Wordpress Gallery tutorial

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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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Perfection?

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I think so.

  • What I thought was going to turn into a crazy weekend of hacking through the theme’s CSS and PHP and going back and forth between the wordpress codex and my terminal windows turned out to be alot easier than I had anticipated.  I’ll post something up tomorrow night about what was required and hopefully I can transfer some of my old galleries over to the new format. (3 comments)

Wine Wonderland

Jen and Garett hosted a wine party for Jen’s 30th birthday.

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3rd of July

A pre-celebration of the 4th.

This album has 66 items.
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  • Excuse the mess on the image pages, I’m messing around with printing out the exif data. (0 comments)
  • I noticed that some of the gallery pics are a bit tiny - I’ll be updating the individual pages to display EXIF data for the photo as well as a link where you can download the original image.  Too tired to do that right now. (0 comments)

Galleries

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So I finally got the galleries going and I think I’ve gotten them to integrate into the site well enough.  I had contemplated messing with some of the flickr additions but I’m not sure I want to bother with that.

I’ll try and write up a few paragraphs about what I had to do to accomplish it but it’s 1 in the morning and I gotta go golfing tomorrow morning!

My dog wants to be a teletubbie.

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Man, I’m so mean to my dogs.

Wordpress 2.6

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I’ve upgraded the blog to wordpress 2.6 and hopefully I’ll figure out how to write some decent looking gallerys like Matt has over at http://ma.tt.