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Your right this can be solved with CSS but is not really caused by it. The long descriptions on some of your pictures are causing the boxes to float funny. You can solve it by adding a hieght:250px; to this class .ngg-galleryoverview .desc in the nggallery.css file around line 126.

@duckduke – I have have viewed that page in 3 versions of IE and do not see the space you are talking about. As far as squashing CSS issues with a design may I suggest installing Firebug it makes working on a CSS file a breeze.

@kijac and @wsperuzzi – There are three instances of clear:both that you have to comment out. Scan the file and make sure you got all of the ones mentioned above.

@kijac – after commenting out the both property you will also need to do some editing to your themes style sheet to force your containing div to wrap around the galleries. you will need to add clear:both; to this class .post .postmetadata which is located in your style.css file around line 194

@alex – Here’s hoping your serious cause I would be honored to be your hero ?? As mentioned before if you need help just let me know I would love to contribute after all of the hard work I know you have put into this.

OK there it is. You must have been working on it when I went to look.

Your having the same problem as described here it’s related to the clear:both property. Your galleries are clearing each other and thats where the space is coming from. The solution is in this comment.

Hope that helps ??

Your Gallery link is a 404. We may need to be able to see it in action to solve the problem.

@alexrabe – this problem really is theme specific, and based on whether floating elements are being executed properly. Technically clear: both; should do just that. In some cases removing the “both” property can cause other problems, like you said it can cause text to float around the galleries in strange ways.

I have noticed though that most people having this space problem have a three column layout with the content being the center column. Maybe there could be a way or option in the NGG Settings that allows them to specify if they are having this trouble and then it just turns off the “both” property.

@duckduke – There is an setting that does just that if I’m understanding you correctly. Gallery -> Options -> General then tick the box for “Activate Permalinks”. After doing this though make sure you go and rebuild your permalinks so that it will work correctly.

Just remember that commenting them out in the nggallery.css will get lost if you use the auto-upgrade feature.

Not sure about the other problem right now I’d have to take a look at it.

There are three places where clear:both can cause problems on some templates.

• .ngg-galleryoverview
• .ngg-albumoverview
• .ngg-clear

You should comment them out if your having these problems. BUT

I would suggest possibly just adding this to the END of your style.css file:

#content .ngg-galleryoverview, #content .ngg-galleryoverview, #content .ngg-galleryoverview {
    clear: none !important;
}

#content in (your case) being the parent div that your galleries are displaying within.

My reasoning behind this would be due to the auto-upgrade feature in WordPress. If used, it will delete customized files in the plugin folder and you could unknowingly loose your fix for this problem.
If you put it in your theme’s stylesheet, not only will it not conflict with future theme changes it will also not get lost upon upgrade of the NextGen plugin.

If for some strange reason !important doesn’t do the trick try moving the call for your style.css file down in the head of the document to occur below the <?php wp_head(); ?> this will ensure that your stylesheet is loaded AFTER the NextGen styles (therefore you can override undesirable styles set by your plugins).

Hope that helps ?? (constructive criticism of my methods always welcome)

If you go to the Highslide creators page There is excellent documentation there. My suggestion would be to read the Docs section.

Otherwise if your the hands on type you can view the Barebones Samples, and find the one you like and view source to see how it is implemented. Torstein does a very good job of leaving comments on the samples that help you understand what goes where.

Have ANY of you tried making sure your using PHP5?

I have found that many people running on different hosts just needed to make sure they were using PHP5.

If you do not know what version of PHP is running on your host you should try creating a PHP Info file and then accessing it in your browser. This will also give you other helpful information about your server setup.

If your site is not running on PHP5 (you’ve probably been laden with troubles on other plugins too) you should contact your hosting company and urge them to upgrade.

@meganano // you do not necessarily need to edit your php.ini file you probably just need to add one to the directory it is needed in. Google is always the best tool when your not sure what something is. You can find a list of directives and how to use them here, but in many cases this may be somthing you have to work out with your hosting provider. Since ini really is a server specific thing it would difficult for Alex to go through and research and explain how each and every person needs to handle their ini problems.

<?php $footeralbum = '[album=1]';
   $footeralbum = apply_filters('the_content', $footeralbum );
   echo $footeralbum; ?>

OK here try this instead. The other works for me but I have my template tweaked out pretty bad. I know this one works too.

clear:both;

In both your CSS classes .ngg-galleryoverview and .nggclear

That is whats causing the gallery and your comments box to drop down like that. Hope that helps a little.

I used this:

<?php echo nggShowAlbum($albumID,$mode); ?>

Replacing $albumID with the id of the album you want to use, and replacing $mode with the mode you want to use (or leave it blank if you wish to use the default mode)

The functions which replace the shortcode are found in nggfunctions.php

Anyone feel free to correct me if there is a better way to do this. I’m using this though and it works for me.

Awesome thank you Alex that worked.

BTW those of us that know the amount of work you have put into this do not at all believe you are neglecting it. This is an amazing gallery plugin. I’ve been using it ever since the first release and am always impressed with how it has grown.

Good job, and remember holler at us if you ever need a hand.

Has anyone found an answer to this problem? I was able to apply watermarks before the latest upgrade, but now I can’t. I have made sure that fopen is enabled and according to php info in every directory it is ON, but the plugin still claims it is off and will not apply the watermarks. I’m considering downgrading for now to see if that fixes it for now, but I would really like to know what happened.