Title: Gallery solution required!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Gallery solution required!

 *  Resolved [mcbbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcbbr/)
 * (@mcbbr)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-solution-required/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-solution-required/#post-1689381)
 * 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/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](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/).
 *  Thread Starter [mcbbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcbbr/)
 * (@mcbbr)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-solution-required/#post-1689388)
 * Brilliant! Thank you so much!
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-solution-required/#post-1689389)
 * You’re welcome!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-solution-required/#post-1689389)
 * Status: resolved

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