[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Clean/SEO URL solution

Here’s a very quick hack to demo how easy it would be to have clean, SEO friendly URL structure for *all* albums and galleries without having to resort to:

/nggallery/page-202/album-2/gallery-3/

1. Gallery > Options > General Options > Activate permalinks [ empty ] do not tick this box

2. Create a new Page to act as gallery main slug (this must match 1st segment in rewrite rule, see below):

/gallery

3. Insert the ngg shortcode (so nextgen code is run)

[album id=1 template=compact]

4. Visit URL:

https://mysite.com/gallery/album-name/gallery-name/

File: nggfunctions.php

Line #330 in function nggShowAlbum()

// $_GET from wp_query
    $gallery  = get_query_var('gallery');
    $album    = get_query_var('album');

    global $wpdb;
    $album_result = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->nggalbum WHERE name = '%s'", $album) );
    $gallery_result = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->nggallery WHERE name = '%s'", $gallery ) );

    $album = $album_result->id;
    $gallery = $gallery_result->gid;

File: THEME/functions.php

add_filter('rewrite_rules_array','wp_insertMyRewriteRules');
    add_filter('query_vars','wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars');
    add_filter('init','flushRules');

    // Remember to flush_rules() when adding rules
    function flushRules()
    {
        global $wp_rewrite;
        $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
    }

    // Adding a new rule
    function wp_insertMyRewriteRules($rules)
    {
        $newrules = array();
        $newrules['(gallery)/([a-z\-]*)/([a-z\-]*)$'] = 'index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&album=$matches[2]&gallery=$matches[3]';

        return $newrules + $rules;
    }

    // Adding the id var so that WP recognizes it
    function wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars($vars)
    {
        array_push($vars, 'id');
        return $vars;
    }

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