Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Nextgen columns
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Nextgen columns

 *  Resolved [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/)
 * Hi,
    I’m using NextGen plugin and have been greatly impressed by it so far.
 * I’ve seen that it’s possible to change the number of columns using shortcode 
   but it doesn’t seem to work for me.. I’m using version 1.7.2.
 * Any thoughts appreciated.
 * The shortcode I’m using is:
 * [nggallery id=2 ngg_gal_Columns=4]

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 *  Thread Starter [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896044)
 * Anyone out there that has had this issue?
 *  [growdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growdigital/)
 * (@growdigital)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896241)
 * You need to add it as a **Custom Field**. I don’t know what the shortcode is.
 *  [lepung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lepung/)
 * (@lepung)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896244)
 * I’m using NextGen plugin and i made 3 albums but
    the problem is that all albums
   are in a column instead of a series. anyone how can come up with an ides to solve
   my problem.
 *  [captainhendry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captainhendry/)
 * (@captainhendry)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896249)
 * I am having the exact same problem as lepung.
 * I specify four columns (or three) and I get one long column down the page broken
   into groups of four. It seems that each new thumbnail refuses to float left next
   to the previous one even though there is plenty of space for it. I’ve gone through
   the CSS and can’t see the problem. Would really appreciate some help on this.
 *  [lepung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lepung/)
 * (@lepung)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896253)
 * to solve the problem just add in themes styel.css
 * #coreContent .ngg-albumoverview {
    clear: none; width: auto; }
 *  [zthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bimcreate/)
 * (@bimcreate)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896309)
 * I’ve been also struggling with this. I have a gallery that gets all messy because
   of my captions which are kind of long and the page width is narrow, so I’ve been
   trying to define the amount of columns I want but I have no idea how to do this.
 * This is how my gallery looks:
 * [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/captionp.png/](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/captionp.png/)
 * Can anyone help?

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 * Last reply from: [zthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bimcreate/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-columns/#post-1896309)
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