Installation
Lazyest Gallery is a gallery plugin for WordPress. Because it creates thumbnails and slides on the fly, it is a good plugin to manage images that you have uploaded outside of WordPress e.g. by FTP.
Step 1: Install Lazyest Gallery using the WordPress Installer
In the Admin menu, select Plugins → Add New. Enter ‘Lazyest Gallery’ in the search bar and hit the ‘Search Plugins’ button. In the results page, click on ‘Install’ on the far right of the row titled ‘Lazyest Gallery’. In the next page, click on the red Install Now link. After that, activate the plugin.
Step 2: Enter Lazyest Gallery basic options
Goto Settings → Lazyest Gallery. You will see the Lazyest Gallery welcome screen. 
Here you can enter the basic information for Lazyest Gallery. In the ‘Your Gallery Folder’ input box, you enter the Lazyest Gallery directory, relative to the path where you’ve installed WordPress. This is the directory in which you later make the folders for your images. You don’t store your images in this folder itself. If your directory doesn’t exist yet, Lazyest Gallery can create one for you.
Next, select the page where you want to display your gallery. If you don’t have that page yet, you can create one and come back to the Lazyest Galerry welcome screen later. Lazyest Gallery checks if the gallery shortcode on your page. If not, lazyest Gallery can insert one for you.
Hit the ‘Save Changes’ button and Lazyest Gallery is ready to go.
Step 3: Upload your first batch of pictures
Now that you have created your gallery on the server, why not use FTP to upload some images for your first album? Select the directory wp-content/lg-gallery and create a directory within that folder e.g. my_folder
To transfer files across simply locate them on your hard disk in the Local Site window and then drag-and-drop them across into the folder you created.
You can also use the Lazyest Gallery file manager Media → Lazyest Gallery to upload images. But this upload is limited to one image at a time.
Done! You have finished the installation of Lazyest Gallery. Your gallery is ready and visitors of your blog can enjoy your pictures.
hi, which is the server path for thumbs ?
i have enabled the thumbs function and now ?
where are my thumbs ? i cant find it on my server
in the admin the path is “thumbs/”
thumbs will be a subdirectory of your gallry folder. if you don’t get thumbs you could have a server memory problem of GD2 is not installed in PHP.
the gallery server path is ~/wp-content/lg-gallery/pictures/ in these folder i can see 5 pics AND one folder “thumbs” but this folder is empty .. i will check your info and install GD2
please store your images in subfolders. LG does not include images in the ‘gallery root’.
so what lightbox plugin does I need for this to work ?
Any Lightbox plugin you want. If lazyest gallery doesn’t recognize your plugin, just ignore the message.
I am using the Lazyest gallery to rotate images in the sidebar. How do I set the amount of time each image displays?
Lazyest Gallery cannot find
sorry for my english
how to put a gallery , not a pic from gallery ?
Thanks for help
I don’t understand your question
get the following error even though the directory is present and it will not even create new directory please help – urgent. Thanks
WARNING: The specified gallery folder does not exists: /wp-content/lg-gallery /
Let Lazyest Gallery create this folder for me
please check your server permissions
I still have the same problem… the older version have no problem, but since I got the new one on another site i was installing this plugin from, i have encountered the same problem
same problem as??
clearing the cache was no help.
will try getting rid of the 1 in the index1.php
at least everyone else is happy :~)
I’ve been told my galleries show up fine under photos on non-ms ie 8.0 browsers. I just put 8.0 on my computer and its been suggested that that could be where the problem lies.
I see no problems on IE8. Please clear your browser cache
I deleted a file from the file manager twice and then…
‘Something went wrong initializing Lazyest Gallery.
Maybe the folder or the image you are looking for does not exist
Please check your settings, here, or contact the author of this page
I noticed there were what appeared to be extraneous folders and was wanting to not have those as some were created erroneously.
If I upload the lazyest gallery again, will that break any linking or ?…
Lazyest Gallery will rebuild on the fly.
I thought I had this figured out but I hadn’t.
It now says it can’t find the file.
I had photos two minutes ago.
Don’t mind the mess, there’s a legacy issue…
Ron
Lazyest Gallery does not recognize the
index1.phppart in your url. Please uncheck Use Permalinks for the Gallery in Lazyest Gallery SettingsI received the same error message.
I had it working with all the urls the same.
When I deleted what I thought were extraneous file folders I think I removed the top one or something. I got an error message from the host’s file manager saying that a file needed to be reloaded. Would that be the lazyest-gallery.php? I will do whatever it takes?
I had the permalink unchecked before. I misread your note and then checked the box, same results, now unchecked.
Mozilla is not experiencing problems locating files, buttons work…
ms ie 8.0 says something went wrong initializing
Does anyone know how I prevent the ‘main’ gallery folder showing as well as the gallery?
IE we are told to create a single folder for which we are then supposed to put our gallery folders into. My WP page always shows the single folder as well as the gallery folder inside it so, it looks like I have to galleries the same for each gallery I upload.
The settings file is set to look at
/wp-content/lg-gallery/
For some reason lazy gallery has trouble creating the gallery automatically. Create /lg-gallery/ manually via FTP to your server or file manager on your C-Panel. Go to your WP dashboard, then select ‘settings’ from the left menu. Click on the lazy gallery link and you will be presented with two further options. Accept or make the changes to those options as required and ‘save’ you will then get the full admin panel for lazy gallery.
FTP to your server and manually create the folder. Then go in lazy gallery via ‘SETTINGS’ not via the lazy gallery button at the bottom of your WP menu. I was making the same mistakes but the above got it sorted for me.
“Lazyest Gallery cannot open folder /”
i have tried all possible ways to express the path to my folder but the plugin fails to open the folder.
could you please show a clear example for the path?
So have I.
I’m getting the same error message and nothing else works
If your folder exists on your server, please check your settings. Please remind, the path is relative to the home directory on your wordpress blog