With the NextGEN Gallery plugin, an album is a group of galleries that you display together on one page. You can include a gallery in more than one album and each album can include multiple galleries. It's not far off categories in WordPress posts.
Here, we'll create a gallery to contain our three albums and then create a page to display the album.
Creating an album is done via the NextGEN Gallery screens. Follow these steps:
In the WordPress admin, select Gallery | Manage Albums.
This will display the Manage Albums screen:
Fig 9.21: The Manage Albums screen with no albums
In the Add new album field, type the name of your album. I'm calling mine
Landscape Photography.Click on the Add button.
Now drag the galleries you want to display into your new album, as shown in the following screenshot:
Fig 9.22: The galleries added to my album
Once you're happy that you've added the right galleries, click on the Update button to save your...