Importing NextGen galleries
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I am importing a self-hosted wordpress site into wordpress.com. The import of the majority of content was successful however the images from NextGen gallery were not included. How can I get the galleries to work without having to recreate from scratch – ie captions etc.
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Hi there,
I’m afraid you’ll need to recreate them on our end.
WordPress.com uses Jepack galleries, which are inserted in the editor using a shortcode that lists the image IDs from the Media Library for the various images. When you export content from one site to another, those image IDs should usually remain the same, the shortcode is imported as part of the post content, and that allows us to recreate the gallery on the imported site.
But NextGen galleries don’t work that way. That plugin creates its own database tables in the site database, the images get assigned to a gallery there, and the gallery is embedded in a post using a gallery ID that the plugin assigns to that gallery, and there’s no reference at all to the actual images used in your post content.
The NextGen shortcode would probably be imported to your posts on the WordPress.com site correctly, but the content in that shortcode is meaningless to our system, and we have no way of knowing which images you had included in any particular gallery, as the database tables for the NextGen plugin would not have been included in the WordPress export file.
So in this case there’s nothing we can do – we literally have no way of knowing which images should be included in the galleries, and there’s no way to auto-convert the NextGen shortcode into the WordPress.com/Jetpack gallery shortcode.
Upgrading to our Business Plan will allow you to install the NextGen plugin on our end, but that won’t automatically fix things either, as we’ll still be lacking the database tables that plugin created on your other site. So you’d need to use a migration plugin to move those over to us as well.
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Quick question.
I am planning on buying the personal plan and using my own domain name.
In order to get the website set up do I have to point the nameservers right away or can I build the new website (import the other one) and then point the nameservers when everything looks good.
Please advise
Thanks
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You can build your site at the free WordPress.com address, and only add the domain when you’re ready.
For an import to work properly it’s also important that the source site is still online and at the same domain it was at when you exported, so as a general rule you should only switch the domain after all importing has been completed.
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Thanks!
I think that I will sign up for the personal plan so I get access to more themes.
I need to find a theme that uses a header image with the site title superimposed to match the existing site (michellezikovitz.ca).As you said I can add the domain when I’m ready to go
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@tinasgarden just noting the Premium plan comes with extra themes; Personal comes with all of the free themes listed here:
https://wordpress.com/themes/free
Several of these position the title over a header image, though I’m guessing some that do that only show a solid background in the demo.
Noting as well, if you have the Premium plan, there’s most likely a way to position an image behind the site title with CSS, too.
Hoping that helps!
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