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Honestly, NGG gets better and better, and the updates are more stable than 9 months ago. Since my last reply I only got one large problem after an update, and I got it fixed within an hour and without a rollback – that’s an improvement for sure ??
Still, NGG doesn’t work as smooth as it’s used to be, performance is still far from good. I opened some support cases and got some quite good answers, so the support got better, too.

I eventually will update my review, I’m looking forward for the announced big performance update and I think after that is a good time.

Hi endanzer,
thank you for your reply.

First of all I’d like to mention, that I’m not a private person, hosting a few pictures, but having ten thousands of pictures in more than thousand galleries and many albums. I worked with the legacy NGG for long years, and although I liked it very much, it eventually got slower and slower – and yes, that was the point I finally changed to the new NGG. That was a few months after Photocrati took it over. The change was devastating – basically nothing worked. So after many hours I decided to rollback and give the old NGG a new try. I had a few chats with Alex, and he helped me improving some parts of the code and it worked quite well. Eventually I gave the new NGG another try, when I started a new project. Without any galleries it was simple to configure and worked quite well. So I thought: What the heck, I do the work one time (migrating each and every gallery, because the old shortcode didn’t work and there was no way to display the albums correctly) and enjoy the new NGG. Countless hours later, it finally worked, but since then with every update, with every new features there are multiple problems.

What bothers me:
– Shortening of the titles, absolute useless for me and there seem to be no way to turn it off (despite removing the “dotdotdot” code-snippet in the .js)
– No real “theme”, much hardcoded stuff, so it’s quite impossible to adapt the gallery to the own theme
– Custom styles first seemed not affect pro galleries / themes (perhaps because of the dynamic CSS? After one of the latest updates it suddenly worked)
– Although, they get randomly deleted on updates (that’s real fun)
– Updates may or may not work – got 2 database-messups in the last months, and spent many hours to adapt the NGG to a way it works fine for me
– Ugly deeplinks in pro – well, that’s definitely a “removed feature”. Don’t get it, why there are ?post_type=page&p=… links in the pro version, despite of the SEO friendly links in the basic version
– Meta datas get not imported – it worked sometimes, after the last 2 updates it doesn’t anymore
– Out of the sudden all albums doesn’t work anymore after and update. Spend countless hours to fix all of them.

…and there are more things, but after fixing my gallery for many hours (basically: nothing worked anymore) after the latest update, I’m a bit tired.

Regarding the support: When I changed something in order to adapt the script (location X) and contacting the pro-support with a few problems (location Y and Z), mentioning my modification and asking whether there is a way to reach my goal without changing the script on location X and asking some more questings regarding other problems, and I get “we don’t support modified plugins” as an answer – yes, that’s not very helpful. But after some more emails I got at least a decent answer.
I totally understand, that you are not responsible for problems caused by modifications and that you have other things to do then providing support to modify the script.
But that was the way the previous owner did it – I got a problem, I contacted him and he helped me modifying the script. I get it that you can’t provide individual support on each and every client in that way. But having a big project depending on NGG and having troubles, and the only thing you can do is to add your feature-wished to the voting and hope that it will be implemented someday – yes, that sucks a bit.

To make my point clear: NGG works fine for new projects, starting from scratch – having a huge project migrated and NGG adapted to the theme is a pain in the…
NGG is a very ambitious project, but I’d love to see a stable version which consists all of the possibilities and features of the legacy NGG, rather than having more new features.

I guess I will stop updating NGG for a while, trying to adapt the current version until it works fine with my project.

@aaronmorales: I have not updated, yet, so I don’t know, sorry.

@moziq: As far as I read it’s only a weird kind of fraud protection, but honestly I have no idea. I use this workaround for about 9 month now on a big project and I have not recognized any problems, yet.

I’m sorry that I forgot to post my solution here. Actually, I found it several days after I made this post… :-/

So I hope that this solution will help more users with the same problem!

Ok, I found a solution for my problem.
You have to do it after each upgrade again – but it works for me:

1) open wp-includes/default-filters.php
2) find “frame”
3) you’ll get two lines:

add_action( ‘login_init’, ‘send_frame_options_header’, 10, 0 );
add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘send_frame_options_header’, 10, 0 );

4) comment those lines out, upload the file again and it will work, after the cache has been refreshed.

Same here, have no clue… =/

Hallo,
was suchst du denn genau? Da muss ein Punkt “Access” oder “Zugriff” sein – da kannst du das einstellen. Wenn nicht, würd ichs nochmal neu installieren.

Okay, I got a solution. The cause of the problems is the large amount of preview pictures listed and generated (in my case about 4,5MB!).

So all I needed to do was, to comment five lines in the album.php out, and now I’ve got delays of less than a second.

Solution
Open ../admin/album.php, find

if ($album->previewpic > 0)
$image = $nggdb->find_image( $album->previewpic );
$preview_image = ($image->thumbURL) ? '<div class="inlinepicture"><img src="' . $image->thumbURL . '" /></div>' : '';

and put it into /* */

next, find

$image = $nggdb->find_image( $gallery->previewpic );
$preview_image = ($image->thumbURL) ? '<div class="inlinepicture"><img src="' . $image->thumbURL . '" /></div>' : '';

and do the same.

Hey and thank you for your reply.
The bugfix improves it a little, but it is still quite a time to wait…

I made a video about the problem: https://i8t.de/dfo2ddy0

I guess the images aren’t the problem, but the already allocated gallerys which are still loaded in the middle…

Perhaps there is a way to limit the loaded gallerys, so that only the not-allocated are loaded?

Btw, sorry for my crappy english, if you don’t understand it, I can post also in german – but then most of the other users won’t understand, i guess…

I hate pushing, but this problem prevents the release of the new webzine…

Am I the only one with this problem?