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This is probably not a great idea.

Even if you could somehow integrate it with a theme, it would be a nightmare to update.

Is there any particular reason that they don’t want plugins?

That seems like a pretty unreasonable request when it comes to WordPress sites.

Plugins are what makes WordPress great!

If someone is dead set on “no plugins” WordPress does have a Media Library and basic gallery functionality.

Links?

That sounds an awful lot like there is an issue getting the larger versions of the images.

Try disabling the lightbox:

Go to Gallery->Options, to the “Effects” tab. Select none in the dropdown and save.

If you still can’t open the big images, then something is wrong.

It could be a space in a folder name, a renegade javascript, or a MySQL meltdown.

If you can provide some more info somebody might be able to give you a better answer.

What you are asking about is actually a fairly complex maneuver.

Here is a list comparing different solutions for responsive images

In order to utilize those in a sideshow, there might be a bit of extra work.

I’ve also found this. Automatic Responsive Images in WordPress.

I’ve only skimmed over it, but it is supposed to be relatively easy.

Again, I’m not exactly sure what would be involved in integrating something like this with a slideshow.

I wrote a a little guide on thumbnails that might answer some of your questions.

This should explain (almost) everything.

Let me know what you think.

Based on your images, you might try more rectangular thumbnails, so that they work better with your images.

Today is your lucky day.

The description field can take any html you throw at it.

Generally, the accepted way to italicize is with em tags.

<em>This text will be italicized</em>
This text will be italicized

These are the same tags that pop up when you click to italicize the code right here in the comments. Because of that, I don’t know how my post will end up being formatted. It should be code on top, with an example underneath.

You can also include links:

<a href="https://mysite.com/dogs">My Dogs</a>
My Dogs

Bold:

<strong>Bold Text</strong>
Bold Text

Or pretty much any other html.

The only tricky part is typing it all in that small box. If space is getting tight, you can click and drag the bottom right corner of the description box to make it bigger.

I had a feeling that might be the case.

After a bit of searching, I think the probably is not that the plugins are interacting, but that the shortcode is being used by your theme.

Is this your theme?

If you look down the page, you will notice that [slideshow] is a shortcode that your theme uses. It shows a usage example as well. Based on that example, I think that is exactly where the problem is.

Since I don’t have your paid theme, it’s hard for me to figure out how to disable the shortcode.

What we I can help you with, is modifying the NextGen shortcode.

My post ended up becoming pretty long, so I wrote it on my blog.

Go here to learn how to fix your NextGen Galler slideshow

I tried to make everything as simple as possible.

Let me know how it works out.

I’m not sure if you have lots of data associated with the images that you are trying to save, which makes it trickier.

You can import from folder or zip, which can make it easier to get a lot of images up there.

I can’t really recommend the script below. I will give you the link, but the script was made in 2010 and NextGen has changed since.

Here is the page.

If you did decide to give it a shot, backup, backup, and backup a couple of extra times. Changes are really good that some modification would be necessary.

I included it here because it might be a decent starting point for a new conversion script if your a coder.

Let me know if your going to take a crack at it. Otherwise, I might give it a shot when I have some time.

Thanks for including all of the technical information.

However, this is an easy CSS fix.

The way the images are displayed is a quirk of the way the galleries are layed out, and the fact that they don’t have a proper CSS height.

If you wanted to know why it happens, you’ll notice that on the rows above the empty ones, there is a caption that is a bit longer than the others. It sticks out and causes problems on the row below it.

To fix this, you will have to go to Gallery->Styles.

Look for a line that says:

/* ----------- Gallery style -------------*/

Below this is all of the CSS code that you can use to make the gallery look the way you would like.

I did some testing on the two pages you said you had problems, and I found a setting that worked just right.

Find this line:

.ngg-gallery-thumbnail {
    /* There will be some  *
     * styles here already */
    height: 335px; <- Add this line (not including the arrow)
}

Let me know if that works for you.

You can adjust the setting up and down to see what you like best.

Hitting Control-F5 to refresh after you’ve saved the file should ensure you see the results right away.

If you have any caching plugins enable, on the other hand, it might prevent you from seeing the changes right away.

I had a look at the page you linked. It is referring to NextGen gallery 1.9.3. The problem seems to be fixed.

I have captions working just fine using WordPress 3.4.2 and NextGen Gallery 1.9.7.

When you are managing a gallery, there are two boxes under “Alt & Title Text / Description”

The alt/title text is the small box on top. It should be used in case your image doesn’t load. It should be descriptive text that could take the place of the image (according the web standards). It also shows up when you hover over the image.

The larger box below it is the description. This is what is used for the caption. You can include html code, links, or anything you’d like in there. Then, just include the gallery and set the caption template.

As long a you’ve added your descriptions to the proper box, you can include the gallery like so:

[nggallery id=3 template=caption]

Let me know if you’ve completed these steps and you are still having issues.

What slider?

How are you adding the images?

Can you provide a link to your site, and include the name of the slider you are using?

There’s a shortcode for that!

[random max=* id=* template=*]

Because it’s a gallery, it will only show thumbnails. It will also split up into pages based on the setting in Gallery->Options on the “Gallery” tab “Number of images per page”.

As to its usage:

max is required, and will be the number of random images you want to display.

id is optional. If you don’t include it, it will pull random images from all of your galleries. If you include it, it will only take images from that gallery. You can only specify one gallery.

template allow you to use some of the other gallery templates like caption.

Example with 6 images from from the gallery with id 3:

[random max=6 id=3]

Example with 4 random images from all galleries with captions from the caption template:

[random max=4 template=caption]

Have fun and let me know if that works out for you.

The theme probably isn’t missing a call to wp_head(). There is a “bug” of sorts in the check plugin code to that will cause it to fail just about every time. No worries. And don’t try adding extra calls to wp_head.

That probably isn’t your problem.

How exactly are you trying to use the images on the other parts of the theme?

I couldn’t tell how the images were selected for the carousel and other widgets.

Is it similar to the post featured image box where you can select from the Media Library or NextGen?

Or, do you have to paste links to images? If this is the case, are you putting in an actual URL

https://mysite.com/wp-content/gallery/myimages.jpg

Or a shortcode?

[singlepic id=1]

I noticed your theme integrates the prettyphoto, a lightbox, as well. I’m not sure if you can disable it, but it may cause some problems on your NextGen galleries as they integrate a separate lightbox by default.

If that does end up being a problem:

You might be able to disable your theme’s lightbox functionality, or you can to into Gallery->Options to the “Effects” tab and select none in the dropdown to disable NextGen’s.

Okay, I have more information about the problem.

It does have to do with the pretty permalinks. According to my tests on a fresh wordpress install with no other plugins, here is what happens:

*This only happens to paged galleries on the a static front page AFAIK*

If you turn off permalinks completely, in both WordPress and Nextgen, it will work. Not really an optimal solution though.

If you turn on WordPress permalinks, but not Nextgen’s, it will redirect to your posts. Strangely enough, it thinks it’s on the home/index page.

If you turn on both, nothing will work. You can click the links to other pages, but it keeps showing the same first page of the gallery.

I have some more debugging to do, but I would like to get to the bottom of this.

More to come later.

Thanks for the link.

I found the problem, but I can’t give you a quick fix yet. It appears you are using the Anything Slider plugin to display your slideshow.

You have a slideshow set up, but it doesn’t look like there are actually any images or “slides” to display.

The code for your slideshow, on the linked page, is:

<div class="slideshow" style="width:400px;height:300px">
  <div class="wrapper" style="width:400px;height:325px">
    <ul></ul>
  </div>
</div>

You need some <li>*Insert Slides Here*</li> in your unordered list (

). Something like this:

<div class="slideshow" style="width:400px;height:300px">
  <div class="wrapper" style="width:400px;height:325px">
    <ul>
      <li>*Insert Slide 1 Here*</li>
      <li>*Insert Slide 2 Here*</li>
      <li>*Insert Slide 3 Here*</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

The question is, are you hardcoding the slideshow, or using a plugin or shortcode to display it.

As far as I know, NextGen doesn’t support Anything Slider out of the box. How are you integrating the two?

What DoubleSixx recommended has the potential to work.

If the above doesn’t work, I have another option.

I was writing the process here, but it ended up being quite long.

Here is a (slightly involved) process that you can try on my (temporary) wordpress help blog I’ve set up

I tried to explain everything as clearly as possible, but let me know if you need anything.

Also, if I’ve made any errors, omissions, or mistakes (grammar or otherwise) please let me know so I can fix it.