NextGEN Gallery

What NextGEN content can I present with Justified Image Grid?

JIG supports all core aspects of NextGEN Gallery, like showing albums, galleries, tags... but offers more! Such as better performance, integrated NextGEN search and breadcrumbs for albums. This is an index page for the NextGEN source.

Justified Image Grid can automatically take over existing or newly added NextGEN Gallery instances. "Set it and forget it": continue creating galleries like you used to, they'll be shown with Justified Image Grid. When have a well-established site you can 1-click transform all NextGEN content to the JIG look. No commitments or changes to your pages, go back anytime. It's unlikely that you'd change your mind. Ultimately, this results in a gallery that not only looks good but is also managed better than what WordPress is capable of.

No! One could argue that it was better before it was acquired by Photocrati Media. Many still use a build from the era of version 1. With all the headaches aside, it's still one of the best plugins to manage an album-gallery relationship. The ability to tag and caption the photos and to easily add multiple images to the gallery is very important. Only the looks are not what you'd expect. The developers are trying hard to come up with new interesting layouts - at a 2-3x cost, recurring yearly. You need to decide how you get a better value for your money. Many find that Justified Image Grid is the jewel in the crown when it comes to displaying images.

• Display title, description and keywords (tags) on the thumbnails and in the lightbox.
• Breadcrumbs for albums.
• Create galleries based on search query.
• Automatic albums based on tags.
• Better performance with less queries to the database.
• Custom links with the help of the free NGG CF plugin.
• Intersect tags ("AND" relationship for your given tags for tag galleries).
• Opening galleries in a lightbox instead of on a separate page (when looking at the contents of an album).
• Further narrow the gallery by extra tags, for examaple show a woman and a man album but only include wedding photos.
• Showing album or gallery descriptions.
• Sort album contents besides the drag and drop.
• Costs less than NextGEN plus / pro.

Tell me more about using NextGEN content!

These are offered in general and are not limited to a specific usage of NextGEN Gallery.

Already have a portfolio? Striving for a design change? Afraid of re-doing everything? Instead of getting stuck, let JIG handle it.

• NextGEN 2 post inserts that appear as galleries in the editor (how you currently insert NextGEN content).
• The /ngg_tag taxonomy page that is opened by WordPress tag cloud widget.

• [$ngg_images] - Multipurpose shortcode since NextGEN 2.
• [$nggallery] - Galleries.
• [$nggalbum] - Albums.
• [$album] - The other shortcode for albums.
• [$nggtags] - Tag albums and tag galleries.
• [$random] - Random images.
• [$recent] - Recent images.
• [$singlepic] - Single pictures.

• Prevent loading usually unnecessary NextGEN files/assets from the front-end.
• Compatibility with NextGEN Custom Fields to have custom links on any NextGEN photo. Set the name of the field to use for links.
• Justified Image Grid works with both old and new NextGEN, it's not dependant on their code just the database.