It may be possible to change just the styles for noobslide_thumb to show the thumbnails in a vertical configuration. Otherwise, some HTML edits may be necessary. Here is an article on how to create your own noobslide gallery within the plugin.
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/create-your-own-noobslide-gallery

Yeah swapping in plugins based on post or page ID is an interesting issue. Here is something I did with wp-syntax to only load it on relevant posts-
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/the_content-filter-optimizing-your-wordpress-plugins

For what you describe above, it may be possible to just install the plugin but leave it deactivated. Then just load the plugin file as necessary. Never tried this before though, so not sure how well that will work. The problem is that page ID is only available after the wordpress loop gets initiated, but most plugins (including Shiba Gallery) hooks into the init and admin_init actions which fire before the WP loop.

Here is a tutorial on how to create your own noobslide gallery for the plugin by integrating together elements from multiple different galleries-
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/create-your-own-noobslide-gallery

Hi I guess the Nativex is more of what I”m looking for but I do need to make some modifications. I’m not too familiar with javascript but I’m pretty comfortable with HTML and CSS. In the end I am going for something pretty similar to the website I sent you. Is there an easy way to remove the “Next / Previous” feature and the Play buttons? How would one go about shifting the featured images to the right — instead of underneath?

Do you mean you want to replace the numbers with the picture thumbnails? There is an example of this in noobslide_nativex. The Featured Image should already appear on the summary panel.

If you want the featured image to appear larger, and for the thumbs to appear at the side, then you want to play around with the HTML and CSS style of the elements. It may take some work though.

Ideally, I’m going for an end result that looks like this: http://teamollie.com/dogs.php

Do you have any tips / suggestions?

Yeah the best way to do that, is to standardize WordPress link objects to become custom post types. However, that can only be done by WordPress.

On my own sites I have expanded link objects so that they can be linked to an attachment object. Then when that attachment object is included in the gallery, the link object information gets shown. However, this is not a very elegant solution, and is probably only for the short term. Therefore, I did not include it in the plugin.

Is it possible to add a URL to each slide using the Shiba gallery?

e.g. link to google (or somewhere) from one of the images?

Thank you