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Image galleries with nextgen plugin

The NextGEN Gallery plugin allows you to integrate all sorts of custom image galleries…

Download and install plugin. To finish installation, create a gallery folder in wp-content (indicate rights 777, while you’re at it).

A new menu appears in admin: Gallery. Create your first gallery, and upload images.

Then, to insert this gallery in an article you can choose various insertion modes, all listed here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/faq/

Here’s an example with the slideshow: write something like [ slideshow id=1 w=400 h=300 ] without spaces between brackets:

Here’s an example with a gallery: type something such as [ nggallery id=1 ] again without spaces between brackets:

Remark: in this plugin’s latest version, the imagerotator. swf file — used to make slideshows — is not provided any longer, but you can easily find it in google.

And…

Here’s a comprehensive tutorial for this plug-in
http://dpotter.net/Technical/2008/03/nextgen-gallery-review-image-management/

Author’s site:
http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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