Title: Gallery Shortcode custom placement
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Gallery Shortcode custom placement

 *  [83creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winnard/)
 * (@winnard)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/)
 * Hi Guys,
 * I am in the process of producing a custom theme for a client.
 * The theme’s homepage will have a Jetpack tiled Gallery displaying full width 
   across the page…BEFORE THE CONTENT.
 * The client wants to be able to edit the content of the gallery when the see fit.
 * I thought that the process of placing the gallery shortcode in my template would
   work via echo do shortcode. But what I need to do is take it out of the_content();
   and display just before the content begins.
 * How can I achieve this???
 * Here is the code for this particular part including the html so you awesome wordpress
   dudes can help me out.
 *     ```
       <section class="row main-content-home" role="main">
   
       <?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div class="gallery-display">
       	I WANT TO PLACE THE GALLERY HERE, BUT I CAN'T JUST PUT IN THE ID'S BECAUSE THEY MIGHT CHANGE. I NEED A DYNAMIC APPROACH.
       </div>
   
       <div class="container">
           <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
             <?php the_content(); ?>
   
       //REST OF THE LOOP
       </div>
       </section>
       ```
   
 * If somebody could help me it would be great.
 * Dan

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 *  [Richard Aber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richaber/)
 * (@richaber)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/#post-6560925)
 * Have you considered using a custom field for this?
    Or perhaps even some kind
   of post relationship, where the related post has a specific tag.
 * Some tools that could be leveraged to help you achieve this could be [Pods](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/),
   [CMB2](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/), or [Advanced Custom Fields](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/),
   or [Fieldmanager](http://fieldmanager.org/) (to name a few).
 * For example, you could create a new WYSIWYG field that’s specifically to be output
   above the normal content.
 *  Thread Starter [83creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winnard/)
 * (@winnard)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/#post-6560927)
 * Hi Richard,
 * Thanks for getting back to me. I currently use a plugin called “Multiple Content
   Blocks” which is perfect for what I need. I just rely on that plugin quite a 
   bit and wondered if there was a way I could learn to code it without using a 
   plugin.
 * I didn’t think about the Advanced Custom Fields plugin so I may look into that.
   I know the saying “why re-invent the wheel” but I want to try and learn for myself
   and not rely on so much plugin functionality.
 * I will wait it out for an answer and in the meantime use the plugin to solve 
   the issue.
    🙂
 *  [Richard Aber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richaber/)
 * (@richaber)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/#post-6560937)
 * Okay, you want to avoid a plugin, and look at how to do it from scratch yourself.
 * We still have options, so let’s consider an alternative approach.
 * One potential solution is to check the content of a page/post for the WordPress
   Gallery Shortcode with the [get_post_gallery function](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_gallery).
   If the shortcode exists in the content, we could output it wherever we want on
   the template (example for output is included in that same link).
 * We could then remove the first gallery shortcode from the content itself in a
   function hooked to [the_content filter](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/the_content)
   later.
 *  [Richard Aber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richaber/)
 * (@richaber)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/#post-6560938)
 * Hi winnard,
 * If I understood everything that you stated earlier correctly, then I believe 
   this proof of concept would be something that you could use and adapt to your
   particular use case.
 * [https://gist.github.com/richaber/8bd66b46e07ffef0635a](https://gist.github.com/richaber/8bd66b46e07ffef0635a)
 * The front-page.php template echos get_post_gallery outside of the_content.
 * The function and filter in functions.php then removes that first gallery shortcode
   from the_content when the_content is being output in the front-page.php template.
 * This might not be exactly what you were looking for, but hopefully it gives you
   some ideas and helps you find what you’re looking for.
 *  Thread Starter [83creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winnard/)
 * (@winnard)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-shortcode-custom-placement/#post-6560939)
 * Hi Richaber
 * I cannot thank you enough for spending the time to find all this useful information.
 * I will definitely have a play with what you have supplied. Having briefly looked
   through the code, I will only ever be pulling out the gallery on the homepage
   of the website so it looks like it could be a good fit.
 * Many thanks again for your help. I will let you know how I got on with it before
   marking this thread as resolved.
 * Dan

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