Using the NextGEN Gallery Plugin: Part 1
My latest project needed a lot of plugin help. It’s a site for a parenting group that the board of directors needed to develop into an online community forum, calendar, newsletter and, last but not least, a photo gallery for news and events.
The online gallery portion of the site had several criteria: 1) It had to be something that displayed the photos directly on the Photos page. 2) It needed to be something that people could upload their own images to. 3) It had to be fairly easy to use without involving a whole lot of hand-coding.
At first, the Shashin plugin seemed like the way to go, but after fiddling and twiddling and searching for online information beyond the simple statement; “Shashin is a photo gallery plugin that’s really awesome!” I got fed up and started looking again. NextGEN seemed like another good prospect, so I plugged it in and gave it a whirl.
To my immense relief, it was a good choice. The interface is fairly intuitive and there seems to be more support on how to actually USE the thing. For a good overview, check out Kansaiblogger’s post.
Since I knew I needed something a little more comprehensive for the people who would actually be running the site, I decided to write this short tutorial on how to add galleries and images to your Wordpress site using NextGEN. Continue Reading…
