Convert Gallery?

  • Resolved frgtech

    (@frgtech)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,
    I’ve been trying out different galleries to to improve on the default supplied by WordPress and I like that it’s lightweight and doesn’t make itself dependent.

    Being new to WordPress I might be missing something but it seems that every gallery I try I have to recreate the gallery from scratch by going to my library and hand selecting every image from scratch. I can’t create a gallery in my media library and then access it with different plugins or edit it as its own entity that could be used or updated in multiple places.

    When trying your gallery I tried to cheat a bit by creating a small gallery then inspecting the shortcode and adding image ids to it. Apparently that is not an option and I’m back to being frustrated. ??

    The other shortcode I tried to hack was to add captions by inserting captions=”true” inside the block but that didn’t work either. (Following this)

    Anyway, maybe from the supplied link you can get an idea of what I’m after. We are a tackle shop and do a daily fishing report. I want to display pictures of customers with their proud catches, (with a caption) and add to it as we go. My problem is I just inherited this blog that goes back to 2011 and there is a huge media library to sift through to collect all these images. Since I’ve done this already using the built in gallery, I have the list of image IDs I want to use.

      Can I build a gallery with a list of image ids?
      Can I sort a gallery by date?
      If I can’t sort, is there a better option when adding new images than to drag images one by one from the bottom of a gallery to the top?
      Can I add captions?
      Can I set the image link to the attachment page?

    Thank you for any insight you might impart.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by frgtech.

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi @frgtech,

    Sorry about that, indeed, the sorting could be a bit easier, I could actually add new attributes to do that. Exactly the same as the standard Gallery does:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Gallery_Shortcode

    Can you see the orderby and order attributes? Could you actually disable the Meow Gallery, and try those attributes? The standard WP Gallery will be used. It will be not pretty, but it should work. I actually would like to know if it works in your case (otherwise, something else is going on). If it works, I will implement those attributes on the Meow Gallery ??

    Thread Starter frgtech

    (@frgtech)

    Hi Jordy,
    That works as expected. Here is the relevant part of the shortcode I used.

    layout="tiles" animation="default" gutter="10" captions="true" link="attachment" custom-class="nolightbox" orderby="post_date" order="desc"][/gallery]

    That would be fantastic to see that incorporated in Meow Gallery.

    Cheers!

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi @frgtech,

    Okay, I will implement this, of course ?? Can you contact me directly? Here: https://meowapps.com/contact/. I will share a beta version for you to try. Let’s make this perfect.

    Thread Starter frgtech

    (@frgtech)

    Hi again,
    Just checking if I missed something. I contacted you via the link form and never got a reply. If you are still working on it, that’s fine of course. Just making sure you weren’t waiting on me.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi @frgtech,

    Don’t worry ?? I have received it. I will reply in one week or two when it will be implemented (I am on holidays now so a bit slower than usual).

    Thread Starter frgtech

    (@frgtech)

    Thanks for getting back and sorry, I wasn’t trying to pester. I read somewhere that you get back within a couple days so I thought I missed something.

    Enjoy your holiday. I’m sure you need it! ??

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