Wordpress Plugin - Nextgen Smooth Gallery
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Nextgen Smooth Gallery: A Wordpress Plugin that allows you to use the amazing JonDesign’s Smooth Gallery on your NextGen-Gallery galleries.
What is NextGen-Gallery?
The best Wordpress gallery manager plugin with over 200.000 downloads: NextGen-Gallery.
It is also a gallery viewer, but we think Smooth Gallery has a better presentation for images.
What is Smooth Gallery?
A JavaScript, open-source, search-engine friendly, cool way to present your images.
As they say “Because a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”, so check it out.
WOW, fantastic… Who do I have to kill to get one of these?
Fortunatelly, no one =). Just follow these simple instructions:
- Go to NextGen Gallery, download and activate it
- Download the newest version of our plugin Nextgen Smooth Gallery
- To avoid incompatibility, JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 is already included on our download.
- Download v.1.1
- Unzip it on /wp-content/plugins/
- Activate it on your wordpress admin panel
You are good to go.
How to use it?
In order to use NextGen Gallery, you were suposed to write [ gallery=12345 ] on your post/page where you wanted your gallery to show up.
To use Nextgen Smooth Gallery, just change [ gallery=12345 ] to [smooth=12345]
That simple
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Admin Page
No more going to the source code. Set the default values for all your galleries from the admin page.

Special Feature - Preview
See what your gallery will look like before publishing it

Special Feature - IFrames
Jon Design’s Smooth Gallery is known for not working properly along other JS libraries like prototype and jquery (some of your plugins might use them).
Now you can make all your galleries appear inside an IFrame, therefore overcoming this problem

Specific Gallery
If you want a specific gallery to display a configuration other than your default one, you can use:
[smooth=id:xx; width:xx; height:xx; timed:xx; delay:xx; transition:xx; arrows:xx; info:xx; carousel:xx; text:xx; open:xx; links:xx; margin:; align:;]id: The id you were already using on [ gallery=id ] width: Width of your image container height: Height of your image container timed: true/false to slideshow your images delay: Time in miliseconds before moving to the next image transition: Animation when moving to the next image: fade, fadeslideleft, continuoushorizontal, continuousvertical, crossfade, fadebg arrows: true/false to see the arrows for next/previous images info: true/false to show the image description carousel: true/false to see all thumbnails text: Text relative to the Carousel open: true/false to show the carousel opened/closed links: true/false to click on the image and open the original image alone margin: Distance from the gallery border to the text align: Gallery alignment: left, right, center, float_left, float_rightYou can use any option above and in any order:
[smooth=id:4; arrows:true; carousel:true; links:true; width:500; height:300;]Old versions
For compatibility with old versions, you can also use:
[smooth=galleryId, width, height, timed, arrows, carousel, links][smooth=12345, 400, 400, false, true, true, true]Last but not least
It is completely free of charge, but we would appreciate if you leave a comment or write a post about it.



















1. Christian Schenk | 23 de março de 2008 às 3:54
If you just want to have a SmoothGallery you may want to try this too:
http://www.christianschenk.org/projects/wordpress-smoothgallery-plugin/
2. Alex Rabe | 23 de março de 2008 às 16:44
3. Phoinx | 28 de março de 2008 às 14:43
Praqueles que não usam WordPress como eu:
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/getting-started/
=P
Valeu pela dica!
4. Phoinx | 28 de março de 2008 às 15:35
se for usar a criação automática de miniaturas (thumbnails) - usando o resizer.php - é preciso ter a biblioteca GD (ou GD2) - responsável por tratar imagens - funcionando no teu servidor de PHP.
Eu uso o WAMP5, então foi só clicar no ícone da barra de tarefas > PHP settings > PHP extensions > php_gd2. Pronto! =P
5. Badger | 31 de março de 2008 às 13:25
6. Phoinx | 1 de abril de 2008 às 23:09
7. gidibao's Cafe Come installare la NextGEN Smooth Gallery addon | 2 de abril de 2008 às 7:38
8. Badger | 3 de abril de 2008 às 0:15
9. Phoinx | 3 de abril de 2008 às 1:31
10. Pablo DiCiacco | 3 de abril de 2008 às 4:51
11. Badger | 3 de abril de 2008 às 13:29
12. Badger | 3 de abril de 2008 às 13:30
Isso não tinha ficado claro?
13. domelhor.net | 3 de abril de 2008 às 16:50
A Wordpress Plugin that allows you to use the amazing JonDesigns Smooth Gallery on your NextGen-Gallery galleries….
14. Grant | 4 de abril de 2008 às 4:25
Excellent work!
15. Grant | 4 de abril de 2008 às 4:33
var myGallery = new gallery($(”myGallery_’.$galleryID.’”), {timed: ‘.$timed.’, showArrows: ‘.$showArrows.’, showCarousel: ‘.$showCarousel.’, embedLinks: ‘.$embedLinks.’, showInfopane: false});
I just hard coded it in for mine and it seems to work…
16. Badger | 4 de abril de 2008 às 9:55
17. NextGEN Addon at alex.rabe | 5 de abril de 2008 às 8:17
18. Bjorn | 5 de abril de 2008 às 12:08
I just get a blank frame when doing [smooth=11]
19. Bjorn | 5 de abril de 2008 às 12:49
20. Bjorn | 5 de abril de 2008 às 12:49
21. Ralf Görlitz | 6 de abril de 2008 às 5:48
22. Badger | 6 de abril de 2008 às 12:19
Ralf: My plugin just shows the images, my thumbnails were created using NextGen, so I think it’s just a case of fine tunning the settings in the admin area.
Well, in the next days I’m going to upgrade the plugin to add the suggestion of our friend Grant and to allow the use of Smooth Gallery with the Wordpress 2.5 built-in galleries.
Have a great weekend
23. Nick | 8 de abril de 2008 às 19:06
24. Phoinx | 10 de abril de 2008 às 18:14
Poxa, parabéns!! Nada como ter tempo livre, hein? =P
Abraço!
25. chris | 11 de abril de 2008 às 5:47
I cannot get it to work in Firefox 2
I get the thumbnails along the top ok and they move ok but no picture in the middle.
The NextGen slideshow works fine, just not the smooth gallery.
It works in IE7.0 ok as well - just not in Firefox
Any idea what could be the problem?
thanks
26. naires | 12 de abril de 2008 às 15:21
mas há aqui um pequeno problema… no browser Safari a galeria não funciona… no meu mac só mesmo no firefox é que funciona… ah! testei também no Camino e funciona bem.
acontece com mais alguém não funcionar no Safari?
27. Leigh Ann | 14 de abril de 2008 às 13:34
My issue is that I’m using both vertical and horizontal images and find that sizing the whole gallery to accommodate both leaves extra blank space in the gallery, which shows as the gallery background color. When I change the gallery background color to match the page background color, this is not noticeable at all and it looks very nice. but I’m not sure how to do that within the Smooth Nextgen Gallery.
28. Angelo | 16 de abril de 2008 às 3:25
29. Noesje | 18 de abril de 2008 às 12:17
30. dinakar | 25 de abril de 2008 às 8:31
I have added the plugin NexGen gallery and then added the add on Smooth Gallery for it. I have created the gallery by specying [smooth=7, 400, 400, false, true, false, true]in my post. Am able to get the pictures on my post. But there is one problem. Instead of getting the full image in that 400×400 frame, am getting only some part of the entire image.(as my images are 1600*1200). But i want the entire image to be shown in that 400*400 frame. How can i get this done
Regards
Dinakar
31. Christian Schenk | 27 de abril de 2008 às 4:37
what about resizing the large pictures to 400×400 pixels with some image manipulation program; I’m using the GIMP for this. Although I don’t know whether NextGen generates thumbnails for your pictures, I think that you’ll get good results by resizing them yourself.
32. dinakar | 28 de abril de 2008 às 14:49
Thanks for the reply.
I actually don’t want to resize the images. I want the entire image to be displayed in 400*400 frame and when users click the image, they should get the complete image. This is what is precisely done in the example provided in the below page. http://www.christianschenk.org/projects/wordpress-smoothgallery-plugin/
Please let me know how can i accomplish this.
Thanks again for the reply
Regards
dinakar
33. dinakar | 28 de abril de 2008 às 16:39
I got this done!!
I created 400*400 thumbnails and used these thumbnails as source images on the pages. And when users click these 400*400 images they’ll be shown the full size image in a new page.
Thanks for this site.
34. brian | 29 de abril de 2008 às 17:31
if not do you have any suggestions?
thank you
brian
35. skyle | 2 de maio de 2008 às 13:25
I was wondering where the Infopane information goes since it doesn’t show up in Nextgen Smoothgallery plugin like it does in the straight Smoothgallery plugin?
See thetwo examples here: http://www.fullscalearchitecture.com/wordpress/?page_id=9
36. Brian Tillman | 4 de maio de 2008 às 22:27
Works great!
One question, Similar to Leigh Ann, I’m looking to change the background color for pictures that are narrower than the window (IE Portraits) I’ve got whitespace two the left and right. I’ve been goofing with any and every config file in the packages, but can’t find the magic variable to change the white to black…
See http://briantillman.com/blog/vacations/puerto-penasco-march-2008/ as an example.
Thanks Much,
Brian
37. Diwaker | 5 de maio de 2008 às 3:19
38. Carlos | 8 de maio de 2008 às 20:56
39. Dogan | 10 de maio de 2008 às 12:27
And is there a way to get it work, without disabling any other plugin ?
40. Dogan | 10 de maio de 2008 às 12:34
41. Dogan | 10 de maio de 2008 às 12:57
42. Andy | 10 de maio de 2008 às 21:46
Can anyone tell me how to turn off the info pane as well as change the border color?
I tried Grant’s suggestion above, but I don’t know enough about php to make it work.
Thanks!
43. Andy | 10 de maio de 2008 às 21:55
I also can’t get it to come up in Internet Expolorer. Works fine in Firefox and Safari. Anyone have any suggestions?
44. MaLkAV | 13 de maio de 2008 às 0:33
45. STORMizer | 31 de maio de 2008 às 14:46
The tags or code to change colors is at jd.gallery.css (.\SmoothGallery\scritps\)
I managed to change the background color from black to white and the text to grey (basically, I tried to inverse the dark so it matched the white background of the site i was working on. There is a tag to play with the opacity of the “carrousel” too in there. Sweet.
Anyway, if anyone has found out the easy way to make the image open in lightbox (or sort of) please share. I am not any good in this scripting (that change color was a rather by accident or brute force), so any “simple” recomendation will be appreciated. Basically the plugin (when clicked) will open the full-picture in a new window, what i had in mind is for it to open in a lightbox sort of interface.
Thx!
46. joyce lukaczer | 1 de junho de 2008 às 15:41
thanks.
– joyce
47. joyce lukaczer | 1 de junho de 2008 às 21:03
– joyce
48. Alte plugin-uri ca extensii pentru NextGEN Gallery | CNET.ro | 2 de junho de 2008 às 17:05
49. Badger | 3 de junho de 2008 às 17:14
See ya
50. Phoinx | 3 de junho de 2008 às 20:17
51. Rene | 4 de junho de 2008 às 10:43
Your time and work is definitely appreciated — its people like you that make everything possible with wordpress!
52. Gilliard | 4 de junho de 2008 às 14:39
53. Gilliard | 5 de junho de 2008 às 16:54
Obrigado novamente.
54. efrain | 10 de junho de 2008 às 17:06
I see the photos shifted down.
55. efrain | 10 de junho de 2008 às 17:24
:: efrain
56. UtBill | 19 de junho de 2008 às 0:45
THanks,
Bill
57. UtBill | 19 de junho de 2008 às 1:31
58. UtBill | 19 de junho de 2008 às 1:31
59. UtBill | 19 de junho de 2008 às 3:08
60. TDDewey.com » Smooth Gallery | 26 de junho de 2008 às 15:39
61. Badger | 3 de julho de 2008 às 20:13
Enjoy
62. Plugin para Wordpress - Nextgen Smooth Gallery | 5 de julho de 2008 às 4:08
63. joyce lukaczer | 6 de julho de 2008 às 19:17
think the plug-in is fabulous however the safari (mac & pc versions) issue of the thumbnail carousel not sliding up and out-of-sight when the label tab is clicked (instead dropping down about 10px) remains. in addition, again only in safari, the info / description is not visible when activated in the nextgen smooth admin.
would really appreciate any help you can offer.
thanks.
– joyce
ps. again this is wordpress 2.5.1, no other plugins activated, have tried several themes, two different installations and two different servers with the same result.
64. Badger | 9 de julho de 2008 às 7:50
I will definitely take a look on this, but I am busy for some days.
Next week I should have this solved.
Thanks for all the info on the problem =)
Bruno
65. joyce lukaczer | 9 de julho de 2008 às 20:42
the other thing i wanted to mention (don’t know that it would have an effect but …) is that i’m working on a mac (10.4.11) & firefox 3.0 … AND i am sure that when i first updated the plugin (once using auto-update, and once deleting the old version and installing the updated plug-in manually) the carousel did slide UP and the description display for the first few tweaks to the plugin admin panel settings. however once it stopped sliding up / description displaying, even deleting the gallery and the plugin and reinstalling did not resolve issue/s.
again, thanks for looking at this …
– joyce
66. Fari | 11 de julho de 2008 às 1:37
I downloaded your plug-in and it works great on posts/pages using the [smooth=id:2;] shortcode. However, my homepage file is in php (home.php) and the shortcode doesnt seem to work there. My home page is located at itd.relc.org.sg/wordpress
What is the correct format if I wish to add into a php file so that I will see the gallery in my homepage? Forgive, I am a totally newbie on coding.
Thank you!
FARI
67. Paradox | 16 de julho de 2008 às 23:24
68. Jamison Wiggins | 18 de julho de 2008 às 19:06
I noticed that in the original smooth gallery the titles in the info box are individualized to the photo, however in your plugin it shows the Gallery name instead of the Photo title. Any suggestions as to how to change that?
Thanks,
Jamison
69. Jamison Wiggins | 18 de julho de 2008 às 19:18
70. Philix | 23 de julho de 2008 às 11:40
71. Pablo DiCiacco | 27 de julho de 2008 às 7:26
72. Badger | 2 de agosto de 2008 às 9:36
great idea. I’ll try to add lightbox for the next release =)
73. funtoosh | 2 de agosto de 2008 às 13:26
What should i do..Please help me!!!
you can see it here:-> http://funadda.co.cc/funblog/2008/07/welcome-to-funadda/
74. Badger | 2 de agosto de 2008 às 16:56
I could not see where the NextGen Smooth Gallery blank box is. Plus, in your source code I can see that the JS code is called twice. Take a look at your theme and fix this first.
75. KM | 4 de agosto de 2008 às 8:32
I only wish it had some album functions included. At this point it is only a gallery viewer, which works quite well.
Personally, I love nextgen gallery however, I really dislike the album page.
For example, I’d like to use this program to compile a gallery of a sample picture (one picture from each of my galleries). When clicking on the picture, it would open up the designated gallery.
The benefits of this would be great. One, the album page would better match the gallery pages. And two, it would greatly reduce and clean up the space on the album page.
Is this something I could do on my own? If so, how would I do this?
I realize that the plugin is for a gallery, so I don’t expect this idea to be incorporated. However, I thought it might be a useful idea that may be implemented at a later time.
Keep up the good work.
76. joyce lukaczer | 5 de agosto de 2008 às 4:59
did you get a chance to look at the safari issue (mac os and windows) that has me stumped on the http://archibaldglass.com site?
thanks much for any assistance you can provide …
– joyce
77. Badger | 5 de agosto de 2008 às 13:59
By the way, great use of smooth gallery on your site =)
I guess I will add a ‘Live examples from users’ on this page and ask users to comment their works so I can have a list of them. (When I have some time)
Bruno
78. Effendi | 12 de agosto de 2008 às 13:35
the smooth gallery is not working well..
what is the problem ? thanks for the answer
http://liteforward.com/?p=498
79. Dreyer | 13 de agosto de 2008 às 15:22
And it even works well on my localhost installation. But when I try to install it online (after installing NextGen Gallery) it says “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in D:\web\the_path_to_wp\wp-content\plugins\nextgen-smooth-gallery\nggSmooth.php on line 521″. Interestingly that’s the last line containing ?>
I’m using Wordpress 2.6, NextGen Gallery 0.98 and NGSmooth 1.1. I think the PHP version is 4.xx, but I’m not sure.
The only other plugins activated are NextGen Gallery and Lighter Menus. The WP-installation is fresh and clean.
What’s wrong here? Help is very appreciated!
Greetings,
Dreyer
80. Dreyer | 13 de agosto de 2008 às 15:29
81. Dreyer | 13 de agosto de 2008 às 16:00
Server : Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) PHP/5.2.1
MYSQL Version : 5.1.22-rc-community
PHP Safe Mode : Off
82. joyce lukaczer | 21 de agosto de 2008 às 13:30
– joyce
83. Diwaker | 28 de agosto de 2008 às 20:07
84. Diwaker | 28 de agosto de 2008 às 20:22
85. George | 30 de agosto de 2008 às 14:05
86. Ashiado | 31 de agosto de 2008 às 2:38
FYI, re: George’s comment above, I have tested Smooth in both 2.6 and 2.6.1 and on my end it works fine in both Firefox/Mac and Safari/Mac — only, however, if i have the iFrames option checked.
Please keep updating this plugin! It is very appreciated!
87. George | 31 de agosto de 2008 às 7:52
88. Ashiado | 6 de setembro de 2008 às 14:34
89. Ashiado | 6 de setembro de 2008 às 15:53
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=3138#p3138
This is an optional setting within scripts/jd.gallery.js, BUT on my end at least, changing “fade” to “crossfade” does not make any difference at all. Has anybody else been able to solve this???
Thanks in advance…
90. Vincent | 8 de setembro de 2008 às 1:58
91. Stacey | 9 de setembro de 2008 às 11:33
Just wondering if you would know how to change it so when I have a NextGen album (thumbnails) that when you click on this, the smooth gallery opens in a new page instead of the standard NextGen gallery?
92. Rogério Mello | 9 de setembro de 2008 às 13:20
É brasileiro? Legal ver um plugin desenvolvido por alguém de língua portuguesa.
Gostaria de saber se você conseguiria adicionar uma opção do carrossel vir separado, como explica o criador do plugin original (sem integração com o nextgen) neste post:
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=203
Eu tentei fazer, mas não manjo tanto assim… acabou não funcionando.
De qq jeito, parabéns pelo plugin… 8^)
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Hey all,
Could someone try to adapt this plugin (or give the instructions) to have an option of a separated carousel, like described by the original plugin creator on the link bellow?
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=203%20(http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=203
I’ve tried, but as I’m not that good in php, it didn’t work.
Thx… 8^)
93. Andy | 10 de setembro de 2008 às 11:01
Thanks!
Andy
94. Enzo | 12 de setembro de 2008 às 12:24
I think too that adding albun features to smoothgallery-nextgen would make it a brilliant photoblog replacement to integrate in our exiting sites.
95. Marilyn | 19 de setembro de 2008 às 19:10
96. cts | 25 de setembro de 2008 às 12:31
It seems like i’ve done everything correctly, but the carousel feature doesn’t work. In the plugin settings gallery preview works fine though.
But on the page i see just a photo with a carousel navigation with “Loading…” on it and when I’m pointing my mouse to the sides of the carousel nothing happens. Tried on Firefox 3, latest build of Opera, and now on IE(Vista 64bit version) - in IE i don’t see nothing at all, just a black square instead of gallery)
Maybe there is some sort of solution or suggestion? Thank you!
97. Will Donovan | 28 de setembro de 2008 às 1:08
Go to my site and contact me via the contact form if you are interested - http://williamcurtisdonovan.com - I’d leave my e-mail but i don’t really feel like being spammed all to hell this week.
98. nico | 30 de setembro de 2008 às 9:48
Everything works fine on all browsers except on ie7 –> loading bar stays, carousel works up and down with thumbnails just fine, but no images shows up. Weird.
Fixed a bug in jd.gallery.js (line 520 –> type warning in ie7) but it didn’t solve my problem.
Thank you for the help and this nice plugin.
CU@+n