I finally found a gallery for wordpress that I’m happy with.  I ended up using NextGEN Gallery which was less complex than WordPress Plugin for Gallery2 (WPG2).  Even though Bluehost had Fantasico which did the install of Gallery2, come to find out that the reason it wouldn’t work was that my theme didn’t support it.  So instead of having to recode the theme, which I was not looking forward to, I decided to look elsewhere.

Having found NextGEN this afternoon, I was able to get it up and running quickly and after some testing and learning of the options, the gallery was back up and running.  I’m going to leave the photos on Flickr for a while but will delete them, so dad if you want them better grab them while they are still there.  I’ve already uploaded some of the photos to the new gallery but some of the older ones will probably not go up.

NextGEN happen to surprise me at how simple it is compared to other gallery programs that I looked at.  I was under the impression that gallery’s had to be complex applications to work but was quite wrong in that assumption.  I am very please at how simple it was to manage NextGEN compared to other galleries but that may be because there is so much more you could do with them that you can’t with NextGEN but not needing anything fancy, this will do for me.

Update: Blah, wouldn’t you know it, stupid Internet Explorer which I only use when I want to test this site in IE, well guess what, when you click on a pic, it doesn’t display it correctly.  I guess I’ll look into it but in the mean time if your using IE get a real browser (Firefox).  Appears that I’m not the only one having this issue so that’s good, hopefully someone has come up with a fix, time to start googling around.

Update to the previous Update: Found a work around in the wordpress forums.  Thanks to Voddie for this.  Had to hack the thickbox.css file to get it to work.  Basically had to change one value:

/* Orginal install css
#TB_window {
position: fixed;
background: #ffffff;
z-index: 102;
color:#000000;
display:none;
border: 4px solid #525252;
text-align:left;
top:50%;
left:50%;
}
*/
#TB_window { /* my IE7 Hack*/
position: fixed;
background: #ffffff;
z-index: 102;
color:#000000;
display:none;
border: 4px solid #525252;
text-align:left;
bottom:10%;
left:50%;
}

Stupid IE!  Don’t care what JT says, IE sucks!!!

Update to the previous Update which was an Update to the orignal post:  Yes I know, annoying aren’t I, ask Teal she’ll tell you all about it.  Anyway, another tip I found was to change the effects from Thickbox to something else which also worked but I kind a like Thickbox effects.