NextGEN Gallery is the most popular image gallery management plugin for wordpress. Thanks to the author Alex Rabe for creating this wonderful plugin, I pretty much use it on all wordpress websites I created. I have created this page to share my knowledge about the usage of this plugin.
List of Short Codes for NextGEN Gallery
For a slideshow :[ slideshow id=x w=width h=height ]
For a album : [ album id=x template=extend] or [ album id=x template=compact ]
For a gallery : [ nggallery id=x ]
For a single picture : [ singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right ]
For a image browser : [ imagebrowse r id=x ]
To show image sorted by tags :[ nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,... ]
To show tag albums : [ nggtags album=mytag,wordpress,... ]
For different number of columns for different pages: Define custom filed in the page: ngg_gal_Columns
