Jerry Likes the NextGen Gallery Sweet Suite
Jerome Lieblng is a man amoung photographers. But I doubt that he has much to tell us about photo galleries. So you should listen up. These are the steps for making a photo gallery using the NextGen plugin. A gallery of photos can be displayed on a web post or page as a group of thumbnails that when clicked, a lightbox slide show begins. Access the the NextGen settings are through the Galley tab at the top of the dashboard after the Comments tab.
1. Edit photos series in Photoshop.
2. Log into WP. !Important! GO TO DASHBOARD>GALLERY first.
3. Add New Gallery. Then Upload Images to the new gallery.
4. THEN from the WP dashboard, start a new page or post.
5. The method that works for me is this: For a gallery of photos, click on the stacked photos icon below the words Add media above. This will open a small window titled NextGen Gallery.
6. Using the form arrow in the Gallery tab, select the gallery you just created in step 3.
7. Check the box for Image List and click the Insert button.
8. You will get a markup like this one below (if you are looking in the Edit/Manage Post view) which places the gallery thumbnails here in the post:
9. Use the settings in the Dashboard menu Gallery > Options and other tabs to make changes to the photo galley. There are a lot of options and settings. It will take time to figure it all out.
10. Be sure to have the Thickbox option checked on the Gallery>Options>Effects page. This make the overlay slideshow.
11. You can do captions and titles at Gallery > Manage Gallery.
Or to do a single image:
Jerome caption