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New Blog Templates, NextGen conflict, error

Hey, I just discovered an issue with the NextGen and New Blog Templates that I *really* need some help with.

Set up is: 3.01 MU/BuddyPress

NextGen is installed but set up so it is activated on blog-by-blog basis (too complex for all users, issues with MU). Have been creating blogs and using it fine.

I just created apx 20 blogs using the New Blog Template with NextGen as an active plug-in. These will be portfolio blogs, so NextGen is an important plug-in.

Big Problem. The template seems to have hard-wired the BlogID to the blog used to create the template. It does not correspond to the blog one is in.

So, in my case: xxx/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/sample

(Blog number 9 was used as the template)

Deactivating and re-activating the plug-in doesn’t seem to get rid of this hard link.

Doing a “reset” of the plug-in seems to have made it worse…

I have a message in to the developer, too. He is aware that there are issues with MU

Any advice how to troubleshoot this? I may have to try deleting all these blogs and recreating them without the plug-in installed (new blogs from the default twentyten work fine.)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:18:20
  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    It all depends when and where nextgen is storing that blog id. The vast majority of plugins should now work with NBT, but if a plugin does something weird like storing the upload dir instead of calculating it as it should there is not much we can do about that.

  • elramsay
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    A quick follow-up.

    If I hand-change the directory in the options menu of NextGen it to the correct blog ID for each blog by hand it *appears* to work. However, it is still messed up, images are not uploaded. A zip file *did* upload and unpack, but any attempt to create a gallery (directory) and add images into it fails. It writes the directory, but the images don’t upload.

    Obviously an issue with the NextGen but it is currently NOT compatible with the New Blog Template plug-in.

    Really odd.