I’m very happy to announce that Morten Andersen create a NextGEN Gallery App for iOS. Upload new images straight from your iPhone to your NextGEN Gallery. You can also edit the title and description of an image, or choose to exclude the image from a gallery. As he offer this App for free, please consider a donation via the About button if you happy with it.
Note : You need NextGEN Gallery Version 1.7.0 or higher to use this App
After a very very long break, I’m starting to work on the next version 1.8 of NextGEN Gallery. At first I’m looking for XML Sitemaps support. This should help for a better search results about images. I need to contact some author of Sitemap plugins, so I didn’t need to rewrite the same code again.
What is your preferred Sitemap plugin ?
I’m reading every day the forum posts, really. I didn’t answer each day, but I study nearly every request & problem. With Version 1.7.0 I introduced a new auto complete feature, this feature works fine on all of my blogs and test blogs. Unfortunately it also has some side effect, it requires a newer script library then WordPress currently shipped out. So I added this new version manually, but some plugins & themes didn’t handle script calls in the right way.
Very often I need to request to disable other plugins & themes, just to test if the failure is really inside NextGEN Gallery or not. For this purpose I’m introduce now my first version of a plugin health check :
This new tool can be used via the overview menu and it checks for a couple of common problems :
I’m not sure if it causes false positive results, but it maybe help us all to verify if NextGEN Gallery can run fine on your blog. The new Version 1.7.3 is now available.
The new version is now avaiable. Here are a list of the most important changes :
Please report problems ONLY at the forums, Thanks !
Download NextGEN Gallery Version 1.7.0
Release @ WordPress.org
My internal tests are fine, so last week for testing. Please download the new release candidate and let me know if you encounter any problems.
Since 2006 I go with the WordPress development and I’m always really impressed the way it works for small and large installation. For 4 years I’m now writing plugins, I must admit that in the beginning I had no clue about queries, performance and traffic. I learned a lot from the code base of WordPress and improved my plugin’s as good as possible. wp-Table, my first public plugin is a mess if you look for database queries, never would do this again 🙂
Today I’m focused on NextGEN-Gallery , which is a real challenge for me. It has a large user base and is used in various way. I spend a lot of time for the upgrade process, so that a new version (hopefully) will not break your work. It’s real easy to write a new plugin, but when you have a lot of user, every single line needs to be reviewed. This makes the develeopment for my plugin so hard, I’m really no professional programmer, I never used or tested my work on high traffic blogs, never worked with large multi site environment, nexer used more than 1000 images.
So instead of adding more and more features, I will work in the next time just on scalability and UI. Some time ago I ask how many images you have uploaded with NextGEN Gallery, and I’m really impressed about your response. But sadly this amount of images shows the current limits of my plugin. I never thought in this amount, so I programmed some features which are good for a couple of image/galleries, but not for hundreds of them.
One big flaw is the TinyMCE Dialog window. You can select in the WYSIWYG Editor easily a image or gallery from the drop down field and insert the shortcode, but it’s a mess if you have 10000+ images. One first improvement is part of the upcoming V1.7.0 : Auto complete for drop down fields.
With the help of jQuery UI Autocomplete, you can select one of the last 50 images or you can search for any image and select then the desired image. There are more places in the admin back end which need as well a full rework (i.e. Album management) but I just would like to get first your feedback on this new feature. I finished the first beta of V1.7.0 and it would be great if some of you can test this version. I’m already upgraded my test blog & live system, so it should be stable enough to give it a shot. Let me know here in the comment section if you have any problem, or feel free to open a issue at my Google Page. Thanks !
Today I worked hard on the database structure of NextGEN Gallery. As there is a strong demand for nicer permalinks, I need to add some new database fields. It’s a horrible work if you would like to keep always a backward compatibility. I remember very good the beginning of this plugin, it’s a delight to add new features when you didn’t need to consider to break existing features. Anyway, it’s also motivating when so much people use my plugins.
At the end of my day I add a little new function for my own needs. Post a image from the manage gallery page with just one click, hope you like it :
More than 6000 threads in the WordPress.org forums, only the word “plugin” is hotter than “NextGEN Gallery”. Let me thank you for your patience & help during all the time. To maintain a plugin for such a amount of user is really a big challenge. I know that you need for your projects modification, you have a problem or didn’t understand the way how I realized it in my plugin. The forums should be the right place to get the help. Let me give you some tips to get the best support :
I’m full of work for the next week so I need to speed up the release a bit. NextGEN Gallery 1.6.0 is now available for download at WordPress.org. This release will introduce the new jQuery slideshow and a couple of fixes for Multisites. I hope you like the new slideshow features on your mobile phone. There is a lot of room for improvements, so I’m open for ideas and contribution in any direction.
As always : Please post questions in the forums. Thanks !
Update : Fixed a bug with the slideshow & zip upload, Thanks for reporting in the forums and keep patient !
Download NextGEN Gallery Version 1.6.1
Release @ WordPress.org
Final test week, next week is release time… I’ve corrected some minor issues and updated the german language file. As reported in the forums there are still some issues in a Multi-site setup (i.e. Domain mapping) which I will not catch in this release. Contribution are always welcome !
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