Greetings, friends and readers of Stormhorn.com. This post is to alert you to a decision I had deeply wished to avoid making. Unfortunately, it has become clear to me that my NexGen plugin is broken beyond repair. With my pleas for help on the NexGen forum having gone unheeded, I have no recourse left but to uninstall my existing NexGen and then reinstall it. This means that all my NexGen images will have to go bye-bye, and the work will then begin on creating brand new galleries with my backup files.
This move will of course necessitate massive amounts of work, which will include going back and once again rewiring image links that I’ve already sorted through after I moved my files.
The long and short of it is…
Images are going to be missing for a while
There’s just no helping it. I will once again focus my efforts first on restoring the music exercises. This time, fortunately, I know exactly which files should go on which pages, and where on those pages they should go. But there’s no getting around the fact that restoring the music images is going to take a few days.
Once the musical material is taken care of, I’ll once again begin to work my way back through the rest of my posts, beginning with the most recent, and insert images in their proper places. As with the music posts, I have many of the images for other posts cataloged, so should know where they go as I work through them. But that’s only true for about the last six months’ worth of material. After that, things will be slower going.
Of course, with the new spring storm season arriving, most of you will probably be more interested in moving forward with current posts than in looking back. So it’s essential that I make this move now in order to reclaim NexGen functionality. I wish I had other options, but I haven’t found another plugin that manages images as effectively as NexGen, at least for my purposes.
What particularly troubles me is, I have no guarantee that a new NexGen installation won’t create similar problems. But I’ve got to try. These ugly white tabs instead of singlepic images have made a hash of my pages, and I’ve got to fix that some kinda way.
Again, once I’ve got NexGen reinstalled and my image gallery restored, I’ll be working on the musical material first, so that’s where you’ll see new images initially.
I should add that this will only affect NexGen images. Other images should show up fine as long as links didn’t get broken in the recent move.
Pray for me that this next step goes smoothly, and stay tuned.
Bob
ADDENDUM–A bit of GOOD NEWS to take the edge off the bad: It appears that the images on my music posts have survived the uninstall intact. I’m guessing that because I used the WordPress image button as a workaround, those NexGen images got duplicated in the WP media library. In any event, restoring the music images appears to be one significant issue that I don’t have to deal with. There are still a few things I’ve got to fix in my older jazz posts, but by far the bulk of the written exercises, solo transcriptions, and so forth are working and available.
