Our resident PHP genius, Scott Kingsley Clark, found this hidden in the plugin. This is how you can pull a gallery, slideshow or album into a template via PHP hook:
<?php echo nggShowSlideshow([id],[width],[height]); ?>
Let me know if that works
yes an no, your answer generated errors not sure why but i googled
nggShowSlideshow
and come up with
function nggShowAlbum($albumID,$mode = “extend”)
=
<?php echo nggShowAlbum(1) ?>
And yes that works!
<?php echo nggShowSlideshow([id],[width],[height]); ?>
This works for me. Just had to replace the entire [id],[width],[height], with values like so:
<?php echo nggShowSlideshow(1,120,120); ?>
I do have the JW Image Rotator, so it’s working great now. Thanks for the suggestion stefan-vizion.
-Ben
Are there more php codes I can use for NextGen?
For example to show the latest 4 images of a special gallery?
You can look in nggfunctions.php to identify all the NextGen functions, see the parameters used, and try calling them in your php files. you can also use <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[album=1 template=compact]’); ?>
I use <?php echo nggShowSlideshow(1,120,120); ?> and have the JW Image Rotator.
Showing two slideshows in the header from two diffrent gallerys, all works fine, until you go to a sub page then the slideshow doesnt display!?
The homepage and all first level pages work fine!
Any ideas of what the problem can be!?
have you included wp_head on the theme header ?
I just dont understand why there’s a nice documentation about shortcodes but not php functions.
I mainly work with php and custom template pages… how am I supposed to work with shortcodes… ok I can look in the core files and extract the functions I need… but I just dont understand why the same documentation wasn’t done for php functions too.
Guess the easiest thing to do, to show Album n.1 for example, is:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[nggallery id=1]'); ?>
Just get the normal shortcode in there and let wordpress core functions sort it out 😀
