With the release of Wordpress 2.5 awhile back, they introduced the ‘gallery’ shortcode. The gallery shortcode takes all the media attachments and creates a nicely laid out gallery, thumbnails and all. The problem with it is that it doesn’t do much more then that, unless of course your theme supports it. It shows the attachment and that’s basically it. No navigation, no special listing of galleries, nada.
One of the problems I’ve found with Wordpress is that it’s somewhat difficult to really implement good galleries that stick with the theme. I’ve tried Gallery2/WPG and some others and I’ve even gone the route of trying to have a completely separate gallery or photo blog. Nothing really made me that happy. I like the theme I have currently, so I wasn’t looking forward to finding a new one or actually hacking a new theme together to support the galleries better. So last weekend I sat down and got my hands dirty.
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