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This worked perfectly for me.

Thank you very much.

I should also note that I updated to the latest beta, just to give it a try, and no change. I am up to date with my WP install as well.

Becky,

So the shortcode is working fine, but the widget is blowing up the portrait thumbs.

That is 100% correct.

Should I leave the example up in my sidebar for a little while as an example? I’d like to remove it as soon as I can, but can leave it there a little while longer if you need to see it in the wild.

Becky,

That is what I am seeing in the sidebar generated by shortcode (titled Recent Images). Those thumbnails are fine.

This is what I am seeing in the NextGEN provided recent image widget (titled Photocrati):

https://i.imgur.com/1wZ678I.jpg

The first example (that you provided) is correct. The 2nd (that I provided) shows how portrait thumbnails are blown up way beyond the specified size. This happens in multiple browsers, one multiple computers.

Erick,

What I expect is that if I select 160×120 in the widget setup, I expect that the width of a displayed thumbnail not exceed 160 pixels, nor its height not exceed 120 pixels. In this case, according to the image info, portrait thumbnails are displayed at 226 pxels tall.

I created an instance of the widget at the bottom of my right sidebar for you to take a look. As you can see, landscape thumbnails are acceptable, but the portrait thumbs are scaled way up. I’ll leave it up until tomorrow for you to inspect.

The “Recent Images” widget in the sidebar is generated using the shortcode above.

I was able to achieve what the widget is supposed to achieve using shortcode in a widget.

[ngg_images source="recent" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails" images_per_page="8" number_of_columns="1" show_slideshow_link="0"]

This works, but I would have preferred to simply use the widget provided.

After looking at the source, the image is tagged with the correct 160×120 dimensions.

Example:

<img title="img_5754"
                 alt="img_5754"
                 src="https://www.rogueveloracing.com/wp-content/gallery/bryan-park-cx-2013/thumbs/thumbs_img_5754.jpg"
                 width="160"
                 height="120"
            />

So, does ANYONE have any ideas why it is displayed stretched? I’ve looked at the site in FF, IE, and Chrome, and all show the same effect.

Solution:

Setting “Add Hidden Images” is set to “No” the issue goes away.

Additional info:

• The issue persists when all plugins, except NextGEN, are disabled.
• If I change themes, the issue persists. (I’m using Graphene, but I tried Twenty Twelve just in case)
• I’m up to date with WP 3.6.1.
• I’m up to date with NG 2.0.31.
• I’m not using any NextGEN plugins.

It’s usable as is, but it just looks bad…

Maybe create the main gallery you wish to display, and then add tags to the subset of sample images and use those to display just the samples?

Found a solution ( <- link to solution in case anyone else is in need of it) for the galleries, but still stumped on the widget.

It did turn out to be a plugin conflict. It turned out to be NextGEN Gallery Optimizer. Guess it optimizes out the script calls so well that they aren’t even there when you want them.

Additional info:

I assume that it has to do with the Lightbox Effects in ‘Other Options’. However, I can set it to use one of the effects, click save, leave the ‘Other Settings’ page, and return to it to find the setting reset to ‘No lightbox.’

I’ve put it as the last line in the while loop (with txt to visually track the change). I can see it when rendered, and can see the tags immediately preceding each post in the source.

It’s definitely forcing a new line, but the issue persists when that feed is active.

I will have to keep poking around. I took one of the items from the feed in question and it appears that all <div> tags look like they’re all closed (I’m unable to find any unclosed tags of any kind).

Since it’s just one feed, the issue almost certainly lies in the feed itself. I do not wish to enable to “remove HTML” option, as this will strip images, which I don’t want to lose (some of the feeds are just images). I’ll just remove the offending feed for the time being, until I can figure something out.

Thanks for your help.