Title: NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget Author: maff Published: 18 Aibreán, 2009 Last modified: 6 Feabhra, 2012 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget.svg) # NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget By [maff](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maff/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget.0.4.3.zip) * [Details](https://ga.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/#description) * [Reviews](https://ga.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ga.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/#installation) * [Development](https://ga.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/) ## 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](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/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](https://github.com/maff/wp-nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget). 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](https://github.com/maff/wp-nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/issues). 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 ## Installation 1. Upload `ngg-sidebar-widget.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Use the widget in the widget editor. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ maff ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maff/) [Translate “NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget) ### Interested in development? 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