Comments on: NextGEN Gallery WP Plugin

By: TheSizzle

TheSizzle — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:50:40 +0000

To be honest, I haven’t messed with it in a while, so I haven’t figured out how to show the description instead of the title. However, I suspect that if you don’t want to show the title, you could comment out the highslide JavaScript line:

hs.captionEval = ‘this.a.title’;

This disables the overlay. If you’re not familiar, commenting in JavaScript is //

By: sarakit

sarakit — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for this post. The little bit of info has helped me a lot. Any update on showing the description instead of the title? Also, how can you take out the display of the title altogether? Mine is showing the .jpg on all photos (I will have to go to each one and delete that if there’s no other solution)

Cheers!

By: Maki Naro

Maki Naro — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:29:37 +0000

Thanks! The captions work perfect now with a minor change of ‘this.a.title’ to ‘this.thumb.title’ in my wp-highslide settings. The control bar is still proving elusive though. I think I just need to get the images in the right directory. Pretty close though! Thanks again for the tips!

By: TheSizzle

TheSizzle — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:05:22 +0000

Hi Maki,

I started with this site:
http://vikjavev.no/highslide/index.htm
which has barebones examples on how to use Highslide, including one with the navigation bar. If you’re using the Wordpress plugin WP-Highslide, you’ll have to manually copy the images directory and the full highslide.js code from the official distribution of highslide into the WP-Highslide plugins directory. The nav bar uses the images in this directory for the navigation arrows. Also, if you look at the code for this page, you’ll see a “hs.captionEval = ‘this.a.title’;”. This line sets the caption of the photo to the title which is provided in the hyperlink. This title should be defined in your NEXTGen gallery as the “Alt and Title text” for each photo. I haven’t gotten it to display the description yet. Thanks!

By: Maki Naro

Maki Naro — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:18:40 +0000

Hey there, I’m currently working on the next generation of my website and have been messing around with Highslide, wherein I could get it to do everything but show the navigation bar! Especially when using the NextGen Gallery. I was wondering where you find the code to turn on this option. Thanks for the help!

Maki Naro