[Plugin: JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel] Use the thumbnails from NextGEN as carousel images

Yes you can! I was just wondering the same thing but found no answer. So for you and future googlers here is what I did.

Pretty simple stuff. Just open the file which creates the markup for the plugin (‘/wp-content/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-carousel/includes/jj_ngg_jquery_carousel.php’) and look for a reference to $image->imageURL. Change this instead to $image->thumbURL. Done.

For me the code was on line 226 but I had done some other customization. In the end the code looked like such:

$output .= "<img src=\"" . $image->thumbURL . "\" " . $image_description . $width_d . $height_d . " border=\"0\" />";

Since $image is an instance of nggImage (the class defined by the NextGen plugin) you have access to a whole bunch of variables in the JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel plugin. A quick var_dump on $image will show you all the hidden goodies.

Enjoy the optimization.

Brilliant, thanks it worked perfectly!

Excellent! thanks very much!

Thanks for that!!!