I cannot get ANY photo gallery plugin to work – help?

  • Okay, I’m new at this – granted.

    Sure, I’m not much of a programmer.

    But not one of more than a dozen gallery plugins will work for me. Most of the time I get error messages saying the plugin can’t find the directory or I need to manually create one. Okay, no problem – done. Still doesn’t work.

    Sometimes it can’t gain permissions so I go and manually set directory permissions. Still nothing.

    I tried using Fotobook and Facebook Photo Fetcher or whatever it’s called – my theory was that a plugin supporting an outside website might work. Wrong!

    I have double-checked that my hosting company is running PHP5. I have set folder permissions to 777 or 775 as requested. I have made directories manually, I have run the plugin installers more than once (just in case), I have done everything every one of their FAQs suggest – nothing works!

    What am I doing wrong, here? Can someone suggest a simple photo gallery that I can install, upload photos into and stream in a widget? I mean, is that so hard? That’s really all I want. A lightbox feature with descriptions would be super but I’m not holding my breath.

    I guess I should mention I’m running 3.0.1 – is it just that none of these plugins are updated to this version of WP?

    Help? Please?

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  • Are you using a custom theme or custom template for the page you’re trying to add the gallery to? Some plugins don’t play nice with custom templates. I’ve customized the WP-Framework theme very heavily and the Lightbox 2 plugin works for me.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You can use WordPress’ native galleries.

    Create or edit the page and then click the “Add an image” button (it looks like a tiny picture and it’s first from the left next to “Upload/Insert” above the post edit area. You can use this to upload the picture and WordPress will automatically generate the various sizes (including thumbnails). Now, it’s important to note that once you add an image via this method while writing or editing a post/page, it will be “assigned” to the post/page. Once you have uploaded all of the desired pictures, click the “Add an image” button again and go to the “Gallery” tab. Set your desired settings and click the “Insert Gallery” button at the bottom to add the gallery to your page.

    This document describes the whole process in more detail.

    Once you have it setup, there are plenty of good plugins to further “enhance” the gallery, like jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries.

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