NextGEN Gallery Slideshow for header

Anyone Please?

I figured it out myself after 2 days of trial and error.
For anyone else who uses this template you just do this:

1) Open up page.php

FIND
<div id="main"></div>

REPLACE WITH

<div><?php
if (function_exists("nggSlideshowWidget"))
{ nggSlideshowWidget($galleryID,$Width=710,$Height=170); }
?>
</div>

2) Open up the index.php

FIND
<div id="main"></div>

REPLACE WITH

<div><?php
if (function_exists("nggSlideshowWidget"))
{ nggSlideshowWidget($galleryID,$Width=710,$Height=170); }
?>
</div>

It worked for me, I have no idea if this was the right way or not but it works! ??

Now I need to find out how to shoot the slideshow to the right a tad…

Thank you! I was just about to ask the same question for a slightly different purpose. I wanted to create a slideshow on my homepage, below the header, but before the loop of posts. I’ll give this a try!

Yep, sure does work! Thanks!
You can see how it works here on my website’s homepage.
I checked the function and it seems the only parameters to pass are galleryid, width & height. Because my portfolio has images of various dimensions, I at least want to enable things like the Ken Burns effect.

How can I pass other options through? Or, if I need to manually code the html, where is the xml file or rss feed format for NGG?

You’ve also inspired me to consider a rotating ad banner display in the header of my page. But I’d have to change the click function to “go to url” rather than “go to next image.” which goes right back to the issue of passing values without shortcode.

Any ideas or suggestions?

nggSlideshowWidget() generates a js script code, copy this code from the html source and place it into your header. Then you can change the settings via the script code…

Let me make sure I understand. I should activate the widget in the sidebar with the right settings, then copy the resulting HTML from a published page, then paste it into my header html? Cool, I’ll give it a try.

Right now, I just have the original approach working out ok. But looking forward to the customization.

NextGen is definitely making it easy to manage a growing library of photos, and i’m able to seperate them from personal scrapbook to professional portfolio collections. While I’m wrestling with design issues, NextGen Gallery is making the asset management tasks very easy.

So lovin the gallery now. I’ve coded up a splash slide show on my homepage while using the default settings for slideshows in my pages and posts. BTW, NGG integrates pretty well, it’s a walk in the park to include slideshows from the rte icon.

I’ve got some css tweaks i gotta iron out, but I’m totally satisfied by the functionality NextGen Gallery gives my blog.

The PicLens and CoolIris is just the coolest icing on the cake.

The only thing I’ve noticed is that on the respective pages from an album view, there aren’t any navigation options. Visitors have to know to hit the back button to go from an embedded gallery back to the album. Is there any shortcode for including title or navigation links?