[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Album not displaying as shown on NextGen Album Page

Album and gallery are two different things in NGG and are displayed using different templates. Album simply list the sub-albums/galleries placed within it, not the images.

If you want the galleries to look like your albums then you’ll need to create a folder called nggallery in your theme folder, copy /nextgen-gallery/view/gallery.php to it and modify it similarly to /nextgen-gallery/view/album-extend.php.

hi joseph
thanks for replying
what i want is ‘Album simply list the sub-albums/galleries placed within it’.
the problem is that it isn’t doing this.
i have: [nggtags album=Album2] on the page.
But nothing shows.
I have an album: Album2, ID: 2.
i have a slideshow above it, [slideshow id=1 w=500 h=300], and that does show.
tom

The shortcode [nggtags album=Album2] display images that are tagged as Album2. So unless you’ve done that, nothing will show.

If you’re just trying to display the album, use the album shortcode [album id=1 template=extend] and replace the id number.

well now i have both:
[nggtags album=Album2]

[album id=1 template=extend]

and still nothing.

How do i know if an album has images in it?
(silly question but that must be the problem)

If you want to display Album2, you’ll also need to replace the id number inside the shortcode with 2.

There actually are no images inside an album. If you’ve placed galleries, with images inside them, inside the album then it’ll list those galleries as you’ve described in your first post, “Album title, with one picture and some text in a box.”

hi joseph
thank you – got it working:
with [album id=Album2 template=extend]

i think the problem was that i had clicked into on album and gone into a gallery, ie: ?album=all&gallery=1
but hadn’t realised – so when i changed the code and refreshed i couldn’t see the album box, and thought there was a problem.

anyway, thank you for your patience.
tom