Mar 11 2009
NextGen: Config Suggestions for WordPress MU
I’ve had great luck using NextGEN Gallery in my WordPress MU pilot install at work, but we have run into a few MU-specific hiccups with the flash file uploader and the location of the file image rotater. This led me to suggest some site-wide configuration options for the plugin in the WordPress support forums:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/251863?replies=1
Here’s what I suggested:
The Default Image Rotator location
The plugin attempts to guess the default location for the imagerotator.swf file based on the assumption that the plugin is installed as part of a standard WordPress installation. This makes the path something like:
http://www.example.com/username/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf
Unfortunately, in a WordPress MU install, the plugin is not located in the user’s directory; instead it’s in the main plugins directory. e.g.:
http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf
It’d be great to have a global option that allows me to specify what the default path should be for all of the NextGEN galleries on the WordPress MU install.
Global “Disable Flash Uploader” option
The Flash uploader has been problematic on and off for a while. While 2.7 got it working on non-secure sites, there’s a known issue with Flash and https that prevents it from working in sites secured with https.
NextGEN allows users to disable the Flash uploader on a per-site basis, which is helpful, but I’d love a global option that would allow me to disable the Flash uploader site-wide.
If these options sound helpful to you, please drop by the forums and add your voice to the conversation.
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Actually you can place the imagerotator.swf, the corresponding xml and photo file anywhere on site. If you have access to FTP it will be is will be simplier. Unfortunately I cannot type here the snippets/code since it contain links that will be rejected by your anti-spam software. So, you just view source of http://www.ambalong.com to see what I mean. The image rotator is inserted on the header (top right) of the site.