Are you using NextGEN Gallery to create beautiful photo galleries? NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo plugin will help you add e-commerce functionality to it. You can easily create buy buttons to sell digital photos or photo prints online from your website.
NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo Info
Requirements
- NextGEN Gallery plugin
- A self-hosted WordPress site running on a WordPress Optimized Environment
NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo Plugin Installation
- Login to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Go to Plugins->Add New
- Enter NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo in the search box
- Once you find the plugin hit the install button
Option 2
- Download the zip version of the plugin
- Go to Plugins->Add New and switch to the Upload tab
- Select the zip file on your computer
- Upload and install it
Option 3
- Download the zip file and extract it
- Connect to your website via FTP (you can use a software like Filezilla to transfer files to your server) and browse to the “/wp-content/plugins” folder
- Select the folder containing the plugin files on your computer and upload it
- Once all the files have been uploaded to your web server you can activate the plugin from the Plugins menu (WordPress admin dashboard)
NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo Plugin Settings
Once you have installed the plugin you will be able to access the settings menu by navigating to “Settings->NG Sell Photo”.
In the settings area you will need to configure some options related to your PayPal merchant account and e-commerce photo gallery.
- PayPal Email: The email where you will accept the payment
- Currency Code: The currency of the payment
- Price Amount: The default price of each gallery photo
- Button Text/Image: The text or image for the Buy button
- Return URL: The URL where a customers will be redirected to after a payment
NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo Usage
Create a new post/page and enter your NextGEN Gallery shortcode like the following:
[nggallery id="1" template="ngsellphoto"]
Here, id is the Unique ID of your gallery.
Publish/update the page and you should see a Buy button for each of the gallery images
If a user clicks the buy button it will take them to the PayPal payment page where they can pay for the photo/image.
Peter Smith says
Hi
I was wondering if you have an extended code to the buy now button. What if the customer wants to buy several photos. Every time he clicks on the buy now button it takes him directly to Paypal. Do you have an option for a cart where he can add purchased products to?
Regards
Peter
wpguide says
@Peter, currently it only works with a Buy button. However, You can try a shopping cart plugin like WP eStore which offers “Add to Cart” checkout functionality with NextGEN Gallery. Alternatively, you can also try the WP Photo Seller plugin which was developed specifically for selling photos in WordPress.
David Batten says
Enter the [nggallery id=”1″ template=”ngsellphoto”] where ???? DUH!
Am just a little fed up of people putting 85% of Instructions up online. If my Tuska surf were like that I would sell nothing.
wpguide says
@David, You enter the shortcode where you want to show the gallery (example: post/page).
RON COMSTOCK says
i did that but I get no buy now button
admin says
@RON, What shortcode are you using?
Tabloid True says
How can I remove payment by PayPal and set a custom payment gateway as i want to incorporate payment by my points system (MyCRED) thanks indeed.
wpguide says
@Tabloid True, currently the plugin only supports PayPal.
Vinícius says
works at NextGen version 2.0.66.29?
I try config but the button don’t appears
scottkeller66 says
How does the customer get the image after paying? Is this manually done by me after payment?
scottkeller66 says
One other thing I notice is I have the watermark turned on with the gallery but it doesn’t show on my sale page so how can I watermark my photos?
wpguide says
@scottkeller66, You will have to manually send it at the moment.
Does this watermark feature comes with the core NextGen Gallery plugin?
scottkeller66 says
Yes the watermark comes with the gallery. But if I have to manually send the image then I will have to move onto another plugin. I was hoping this would work as almost all my customers use the gallery.
Thanks
Scott
wpguide says
I will investigate the code to see why watermark is not working. Have you checked the WP Photo Seller plugin? It seems to be getting good reviews from users.
Dennis says
Hi,
Does NextGEN Gallery Sell Photo Plugin send the photo’s automatically or do I have to send the photo myself.
Please can you let me know either way as I am an absolute beginner at this.
Many Thanks
Dennis
wpguide says
@Dennis, You will need to send it manually.
dennisbennett72 says
Is there a way of putting comments under the image then the buy now button underneath.
I have competitors numbers in my gallery in the caption box and I want to display this between my image and the buy now button.
Many Thanks
dennisbennett72 says
I am getting stressed.
Is there a way of putting comments under the image then the buy now button underneath in the Nextgen Gallery Sell Photo.
I have competitors numbers in my gallery in the caption box and I want to display this between my image and the buy now button.
Many Thanks
wpguide says
@dennisbennett72, There is no option for it at the moment.
Scott says
I use this with NextGen to setup my store, I am still in progress but the concept works great and emails a link to the full resolution photo. here is my site
www.scottietae.com/PS/rickhall66 says
Hi. When I apply this plug-in to a NextGen Gallery page, the images appear on the new page scattered randomly, instead of a nice grid (see
www.rickhall.co.uk> For Sale > Original Harmonographs). What am I doing wrong?wpguide says
@rickhall66, Can you please copy and paste the exact shortcode you are using? Please also make sure that it’s not formatted. You can switch to “text” editor check it.
rickhall66 says
Hi, thanks for your quick response. This is the code:
Visual view: [nggallery id=”5″ template=”ngsellphoto”]
Text view:
[nggallery id="5" template="ngsellphoto"]wpguide says
@rickhall66, Thanks. Please make sure that the shortcode is not in a pre or code element. It needs to be in plain text (even in text view).
rickhall66 says
Hi. The code appeared in text view like this:
[nggallery id=”5″ template=”ngsellphoto”]
I deleted everything before & after the […] and it got better, though still not a thumbnail grid (it now appears as 2 columns with spaces in the second column). I don’t know code well, just did this on a whim – it seems that the code is not arranging the page properly.
Jagrati Tripathi says
Hi,
Can i sell Photo Gallery instead of individual photo with this plugin ? Or if someone know any other way to sell Photo Gallery in wordpress please let me know.
Thanks
wpguide says
@jagrati, At the moment the customer will have to individually buy each photo.
Jared says
I get a “Invalid template” error when I try to use your shortcode.
wpguide says
@Jared, It seems to be working fine for me. Please make sure that,
1) You have the latest version of both NextGEN Gallery plugin and NextGEN Sell Photo plugin
2) The shortcode does not contain any hidden formatted characters (you can switch to text editor to check it)
3) A gallery with that ID actually exists in the NextGEN Gallery plugin. For example: If you are using this shortcode,
[nggallery id="1" template="ngsellphoto"]NextGEN Gallery needs to have a gallery whose ID is 1. If you have a gallery whose id is 5, you will need to replace 1 with 5 in the shortcode. For example:
[nggallery id="5" template="ngsellphoto"]nicholaswhj says
HI, I have multiple gallery and multiple pictures in 1 sales. How can I see the report?
wpguide says
@nicholaswhj, Unfortunately there is no orders menu available at the moment.
Alice says
I just don’t manage to use it, is it still working ?
admin says
@Alice, Are you using the latest version of NextGEN Gallery? What happens when you use the shortcode?
Alice says
Actually I don’t use shortcode, I insert the album directly on the page 🙁
Alice says
ok, I found the shortcode, but I use album, is it ok ?
Alice says
ok, I guess I found out how to do it 🙂
David Mays says
Greetings,
This looks like a GREAT plugin. Good work. How would I go about having several photo sizes each with a different price? For each of my photos I would like to offer 3-4 sizes of prints IE 8×10,20×16 etc. I need to be able to have a different price for each print size. Is there a special short code I could use for the size/price variations??
Thanks
David Mays
David Mays Photography
admin says
@David, Unfortunately variations are not supported at the moment.
Leonardo Griebler says
the button apear and work but the option to open the image and saved to the computer remains so why someone eill buy the photo if he stil can get for free ?
admin says
@Leonardo, You can just show the thumbnail images on the front end and send the full resolution image on purchase.
Leonardo Griebler says
Assuming I know how to do this, which I do not know, and it would be good to show the full resolution image for customers to see what they are actually buying. And I believe that for anyone who understands code for a function that prevents saving the image would not be asking too much for an image sales plugin would actually be the least expected.
Devendra Dube says
why paypal show this message on my gallery
“Things don’t appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later.”
is there any mistake in setting
admin says
@Devendra, Please provide a link to the page in question so I can take a look.