WordPress, pictures and galleries

The content management system WordPress has a built in feature, that can handle pictures. However, this is not a well working feature. Fortunately, WordPress supports the use of plugins, which are extensions for WordPress. You can find many different plugins for WordPress on the homepage of WordPress.

NextGEN Gallery handles pictures much better. It is easy to create a new gallery, upload one or more pictures into it – and then insert a picture from the gallery or the complete gallery into a post. The way, that NextGEN Gallery displays pictures is neat, smooth and fast. It supports full screen.

This procedure will install NextGEN Gallery.

cd wp-content/plugins
ftp http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nextgen-gallery.zip
unzip nextgen-gallery.zip
rm nextgen-gallery.zip

Open the website. Click “Log in” or “Site Admin”. Click “Plugins”. Find “NextGEN Gallery”. Click “Activate”.

The plugin is now installed and it is ready to use.

Click “Gallery”. Click “Upload pictures”. Set the value of “New Gallery” to the title of your new gallery, such as “2009-04-16 The Queen and Chris-Craft”. Click “Add gallery”. Click “Upload Images”. Click “Browse…”. Select file with MouseLeft. Select more files with Ctrl and MouseLeft. Click “OK”. Set the value of “in to” to the new gallery. Click “Upload images”.

If you want to insert  gallery when adding or editing a post, then click the “Add NextGEN Gallery” button. Set the value of “Select gallery” to the new gallery. Click “Insert”.

If you want to insert a picture from one of the galleries, then click the “Add NextGEN Gallery” button. Click “Picture”. Set the value of “Select picture” to the picture. Set the value of “Float” to either “Left”, “Center” or “Right”. Click “Insert”.