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Many people who develop WordPress websites need photo galleries and albums to show pictures, examples, and other images. While there are dozens of different WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins, there are only a few that people recommend. NextGen Gallery is one of the most popular and highly recommended of the WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins.
How to Install.
Once you are on your WordPress dashboard, scroll down to plugins, select add new. Type NextGen in the search box and then several plugins will appear. You will now press install beneath Next Gen. Then you will need to set up your new plugin.
Find the Gallery Box.
Scroll down your dashboard a bit. There you will find Gallery. Click on and it will open a drop down, you want add a gallery. Type in your new gallery’s name in the add new gallery box. Then choose upload images to upload images off your computer. When you upload images make certain you choose a gallery. If you have several images in a zip file you can choose that. Another option is import image folder if you know the server path. (Importing requires the images be some place online and accessible.)
Manage Gallery and Albums.
Manage Gallery will let you change the name of a gallery or add a description. Here you can also link the gallery to a specific page. The images in the gallery will be below. Click on them to change their name, description or tags. After manage gallery, is manage Albums. Here is where you go to create an album and add one or more galleries to it. Tags will let you add, change or delete tags you use in the photo albums.
Options.
Options gives you several options to change or create. You can change the maximum size of thumbnails and other images. You can choose the quality that of images Next Gen will set up for quality resizing. You can choose to backup images or automatically resize. You can set up features in the gallery, such as how the images display and much more. You can also add effects to how your images show. Next is the watermark, use an image or your website name or other text. You can choose the font, color and size. Finally the last option is what you want the slideshow to look like.
Other buttons.
After options is style. This requires knowing and understanding css code. If you have other users on your blog, you will want to set up roles, as to who can manage, edit or make changes to the albums. About is the credits and the final one, you do not need to mess with unless you actually want to start over, or uninstall Next Gen.
On posts and pages.
Make certain you have TinyMCE loaded. If you do you will have a button appear that looks like a little album with photos. Click this and you will be able to add images to your post. You can choose to add images, galleries, or albums, whatever you need for that blog post or page.
Previously we took a look at camera facilities present on the new Blackberry Torch 9810 and we were very impressed with the results. This time we want to look a little closer at how you view your material on this phone and also take a look at the excellent music player that is on offer.
Despite offering the very latest version of the Blackberry operating system the photo gallery has not changed since version 6.0 of the platform. This means that anybody who has used a Blackberry device before will be familiar with the grid layout of the interface. There is an option to switch this view to a list format but we feel that the grid not only looks neater but it also gives you an overview of more photographs at a single glance. The models features an accelerometer chip meaning that you photographs will automatically rotate if you turn the phone into landscape mode but we did notice a slight delay in this function. Thanks to this model being one of the very few Blackberry devices that offers a touchscreen users can make full use of features such as “pinch to zoom”. This enables you to simply draw your fingers closer together when viewing a photograph to zoom in on the image. This proves a much more precise method than the traditional double tap that is used on many older devices. If you hold your finger on a particular image you are also given further options that enable you to share the photograph. A shortcut appears that can attach the shot to an email or send it as an MMS message and there are also options for copying and renaming the photograph. Even when the phone is loaded with hundreds of snaps we found browsing through them a very speedy experience that added to the appeal of this excellent model.
The Blackberry Torch 9810 features a great music player that effectively turns your handset into a portable music player. Just like the photo gallery the player offers a simple and very easy to use interface. When you first access the player you are presented with a screen which allows you to choose how you want to view your music. You can sort your tracks by artist, genre or album or simply choose to have all songs listed in alphabetical order. Once you have selected one of these options your song titles appear in a list complete with the relevant album artwork. If you want to change the sound settings on the phone there are a number of presets available and you have the option of having the music play in the background whilst you perform another task on the device. The phone features a 3.5mm headphone jack which means that you can use headphones of your choice although there is a set supplied in the box.
The Blackberry Torch 9810 really does offer a complete multi media package. The photo gallery is both easy to use and incredibly fast whilst the music player lets you enjoy thousands of your favourite tracks in great quality.