[Plugin: NextGEN Custom Fields] WHERE do I put the code for custom fields in an album?

A gallery within a gallery!? WE NEED TO GO DEEPER… Galleryception.

In all seriousness, you put the tag where you want the custom field to show. The <?php echo $image->ngg_custom_fields["Your Field Name Here"]; ?> tag will only work inside the loop of an NGG template. So if you are displaying the gallery with the NGG short code [nggallery id=x] you can put that tag anywhere from the start <?php foreach ( $images as $image ) : ?> to the <?php endforeach; ?> in the /view/gallery.php template.

If you want to show a field outside of the loop, you can call the tag <?php echo nggcf_get_field($pid, 'Your Field Name Here'); ?> ANYWHERE you want (obviously where $pid equals your image id).

I realise the docs aren’t great. But if you are building a website, you should know your way around a code base well enough to figure it out. One day I will get around to improving the docs. But right now, there’s more cool code to write.

Thanks for replying Shauno. Appreciated!

But, any change that will be made directly to a NGG file will be overwritten after every update for NGG plugin, right? If so, is there a better way to keep the changes safe?

A gallery within a gallery!? WE NEED TO GO DEEPER… Galleryception.

LOOOL ??

shauno, I have another question when you have some time: How can I add the custom field values inside the pop-up windows of gallery images?

Thanks.

The templates are overwritten when you update NGG. That’s just a default behaviour for WP plugins.
Check out this link: https://nextgen-gallery.com/templates/
It describes moving your templates into your theme. I haven’t personally tried it, but it sounds sweet ??

Adding the custom fields to the popup has been asked before. The problem is that NGG uses the Thickbox javascript that is included by default in WP. The markup for the popup is generated on the fly by the javascript, so injecting custom fields there will be a nightmare. Its on the list of things to look at though!

Ok, thanks for pointing me to this thread Shauno.

Ive been googling some and think im on the right track.

If the other members can have a looksie too im sure together we will find an awesome solution! Hooray, lol.

What we are trying to achieve, has been achieved here:
208.43.238.130/~mrmead/index.php?/portfolio/

Im just not sure if its been done WITH the nggallery.
Im just sure its thickbox that site is using.

The site owner talks here: https://www.indexhibit.org/forum/thread/10029/

He tells us to look here:
https://www.indexhibit.org/forum/thread/1039/

Now im a tad in over my head, so your take on this.. much obliged!

As I said above, it’s something that’s on my list to look into.
Last time I looked, thickbox did not expose any public events, so my guess is it will require hacking of the core thickbox files, which is why I have been hesitant in doing it.

One day… ??

Actually, I see that NGG offers many scripts to choose from, not only Thickbox:
https://grab.by/b7ce
so maybe you can hook into another library we can use?

Ok, I had a quick look at this again when one of the servers went down at my office (shh, dont tell my boss).

You can just put the custom fields in the title attribute of the anchor as a quick hack.

title="<?php echo $image->description ?><ul><li><?php echo $image->ngg_custom_fields["My field 1"]; ?></li><li><?php echo $image->ngg_custom_fields["My field 2"]; ?></li></ul>"

That worked with thickbox and the shutter effect. You may need to fiddle with your style sheet, as the popups weren’t really built with mark-up in mind I guess

Sorry for the delayed feedback! Well, this works good except the long ugly ballon on mouse hover, which absolutely can be lived with..

Thanks for your time, shauno!

Im not finding this the ideal solution, how about alternatives?

Can we help in some way or another?

It was a hack idea, and was never perfect. Just something I came up with in 15min free time.
I would need to look at the alternative effects, and what event hooks they have. Essentially, I would be looking for an ‘onOpen’ (or something like that), and then injecting the custom fields into the correct place in the popup markup.

I will try find the time to look at it in more detail soon.

Thanks Shaun, I will also keep looking into this website and how its been achieved:

https://208.43.238.130/~mrmead/index.php?/portfolio/

That site does not use WP (and thus not NGG). All they have done is used line breaks in the description. If you hover over the images you actually see the <br /> in the tool tip text.

Ok, ive found a relatively easy way… its KINDA messy IF you have the title hover effect on each thumb enable. So i suggest you use this only when youve disabled it.

On line 40 of the gallery.php I altered everything like so:

<div id="ngg-image-<?php echo $image->pid ?>" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box" <?php echo $image->style ?> >
		<div class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail" >
			<a href="<?php echo $image->imageURL ?>" title="" <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> >
				<?php if ( !$image->hidden ) { ?>
				<img title="" alt="<?php echo $image->description ?>" src="<?php echo $image->thumbnailURL ?>" <?php echo $image->size ?> />
				<?php } ?>
			</a>
		</div>
	</div>

This way the titles wont show up anywhere, BUT underneath the picture (when large)

I also switched the alt – tags and descriptions place. Found this easer to work with inside the gallery management.

All you have to do now to display the caption in a list is type the following in the description area of the picture:

<li>Yay</li>
<li>this  </li>
<li>actually</li>
<li>works </li>

??

*sidenote: i havent actually installed this plugin, used this on a pure NGGALLERY plugin, lol

Hope someone finds use for this, more slick ways of achieving a listed caption are still very welcome!