Galleries: You State Everything But The Obvious: HOW TO

I too would also like to know how.

Yep having same problem, this is bloody frustrating and surely someone out there has worked this one out!!

All I want to do is create an image gallery using a WP tiles grid format I have created, but there seems to be no obvious way to do this.

Also, the WP tiles gallery option seems to only allow you to create a gallery using all images from the current post, or create a gallery from all images form a previous post.

What about allowing the user to select specific images and a specific grid template?

The functionality seems to exist in the advanced options for posts, but not images!

This is a solution we have for tiles that are only images. I removed additional unneeded parameters for this example.
[gallery tiles="yes" grids="Our Work" small_screen_grid="Mobile" breakpoint="800" image_size="large" links="file" ids="95,481,447,448,449" orderby="rand"]

Wow, you guys are pretty riled up. It does it automatically if you use the wysiwyg editor. After that you can use the text option and start modifying your shortcode. At least that’s how I got this far. For more options you can find them online. There are more parameters.

As you can see I even have different grids for desktop and mobile specified. Set your specific images using the ids and specific grids using grids and small_screen_grid and you can do a specific order by using orderby for random, ascending, descending and possibly other options.

Also, (I know OP has asked this 8 months ago) for future reference for others googling this you can in a page or post use either the ‘Visual’ editor or the ‘text’ editor. If you hit the ‘text’ tab you can insert your shortcode there.

OP had an additional comma in his ‘ids’ section and wasn’t specifying a grid. In my example I used a given grid called “Mobile” and a custom one called “Our Work” that we made and titled ourselves so it gives a proper example.
Hope it helps you and future people.

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I started with his documentation. https://wp-tiles.com/docs/shortcode/

Thanks so much for this camdixon, very much appreciate you responding.

I have searched high and low online but found no references to working with galleries using custom grid formations in wp-tiles so this is just what I needed.

My only issue now is that including more than one grid type on a single post won’t work (they all seem to default to look the same) unless I change the breakpoint to 0, which works fine, I’m just hoping that won’t have any unintended consequences.

Now all I need to do is find a way of inserting a single caption underneath the gallery aligned to the left, I have tried everything, but have not found any shortcode to to this.

In fact, with the lovecraft theme I am using I have found no way to left align captions under the image at all, let alone a single caption for an entire gallery.

Well that can be tomorrow’s challenge.

Once again, thanks so much for your help.