[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Cannot add Gallery to Album

@angler,

I’m aware of that, I’m working on how to fix this issue.

If it’s urgent to put galleries into albums, use the method above then use your backup to keep all in order.

Just let me add a conditional function to prevent to load this libraries on nextgen Gallery administration.

Giles14

It is not urgent at this time as it is only for my personal web site.
Certainly not a business or urgent need for a site.
I am going to use it in another site later in the year when people give me the pictures for the site.

My site bycompass.com

@ giles14: Great work! But I will wait for the safe solution: WordPress 3.1

Does anybody know when it is expected, WordPress 3.1?

Thanks in advance.

@tune

If you want an easier and safer solution just open script-loader.php in yoursite/wp-includes/

find the line:

$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 );

Comment those lines using /* */ like this:

/*	$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 ); */

Upload to your server; that’s it no need to upgrade any jQuery ui library.

Any change is reversible just remove the /* */ tags.

@ giles14:

You’re the hero of the day!!

Thank you very much!!

Everything is working properly again!!!

@tune

The 3.1 should be released within 15 days

This is truly a case of too much ajax here. It’s pretty pathetic when the developer passes this off as another plugin bug, when it’s their own poor programming that does this. Really, all you need to do is add an album selection at the gallery page level and you’re done! No ajax necessary, and this whole topic wouldn’t have even come up if this functionality had been done properly in the first place!!!

Just a quick update here:

@giles14’s solution works better than the first one, which as others have mentioned causes some pretty nasty bugs. Unfortunately, it’s not perfect, as it will disable your ability to edit visibility of pages and posts, and I’m assuming other stuff.

This plugin is good, but it’s far too problematic for stable situations. I mean, the over-usage of ajax is enough right there to tell you that much, and of course, the ignorance of this bug by the developer is pretty horrible as well.

Folks – I took the simple route and it seemed to work for me…

I turned OFF my current theme (Thematic) and went to the standard basic “Twenty Ten” theme, then did my album addition.

VIOLA – it allowed me to make the changes. Then a simple click of the check-box and my customized theme back in place and things are working again.

OF COURSE this is still a band aid and I am watching the forum to see if there is a more permanent fix!

@twhiting9275: I know that the author makes a lot of ajax using, but is ok since it looks nice and works (generally), I think this Bug is not Alex Rabe’s fault, since he is using the newest jQuery ui tools and WordPress don’t another thing is that on a clean installation of WP the problem doesn’t shows up (I’ve test it) that means that’s not the plugin fault.

Don’t forget this a free script and we use it “as is” is pretty difficult to program and maintain such a big plugin (thousands and thousands of code).

@twhiting9275, @ideafrog.

Sorry for the delay on release this but I was making all the tests to ensure that this will solve only the problem and will not cause any side effect. This is totally safe and it will not make any change to the WordPress core, it will ONLY prevent (in nextGen gallery admin page) the load of the conflictive script.

IMPORTANT: This fix is only for the 1.7.2 version.

Here is the fix (completely tested).

There are to ways:
Download the admin.php file from here:
https://bit.ly/h6gqde

Replace it to: your-wordpress-site/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/ (instead of replacing you can rename the original file to admin.php.bak and put the downloaded file there.)

That’s it now you can use the album feature.

The second way is to add yourself the fixed lines (if you don’t trust in my admin.php file):

Use FTP, Go to your-wordpress-site/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/ download admin.php and open it in your favorite editor (Notepad, dreamweaver..).

Go to line 350, after this line:
wp_register_script('ngg-ajax', NGGALLERY_URLPATH . 'admin/js/ngg.ajax.js', array('jquery'), '1.4.1');

Add this:

//Fix the jQuery ui script conflict, this is not included in Alex Rabe original code, this was added by Carlos Giles.
//Should be deleted when WordPress 3.1 is installed.
wp_deregister_script('jquery-ui-sortable');

I highly recommended to keep the comment lines to track the modification if you want to remove it later.

After you modify the file, Should look like this:

wp_register_script('ngg-ajax', NGGALLERY_URLPATH . 'admin/js/ngg.ajax.js', array('jquery'), '1.4.1');

//Fix the jQuery ui script conflict, this is not in Alex Rabe code this was added by Carlos Giles.
//Should be deleted when WordPress 3.1 is installed.
wp_deregister_script('jquery-ui-sortable');

Upload it to the same path (replace it).

That’s it. Everything will work fine without any side effect since it only prevent the load of the conflictive javascript in nextGen gallery admin Interface.

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I think this fix should be added in the original Alex Rabe’s plugin since it’s totally safe and fix the conflict between the jQuery ui 1.7.3 (in wordpress core) and the 1.8.x of the plugin.

Btw, to use this fix, please remove the previous fix(If you’ve made it) in script-loader.php, I mean remove /* */ tags.

The problem here is pretty straightforward. WordPress 3.0 includes the 1.7.3 jQuery UI library, everybody here is trying to use the 1.8.7 and they don’t play nice with each other. One of the suggestions above is to replace the core files then hack into the code. It has been my experience that 99% of the time you can do what you need to with WordPress without hacking the code.

Answer:

deregister the 1.7.3 files and manually register the 1.8.7 ones should look something like this

wp_deregister_script(‘jquery-ui-core’);
wp_register_script(‘jquery-ui-1.8.7′,WP_PLUGIN_URL.’/js/jquery-ui-1.8.7.custom.min.js’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery-ui-1.8.7’);

hope this helps people out.

@zombiitv,

As you may noticed in the previous message(in post #1873204) the answer was something like yours:

Deregister the conflictive library you don’t need to enqueue any other library, since nexgen gallery load it’s own by default.

downloaded the php admin file – copied the old file and saved it – inserted the new one and presto it works! yeah – thanks a million!