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Jerry Likes the NextGen Gallery Sweet Suite

werner — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:21:02 +0000

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

VANITAS: a Lumpen Expression

werner — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:34:46 +0000

This is a series of photos the LUMPEN lads whipped out in 45 seconds on a cold day in a hot room.

I Remember SoDak

werner — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:57:07 +0000

This is a photo I took many, many years ago. Look at how young the Smitters looks. Damn! Now he looks as old as Emily does here. And days go by when he doesn’t get out of his pajamas, so they tell me. Wait, I do know when this was taken because this would be from the Lumpen Pieta Series (unpublished), taken in the Fall of 1998. Shit that is only ten years ago. Nick was eleven. Clinton was POTUS. I think this was my first drop shadow. We stopped in Aberdeen, at the end of our sojourn On the Road.

Ken holds Emily holds Pieta

No Chutney this Year

werner — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:20:50 +0000

It wouldn’t be Vernon Street, the street that the rest of the world wants to live on, if we didn’t do some canning every Fall. My Chutney is famous. Too famous.

When the hockey sticks come out, family and friends for coast to coast put in their requests for Werner’s famous Chutney. But tastes change and sleeping dogs lie. This was the year for Peppers. Gotta go, I think the Helpers have arrived.

Now that that is done (and I have made this note in my “diary”), I am going to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich, have a Sapporo beer and read that article Moon Baby gave about the mighty Pike. Ice fishing and canned peppers, mmmmmmm–I can’t believe that I am telling you about my inner life.

September in Cross Lake

werner — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:19:23 +0000

this is not the Glasstron

Today Moon Baby and I put on our favorite Prairie Home Companion tapes and headed North for that time honored Minnesota tradition: putting away the boat. Well, first we will take the Glasstron out for one last spin stopping to have a beer with our neighbors of course. If the Arlowes are not at home, then I am think we should detour to The Moonlight bay Grill. They make a decent Manhattan and an excellent Sidecar. Vera is particularly fond of their Sidecar and it surprises me because she would seem to me to be more of a Mojito mama, being from south of the border and all. But I digress.

We had a wonderful summer this year. I only wish I could have spent more time with all of my family and friends here. But not everybody is as wonderful as Craig. That little whipper snapper. Gosh, I hope he grows up to be an engineer like his Uncle Werns.

Hello world!

werner — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:26:32 +0000