NextGen Gallery drop downs

[darkmatter]

Hello! I’m building a photography site with a shop for purchasing prints of pictures in multiple sizes, etc. and I’m using the NextGen Gallery with hundreds of pictures.

How can I add a drop down or perhaps a couple with additional purchase options/variations for a particular photo that would then add the right price to my cart? Is there a different Nextgen template for this?

Thanks!

Vince

[Ivy]

Hi, You can use the variation control with the Nextgen gallery. The following post will explain how to do this more:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-variation-control-in-wordpress-estore-plugin-345

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers,

Ivy

[darkmatter]

Thank you Ivy! That’s a great resource. I have hundreds of pictures… from what I understand I would need to create hundreds of products? Can’t I just create, for example, a product called “Photo Print” and have variations such as 4×6, 5×7, 8×10, etc. all with different prices and then apply that to a picture in NextGen?

Otherwise this could be a little too tedious

Let me know if you think that’s possible with a tweak.

Thanks!

Vince

[darkmatter]

This is only a test site, but it gives you an idea of what I’m trying to accomplish: http://testsite.utopiastudios.net/galleries/flowers

The product is the same for all photos, with the only difference being the photo itself as a reference from Nextgen. So the photo is not listed in eStore at all. Perhaps there’s a way to pull the info from Nextgen and bring it into the cart along with the Product and variation?

That would be very cool!

[amin007]

@darkmatter, This URL should answer your question:

Why Configure Every Product Separately When Used with NextGen Gallery

I am going to add an option so you can configure a price and variation then apply that to all of your NextGen gallery pictures for people who do not care about the security of the Image.

[darkmatter]

@amin007, thank you! In my case I’m grossly watermarking all of the pics in question and reducing the resolution to a point of making the pics reasonably unusable.

When will we see this option made available? It would also be nice to be able to apply specific variations/prices to group of pictures, say within a particular gallery or based on categories, that way the process is automated. So for example, as soon as I upload a set of pictures within a particular category (based on the post category) or perhaps within a particular Album, the formatting of the Add to Cart options are automatically displayed if a box is checkmarked. Just an idea that would make the process much more streamlined, especially for those selling more than just a few pics.

Again, thanks for the response.

Vince

[darkmatter]

bump! @amin007

[amin007]

@darkmatter, I did a little brainstorming on this and found a few obstacles so this is not going to be a very quick and easy implementation. I will implement something in the future but don’t want you to be waiting on it for now. I have sent an email to you.

[darkmatter]

@Amin, I’ve been playing around with this a little and essentially, what I’ve done right now is make the purchaser enter or “confirm” the file name with the Collect Customer Input field, which carries on to the cart. I tried to add the code for the echo of the NGG image on line 127 of eStore_button_display_helper.php but that only rendered the text, not the result haha. Sorry, I’m not a coder. All it would seem to me is to allow that php function to call the name in question and add it in there then make the field invisible… just thoughts.

[darkmatter]

Amin, any further developments on the ability to port thumb/alttxt to the cart of a NGG pic? Thanks! All I have going for now is something like http://camelarae.com/galleries/i9-sports-gallery/i9-sports-2010-49ers

It would be nice not to have to make the purchaser copy/paste the name of the pic

[jkudish]

Hey Guys,

I basically building the exact same thing as @darkmatter for a client http://fellerath.com/wp/ and have yet to come up with a viable solution. She basically wants to sell hundreads of client pictures on her site, and clearly creating a new product for each image is not a good way to do.

I am wondering if there is some php magic that can be done to parse the file name (from nextgen) to a hidden (custom) field that gets sent to the photographer when the sale is processed?

Any ideas?

Thanks

[amin007]

I am working on a solution for this.. we will handle it on this thread:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/why-configure-every-product-separately-when-used-with-nextgen-gallery

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