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NextGen Gallery PERMALINKS: The missing instructions


August 18th, 2012

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As many of you WordPress users may already know, NextGen gallery is one of the most scalable image gallery plugins available for the WordPress platform. It makes adding an image gallery to a post or page extremely easy and allows for simple image and album organization.

Most of the NextGen features seem to work right out of the box with the exception of the permalinks. I struggled for hours trying to get the permalinks (that are built into NextGen) working and producing SEO friendly url’s, but the instructions given are unclear and were not producing results for me.

When I realized why this was happening and corrected the problem, I wondered why there was not a clear cut explanation of how to accomplish this anywhere that I could find. So without further adieu, here are the instructions:

STEP 1:

Make sure your WORDPRESS (not NextGen) permalinks are set to “Default” (Settings->Permalinks). Click “Save Changes”. This is what was causing me issues. Most WordPress users don’t use the default permalink settings as they don’t produce SEO friendly url’s. My permalink settings were set to “Post name”. The instructions provided by NextGen say nothing about using the “default” setting, only that you must “update” your permalink structure.

Step 2:

In your NextGen Gallery options (Gallery->Options), click the box for “Activate Permalinks”. Do NOT change the gallery slug name away from “nggallery”.

Step 3:

Return to your WordPress permalink settings (Settings->Permalinks), ensure that the box for “default” is checked and click “Save Changes”. This is the updating of your permalink structure that they speak of in the instructions.

Step 4:

Go to the main page of your website and refresh your browser. Now click into the NextGen image galleries you have set up on your website and notice the url’s they produce. Now you will have the name of your gallery populated in the url rather than random numbers.

Step 5:

You will notice that in lieu of a postname, your url’s for other area’s of your website will still be producing id numbers rather than post slugs in the url. This is because you changed your permalink structure to “default”. You can now return to your WordPress permalink settings (Settings->Permalinks) and check the box for “Post name” and click “Save Changes”.

Your new SEO friendly permalinks will look something like this:

/post-slug-name/ngg-album-name/nggallery/ngg-album-name/ngg-gallery-name

The results may not be the cleanest you are looking for but the permalinks are indeed working now and it is much more SEO friendly than random id numbers.

If NextGen Gallery provided these instructions out of the box, it would make much more sense to people trying to get the permalinks to function. The checking of the “defalut” values box in the WordPress permalink settings is crucial in making this work. It seems so simple yet I could not find this information anywhere.

Make NextGen Gallery permalinks work!

Hopefully this will save you hours of frustration. Let me know of any questions.

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bzs

Thanks, that helped

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Jason

THis was super-helpful.

Thanks!

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star

I am using WordPress 3.6 with Nextgen Gallery. When I noticed that the “next” and “prev” buttons were no longer working, I found this article.

I followed the directions and voila, the issue was fixed. He is right, there is no way I would have figured this out from the Nextgen instructions. THANKS!

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aris

Doesn’t work for me, mate. I use JIG to show my galleries though, but tried also with simple NGG galleries. No friendly SEO. On the other hand, if you mean we would have to ‘sacrifice’ friendly URLs for the rest of the site just for NGG, I guess this is not an option.

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    BEN
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    Due to the comment received a few days ago, I tried this again last night. It DOES work. I would suggest trying again. Maybe you did not follow my instructions to the “T”.

    I’m sorry it didn’t work for you, but as I offer to anyone else, feel free to contact me and I’ll try to guide you along.

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Darko

It’s not working on WordPress 3.5.2. 🙁

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    BEN
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    Darko, it has been a year since I published this article. It is possible that the NextGEN team has addressed this issue by now. I have a few builds on 3.5.2 using NextGEN and don’t have any problems. If you want to share your process with me, perhaps I can help. Visit the contact form on the top menu to send me a message. I would be glad to help you.

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Tsotne Chaduneli

Thanks a lot, it’s really saves hours and makes one grateful.

All the best!

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Ritch

Brilliant.

Works a treat. Many thanks.

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Lina

When I follow your instructions I get [gallery not found] after clicking on a gallery on my album page.
Something more I need to do?

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    Pulkit

    You really make it apeapr so easy along with your presentation however I to find this matter to be actually one thing which I think I would by no means understand. It kind of feels too complex and extremely large for me. I’m taking a look forward to your subsequent submit, I will try to get the dangle of it!

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OurHighHopes

too late, discovered the answer 🙂

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OurHighHopes

thanks for this tip, easy to understand instructions.

can you solve this other problem with nextgen i am having? when i click on next to see the next picture the screen refreshes to the top of the page and i have to scroll down to see the gallery, which is annoying.

i tried editing shutter-reloaded.js, this funciton
hideShutter : function() {

by commenting out 2 lines .. but made no difference


hideShutter : function() {
		var t = this, D, S;
		if ( D = t.I('shDisplay') ) D.parentNode.removeChild(D);
		if ( S = t.I('shShutter') ) S.parentNode.removeChild(S);
		t.hideTags(true);
		/** window.scrollTo(0,t.Top); */
		window.onresize = t.FS = t.Top = t.VP = null;
		/** document.documentElement.style.overflowX = ''; */

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