Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Simple controls for slideshow!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Simple controls for slideshow!

 *  [kaylamatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylamatthews/)
 * (@kaylamatthews)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/)
 * Hi all,
 * I am so happy to have finally tried NextGEN gallery because it’s the only gallery
   that could manage a very large image gallery (50+ images) without freezing up
   the loading of the rest of the site.
 * But after searching for more than 5 hours and trying a bunch of different things
   it seems there is no way to add simple controls to the slideshow? Just to be 
   clear I am using the [ slideshow=1 ] shortcode.
 * I am simply looking to add a “previous” and “next” button so users can advance
   or go back to the previous image in the slideshow.
 * I am aware the Flash version of the slideshow already has such controls however
   I am trying to stick with the non-Flash slideshow.
 * Edit: I have tried all the different plugins that enhance the default NextGEN
   gallery – but NONE of them has the ability to display a preload sprite while 
   the gallery is loading the images AND to only display a few images in the source
   code at a time, which DRAMATICALLY saves load time.
 * Thanks so much for any help or suggestions!
 * Kayla

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 *  Thread Starter [kaylamatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylamatthews/)
 * (@kaylamatthews)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570729)
 * Does anybody have any advice or inputs? 🙂
 *  [charkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charkins/)
 * (@charkins)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570747)
 * I had the same concern about not wanting a Flash slideshow.
 * I settled for using the JW Rotator solution ([http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-image-rotator/](http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-image-rotator/))
   which provides controls on Flash supported devices. But for those that don’t 
   support Flash (iPad etc.) the slide show still plays – forward – so at least 
   it’s visible.
 * If you find a better solution please post here and let me know!
 *  [jmberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmberry/)
 * (@jmberry)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570748)
 * I’d love to know a solution to this as well. Seems there is a ‘show navigation’
   option but for whatever reason it doesn’t display anything. The “show next image
   on click’ seems to work fine.
 *  Thread Starter [kaylamatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylamatthews/)
 * (@kaylamatthews)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570779)
 * Does anybody else have any suggestions?
 *  Thread Starter [kaylamatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylamatthews/)
 * (@kaylamatthews)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570787)
 * I hired a dev and solved the issue!
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-ngg-slideshow-enable-prev-next?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-ngg-slideshow-enable-prev-next?replies=2)

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 * [slideshow](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slideshow/)

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 * Last reply from: [kaylamatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylamatthews/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-simple-controls-for-slideshow/#post-2570787)
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