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wordpress plugin nextgen gallery review

we written wordpress plugin nextgen gallery review. NextGEN Gallery most downloaded gallery plugin which makes us to organize your images and galleries.

NextGEN Gallery is a most downloaded wordpress gallery plugin which makes us to manage and organize your images and galleries. There are many wordpress gallery and sideshow plugins but nextgen gallery is most used and popular in wordpress world. In every second website we need to show the gallery or sideshow. For showing gallery or sideshow, Nextgen gallery is quickest and simple solution. Every wp designers and developers first choice for gallery or sideshow is Nextgen gallery plugin.

wordpress plugin nextgen gallery review

NextGEN Gallery

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wordpress plugin nextgen gallery review

NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, and one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time, with over 7.5 million downloads.

It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (sideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.

Review:

Pros:

  • Very easy to install in wordpress and using Nextgen gallery is simple.
  • Simple and easy gallery management tools – It has simple image upload and gallery creation interface.
  • It works with custom post type very smoothly
  • Support of short codes so you can easily integrate anywhere in wp site
  • Easily create sideshow through NextGen gallery
  • Many types of effects and JS support using multiple plugins
  • There are many wordpress plugins which can adds effects to gallery or sideshow.
  • If you are wordpress developer then you can easily customize the plugin and add the new effect.
  • We can use Lightbox Plus, FancyBox and Lightbox-type wordpress plugins for gallery and sideshow.

Drawbacks:

  • We cannot include videos in gallery or youtube video in gallery
  • After upgrade of Nextgen gallery you must need to take backup of whole system because many times it will broke your website.
  • WordPress new version release issue – After new wordpress release, there is no guarantee to it will work in Nextgen gallery.
  • It consumes too much processor and so many database queries are fired on server.
  • Poor logic programming, poor user interface, slow user interface, lot’s of queries are just some of the many bugs and bad design of application
  • Performance is low it there are too many requests
  • No caching support.
  • No SEO support

Comments:

If you have high traffic website then do not use the nextgen gallery plugin. If you have low traffic or any organization website then you should go for Nextgen gallery plugin.

There are so many supported plugins for Nextgen gallery, so you can add multiple effects using this plugin.

I used Next Gen gallery plugin for many of my sites. But there is always issue with up-gradation.

But SEO wise this plugin is not so nice.

Solution to develop wordpress theme with minimal impact

Many wordpress theme developer use following method for developing the wordpress theme. we given Solution to develop wordpress theme with minimal impact and with minimum coding effort.

  1. Copy the wordpress base theme (like twentytwelve in wordpress 3.5)
  2. Rename the folder and converted index.html of my HTML to index.php for wordpress theme.
  3. Replace style.css with  current theme style.css.

Solution to develop wordpress theme with minimal impact

This easy way to creating the new theme or you can use the frameworks like as follows:

http://digcms.com/wordpress-themes/apticus/

At the very minimum, a WordPress Theme consists of two files:

  • style.css
  • index.php

Here are some resources for faster theme development

  1. WordPress frameworks and parent themes
  2. framework for plugin/theme options panel
  3. Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file
  4. Best collection of code for your .htaccess file

As per My suggestion, If there is custom design then do not copy base theme. Just create first two files with your index and style css file.

index.php and style.css file. In top of your style.css file just add following code.


/*
Theme Name: YOURTHEME NAME
Theme URI: YOUR THEME URL
Author: AUTHOR NAME
Author URI: THEME URL -(OPTIONAL)

*/

If you use above method then your work will be reduced.

minimal-impact-wordpress-theme-develop a wordpress theme
minimal-impact-wordpress-theme-develop a wordpress theme

how to create a motion blur effect to text in photoshop

In this photoshop tutorial we will show, how to create a motion blur effect to text in photoshop. we given simple steps with screenshot and their detail.

how to create a motion blur effect to text in photoshop

Select a text write on workspace “motion blur”

how to create a motion blur effect to text in photoshop
how to create a motion blur effect to text in photoshop

Scale this shape by selecting edit >> transform >> scale &

Go to layer >> select type >> & select type

Now you can modify text

Now select filter >>  >> select distort

You can select any angle & distance I select this

It will look like this

I made some duplicate layer so can I design it

Now select layer >> duplicate layer

Give it name art_1

Put layer like this


You can also made like this

how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop

In this tutorial we show, how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop. we given the step by step with their screen shot and with their explanation.

Step1. Open photoshop first and or choose the 400×400 image and write the text what ever you want.

how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop

Here I written the diffuse, Select a text write on workspace “diffuse”

how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop
how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop

Scale this shape by selecting edit >> transform >> scale &

Go to layer >> select type >> & select type

Now you can modify text

Now select filter >>  >> select distort

It will look like this

In diffuse filter having more option

Normal, darken only, lighten only & anisotropic

It will give different type of effect of our text

Now select layer >> duplicate layer

Give it name art_1

It will helpful you to give a name to each layer

Now make some more duplicate layers

how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop
how to create diffuse effect to text in photoshop

I made some different diffuse filter it will look like this