NextGEN Gallery is the most popular image gallery management plugin for wordpress. Thanks to the author Alex Rabe for creating this wonderful plugin, I pretty much use it on all wordpress websites I create.

Only complain about this plug-in is lack for good documentation but from a free plug-in I can’t expect more. I have created this page to share my knowledge about the usage of this plugin and share with the community.

List of Short Codes for NextGEN Gallery

Short codes are the piece of text which you add along with you text on your blog post or sidebars. Short codes can also be added inside the theme templates.

For a slideshow :[ slideshow id=x w=width h=height ]
For a album : [ album id=x template=extend] or [ album id=x template=compact ]
For a gallery : [  nggallery id=x ]
For a single picture : [ singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right ]
For a image browser : [ imagebrowse r id=x ]
To show image sorted by tags :[ nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,...  ]
To show tag albums : [ nggtags album=mytag,wordpress,...  ]

Create Special Effects using Short Codes  in the template files

Short codes can be called from any theme template files, using  do_shortcode template tag   from the template files. Here are some examples

<?php echo do_shortcode(’[ slideshow id=2 ]); ?>

You can use this technique to create special flash headers with rotating images or create a showcase effect like here www.StyleHaute.com

Display Gallery view

http://nextgen-gallery.com/templates/galleryview/

[ nggallery id=1 template=galleryview images=0 ]

Useful Links for NextGEN Gallery

http://nextgen-gallery.com/custom-fields/

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/294912

http://dpotter.net/Technical/2008/05/nextgen-gallery-review-displaying-images/

http://www.visser.com.au/blog/list-of-wordpress-plugins-addons-for-nextgen-gallery/

http://speckyboy.com/2008/10/23/10-powerful-shoppingecommerce-plugin-solutions-for-wordpress/

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-decorative-gallery/