"Attach to post" does not attach a gallery.

@gerdski – The IGW (“green button”) in the TinyMCE editor’s visual tab does not current insert a shortcode; it does insert an <img> placeholder that NextGEN Gallery parses to then render the display.

Do you continue to see the problem if you temporarily switch to a default WordPress Twenty series theme? This would indicate a potential conflict with your current theme and its author may be able to share some insights into why it could be happening.

Thanks!

– Cais.

Hello,

> The IGW (“green button”) in the TinyMCE editor’s visual tab does not current insert a shortcode; it does insert an <img> placeholder that NextGEN Gallery parses to then render the display.

Yes, you’re right, it inserts an <img> with some extra information.
But NextGEN does not pares it to render the display…it stays what it is…an Image without any function.

> Do you continue to see the problem if you temporarily switch to a default WordPress Twenty series theme?

I cannot do this in the live site.

My local test site behaves differently…here I have 2.1.6 installed, and the big popup window that opens after pressing the IGW Button does not close on pressing “save”, only when I click the X in the top right. But then, no code is inserted.

> This would indicate a potential conflict with your current theme and its author may be able to share some insights into why it could be happening.

Or, maybe, as I wrote: If the new version of the NgGallery does not work in a theme that had no problem with the old version, maybe there is some kind of checklist for themes to be compatible with the new version?

Thank you,
Gerdski

@gerdski – I would suggest updating your test site to the current version of NextGEN Gallery (as of this writing 2.1.15).

As to a theme checklist, you can always start with using the Theme-Check plugin found on the WordPress Plugin repository … basically most any theme built to current WordPress Best Practices should be fine to display NextGEN Gallery displays.

Thanks!

– Cais.

Hello again,

I gave it another try yesterday and updated NGG on my local test site to 2.1.15. -> FAIL

Changed the Theme to TwentyEleven -> FAIL

Deactivated all Plugins except NGG -> SUCCESS!

Installed the Theme-Check plugin and found one thing that was marked as REQUIRED but was missing in my theme: The Title Tag.

I added this to my functions.php (works with child theme too):

—
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘theme_slug_setup’ );
function theme_slug_setup() {
add_theme_support( ‘title-tag’ );
}
—

Reactivated all plugins: -> SUCCESS!

Galleries work, and attach-to-post also works.

I am still waiting for customer feedback, and if this is as positive as my experience right now, we can mark this as RESOLVED…ok?

Thanks a whole lot for your support! The Theme-Check plugin was a brillant idea ??

@gerdski – I’m happy to read that you found a solution but I would be extremely surprised it was actually related to the implementation of add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );

I would suspect more so that it is an activation conflict where one of your other plugins when active was causing the conflict because NextGEN Gallery was activated afterward. If this is the case, the same problem may arise with the next update of NextGEN Gallery as the WordPress update process behaves in the same manner as activating NextGEN Gallery last.

Thanks for the follow-up!!

– Cais.

Maybe you’re right. So I think it’s a good idea to keep this version of NGG running and never deactivate it. ??

Thanks for your help!

@gerdski – You should still do the updates as they are released (which if done via the WordPress interface will deactivate NextGEN Gallery) but it appears you have the work-around of “resetting” your plugins … or manually updating NextGEN Gallery.

Thanks for the follow-up!

– Cais.