[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Cannot add Gallery to Album

I had the exact same problem. Disabling the “WP-PhotoNav” plugin I had installed did the trick.

Thanks so much for the advice Alex.

Is it possible update the album/galleries via the database? I don’t really care about the drag and drop functionality if I can just create the album at the DB level.

Has anyone had any luck with getting the galleries into the album.

Seems to be something to do with the coding to me though I am just a leaarner

I would really like to get this thing working unless someone knows of a better plugin to use.

I had this problem and it’s a pluggin. For me it was Google Library. Anything you have installed that is helping you support javascript is probably the culprit. Alex is right if you look at the bottom left of your web browser while you load your home page it will tell you where the error is. Then click VIEW, SOURCE on the menu bar and now your source code should pop up in a separate window. Find the line that the error code is on – now look and see what plugin it’s using. That’s the one you deactivate. Hope this helps – I know how frustering it is!!

Kymors,

Thanks for the idea. I tried and saw nothing obvious. Once I think I saw javascript void () or something like that. It didn’t stay long before going into the ether.

widgets I use are

nextgen gallery
Widget logic
Text
Fluency admin

I think the last one only affects the dashboard, not that I would really know.

site https://www.obrienboats.com.au

Kymora,

I tried on both my XP PC and my Mac with the same result.
Still can’t drag or drop or put the gallery into the album.
The album is there, the gallery’s are there they just don’t want to get mixed up with each other.

I am assuming one drags the gallery to the left into the blank space below the album name.
Not much in the way of instruction there.

Great plugin, pity it doesn’t work.

angler2010,

I am just taking a stab at this but in your source code you have something called wp-photo-album plus. If that is a stand alone plugin try removing that. To answer you other question yes you first have to make an album (there is a box you type in the name of your album to creat it)and then you drop and drag the gallery over to the left. If you already have an album created in the far right column – select it from the drop down box and then drag the gallery over to it. Good luck! I hope the update comes soon.

Kymora,

Yes I put that one in after the nextgen album failed to work. That one also has some problems as it wants to put the album into a column (probably side bar 1)that does not exist in my site. The theme has up to three columns and I use only the content column and sidebar two as the RHS sidebar column. wp-photo-album puts its pictures well on the left hand side and totally destroys the whole page. The instructions have been followed to the letter so It’s not me.
I am deleting that one today.

I will keep my fingers crossed for the update. Until then I will just make the existing gallery much larger.
I am doing exactly as you suggested for the nextgen album still with no success. One would think if a facility doesn’t work just delete it until it does. That’s what beta testing is all about. Judging by the various forums many users are having problems, we are not all experts. Everyone is a learner till we die.

Thank you very much for the answers and suggestions.
I still love the easy gallery in nextgen. Dead simple!!

I am dealing with the same problem.

What happens If I delete the Nextgen Gallery Plugin to reinstall an earlier version?

I will delete it from the Plugin section… It gives a warning that it will delete all files and data related to this plugin. Is it also deleting all my gallery’s with photo’s? That’s not my intention actually ??

Thanks in advance.
Tune.

Tune,

That would be a major problem, particularly for people with large galleries such as photographers.

It is clear that the album function is not working so we will have to wait until either the plugin is updated or wordpress sort out the problem.

If I was 30 years younger I could even help. Brain is going dead, so sad too bad, age catches up to all of us.

Angler

@ angler2010,

I have looked up in the ftp directories but I found the gallery’s in another section than the plugin section.

I have read in earlier posts that it is possible to ‘downgrade’ the plugin and install an earlier version of nextgen-gallery. But I cannot install an earlier version right in WordPress. I have installed the setup, unrarred it, then uploaded it with FTP client into the plugin directory but now I cannot see it in the plugin section in the WordPress Dashboard.

Any solutions to downgrade?

Thanks in advance,
Tune.

Hi there,

I have found a solution (at least for my case): Update the jQuery UI library on WordPress Core.

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IMPORTANT: If you want to try this, be sure to backup any file used here.
This is only a quick-fix the complete solution will be release at WordPress 3.1.
Use this solution at you own risk.
Pack: https://bit.ly/eAp34K
Files included in the pack:
ui.core
ui.dialog
ui.draggable
ui.droppable
ui.rezisable
ui.selectable
ui.sortable
ui.tabs
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Instructions:

Download 1.8.7 UI Pack:
https://bit.ly/eAp34K
unpack it.
Replace the files (trough FTP) in yoursite/wp-includes/js/jQuery/ with those included in the pack. *Backup your files.

Go to: yoursite/wp-includes/
Download and backup script-loader.php:
Open it with your favorite editor (dreamweaver, Notepad etc.) and look for this lines:

$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-core', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.core.js', array('jquery'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-core', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-tabs', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.tabs.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-tabs', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-sortable', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.sortable.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-sortable', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-draggable', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.draggable.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-draggable', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-droppable', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.droppable.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-droppable', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-selectable', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.selectable.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-selectable', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-resizable', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.resizable.js', array('jquery-ui-core'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-resizable', 'group', 1 );

	$scripts->add( 'jquery-ui-dialog', '/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui.dialog.js', array('jquery-ui-resizable', 'jquery-ui-draggable'), '1.7.3' );
	$scripts->add_data( 'jquery-ui-dialog', 'group', 1 );

Reaplace all ‘1.7.3’ with ‘1.8.7’.

Save the file and upload it to your server (to the same path).

Done, now you can add galleries to albums.

I hope this fix your problem.

Awesome thanks – that worked for me to.

giles14,

Mate you are a legend. works just fine. Bit of a much around and a worry as well however I backed up all the items first then did the mods.
My script calls look different probably cause I use 3.0.3 however look for ‘1.7.3’ with your editor in lieu of the ;1.7.3& in your explanation.

Now it works perfectly.

Thank you very much.
Angler
Townsville
Australia

Whoops, Spoke too soon. Look like it stops editing of any text widgets.
I can open widgets but cannot open text or add any more widgets of any sort to the site.
Back to the drawing board I guess.

I will replace with originals and try again just to be sure.

Angler