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NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

A widget to show NextGEN galleries in your sidebar.

By maff·Image·Free
5(2 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 14 years ago
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As of April 2026, NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget is a WordPress image plugin with 600 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 108K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.

5/52 reviews
600active installs
108K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009

Overview

The NextGEN widgets only allow showing of single images, I needed a solution to show links to galleries, so I wrote this widget. You can specify the following parameters:

  • Maximum Galleries: the number of galleries you want to show
  • Gallery Order: you can select random, date added ascending or date added descending
  • Gallery Thumbnail: which image should be taken as thumbail in the sidebar (preview set in NGG, first or random image)
  • AutoThumb parameters: if you got AutoThumb installed, the widget will use its functions to resize the image to your needs. Use a string like w=80&h=80&zc=1 here to show 80×80 square thumbnails.
  • Output width/height: if you don’t use AutoThumb, the plugin will set the HTML attributes width & height.
  • Default Link Id: the widget assumes that yo…
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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
5 ★
2
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

  • 0.4: Add include_galleries option
  • 0.3.3.1: Fix bug on widget no displaying galleries when no exclusions are set (bug #59, #60)
  • 0.3.3: Fix wrong maximum galleries (bug #58)
  • 0.3.2: Image output width fix in template, Cleanup
  • 0.3.1: Gallery limit bugfix
  • 0.3: WordPress 2.8+ widget API, gallery exclusion option, templating feature
  • 0.2.2: Add gallery_thumbnail option to select thumbnail image (preview, first, random)
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

maffmaff
Plugin Info
Version
0.4.3
Last Updated
Feb 6, 2012
WP Requires
2.8+
Tested Up To
3.3.2
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
600
Downloads
108K+
Added
Apr 18, 2009
Business
Free

Tags

imagephotogallerypicturewidgets

Developer

M
maff
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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