For #1, you can specify this for the Justified Grid (Photonic → Settings → Layouts → Random Justified Gallery – Minimum Tile height). The setting will apply to all your galleries that have this layout. It is currently not possible to control this for individual galleries.
You cannot do #1 for Mosaic galleries, because mosaics behave differently. There is, however, a different option for Mosaics, Photonic → Settings → Layouts → Mosaic Layout – Trigger width, using which you can control when the mosaic layout should get triggered. This avoids showing tiny images for narrow layouts.
For #2, do you mean you want to show full sized images in the main layout, scaled to fit? For that you need the tile_size attribute. The Photonic wizard shows you this option.
Thank you for your lightning fast reply!
#1 – are you planning to add the Mosaic Trigger width and Random Tile height options for individual gallery shortcode?
#2 – tile_size option works perfectly, thanks!
#1 – are you planning to add the Mosaic Trigger width and Random Tile height options for individual gallery shortcode?
It is a possibility, but given that users generally prefer a level of consistency for all their galleries, I have left the feature as it is for several years now (this feature was introduced in 2016). I might add it in the future, but it isn’t high on my to-do list for now.
I understand, no problem, thanks!
Another question, if you don’t mind. I print a gallery directly from a page-id-template like so:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery category="200"]'); ?>
and everything goes fine, but as soon as I change it to
<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery category="200" style="random"]'); ?>
I get a blank area instead of the page content.
Interesting that when if I’m moving a mouse over the blank area I can see the gallery links in the left bottom corner of the browser. The links open in a new page on click, as if the gallery plugin wasn’t there at all. The same Photonic code works fine inside the page.
Is there a way to print Photonic gallery using PHP or may be JS?
I found the cause of the problem, it was my mistake – I just forgot to load the footer in the page-php. Everything work fine now, sorry to bother you with trifles.
If your page has widget areas / blocks, you could always add a Photonic widget or block for this – you wouldn’t need the custom code.
Thanks for the tip!
I just trying to device a simple solution to print galleries on a page using dropdown where a user could select and see different attachment categories from my media library.
For now I coded a dropdown using JS, but still have no idea how to use it to change category value in shortcode.
I’m not sure if I should ask your advice on it in this topic though.
I know that some folks try to use accordion plugins for this. I recall a thread from at least 4-5 years back when someone commented about using ACF for this, but I might be wrong.
A rather radical suggestion would be to go to something like Flickr or SmugMug, which lets you have albums. You could use Photonic to show a bunch of albums together, on which you can click to show the photos therein.
I found out that accordions are based on CSS display:block/none and tested the feature. A display:none gallery loads as fast as a blank page and only starts loading images after selecting “display:block”. So, as far as I can tell, the idea works fine and I can use it with my dropdown.
Thank you again!
Hello Sayontan!
Just in case you interested, i have found a nice way to use dropdown in an attachement categories gallery page using URL query strings. It utilises the wordpress function ‘wp_dropdown_categories’ and a short script right in the gallery page-id.php. Here is the code:
<?php $linkParam = sanitize_text_field( $_GET['acat'] );
wp_dropdown_categories(array(
'id' => 'drop',
'exclude' => '2395',
'hierarchical' => true,
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'name',
'show_count' => 1,
'show_option_none' => 'Choose a category',
'taxonomy' => 'attachment_category',
'selected' => $linkParam, ) ); ?>
<script>
let dropdown = document.getElementById('drop');
let selIndex = new URL (window.location.href).searchParams.get('acat');
dropdown.addEventListener("change", onCatChange);
function onCatChange() {
let selIndex = dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
location.href ="look?acat="+selIndex; }
</script>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery style="random" category="' . $linkParam . '" main_size="full" order="DESC" orderby="ID" tile_size="full" link="file"]');?>
It works perfectly with the Media Library Categories plugin. It also works fine when the gallery page is opened by an external link with a query string ‘?acat=X’ where X is the ID of the category you want the gallery page to show.
Thank you once again for your kind assistance, it really helped me to resolve the problem. Have a good day!
