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Description: Finn Rudolphs picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery. Digital animation for thumbing through a physical image stack.

Latest Version: 0.90 - Changelog - TO-DO

Author: Boris Glumpler

Requires at least: WP 2.1.0

Tested up to: WP 2.5.1

Download: Click here for the zip!

Check out NextGEN FlashViewer, another add-on for your NextGEN Gallery!

NOTE: I would like to add more effects to this plugin, but I am near to useless with JS. So if there are any knowledgeable JS-coders out there, who could modify imageflow.js for use with Thickbox or Lightview then go for it and I will include it!

ONE MORE NOTE: If you have translated NextGEN ImageFlow into your language, then please send me the .po and .mo files and I will include them in the next release. Thank you!

Installation

1. Upload all files except reflect.php to wp-content/plugins/nextgen-imageflow
2. IMPORTANT: Upload reflect.php to your Wordpress root folder
3. Activate the plugin
4. Go to Gallery->ImageFlow and change the options to your liking
5. Go to your post and enter tag [imageflow=GALLERY-ID]

Update

1. Upload new files to the nextgen-imageflow folder using FTP
2. Check to see if everything works…
3. Done!!

Usage

This one is fairly simple. There’s only one tag to use, so all you need to do is find the correct gallery ID, so it’s basically failsafe.

[imageflow=14]

Frequently Asked Questions

1. I installed everything, but I don’t see any images. What am I doing wrong?

   Check if you have uploaded reflect.php to your Wordpress root folder (the directory where your wp-config.php file is in).

2. I set the thumbnails to be displayed by Highslide, but it doesn’t $%*&$§ work?

   Highslide needs to be installed already. All the plugin does is include the necessary compatible files for use with Highslide.

3. My images don’t seem to get cached?

   For the caching to work you have to use the NGG default paths, as NextGEN ImageFlow uses the same cache folder as NGG. So that would be wp-content/gallery/cache.

4. But I changed that path. What can I do?

   Open reflect.php, go down to line 82 and adjust the path. Alternativley you can disable caching by setting $_GET['cache'] in reflect.php on line 33 to 0.

5. ImageFlow works perfectly on my posts, but not on my index page. Why is that?

   According to the ImageFlow homepage you can only use ImageFlow once per page. An object-oriented version of ImageFlow may come in the future though. It is probably best to use ImageFlow below <!–more–> to avoid any problems. Also limit ImageFlow to one occurance per post.

6. Anything else I should know?

   Well, now you can use a reflection with any image on your blog that is not part of your NextGEN Gallery. Instead of referencing the URL of your image you can now write something like this:
   src=”path/2/WP-root/reflect.php?img=rel/path/2/image.jpg”.

The Future

Over time there will be more options available in the admin section and I am planning to add more effects to open images in as well as open the whole gallery in. Leave a comment if you have any feature wishes or if you’ve got something nice to say.

Bugs and other insects

If you encounter any problems, bugs or annoying mosquitos, please leave a comment and I will come running with my can of 100% deet…

Credits and Thanks

The idea for this plugin came from Martin Meier. He helped quite a bit with the testing as well, so thanks, Martin.

Description: The famous Adobe Flash Plugins (SimpleViewer, TiltViewer, AutoViewer, PostcardViewer) from Airtight Interactive for NextGEN Gallery.

Latest Version: 0.92 - Changelog

Author: Boris Glumpler & Alex Rabe

Requires at least: WP 2.1.0

Tested up to: WP 2.5.1

Download: click here for the zip!

NOTE: If you have translated NextGEN FlashViewer into your language, then please send me the .po and .mo files and I will include them in the next release. Thank you!

Check out NextGEN ImageFlow, another add-on for your NextGEN Gallery!

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I know that some people have been waiting for me to come out with a new tutorial on how to captionize their NextGen Gallery singlepics with the new version 0.8 and above. How about one better? Let’s go crazy and captionize literally everything we can get our sneaky little hands on. Singlepics, widgets, related images…

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A few days ago I decided that my pictures in posts needed captions. For all my images I use the excellent plugin NextGen Gallery. In the forums a few times the question had popped up on how to add captions, so I decided to write a little how-to. I had already heavily modified some of the ngg-files, so I thought this one shouldn’t be too hard. Turned out I was right. God, Allah and Buddha know that doesn’t happen too often…

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This post has absolutely nothing to do with travelling, so stop reading if you’re not interested in geeky Wordpress stuff. In the process of making Travel-Junkie.com a better experience for my visitors I have discovered the excellent Highslide effect for images and loads of other stuff by Torstein Hønsi. So I started implementing this effect, which should have been pretty straight forward, especially considering that the gallery plugin I use for Wordpress, NextGen Gallery, comes with built in support for Highslide. In the end it took me far longer to get it to work exactly the way I wanted.

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