JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel vs NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

The ‘JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel’ allows you to create a ‘JCarousel’ (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/) as a widget or as a shortcode. This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin for its images. Requirements: NextGen Gallery Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) NextGen Gallery Integration: This plugin uses the original width and height of the image uploaded so make sure the images are the correct dimensions when uploaded. If a width and height are defined under the configuration all images will be resized to those dimensions (Highly recommended). Alt & Title Text Field: Provide a full url here and the image will link to this. Only works if alt field starts with either of these; /, http, or ftp. Description Field: Will be used as image alt text. If alt text is present but not a valid url alt text will be used instead for image alt text. You can specify the following parameters: NOTE: sc means shortcode: Title: Title. Leave blank for no title. (sc: title=”My Carousel”) Gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (sc: gallery=”galleryid”) Order: Order to display results in. You can choose; Random, Latest First, Oldest First, or NextGen Sortorder. Random will still work when a page is cached. (sc: order=”random”|”asc”|”desc”|”sortorder”) Shuffle: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (sc: shuffle=”true”|”false”) Max pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to use. (sc: max_pictures=”6″) HTML id: HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘jcarousel’. Needs to be different for multiple instances on same page. (sc: html_id=”jcarousel”) Skin class: Class of skinning to use. Defaults to use the tango skin. (sc: skin_class=”jcarousel-skin-tango”) Image width: Width of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: width=”200″) Image height: Height of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: height=”150″) Image gap: Gap between images. (sc: gap=”5″) JCarousel settings: Please check the JCarousel home page for more details (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/#Configuration). vertical: Specifies wether the carousel appears in horizontal or vertical orientation. Changes the carousel from a left/right style to a up/down style carousel. (sc: vertical=”setting”) rtl: Specifies whether the carousel appears in RTL (Right-To-Left) mode. (sc: rtl=”setting”) start: The index of the item to start with. (sc: start=”setting”) offset: The index of the first available item at initialisation. (sc: offset=”setting”) size: Size of existing elements if size is not passed explicitly uses the number of total items. (sc: size=”setting”) scroll: The number of items to scroll by. (sc: scroll=”setting”) visible: If passed, the width/height of the items will be calculated and set depending on the width/height of the clipping, so that exactly that number of items will be visible. (sc: visible=”setting”) animation: The speed of the scroll animation as string in jQuery terms (“slow” or “fast”) or milliseconds as integer (See jQuery Documentation). If set to 0, animation is turned off. (sc: animation=”setting”) easing: The name of the easing effect that you want to use (See jQuery Documentation). (sc: easing=”setting”) auto: Specifies how many seconds to periodically autoscroll the content. If set to 0 (default) then autoscrolling is turned off. (sc: auto=”setting”) wrap: Specifies whether to wrap at the first/last item (or both) and jump back to the start/end. Options are “first”, “last”, “both” or “circular” as string. If set to null, wrapping is turned off (default). (sc: wrap=”setting”) Shortcode Examples: [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″] [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel title=”Hello” html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″ vertical=”true”] [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”2″ width=”150″ height=”100″ visible=”2″ scroll=”1″ auto=”3″] Try out my other plugins: JJ NextGen JQuery Slider (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-slider/) JJ NextGen JQuery Cycle (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-cycle/) JJ NextGen Unload (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-unload/) JJ NextGen Image List (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-image-list/) JJ SwfObject (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-swfobject/) Contributors

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: Beginning with version 0.3, you have full control over the widget’s output as it is controlled with templates. As the built-in templates would get overwritten on every plugin update, create a new directory called “ngg-sidebar-widget” in your theme’s directory and copy the two template files “tpl.outer.html” and “tpl.inner.html” over there to edit them. The outer template is just a wrapper template (useful when you need some additional markup, e.g. when creating a list), the inner template has access to all the values from the gallery and image object (written in a simple templating syntax: {=object.member}). For the most use cases you should only need “gallery.title”, “gallery.link” and “image.url”. 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