Category Archives: wordpress

Modify Nextgen Gallery to Extract Picasa’s Caption

I use Picasa to manage my photos locally and Nextgen gallery(a wordpress plugin) as my online photo albums. And in Picasa, captions can be added to photo’s meta tags, like this: When upload to Nextgen gallery, I would like to have this caption to be added to the photo’s title and description. So I modified… Read More »

Preload Next Image in Thickbox

Thickbox is a great image viewer plugin for jQuery. This post is to show how to preload the next image in Thickbox. My example is for wordpress, my version is . 1. Open /wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.js 2. Around line 106, replace the following lines: imgPreloader = new Image(); imgPreloader.onload = function(){}; imgPreloader.onload = null; with: imgPreloader =… Read More »

Fix NextGen Gallery IPTC Encoding Error in Chinese

NextGen Gallery is a great gallery plugin for wordpress. I am using it for my blog. I found a problem that if the IPTC information is in Chinese, it cannot import properly import as meta data. After searching and searching, finally I fixed the issue by modifying the /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/meta.php file in get_IPTC function: Original code:… Read More »