johnnysy

I would say that only having one slideshow widget is be design and not a bug. I think that maybe the reason is average use is normally 1 slideshow. I know you can have many gallery widgets.

I understand what you want to do and it is a cool idea. I did some testing and a little research and found that you can use another plug in called NextGen Smooth Gallery, which works with the NextGen Gallery plug in.

The only thing with the NextGen Smooth Gallery which is not bad, is that you have to manually enter in code on the side bar or the place where you want to use another slideshow.

Once you install that plug in and go through the options you will see what code you need to place in your sidebar that will give you and extra slideshow.

Hope this helps in what you are looking to do. NextGen Smooth Gallery will also allow you to run a different slideshow gallery from what the NextGen slideshow gallery is running.

Hope that helps in what you want to do.

I don’t know if you went back to a older version of NextGen or not. I just went to your site using Safari Windows version and your site was just fine.

Apple just release yesterday a newer version of Safari 3.2.1 (525.27.1) which I have upgraded to and your site comes in perfect. I don’t if it was more of the Safari browser than the NextGen upgraded.

If you did downgrade your version, if you need a site check with Safari again once you upgrade back to 1.0.2, I will be more than happy to help with a visit to your site.

Site looks good and is interesting.

I don’t know if I would say it is a database error at this moment, having more info on what your site is running would help. Example, version of MySQl if that is what you are using.

I will just through a few things out since you went from old to knew and I don’t know if your WordPress theme is updated to run 2.7.

I would say to look and see if you have the following in your header.php file. <?php wp_head(); ?>. I think that would be a start.

I would also make sure that you have the proper permissions set up for the gallery folder you have made, ensure that if you are using the .htaccess that there is nothing that would be restrictive to writes that need to be made to the gallery folder.

I hope that you have a backup of your database, you can always restore then move ahead again.

I hope some of what I suggested helps, trying to throw a life line out to you, I know what it is like to have a site that is in the dark.

I have had some of the same issues with other flash based or media items on my front page until I did a couple of things to correct that.

I moved from PHP 4 to PHP 5, installed wp-super cache, wp-widget cache if I remember correctly the plugin was called that.

I didn’t get to the point of looking for some of those added plugins for page loads until I used wp-tuner pluggin that gave me a chance to look at exactly the load times and the exact items that was slowing down the load time.

I happen to support software that is used in hospitals and I always know when new versions come out there is the adjustment phase and unless I keep my stack of tweaks close by there will be slow downs for a little while.

I hope what I suggests helps.