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I’ve experimented with a few different gallery plugins for WordPress, so we could host our photos over here, rather than just keeping them all on Flickr.  None of them quite did what I wanted, but I’ve just found NextGEN Gallery, and I’m quite impressed so far. It’s not the simplest to get set up, but there are lots of options, and it gives you a nice simple way of adding photos from your galleries into any post.

I usually upload photos to Flickr, then insert them into posts here to tell the ‘story’ of the day, event, etc., and I still wanted to be able to do that – most other galleries made that difficult. Most others also meant uploading photos one at a time. That’s not too bad if I’ve been out and taken three or four shots, but a bit of a pain if I have ten or so. For events like the Race for Life or the Slimming World Regional Finals, it would have been unusable. I’ve uploaded the Slimming World event photos to NextGEN, and adding 191 photos was quite easy. The upload stalled twice, but each time, just clicking the ‘upload’ button again continued from where it got stuck.

I’ll probably be tweaking and playing for a while yet, but feel free to have a look around the gallery – probably nothing you haven’t seen before if you visit much, just in a different format.

Oh, and it’s also running the random slideshow at the top-right corner of every page.