MLA with NextGEN Gallery

Thanks for your question and for the details you’ve provided.

I haven’t looked at NextGEN Gallery in any detail, but from the description in the WordPress Repository it looks like NextGEN Gallery does not use the standard WordPress Media Library and Taxonomies to store images and organize them. I don’t believe the NextGEN “gallery” parameter is a standard WordPress taxonomy.

I am a bit confused as to your application goal:

1. Do you want to use MLA to select Media library items and then use NextGEN Gallery to display them?
2. Do you want to use [nggtags] to select NextGEN Gallery images and then use [mla_gallery] to display them?

Either way, I think the differences between MLA and NextGEN Gallery may be insurmountable. If I can understand more about your application I may be able to look at NextGEN Gallery in more detail, but it will be a few weeks before I have time to investigate further.

Thanks for your understanding, your patience and your interest in the MLA plugin.

Thanks David, I appreciate your attention to my question.

I’m working with an existing site that uses NextGEN Gallery, where all the images are outside the WordPress Media library. The images reside in /wp-content/gallery/.

I want to use MLA to display images from this location based on the tags that are applied within NextGEN.

Thanks!

Thank you for your update with the additional application details and for your patience in awaiting my response while I was traveling.

I installed and activated NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati version 2.1.15 in one of my test systems. I created a gallery and tagged the images in the gallery with “summer”.

As I suspected, NextGEN Gallery uses directories and database tables of its own (e.g. ngg_pictures) to store and manage images. It creates custom post types (e.g., ngg_pictures, ngg_gallery) as well. It does use a WordPress taxonomy (ngg_tag) to assign tags to images, but the object_id in the term_relationships table appears to refer to the ngg_pictures table, not a WordPress table.

Media Library Assistant is just that, an assistant to help you work with the WordPress Media Library. NextGEN Gallery doesn’t use the Media Library for storing and/or managing images. I do not see any way to bridge that gap and use MLA to display images that are not represented by Media Library items.

I regret that the news is not better, but I am marking this topic resolved simply because the question has been answered. Thanks for your understanding and for your interest in Media Library Assistant. I hope it will prove useful in your future projects.