Title: WordPress 2.5 Gallery Function – Select Images
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress 2.5 Gallery Function – Select Images

 *  Resolved [cssbake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cssbake/)
 * (@cssbake)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-25-gallery-function-select-images/)
 * With the new gallery function introduced in WordPress 2.5, I was wondering is
   there any way to select the images which are placed in the gallery? For instance
   a post has 5 uploads, but I only want 3 of them in a gallery. Does anyone know
   of a plugin/modification which will allow me to do this?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-25-gallery-function-select-images/#post-746001)
 * The short answer here is no. Remove the images from the site and reupload them,
   attached to some other post.
 * The longer answer is that the gallery feature is new and so not a lot of development
   has been done to it yet. This may or may not be added in the future.
 *  Thread Starter [cssbake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cssbake/)
 * (@cssbake)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-25-gallery-function-select-images/#post-746004)
 * Well thank you for the quick reply, but I am a little dissapointed. You would
   think that a primary function of a gallery would be to have the option to select
   which files you want to use in the gallery.
 * For instance in my gallery, I have an uploaded file as the post’s ‘thumbnail’
   then I have the main photos which I want to place in a gallery. And I cannot 
   do that without having the post’s thumbnail included.
 *  [richmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richmaster/)
 * (@richmaster)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-25-gallery-function-select-images/#post-746235)
 * I agree. It seems as though the developers purposefully overlooked this very 
   obvious and simple feature to prematurely release 2.5
 * I would much rather have waited for 2.5 to be released rather than have it done
   half way.

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 * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gallery/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)
 * [select](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/select/)

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