• Resolved deekee

    (@deekee)


    Well, i’m pretty new to WP (< 3 weeks) and want to show a NextGEN Gallery Slideshow in Header of the Twenty Ten 1.1 in WP 3.01

    I was searching for information on this the whole Sunday afternoon but unfortunately I could not come up with a solution…

    I’ve managed to put a slideshow in a page http://www.deiopea.ch/1×1/?page_id=462

    … but unfortunately I’ve no glue on how to do that in the header!

    thanks for any hint and have a nice sunday evening!

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  • Thread Starter deekee

    (@deekee)

    Hello to all,
    well, after digging a bit around CSS and PHP, I found a solution, but which is not wholly satisfying…

    The NextGEN Gallery I’ve inserted is working fine, but somehow it’s first placed a few pixels below and finaly shifted upwards to the correct position, see http://www.deiopea.ch/1×1

    I think it’s a stylesheet issue and I’ve have been fiddling around with it for quite a while but haven’t come up with a solution yet!

    Many thanks in advance for your help getting this private charity site online!

    Regards,
    🙂 Dirk

    NB: I know double posts are not fair but anyway I’ve posted this now aswell on http://ww.wp.xz.cn/tags/nextgen-gallery?forum_id=10 where it actually belongs to (sorry I didn’t know as I’m pretty new (< 3 weeks) to WP)

    Thread Starter deekee

    (@deekee)

    Here the solution:

    In the header.php I simply replaced:

    <img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />

    with the following

    <?php
    if (function_exists('nggSlideshowWidget')) {
        echo " ";
        nggSlideshowWidget(12,940,198);
    }
    ?>

    Don’t forget to change gallery ID, WIDTH and HEIGHT

    This works great. Thanks!

    This was a much easier way than a previous method I have used.
    Just one issue. the gallery fell just short of the menu. I lifted the menu up in my stylesheet but now it hops up just after it loads. Any clues?
    http://www.silc.com.au/

    Hmm. And the alignment falls right out in firefox. Any thoughts?

    Thread Starter deekee

    (@deekee)

    Well, I haven’t found a solution yet!

    What do you mean by “the alignment falls right out in firefox”?

    On my final site http://1×1.indien.org it only l hops up after loading a page in the first instance but not when sliding into other pic’s.

    Definitely I will take care about this issue and finally find a solution, but unfortunately I’m pretty short of time in the following weeks as I will travel to India to look after our organisation…

    I will post again in here, when I’ve found a solution to the problem causing this strange behaviour.

    Hi there folks,

    This worked for me:

    <div class="frontpage_slideshow">
    <?php
    $showgallery = '[slideshow=1]';
    $showgallery = apply_filters('the_content', $showgallery );
    echo $showgallery;
    ?>
    </div>

    Now you can style the slideshow in your CSS file:

    .frontpage_slideshow {float: left;}

    Thread Starter deekee

    (@deekee)

    Ciao Vogelpesto,

    Well, I didn’t really had the time to take care about that tiny but annoying problem…

    I was pretty busy to care about with children that we support!

    See http://www.1x1indien.org/?category_name=januar-2011&#8230;

    (Sorry, but it’s all in German)

    I feel great that you’ve found a solution, but where do you exactly insert the mentioned code in the header.php?

    Thread Starter deekee

    (@deekee)

    I finally fixed by changing the following in nggallery.css

    311.   ngg-widget-slideshow {
    312        overflow: hidden;
    313        margin:0pt;
    314        padding:0px 0px 0px 0pt; /* Org: padding:5px 0px 0px 0pt; */
    315        text-align:left;
    316   }
    sdorrell

    (@sdorrell)

    riveriver, how did you sort out that firefox alignment problem, as i’ve got the same issue?

    Vogelpesto

    (@vogelpesto)

    Hey Deekee, good to see things worked out. Your site looks really nice. And German is no problem for me, I’m Dutch 😉
    Remember that when you update NextGen your changes will be lost. My solution leaves the NextGen css untouched.

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