When I first installed NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress I could not get the watermarking working. I read of all sorts of problems with it including FreeType not being installed, permission problems, etc. but everything that I was trying was not resolving my issue. During upload I was not getting any errors so at the time I felt I had little to go on. To make a long story short I finally read a post on WordPress.org that said the watermark image has to be a PNG for it to work. I saved my watermark file as a .png file and sure enough it worked without issue.
Use PNG Image For WP NextGen Gallery Watermarking:
To make a long story short just make sure that if you are using a PNG image if you want to watermark with images versus text.
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Thank you buddy, I had the same issue and was breaking my head to see why the watermark with images was not working. Its working now … after changing the image to png. Thanks again.
Hello Jayesh,
No problem at all. Glad it helped out. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.
Thanks.
alex
thanks so much! I was trying to figure out what was wrong. I was about to get my hands dirty with the coding and see if there was a glitch. This saved me a big hassle.
Hello roman,
No problem at all. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.
Thanks.
alex
im am having the same issue but my image is a .png :(
for some reason i noticed that my phpinfo says PHP Allow URL fopen is on but the plugin says the following (which its off)
* Operating System : Linux (64 Bit)
* Server : WebServerX
* Memory usage : 26.38 MByte
* MYSQL Version : 5.0.77-community
* SQL Mode : Not set
* PHP Version : 5.2.9
* PHP Safe Mode : Off
* PHP Allow URL fopen : Off
* PHP Memory Limit : 90M
* PHP Max Upload Size : 50M
* PHP Max Post Size : 8M
* PCRE Backtracking Limit : 100000
* PHP Max Script Execute Time : 30s
* PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
* PHP IPTC support : Yes
* PHP XML support : Yes
Hello Max,
You might try investigating if a .htaccess file in one of the directories is turning it off. Also are you getting the phpinfo information from a php file you created for the virtual host? It may be turned on for other virtual hosts and off for the one in questions. Just some ideas…
Hope that helps.
Thanks.
alex
Www question defense.. Not so bad :)
Hello.
Why thank you….
Thanks.
alex
I had the same issue, but my image was a png. Instead, the problem I had was with the fact that the plugin was extremely picky about the url I put in. I put in the full url including the http and I even made the minimal images/watermark.png.
None of it worked until I figured out the url it wanted.
The magic url is “wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/images/watermark.png”.
It finally worked when I put that in. They should have had an upload routine that input its own url internally instead of making it so complicated.
Anyways, it works now. Woohoo.
Hello Jordan,
W00t! Thanks for sharing… the above information will likely assist others. :)
Thanks.
alex
Aaaaaaaarg! It worked for the preview image, but it didn’t for the real images.
Hello Jordan,
Bummer… I would imagine though if it worked for previews you are on the right track. Let us know what resolution is.
Thanks.
alex
Hello everyone..
The solution to this problem is to add a “../” before your path.
ex: “../wp-content/gallery/watermark.png”
This might be because you’re working in a development environment and you are accessing your WP site via another subdirectory. Anyway, enough of my rant, hope it helps someone :)
Thanks a lot!
Hello Oliver,
Thanks for taking the time to post your solution.
Thanks.
alex