[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Slideshow issue with IE8

I am having the exact same issue. Galleries w/ various options display just fine on all pages/reloads, whereas anytime the nggslideshow is inserted, it will load find the very first time in a long period that I open the page in IE 8, but thereafter upon returning to the same page (even after closing IE 8, clearing cache, etc.) will result in the loading icon indefinitely. jQuery problem? I tried opening the page in IE7 mode and IE8 compat. mode – no luck. Meanwhile it works fine in the last few versions of FireFox and Chrome…

Alex, can you provide us with a fix or solution to this? Maybe put it in the FAQ’s or somewhere. Thanks! =)

Hello. I found a solution that worked great for me.

Download NextGen version 1.7.0 (see “Other Versions” @ the WP NextGen plugin page if you don’t have it already somewhere archived). I have the latest version (1.7.4) installed on my WP database, and when I replaced the ‘ngg.slideshow.js’ and ‘ngg.slideshow.min.js’ from my current version with the corresponding files from 1.7.0 it fixed my current issue.

In my case I was uploading the two files from the local, extracted “nextgen-gallery.1.7.0/nextgen-gallery/js” directory to the remote “/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/js” directory.

Hope this helps you! I read that some experienced image distortion with this fix, but so far in IE 6.x and IE 8.x it works fine for me. No need to reinstall NextGen, just find the older versions of these two files only and voila!

mmmm…I’ll give that a try. Hopefully in the next update that will be fixed, but at least this sounds like a solution for the time being. Thanks for at least giving me a direction to go…

…btw, I do feel that I found an answer to this question last week and must have forgotten to bookmark it, and wasn’t able to find it again this time around…

I can confirm that the trick worked. Thank you Blademancer!

yes, its working on my site too, thanks!