Formatting Issue with Compact Album

@ethanalvin – An example of what you are trying to do might help … can you share a link to where you are displaying the album? Also, if you are using a custom template, you may need to review it’s code to ensure it is displaying things as you are expecting them to be seen.

Thanks!

– Cais.

Hi Cais,

I managed to get the formatting right, but I’m trying to display the gallery description even though I’m using a compact album.

I’ve added a new template (album-lightbox) to get the album to open in a lightbox.

Kindly advise how I can add the gallery description to under the album title.

@ethanalvin – Add that detail to your custom template would be the most obvious idea I an think of … have you tried that?

– Cais.

<?php
/**
Template Page for the album overview

Follow variables are useable :

    $album     	 : Contain information about the first album
    $albums    	 : Contain information about all albums
	$galleries   : Contain all galleries inside this album
	$pagination  : Contain the pagination content

 You can check the content when you insert the tag <?php var_dump($variable) ?>
 If you would like to show the timestamp of the image ,you can use <?php echo $exif['created_timestamp'] ?>
**/
?>
<?php if (!defined ('ABSPATH')) die ('No direct access allowed'); ?><?php if (!empty ($galleries)) : ?>

<div class="ngg-albumoverview">

	<!-- List of galleries -->
	<?php foreach ($galleries as $gallery) : ?>

	<div class="ngg-album-compact">
		<div class="ngg-album-compactbox">
			<div class="ngg-album-link">
				<a class="Link" href="<?php echo nextgen_esc_url($gallery->pagelink) ?>">
					<img class="Thumb" alt="<?php echo esc_attr($gallery->title) ?>" src="<?php echo nextgen_esc_url($gallery->previewurl) ?>"/>
				</a>
			</div>
		</div>
        <?php if (!empty($image_gen_params)) {
            $max_width = 'style="max-width: ' . ($image_gen_params['width'] + 20) . 'px"';
        } else {
            $max_width = '';
        } ?>
        <h4>
            <a class="ngg-album-desc"
               title="<?php echo esc_attr($gallery->title) ?>"
               href="<?php echo nextgen_esc_url($gallery->pagelink) ?>"
               <?php echo $max_width; ?>>
                <?php echo $gallery->title ?>
            </a>
        </h4>
		<?php if (@$gallery->counter > 0) : ?>
		<p class="ngg-album-gallery-image-counter"><strong><?php echo $gallery->counter ?></strong>&nbsp;<?php _e('Photos', 'nggallery') ?></p>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div>

 	<?php endforeach; ?>

	<!-- Pagination -->
    <br class="ngg-clear"/>
 	<?php echo $pagination ?>
</div>

<?php endif; ?>

Here’s the code. Any help would be appreciated!

@ethanalvin – You will need to add (at a minimum) the following into the template:
<?php echo $gallery->galdesc; ?>
Depending on where you add the above code will also dictate what additional styles you may need to address as well.

I would suggest after the <h4><a> element, but anywhere within the foreach loop should be fine.

– Cais.