[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Share galleries on WP network (multisite)

hi
i’m trying the same… did u find a solution?

right now i’m doing a dirty hack:

1. change in “nggallery.php”, line 229:

function define_tables() {
	global $wpdb;

	// add database pointer
	$wpdb->nggpictures = $wpdb->prefix . 'ngg_pictures';
	$wpdb->nggallery = $wpdb->prefix . 'ngg_gallery';
	$wpdb->nggalbum	 = $wpdb->prefix . 'ngg_album';
}

to

function define_tables() {
	global $wpdb;

	// add database pointer
	$wpdb->nggpictures = 'wp_ngg_pictures';
	$wpdb->nggallery = 'wp_ngg_gallery';
	$wpdb->nggalbum = 'wp_ngg_album';
}

so the plugin uses the same datebase-tables for all blogs

2. then manually change the “path” settings in the db for every blog from “wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/” to “wp-content/blogs.dir/galleries/” or so…

*cheers

Thanks a lot !

your “dirty hack” did the trick for me :o)

I guess the plugin updates are not advisable from now…

with robot/txt what we add?

the normal is
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/gallery/

in multisite
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/ ?

hi!

2. then manually change the “path” settings in the db for every blog from “wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/” to “wp-content/blogs.dir/galleries/” or so…

where did you change the path? I m trying to change it from every site but its blocked. (is a multi language site)

thanks!

@nadade

yep, this is a little tricky, because u cannot change this value in the nng-settings (readonly)…

you need:
– basic knowledge of database-structures
– access to a database-admin-tool (usually “phpmyadmin” for mysql-databases)

you do (in the db-admin):

1. TAKE CARE NOT TO DESTROY YOUR WHOLE WORDPRESS INSTALLATION !
2. look for the “wp_options”-table
3. edit the row “ngg_options”
4. in field “option_value” look for something like "gallerypath";s:31:"wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/"
   and change it to
   "gallerypath";s:31:"wp-content/blogs.dir/galleries/"
   (or whatever you like your galleries-folder to be)
5. look for more tables like “wp_**_options” (where ** is the number of your blog, may be several depending of the amount of blog u set up), repeat step 2 + 3 for every wp_option table u find

*goodluck

@b_dark

in multisite
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: wp-content/blogs.dir/%BLOG_ID%/files/ ?

will not work because the variable %BLOG_ID% will not be translated in robots.txt…

try just

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: wp-content/blogs.dir/

so the bot is allowd to index all subfolders of /blogs.dir/

*s