After a long time of no updates I have a first beta available for testing purposes. Depending on the feedback I receive, there will maybe be another 2-3 beta releases until the final version 1.4. As far as I am aware version 1.3 works well with WordPress 2.8 and the latest NextGEN Gallery, so there is no need to rush this release.
There are quite a few new features available. Some aren’t fully functional yet, but that shouldn’t interfere with the normal operation of the plugin. Here’s a short list of new features:
- Settings can now be overridden through custom fields (This doesn’t work for some settings yet!)
- Any viewer can now be set as default NGG slideshow
- 8 new album templates for use in themes (situated in folder /view)
- Notification about new versions
- Color Picker for the backend
- New shortcodes:
[fv-tags gallery="" width="" height="" viewer="" link="" title=""] [fv-thumb id="" width="" height="" viewer="" link="" title=""] [fv-rand max="" width="" height="" viewer="" link="" title=""] [fv-recent max="" width="" height="" viewer="" link="" title=""] [fv-album id="" width="" height="" viewer="" link="" title=""]
Features that might make it:
- Add viewer links on top of galleries, like (View with SimpleViewer). For this I will need to add a filter to NextGEN Gallery. Alex will add the changes to the next NGG version. This feature will become available depending on when this will be released.
- Some extra smaller usability stuff in the backend.
- Reply to this post and suggest a feature. I will pick one and include it!
So far there has been only some rudimentary testing and some things might not work yet as advertised, so installation on a production environment is not recommended. If you would like to test the new version and help us out a little, then you can download it here:
EDIT: Please go to this post to download the latest beta release!
Great! i’m gona test it.
do you have the code for NGG to select the gallery type within the editor button when create a new post or page.
Thanks