The plugin for the nextGEN image gallery is now working. This gallery is the most customizable of your options. To use it, start a post as usual. To add the gallery, you must be in the “Visual” editor (not the “Text” editor. The very last icon is the gallery:

Icon to add a nextGEN gallery

You will be presented with a window with options for the type of gallery you are able to add. For the moment we will ignore this menu. We are interested in the second tab “Add Gallery / Images”:

Choose the second tab to add a new gallery

Select this second tab to get the the page where you can upload new images. Add a new and unique gallery name for your images and then choose “Add Files”:

Name your gallery and then choose “Add files”

From here you will select the folder on your computer containing the images you wish to include in your gallery. You can either choose them one at a time holding down the command key for a non contiguous selection, or you can choose command-a (select all) to select all the images in the folder:

Cmd-A will select all the images in a folder

Once you are happy with your image selection, click on the “Choose” button and you will be returned to the selection window populated with your images. You must choose “Start Upload” to upload the images:

You must choose “start upload” to upload your images.

You will be able to follow the upload progress by the green bar in the bottom corner:

Upload progress

Once the images are uploaded you will return to the original first tab to select the type of gallery you wish to add:

Select the type f gallery you wish to add

The “Source” will be “Galleries” and the “Galleries” will be the name of the gallery you created. Choose your gallery and then click on save:

Choose your gallery and then click on “Save”

You will be returned to your post with the gallery inserted. Add and text and post!