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How to Set Up a Pricelist in NextGEN Pro

Christopher Winders — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:21:49 +0000

Step 1: Create a Pricelist

Navigate to Ecommerce > Manage Pricelists in your WordPress dashboard to bring up a list of all the pricelists your have created. If you'd like to delete a pricelist, hover over the pricelist and select 'trash', or select the box next to the pricelist and under bulk actions select 'move to trash' to delete one or more pricelists.

Click the 'Add New' button to create a new pricelist.
Give it a descriptive title, such as a news category, or by photographer, etc.

Click ADD PRODUCT and select WHCC Prints to chose which products you would like to make available for purchase. If you would like to offer Digital Downloads, chose that option. You can always select ADD PRODUCT again to add both into the same pricelist if desired.

When choosing WHCC Prints, click on the checkbox under the ADD column to include those products (some are selected by default). Note you can check the box just to the right of the ADD column header to select or deselect the entire category.
After all the desired products have been selected click ADD PRODUCT to return to the Pricelist page.

When choosing Digital Downloads you will actually be adding a product for each size of photo you would like to offer. For example we can add four sizes: Small, Medium, Large, and FULL resolutions.
Let's first add the Small product, specify its price and the longest image dimension.

You will then repeat these steps to add the remaining size offerings.
If you want to offer a product for free or a free option, all you need to do is set the price to 0.00. You may want to also specify in the item description that it is free.
Once the pricelist is complete click SAVE.

If you have a license agreement you'd like your customers to be aware of while they're shopping and browsing your images, click the option to 'Display link to license terms' next to the image they are viewing. There will be a drop-down list of all published pages where you can select the page where your license terms are published.

Step 2: Attach a Pricelist to Gallery

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eCommerce Settings in NextGEN Pro

Christopher Winders — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:34:24 +0000

General Options

Email Notification Settings

Payment Gateway

Print Lab Integration

Proofing Settings

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NextGEN Gallery – Getting Started

Christopher Winders — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:59:06 +0000

The NextGEN Gallery plugin allows users to upload a collection of photos in the back end of the website and organize them into a gallery. The big advantage to NextGEN Gallery, aside from the general ease of use, is the ability to display the same gallery of photos in multiple locations and in different layouts each time.

I’ll demonstrate what I mean below. First, let’s create our first gallery using NextGEN Gallery.

1. Create the Gallery

You can actually create a NextGEN Gallery from any page or article editor, but for the sake of this tutorial, we’re going to keep it as simple as possible and start from the dashboard.

Find the NextGEN Gallery item on the dashboard menu and navigate to the Add Gallery/Images page.

You’ll be presented with a page asking you to select which gallery you want to upload photos to. Since we have not yet created a gallery, the only option for us is to “Create a new gallery.”

I’ve entered the name “New Gallery” and clicked Create and Select.

Once the “New Gallery” is selected, click the “Browse” button to upload some photos from your computer and add them to the gallery. The progress is visible as each photo is uploaded and saved to the gallery.

Once your photos have finished uploading, you can navigate to NextGEN Gallery -> Manage Galleries to edit the gallery you’ve created or any of the photos included within.

You’ll notice that we did not at any point select a “template” or adjust any settings that determine how this photo gallery will appear on a page or within an article. That is because, unlike with MaxGallery, a single photo gallery in NextGEN Gallery can be displayed in various places each with a different template.

2. Placing a Gallery

In this example, I’m going to place our first gallery inside of an Article named “Pet Photos of the Week.” We’ll assume this publication is highlighting some photos of their readers pets in the new article.

If using the classic editor, you’ll see the option to Add Gallery just above the toolbar. If using the block editor, you’ll want to add a new Block and search for the NextGEN Gallery block.

Once you’ve added the block and clicked Add Gallery, you’ll see a page asking you to select which Gallery (or galleries) you want to add to the page. Below that, there are a number of gallery templates available to choose from that determine how your gallery will display.

These templates include basic options for thumbnails, slideshows & image browsers, as well as the paid Pro versions of these templates. All are available to OHT customers.

Once you’ve selected a template, you can click the Customize Display Settings tab to further adjust the gallery settings.

I went with the simple Pro Thumbnail Grid to create the gallery below.

That is all there is to it! If I wanted to display the same set of photos in a different format somewhere else on the website, I would follow the same process: click Add Gallery from the NextGEN block/toolbar and select your existing Gallery of Photos, then choose the format you want to display it!

3. Setting a Featured Image

One final thing that NextGEN Gallery makes easier than ever is setting a featured image for the article or page to which your gallery is being embedded. In the past, if you embedded a gallery inside of an article, you would need to manually set the Featured Image for that article by separately uploading one of the photos from the gallery as the featured image.

NextGEN Gallery makes this quick and easy by providing a button right below the existing “Set Featured Image” option that lets you select one of the photos inside the gallery as the article’s featured image, saving you the time of hunting it down and uploading a second copy of the image.

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NextGEN Gallery - Our-Hometown

How to Set Up a Pricelist in NextGEN Pro

eCommerce Settings in NextGEN Pro

eCommerce Settings in NextGEN Pro

Setting up PayPal Checkout for Payments:

Setting up Stripe for Payments:

Using the Testing Gateway:

NextGEN Gallery – Getting Started

1. Create the Gallery

2. Placing a Gallery

3. Setting a Featured Image