[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Missing description under thumbnails

@ justderek: I’m glad you got yours working and thx for the posts, I hope they will help me figure it out when I have an extra 2 hours to sit in front of the comp. I’ve taught myself everything I know with computers and I guess this will be another thing I’ll learn and then forget ??

I have spent the last two hours working on this and am just feeling more and more stupid. What I did:

Copied gallery.php to {wordpress dir}\wp-content\themes\your theme directory\gallery.php (I don’t need multiple templates)

Copied nggallery.css to {wordpress dir}\wp-content\themes\nggallery.css

I have been editing both through the WP “edit themes” page on dashboard, and I followed the examples on this thread.

I still don’t have descriptions under my thumbnails, only on the individual photos’ popups. I have verified that this is the same in both Firefox and IE.

I’m ready to pull my hair out and give up on my gallery forever (or do a roll-back).

This is a post on my WP where I would like to see the descriptions:
https://nixanadoo.com/?p=2575

PLEASE tell me what I’m missing here. I’m sure it’s something horribly obvious.

The template must be located at :

{wordpress dir}\wp-content\themes\your theme directory\nggallery\gallery.php

The CSS file at :

{wordpress dir}\wp-content\themes\your theme directory\nggallery.css

Sorry, I copied the wrong thing, but that’s where the files are, still not working.

Edit: Is it possible there’s a conflict between the new code and my theme (even if the description showed before)?

OK so I’ve partially figured this out. I couldn’t get it to point at the copy in my theme directory (which is why none of the edits I was doing to that one were changing anything), so I manually edited the original gallery.php in the plugin directory. Now I just have to go into the CSS and tell it to word wrap.

::whew::

OK I’ve got a new issue now. If I put in the “decode special characters” code, then links in the descriptions show up above the thumbnail (in gallery view) and the image (in full view). When I remove that, the link shows up as text. Any suggestions?

Interesting…after some trial and error, the fix seems to be to keep the special character decode in there, but to NOT use quote marks in the link (which is incredibly difficult for me to make myself do).

Third Edit: It should also be noted that you can’t use ANY quote marks (single OR double) in the same description that also contains a link.

Hey,

How can I get the alttext under each thumbnail like it was before?
If I follow Alex’ description, I only get the text under each tbn box.
But earlier, the text was within this thumbnailbox…

Best Regards,
derMarcus

So I have to edit a file to enable thumbnail descriptions? That stinks… Almost defeats the purpose of this plugin imho…

Does nobody know, how to get the alttext under each tbn like it was before the update?

BR Marcus

derMarcus, are you not reading the posts above? It’s all right there. Edit your templates. It worked for me.

You know this is an annoying downgrade of the gallery. With so many getting confused and frustrated, you really need to look into changing it back…and soon.

Please read the version notes for V1.1.0 – 26.01.2009 and try [nggallery id=x template=caption]

https://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/changelog/

New issue. With the last upgrade of WP, now I can’t even SAVE captions, let alone have them show. When I type them in and hit save, they’re gone when the manage gallery page refreshes.

i can get the captions to appear using the template=caption, but i can’t get them to wrap to the width of the image, as they did before this upgrade. I’m at a loss. any help? If I constrain the # of columns per page, it’s a bit better, but I’d rather not do that. thanks

Nixanadoo,

I had a similar (if not identical) problem on that page – I was using quotes in the alt text/title for an image and they weren’t appearing in the form fields when managing a gallery after adding them.

The bug fix for this is to open up admin/manage-images.php and change line 354 from:
<input name="alttext[<?php echo $pid ?>]" type="text" style="width:95%; margin-bottom: 2px;" value="<?php echo stripslashes($picture->alttext) ?>" />

to:
<input name="alttext[<?php echo $pid ?>]" type="text" style="width:95%; margin-bottom: 2px;" value="<?php echo htmlentities(stripslashes($picture->alttext)) ?>" />

(In other words, add at least the htmlentities() function to any text that can get displayed between hardcoded quotes etc, in this case the value=”” bit.)