Problem with albums on huge gallery

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    (@szokendo)


    4 years ago

    Hello,
    I need to have a large gallery on my website with albums that have other galleries within them.

    Main Gallery page -> Album1, Album2, Album3 etc … -> Page Gallery1 in Album1 -> Img, img, img, img

    Album1 -> Gallery1, Gallery2, Gallery3
    Album2 -> Gallery1, Gallery2, Gallery3
    Gallery1 -> photos in gallery

    Hope you understand what I mean.
    Is it possible to build something like this in nextgen? I have the free version at the moment and it does not meet my expectations. It is true that this is more or less what I mean, but the arrangement of several albums on the main gallery page is terrible.

    I am posting two photos that illustrate what I mean:
    https://ibb.co/cC406VM – Its look like now
    https://ibb.co/f4Vmr9B – I need something like this

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    (@szokendo)

    Nice help NextGEN! ?? Never more your plugins…

    PolyWogg

    (@polywogg)

    As a fellow user, I can tell you that what you want is rather easily done. The only part confusing from option 2 is what you mean by Season 1 gallery showing 10 separate times. But all you’re asking, I think, is if you can have:

    Album
    Gallery
    Image

    That structure is common to every single gallery out there that uses both albums and galleries (there are some that invert those wordings or that only do one level, not two). But after that, the only element you need is to assign it the thumbnail grid with your captions on.

    But, as I said, generally speaking, any gallery should be able to do what you want. The real question is the size of your gallery. If you use NextGen, it keeps your photos away from the media library with a separate file structure; just about every other gallery available puts the photos in the media library. Which to me is fine if you’re under 500 photos, after that it becomes unwieldy. FYI, since you’re giving up on NGG (like many plugins, they’re having trouble maintaining staffing for free support during the pandemic), whatever other gallery you choose, you might consider using Media Library Assistant as a plugin. It allows you to create virtual folders within the media library, as not all ML-based galleries do.

    Good luck! Sorry I didn’t see your post earlier…as a fellow user, it looks like a pretty easy thing to help you sort out. Unfortunately, I myself have been reworking 4 other sites after a support person nuked my hosting platform by accident, and I haven’t been monitoring the channel either.

    Paul
    aka PolyWogg (a fellow user)

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