Gallery solution required!

  • Resolved mcbbr

    (@mcbbr)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hey all! I have a problem to solve.

    I have a gallery page on a website I’m building, which is laid out as a grid of thumbnails. When clicked, they use a lightbox-style script to enlarge the images to full size in the same window. Here’s an example of the code for one image:

    <li><a href="image.jpg" rel="lightbox-o" title="caption"><img src="thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /></a></li>

    But a client having to deal with all of that when adding more images is not exactly ideal! I need a way to make adding new images much easier, maybe just using the main image and having it automatically scaled to a thumbnail for a start.

    Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks very much in advance!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You can use a native WordPress gallery.

    Create or edit the post or page that you want the gallery to appear in and then click the “Add an Image” button (it looks like a picture frame right next to “Upload/Insert” above the post editor). You can use this to upload all of your images at full size and WordPress will automatically generate the various sizes (including thumbnails) for you. Now, it’s important to note that once you add an image via this method while writing or editing a post or page, it will be assigned to that specific post or page, which is how WordPress keeps track of the gallery’s content. Once you have uploaded all the desired images, click the “Add an Image” button again, select the “Gallery” tab, choose your desired settings, and click the “Insert Gallery” button at the bottom to add the gallery to your post or page.

    If you like getting your hands dirty, there are few more settings that you can tweak by altering the gallery shortcode in the HTML editor tab.

    Once you have your gallery setup, there are plenty of good plugins to further enhance it, like jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries.

    Thread Starter mcbbr

    (@mcbbr)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Brilliant! Thank you so much!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You’re welcome!

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