NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget
A widget to show NextGEN galleries in your sidebar.
5(2 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs 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=1here 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…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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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)
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