crabbytech

I figured it out!

Ok here is what is happening. When you upload an image to NextGEN Gallery, it automatically imports the title of the jpg to a field in the admin panel called “Title.”

This field is displayed over the image when using the image browser feature.

Now the workaround I was using was to go back through and manually delete all of the titles out of those fields in the NextGEN Gallery admin panel through wp, but that was tedious and time consuming.

However, there is a quick an easy way to just tell the plugin not to display whatever is in the title field. It actually thinks the title and description in the admin panel are “alttext.”

Go into Plugins > Editor > Select NextGEN Gallery in drop down menu > edit imagebrowser.php in the admin panel.

Look for this line of code:

<h3><?php echo $image->alttext ?></h3>

Comment that out or delete it.

Done.

So far the only solution I’ve found VinnySem is to go into the admin panel under the gallery and then just manually tab through and delete the titles for each picture. There is a title field and a description field in there.

What I’m finding out is that the plugin is automatically generating the image titles and inputting that into the title field (based on filename) so that it will display. I’m sure for most people that is quite handy, but so far I haven’t figured out a way to disable that feature so you don’t have to manually delete the titles each time you post a new gallery.

Probably have to dig into the code.

I appreciate everybody’s responses. Thanks for the extra info on Firebug, DantesGame.

I actually ended up just going with a different plugin.

https://www.fastsecurecontactform.com/

It had a few more options and slots for customizing each text field and then I just added the CSS code for changing the font color myself into that plugin. That made it black so it’s black text on white background for my text area and fixed the glitch.

Firebug is definitely on my list of things to try out though as I’m sure it will be helpful down the road. Thanks again!

Thanks for the heads up on the child theme and I appreciate your response.

I thought that I might be able to override and declare it in style.css, but I’m still having trouble tracking down the actual code to do so. I wasn’t sure what to call the text area. I’m learning CSS on the fly here.

Thanks everybody. That code did the trick mydanblog. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll see if I can find the error. This was a preexisting theme that I’ve heavily edited and I probably goofed something up somewhere. It’s still loading fine for me though so I wonder where it could be.