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I just released a simple WordPress widget which allows you to show links to NextGEN Gallery galleries in your sidebar. For more information and download take a look at the wordpress repository.
Works great, thank you
thx !
Nice addition to NextGen functionality. Looking forward to a 2.8 compatible update since the widget doesnt show in 2.8.
John Myrstad
Didn’t try this on WP 2.8 yet, but I will do shortly.
Hi,
I Hope you’re fine !
I’m french and I use WordPress 2.7.1. I install your plugin in my website but the plugin no appear in my Widget editor.
How can I do ?
Thanks you in advance for your help
Hi, I’m fine thanks 
Do you have NEXTGen Gallery installed? The widget does only initialize if it finds the NEXTGen Gallery Functions
Hello,
I apologize !
The plugin works perfectly !
In fact on my local server, it does not appear, but once online everything works fine!
However, I have a question … is it possible to use the plugin out of the sidebar?
I want to put it, in my footer…is it possible ?
Thank you in advance,
Peace
This is a widget so it works everywhere where you define a widget area in your theme. Maybe you should take a look at Widgetizing Themes at the WordPress Codex.
In fact I want to know, if this widget has a php code than I can put in my footer.
For example, with the original Widget NEXTGEN, I put in my sidebar random images of my galleries including this php code :
<?php nggDisplayRandomImages(15,70,70);?>
Basically it’s not designed for that usage, but you could try something like this (not sure if it works):
<?php ngg_sidebar_gallery_widget(array('before_widget' => '<div>', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => '<h3>', 'after_title' => '</h3>')); ?>
However, that way you can’t set any options. The only possibility to do so is to add the widget to your sidebar, configuring it, saving the settings and removing it afterwards. This will save the settings to the DB and the call above will use that settings.
I should consider improving the usage in a future release 
oopps I want to say :
” I put in my footer the following php code :
<?php nggDisplayRandomImages(15,70,70);?>
”
sorry for my bad english :s
Hi !
Thanks a lot for the php code, it’s works perfectly
Your plugin is amazing ! For more than 4 days I am looking for a way to do that!
Thaaaaaaannnnkkkssss a lot !!! 
I’m gave you plug-in a quick spin. At first it do anything.
The check for if class_exists(‘nggLoader’) always returning false. I have NextGen installed.
I just removed the check and everything is working wonderfully. This isn’t a real fix it’s just a hack.
Anyways, just letting you know. Thank you for working on this plug-in.
LP
Hi Mathias,
I’m having the same trouble others have described getting the widget to show up. I have NextGen installed and I’ve tried removing the nggLoader check as LP suggests, but the widget isn’t appearing for me. I was curious if there were any options within NextGen gallery that might be an issue or any troubleshooting steps you could suggest.
Thanks,
Brent
WP 2.7.1 – PHP 5.2.5 – MYSQL 4.1.22
Same problem here, plugin installed with NextGen Gallery up and running, but no widget available :-( Any hints?
There was an error in the check for NGG, so the widget didn’t show up. I just uploaded a fixed version (0.2.1), hope the problem is solved now.
Thank you Mathis! Very happy to finally get this plugin working. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into developing this little gem, its a perfect companion to NGG. Thank you again.
This is a great plug-in. But I would like to know how to space out the gallery pictures and add a border around the images?
@Mike, just do this via CSS. The widget just outputs the images as links, e.g. like this:
<a href="..." rel="nofollow"><img src="..." alt="..." /></a>
Some CSS magic will allow you to style your images, e.g. (untested):
#nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget {
clear: left;
}
#nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget a {
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
}
[...]
Hi, wäre es auch möglich ein zufälliges Thumbnail aus der zufälligen Galerie anzuzeigen?
Also praktisch wie bei dem Standard- NextGen Widget, nur mit deiner Funktion, welche zu einer Galerie weiterleitet.
Does anyone know how to get the gallery to show multipal images Both horizontally and vertically and add some space around the thumbs. I did see the css code above, but I do not know where in the style sheet to put it.
Any help woud be great, thanks.
Jonah
@Jonah, I prefer separating output and presentation, that’s why I didn’t include any stylesheets with the plugin. Just add CSS declarations like the above to any of your theme stylesheets.
Still no response 
Perhaps i try it in English, not sure if you speak German…
Can you add another feature to your NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget? It would be nice, if the thumbnail of the gallery would be a random thumbnail.
Just add, an additional option like (Thumbnail Order) below Gallery Order, where you can choice between “first picture, random picture” or smething else.
MfG. Senshi
@Senshi, sorry I had very little time to deal with my blog lately. I’ll add the option to the widget and will let you know afterwards. Btw: I do speak German
Done and uploaded to the WP repository as version 0.2.2. You can now select between first image, gallery preview image (the one set on the NGG gallery management page) and random.
Thank you, great job
hi there matt.. i’ve already installed the 0.2.2 version and activated my plugin, but it still doesn’t appear on my sidebar.
Do i need to add anything to my sidebar.php file? coz i dont see any codes generated there to include this widget
pls advice. thanks!!
Hi Angie,
does the widget show up on the widgets options page? Do you have NextGen Gallery installed? You shouldn’t have to change anything on your sidebar.php file as long as it is widget ready (do other widgets work?)
Like @Jonah, I would like to get the widget to display more than one pic. The reason has to do with the physical size of my sidebar block: http://otterproductionsinc.com
I need the image to take up more space. Simply setting the image size larger gave me a big pixelated image. I was hoping to have two images appear in my sidebar gallery block side by side.
I fooled around with the code and the best I could come up with was to add some padding and a border to the image with CSS:
~Line 97: style="padding: 10px; background-color: #CAC9B1; border: 1px solid #333;
How about an image title?! I could use your existing code to add the name of the album below the thumbnail; with only one gallery/album I would prefer the image title. Can’t seem to figure out how to get that to display.?
Great plugin BTW. Very clean code and easy to integrate.
Hi,
sorry for the delay, seems that I missed your comment in some way . If you want to use larger images, you’ll have to use the AutoThumb integration as then the original sized images will be used and resized by AutoThumb.
For your CSS problem: something like this should do the trick:
.ngg_sidebar_gallery_widget a {
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
}
Including image or gallery titles is not possible at the moment, but I’ll include it in later versions.
– Mathias
Have you seen the solution I’ve implemented?
Please, see my comment
How about an image title?
How can we do?
As stated above, this is not possible at the moment. However, feel free to make the changes and contribute a patch
– Mathias
How about gallery title?
How can we do?
I hear an echo in here?!
Just answered your comment above
Oh, i’ve got the answer!
I’ve just put the following lines:
$output .= ''; $output .= $gallery->title; $output .= '';
before the line
$output .= '</a>';
The H2s are for a better display. The rest I implemented by CSS.
See the result at: http://calvario.org.br/
Nice one I’ll implement some sort of templating mechanism which will let you have control over the output in future versions (and change to WP’s new Widget API too).
Hi!
You did a good job! I like this plugin very much.
However, I am trying to categorize my images without posting it as a post. Do you know how to do that?
Thanks!
Alex
Hi!
Your plugin works great and im using the gallery widget in my site and according to my need ,It must display the image title below all the images ,whether this is possible,if its possible please let me know how?
Thanks&Regards
B.V.Aswat
@aswat: Thanks for the feedback At the moment unfortunately not as it was designed to just display the images without any additional markup/output. If I find some spare time I’ll add a templating mechanism which lets the user have control over the output (e.g. including titles, etc.). If your need it by now have a look at the source code, shouldn’t be too complicated to change the output according to your needs.
– Mathias
Hi Mathias,
sorry for the delayed replay ill look to do it in the source code if done i’ll let u know in this forum
Thanks&Regards
B.V.Aswat
How to manually add code to the sidebar to let it shows the list of gallery?
I have a costumed sidebar I don’t want change it, if I use the Widget it will change all the sidebar, so I just want add some code to list the galleries thumb and link, then link to the gallery page, can you enlighten me want code I should add to the sidebar?
Thanks!
ThankYou
This code
Very nice
But I want to show pictures of specific folders and not all folders
I hope to help
Hallo Matthias,
eine Frage zum NextGEN Sidebar Widget:
Habe es über die Widgets eingebunden – leider wird jetzt in der Sidebar zu viel Platz unter der Galerievorschau gelassen, siehe hier:
Wieso ist das so? Vielen Dank schon vorab!
Hello!
Thank you for this plugin.
Could you please tell us how to exclude galleries from this sidebar – by their id?
also i’d like widget to select and order galleries according ngg albums. i hope that would be possible in next releases.
hi there!
quick question, i have been looking for a solution to this for a while, so thanks a lot for th eplug in and for all the updates.
I have a question. i have already installed next gen gallery and also installed your plugin. it all works fine.
my problem is: when the thumbnails show on the side bar the link to a page. the so called gallery page.
here is the question: is there a way that when creating the gallery page, this page wont show on the navigation bar automatically?
thanks for your help.
Jose
I am a newbie when it comes to webdesign. I have installed nextgen gallery and added the smooth plug-in.
I added a border around my large pictures…..and for the life of me I can not find where I did that. Could you tell me where I can change the border thickness for the pictures.
Thanks and sorry for the dumb question:(
Nice plug-in thank you for your hard work!!
Can you provide a url? I expect it is in the css.
I am still struggling to get spaces to show up between my two gallery thumbnails in the NextGEN sidebar widget on my home page.
In Internet Explorer there is no space between the two images, they are directly on top of each other.
I put the following code in the .css file of the theme I am using, but it still didn’t make a difference, using one or all of these.
#nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget {
clear: left;
}
#nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget a {
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
}
.ngg_sidebar_gallery_widget a {
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
}
In Firefox however there is a space between the two images, even without adding the code.
So I am still baffled!
Kathy, post the url? Suggest using if IE conditional css statements.
Hi Mathias,
If I have the autothumb generator and the NextGen gallery sidebar widget – where do I place the image width and height parameters. It says I have to go into my html? But if it’s a sidebar??? I guess I can add the image parameters to the sidebar.php file under a div or something?
Hi,
Thanks for your widget. One issue I have is that shadowbox.js will not work on the images. Any idea on how to fix? Or, as an alternate, i’d go for a way to have all images link to the gallery page instead.
Any help really appreciated, as is the widget! :-)
HI,
Sorry to bother.
This plugin is a perfect fit however I can’t get the links to work properly. When you click on any of them it just reloads the page.
here is where its happening http://maudeodgers.com/1
Nevermind I just wasn’t following the directions and making pages for every gallery
The widget only allows you to show 10 images maximum. Is there a way to make this more?
Thanks
Just found your widget. Everything works fine except the links. Galleries are linked to a specific page.
Do I designate Page IDs, Album IDs or something else?
Jonathan
@Johnatan: yes, the plugin assumes that you set up gallery pages using NGG itself. When you edit a gallery, you can create a specific page for it. As soon as this is done, the plugin will link to that page.
@all others: sorry for the delay, I was quite busy and didn’t have time to deal with this project until now. I’m planning a major release which will implement the requested features, but it could take some time until this is done.
The links are not working. Any suggestions? I’m on a intranet if that makes a difference.
Did you set the “Page Link to:” option for your galleries? The widget takes this link if it is set and otherwise links to the default page which you can specify as last option in the widget’s settings.
I did. It started working after I updated NextGen Gallery.
Thanks for your help.
Is there a way to put a border around each image?
The widget does just output plain HTML. To style the output use CSS (e.g. by modifying your theme’s CSS file).
Is there a way to exclude a gallery? I have a page that is a photo directory. It doesn’t need to show up in the thumbnails.
Thanks.
How do we donate?
Excluding a gallery isn’t possible yet, but one of the features often requested. I’ll implement this soon.
You can find a donation link on the about page on this blog. Thanks
@all: I updated the plugin to 0.3 and added a feature to exclude pages and to control the plugin’s output
Hi Bro,
Thanks! I’m using the plugin now..
Regards,
Mark M.
any chance of sorting out the shadowbox thing?
:-)
@Grif: what do you want to do exactly with shadowbox? As the widget’s intend is to show links to NGG gallery pages, SB wouldn’t make much sense here as it just could open the gallery preview image in a shadowbox. Or do you want to make your image galleries available on the whole blog directly from the sidebar?
For this implementation I don’t want it to link to the gallery. I want the globally enabled shadowbox.js to work on the images.
If i disable the shadowbox wp plugin and enable thickbox in nextgen gallery, thickbox works on the widget…..
kinda see your point tho…… I think my issue was it was opening the original image in a blank window. I guess i’d have it link to the gallery or ave image open in SB.
Lemme have a look at it again
Someone else asked and got no answer..
Is it possible to get the widget to show more than 10 images?
Thanks!
Thank you for your comment
Wow, thanx! This is the perfect add-on for the Nextgen gallery
Is it possible to add the feature to link to the specified picture instead of linking to the gallery? (if the option is enabled to open pictures in the imagebrowser instead of the layer effects)
This would be unbelieveable great Any hint ont his?
Thanx in advance
The new 0.3.3.1 version works great! Thank you.
However, how do I get the thumbnails in the sidebar to appear with the spacing and stroke like the generic NextGEN widget does?
Thanks in advance!
Keith
Thanks for the excellent plugin, man.
It was exactly what I needed.
I do have a couple of questions though:
Is there a way to choose the order in which the galleries show up?
Also, is there a way so that images that are excluded from public view in NextGEN don’t show up in the widget?
get this when i try to activate a fresh copy.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /hsphere/local/home/HOMEDIR/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/ngg-sidebar-widget.php on line 30
I think this feature is great. However, the thumbnails always end up pixelated and grainy no matter what I do. Any suggestions?
The width and height settings just set the HTML attributes for width and height which results in bad image quality on resizing. The way better solution is using my AutoThumb plugin in combination with the widget. Install and set up AutoThumb and set some parameters like w=100&h=100&zc=1 in the widget settings. AT will take the original full size image and scale/crop it to the defined dimensions which results in much nicer images. In addition, you can apply a huge range of settings and effects on the images (like grayscale, sepia, watermarks, etc.).
have latest sidebar and wordpress. getting this error when i upgraded sidebar
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/f/o/o/fooosooo/html/dynastytattoos.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/ngg-sidebar-widget.php on line 30
tried posting in your issue tracker but couldnt understand how to do that.
Already reported: https://dev.ailoo.net/issues/56
I’ll try asking this again . . .
The new 0.3.3.1 version works great! Thank you.
However, how do I get the thumbnails in the sidebar to appear with the spacing and stroke like the generic NextGEN widget does?
Thanks in advance!
Keith
Hello
I have problem with putting your code to template (without widget).
Unfortunately I’m not a programmer and maybe this is the main problem
Normally in NextGEN I have something like this:
What should I do while using your code?
Can someone provide a sample of this plugin in action. I have search far and wide and there is nothing, just want to see what it looks like!
Brandon,
You can go to my blog http://www.keithdunlop.com and see the plug-in action. Just click on the “blog”link on the main menu bar of the site and you will see the gallery thumbnails on the sidebar. Click on one of the thumbs and you will be taken directly to a gallery page.
Now if I could just fix the spacing and stroke of the thumbs I’d be very happy. I’ve asked for help twice here without response.
Keith
Hey Keith,
I’m having the same problem as you, but I checked out your site (looks great) and I noticed you were able to fix the spacing issues. If you don’t mind me asking, how’d you do it?
Thanks for your time
~Derek
I too would love to know how you did this! Can’t get the css suggested in this thread to work…
Thanks
Duncan
Hey,
Is it possible to make the Widget title a link? If so, please advise
THanks!! Love the plugin
YES!
Around line 296 in widgets.php (in the nextgen-gallery widgets folder). Here is my marked up code:
// IE8 webslice support if needed
if ( $webslice ) {
$before_widget .= "\n" . '' . "\n";
//the headline needs to have the class enty-title
$before_title = str_replace( 'class="' , 'class="entry-title ', $before_title);
$after_widget = ''."\n" . $after_widget;
Here it is in action: http://hqcode.com
hmm your title link doesnt work properly
Flash Buddy,
Thanks for your reply. I saw it in action on hqcode.com, and that is precisely what I need, but I don’t really see any element in the code you provided, so where would I specify where I want it to link to? Did it show up correctly on the post?
Thanks
Yeah I just noticed the markup is not showing up correctly. So, there is something missing from that code.
Thank you so much, Flash. Appreciate it dude.
Hi, I can’t Activate the plugin
I got the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in …/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/ngg-sidebar-widget.php on line 30
line 30: protected $_templates = array();
I hope you can help me
thanks
Is there a way to add more than 10 thumbnails to the NextGen widget??
Please somebody…
Hey Patrick,
in the nextgen-gallery widgets folder find widgets.php and open it for editing in a plain text editor. Find around line 210:
[source] <?php for ( $i = 1; $i <= 10; ++$i ) echo "$i”; ?>
[/source]
Change the number ten in there to what you need. While this works for me, your results may vary.
Hi.
Nice plugin!
It would be nice to have an odd/even class added to the anchor elements. Adding the same style to all elements will mess up the sidebar layout.
Regards
vayu
WORKS PERFECTLY!!! GREAT JOB MAN! I owe you a beer, contact me if you plan to visit Rome (Italy) :-)
Con piacere, mi faccio sentire quando vengo a Roma
Grande! Complimenti per l’italiano!!! :-)
Mathias, thanks for the plugin.
I would like to display the gallery title underneath the gallery image.
I couldn’t find where Flavio added his code.
Can you help me?
Hi, Great sidebar widget!!!
One question…is there a way to speed up the slideshow??
Thanks.
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