gallery styling

Thanks for the good words and for your question.

It looks like you found the “Style and Markup Templates” section on the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab and the “Table-based Style and Markup Template Example” later in the section; is that right?

Once you’ve created a style template and/or a markup template there are two ways to use them in your [mla_gallery] shortcodes:

1. You can set them as your default templates in the “Default [mla_gallery] Templates and Settings” section on the Settings/Media Library Assistant MLA Gallery tab. Your templates should appear in the dropdown controls; pick the templates you want, then scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Save Changes”.
2. You can add mla_style= and mla_markup= parameters to the [mla_gallery] shortcode.

Here is an earlier support topic with some additional examples and information:

Creating a post with Image metadata

You may have already found this topic with links to some related topics:

Table of videos w/ title, desc , tags, length

If none of the above is helpful could you post the content of your templates and shortcodes and perhaps a link to a page which uses the shortcodes? Any additional details you can supply will let me be more specifically helpful.

I am traveling for two days; back home on Tuesday. Thanks for your patience until I can follow up.

Thanks for your additional details.

You wrote “What short codes do I use, and where do I put them?“. The [mla_gallery] shortcode is the MLA alternative to WordPress’ [gallery] shortcode. You use this shortcode in the posts/pages where you want to display a gallery of Media Library items, just as you would [gallery].

You wrote “Where do I input the CSS for the font size and padding so it connects to the short code?” The CSS styles can go in your theme’s styles.css file, in MLA’s Style template or inline on your post/page. If you use MLA’s Style template you can take advantage of the substitution parameters described in the Documentation tab. If you define a custom MLA Style template you must either make it the default or use the mla_style parameter as described in my first response.