Hi guys,
I’m using Nextgen v1.3.5 and I’m able to make gallery calls outside of the actual post. (I know mariostella is using an older version of NGG though).
Anyhoo, I’m just doing this in the header of my WordpPress template file:
<?php
echo do_shortcode('[nggallery id=3 template=my_cool_template]');
?>
Note: the template parameter is referencing my /wp-content/themes/my_cool_theme/nggallery/gallery-my_cool_template.php file
I’ve just got started messing with this. My gallery template is actually just outputting a xml path (generated using NGG tags), but it does get at NGG outside of the post. Also, I’m doing this on a “page”. Not sure if that makes a difference, or even if this info is going to help, but I ran into this post while researching something else, and figured it might be relevant to your interests.