@Drunken
please look first at all the videos the author uploaded. Everything for a proper setup is explained there in detail. It is also recommended to inform yourself before buying a plugin instead of buying it and complain afterwards that this is not what you wanted to have, because you did not inform yourself enough what this plugin is able to do
@ak38
I do not see really your problem at the moment. As far as I understood, you are using Media gallery and Xenporta 2. You are looking now for a way to display on a random basis images that are located in one or more albums within your media gallery, right?
The place where these random images shall bis visible is not the forum index page, but the Xenporta page (i assume you use xenporta as the entry page of your forum).
I do not see an obligation for Jaxel to provide a widget for this. This should be the responsability of the author of the Media Gallery plugin. I do not own media gallery so I can not tell you whether they have that kind of widget already.
I use for example the sonnb gallery software plugin. And the author a feature to show images on the index page of the forum. Basically it is a feature of his gallery software. I do not know whether he also offers a functionality to show this on Xenporta 2. You have to ask him yourself. He is called sonnb.
@Redh
The links you are recomending are doing totally different things. The second one is for another plugin called showcase items. The first one is for xen Media gallery, but only to show albums. And the author of this script is providing the widget to be able to work with Xenporta 2.
XFMG Album Block lets you display a new block on your forum displaying either Latest or Random albums from your XenForo Media Gallery.
Block is displayed without needing widgets, but you can also display them using 2 widgets included:
Widget Framework
XenPorta 2 Pro
What do you mean exactly with this:
...but I guess Jaxel sees it as a competing product to his own media gallery....
What is in your view a competing product of Jaxel? Please post a link!