Comments on: Essential WordPress Plugins for Artists: Showing Off Your Art

By: tshirts

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:48:31 +0000

Can I ask a question, I would like to be able to offer an upload of artwork facility. We print t shirts to order, it would be really useful if say a pdf or an eps file could be uploaded to a directory. Is this possible with this plug in?

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By: tshirts

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:45:11 +0000

Thanks for the info, I was looking for a way of displaying my printed t shirts in a blog and this wordpress plug in fits the bill perfectly.
Thanks
Tony

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By: Maria

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:53:25 +0000

wow this is great, thanks for sharing your tips on wordpress plugins! Keep up the good work.

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By: Kim Bruce

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:46:29 +0000

In reply to Richard Welker.

Richard, I currently do not know of a way to move the NextGen descriptions to the side of the image. If you wanted to contact me through my website at http://artbiz.ca we could research this further.

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By: Richard Welker

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:04:38 +0000

Kim,
I am an artist using wordpress theme twenty-eleven with the Next Gen Gallery to display my images. I notice in your guest post above that you think there might be a way to address the concerns of the person who said the following:
I am looking for a plugin that:
(1) creates an array of clickable thumbnails;
(2) displays a larger image onclick or hover; and
(3) provides for comprehensive captions and artists statements (more than a line or two) in an attractive way.
Plenty of products, including NextGEN, address (1) and (2) but fall down on (3).
I share this concern and would like to know how to add information to the blowup image for the different forms my painting might take: For example: I may sell my original as an original, a giclee print, or a greeting card or all three. I want to be able to add the prices of each blowup image to the side of each image, not the bottom, where I am already out of room because I scale the images to max 800 wide or max 600 pixels high. Any guidance you could give would be wonderful.
Thank you sincerely,
Richard Welker
Santa Fe, NM, USA

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By: Clint Watson

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:27:57 +0000

In reply to Kim Bruce.

Thanks mucho!

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By: Kim Bruce

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:11:56 +0000

In reply to Clint Watson.

In my previous guest post (https://aaartbizold.wpengine.com/2012/10/wpplugins-seo.html) I talked about using WordPress SEO by Yoast. This plugin will add NextGen Gallery images to a sitemap.xml thus indexing them with search engines.
You can find more info on WordPress SEO at this link: http://yoast.com/xml-sitemap-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/

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By: Clint Watson

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:53:17 +0000

In reply to Kim Bruce.

Thanks, I would like to know if you ever see it. It’s much easier to copy and paste a bunch of links to share than to download, re-upload, send images, plus links are especially nice when they’ve got the buying info right there when you land. It’s one reason we keep toying with building our own artist WP plugin.
Another thing I just thought of: Does it hurt SEO efforts not to have permalinks to the art? If all the images are on one page, it seems like you don’t get URL/H1/keyword goodness like http://mysite.com/art/some-awesome-title-that-might-help-seo. Or is that handled somehow (perhaps outside of the nextgen gallery by WP) that I’m not seeing?

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By: Kim Bruce

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:42:42 +0000

In reply to Clint Watson.

The best suggestion that I have is to drag the image to your desk top and then email it. (Artists, this is another reason to name your images with your name and the name of the piece).
I don’t believe it can be done with the lightboxes. Sorry to disappoint Clint, but if I ever come across a solution I will post back here.

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By: Kim Bruce

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:30:37 +0000

In reply to Nanci.

Nanci you are currently using the best gallery available for WordPess.com sites. It’s the only one that I know of and the draw back of using WordPress.com over the self hosted version WordPress.org.
There are so many themes, my best advice would be to look for a simple, clean theme.
Yah you for using alt text on your images.

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