NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

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 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. 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.

Templating:

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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