BenMurphy

Wait scratch that, just tried reverting to the regular gallery.php file just pushing out a regular description. Still problematic and only showing the code in full text. In IE8 specifically. Perhaps a larger bug?

Also having issues with IE8. All other browsers (IE7 included) appear to work fine. Can’t provide a link I’m afraid as I’m working off of a local test server.

I think my issues might stem from using html in the description. As it’s been suggested in another thread, having the video link pulled from a custom field rather than the item description might be a better idea. A marriage of the NGG Video Extender and NGG Custom Fields plugin would be great! Much cleaner, simpler and client friendly.

Oh my god I’m so sorry this was a simple user error. I installed a whole bunch of plugins when I set up my site initially, but it was built off a server image which already had a few packaged with it. I thought I had manually installed the latest next gen. Turns out that was one of the ones that came with the image and hence was old. A next gen upgrade has fixed all problems. Forgive me for being a simpleton.

Ah, very good point that. In fact the shortcode has allowed me to make a couple of other tweaks that I would have needed. A slight annoyance seeing as I intend to pass this off to someone else once built (and it’s always nicer to simply have a pretty UI take care of it), but nothing too egregious under the circumstances of this site.

For the sake of people who stumble on this thread later trying to answer their own problems, I was annoyed to discover changing the gallery=”link” shortcode to gallery=”none” didn’t work, but this gent has happily solved that problem; https://blog.mattsatorius.com/technology/web-design/wordpress-gallery-shortcode-with-no-image-link/

Again, would be nice to not have to edit a includes file but it works.

Thanks first for your response. This is what I thought would be a good idea, however the native gallery functions are still designed around thumbnails. Something I don’t want.

The only solution using the native gallery tools is to not use a gallery at all, but instead “show” each image settings, customize them, and then add the individual image. Then repeat. Not ideal, as it’s incredibly time consuming for a large gallery. I’d rather be able to just tell it to add the gallery with all the same image settings, which includes displaying all images at full size with no thumbnails.

Can anyone help with this? Is there such a solution around?

Update: OK basically what I kind of know I want to use is the jQuery cycle plug-in ( https://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/ ) however I would like to populate it with a list created by a more user friendly back end. It’s easy enough to make a bit of HTML with a UL in it for jQuery to cycle, but that’s not something I expect the average joe to be able to do on their own. Thoughts?