Description: Finn Rudolphs picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery. Digital animation for thumbing through a physical image stack.
Latest Version: 1.0 - Changelog - TO-DO
Author: Boris Glumpler
Requires at least: WP 2.1.0
Tested up to: WP 2.6
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
- Upload all files except reflect.php to wp-content/plugins/nextgen-imageflow
- IMPORTANT: Upload reflect.php to your Wordpress root folder
- Activate the plugin
- Go to Gallery->ImageFlow and change the options to your liking
- Go to your post and enter tag [imageflow=GALLERY-ID]
Update
- Upload new files to the nextgen-imageflow folder using FTP
- Check to see if everything works…
- 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
- 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).
- I set the thumbnails to be displayed by Highslide, but it doesn’t $%*&$ยง work?
Highslide needs to be installed already. All the plugin does is include the necessary compatible files for use with Highslide.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.







