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Plugin Description
The NextGEN widgets only allow showing of single images, I needed a solution to show links to galleries, so I wrote this widget. You can specify the following parameters:
- Maximum Galleries: the number of galleries you want to show
- Gallery Order: you can select random, date added ascending or date added descending
- Gallery Thumbnail: which image should be taken as thumbail in the sidebar (preview set in NGG, first or random image)
- AutoThumb parameters: if you got AutoThumb installed, the widget will use its functions to resize the image to your needs. Use a string like
w=80&h=80&zc=1 here to show 80×80 square thumbnails.
- Output width/height: if you don’t use AutoThumb, the plugin will set the HTML attributes width & height.
- Default Link Id: the widget assumes that you set up pages for each gallery and link the gallery to that page (you can use the NGG Gallery Editor to do this). If a gallery has no link set, it will use the default link (id of a page or post).
- Exclude galleries: exclude galleries by specifying their ID as comma separated list
All development is done on GitHub. If you have ideas, enhancements, etc. feel free to fork the project and send a pull request.
For any issues please use the Issue Tracker.
Templating:
Beginning with version 0.3, you have full control over the widget’s output as it is controlled with templates. As the built-in templates would get overwritten on every plugin update, create a new directory called “ngg-sidebar-widget” in your theme’s directory and copy the two template files “tpl.outer.html” and “tpl.inner.html” over there to edit them. The outer template is just a wrapper template (useful when you need some additional markup, e.g. when creating a list), the inner template has access to all the values from the gallery and image object (written in a simple templating syntax: {=object.member}). For the most use cases you should only need “gallery.title”, “gallery.link” and “image.url”.
You will have access to the following variables:
- gallery
- gid
- name
- path
- title
- galdesc
- pageid
- previewpic
- author
- link
- image
- errmsg
- error
- imageURL
- thumbURL
- imagePath
- thumbPath
- href
- thumbPrefix
- thumbFolder
- galleryid
- pid
- filename
- description
- alttext
- imagedate
- exclude
- thumbcode
- name
- path
- title
- pageid
- previewpic
- permalink
- post_id
- sortorder
- meta_data
- gid
- galdesc
- author
- imageHTML
- thumbHTML
- url
- output_width
- output_height
- output_width_tag
- output_height_tag
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