Title: Adding gallery with shortcode
Last modified: January 14, 2020

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# Adding gallery with shortcode

 *  Resolved [Tina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunflowermom/)
 * (@sunflowermom)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-gallery-with-shortcode/)
 * The tutorial on the website has instructions for how to use shortcode to add 
   the gallery…but how can I add the shortcode if I haven’t yet created the gallery,
   and thus cannot have an id to put in the shortcode? I tried to create a gallery
   on a dummy page, thinking maybe it would create it somewhere and I could somehow
   find the id…but no luck.
 * I think the tutorial needs more info on the shortcode part, maybe?
 * My goal here is to be able to add the gallery in a widget to my homepage. My 
   theme won’t let me add content below my header on the homepage unless it’s in
   a widget, so I need to be able to add this gallery as a shortcode. Seems like
   I should be able to, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to do this.
   HELP?

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 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-gallery-with-shortcode/#post-12321968)
 * Hello,
 * Your issue is not really related to the Meow Gallery itself, but maybe how to
   use shortcodes and the logic behind it, I feel.
 * Meow Gallery uses the standard shortcode so it’s no different than using the 
   WordPress standard gallery.
 * You can maybe look for tutorials online, but it’s simple as this:
    [https://www.isitwp.com/gallery-shortcode/](https://www.isitwp.com/gallery-shortcode/)
 * I hope it helps 🙂
 *  [hhgreder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hhgreder/)
 * (@hhgreder)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-gallery-with-shortcode/#post-12455636)
 * Hello Jordy,
    I’m just started with your app and I do not find a solution for
   showing some folder: If I use following shortcut, all existing folders are listed
   on that page : `<div class="wp-block-photography-core-folders mwt-folders">[mwt-
   folders folder_id=]</div` (folder_id= empty).
 * But if I try to select one or more of my folders, nothing is displayed:
    `<div
   class="wp-block-photography-core-folders mwt-folders">[mwt-folders folder_id="
   1,2"]</div`
 * How should I select my folders ? What is the correct argument for “folder_id”?
 * Thanks for any help !
    Thomas
 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-gallery-with-shortcode/#post-12480722)
 * Hi [@hhgreder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hhgreder/), isn’t this linked
   to Core Photography? This plugin is meant for theme developers, not really to
   be used as it is. It could, but it’s meant for developers 🙂

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-gallery-with-shortcode/#post-12480722)
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