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The Harriman Team of Wallingford, CT
Besides branding themselves with a watermarks on pictures they never took, your local MLS is probably resizing the images you upload to accompany your listing, messing them up in the process or at least greatly affecting the quality of your pictures. Fortunately many agents today have their own website and at least one place where they have control how the photos will appear.
If you are operating a WordPress powered website, you might want to take a closer look at NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin by Alex Rabe. This plugin has already been integrated into variety of WordPress themes and even other plugins. There is a learning curve in in figuring out how to use this plugin effectively. But it is well worth the trouble.
Possible Problems With Installing and Configuring NextGEN Plugin.
Not sure if any one else experienced the similar problems, but when I attempted to install NextGEN plugin uploading it via FTP client, it would never work properly. I believe it may had something to do with file permissions (CHMOD) configuration of the particular files withing the plugin folder. Apparently my FTP client messes them up. If you come across the same problem, consider installing the plugin through the user interface of your WordPress (presuming your are using WordPress 2.7 or later). Installing the pluging through the WordPress interface fixed my issue and as you can see in the upper left corner of this post, NexGEN plugin is working well.
The NextGEN also requires JW Image Rotator – an important component for the sideshow function of the plugin. You should follow carefully the instructions on how to tell NextGEN plugin where to find JW Image Rotator- another problem I ran into trying to configure the NextGEN plugin properly.
Have you used this plugin? What do you think about it?
Vlad, I used it on my Auto Trends blog although I must admit I haven’t updated it in awhile, therefore it may not always load properly. Regardless, it is one of the niftiest tools you can use to give your blog a professional look, one that few others seem to be using.
Matt,
I think one of the reasons that webmasters shy away from this plugin is of it’s complexity. You really need to spend time to truly get to know it.
There is however another plugin, a less complicated one http://thomas.stachl.me/plugins/wordpress-gallery-slideshow/ – this one uses the WordPress’ native media setup yet it integrates JW Image Rotator- give that a try you might like it. For me it did not work. I need it more flexibility therefore I went with NextGEN.
As always, pleasure to see you around.
I’m not sure what was the point of telling the world what gave you trouble when you began using Next-gen without providing any information about how to overcome those troubles.
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