag Clouds – [ tagcloud]

Single Pic Options – [ singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right ]

Template Engine for Gallery Types
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample1 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample2 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample3 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample4 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample5 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=sample6 ]

Integration with Third Party Plugins
[ monoslideshow id=1 w=450 h=350 ]
[ nggallery id=1 template=galleryview images=0 ]
[ media id=6 width=320 height=240 plugins=revolt-1 ]
[ media id=3 width=320 height=240 plugins=rateit-2 ]