gallery, shortcode, images

  • in short, HOW to insert an image in a post, without associating it with that post’s gallery?

    in long, I think the gallery shortcode is a pretty impressive leap forward in the handling of thumbnails and image content for blogs.

    however I’m a little confused. maybe someone out there can explain to me, is it possible to NOT include some images uploaded to a post in that post’s respective gallery? say i want to include an image at the top, or one further towards the end, but to have the main ‘gallery’ in the middle. is this even possible? i can’t seem to separate an uploaded image from the post gallery!!

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_the_gallery_shortcode
    isn’t aiding me in my quest.

    any ideas? thanks.

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  • Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    bump.

    want to have a header image in the post, as well as use WordPress’ gallery function, but want to NOT include the header image in the gallery.

    is this possible?

    I agree, often I want a headline image at the top of a post with a gallery at the end… but the headline image is always repeated in the gallery…

    I also haven’t figured out how to un-link a photo from a post once linked…

    Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    bump.

    seriously this has to be possible. the gallery manager should have a way to un-associate an image with the gallery, no?

    I haven’t tried it myself, but I think the plugin discussed here should help you!

    Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    sounds about right. it’s a shame the MFields website that hosts the plugin has dead links to the download. maybe fixed soon. in the meantime, any other ideas, anybody?

    jonny-clothier

    (@jonny-clothier)

    I’m not usually able to contirubte anything to these forums becasue I know so little. However, if you want to publish a gallery which is separate from other images on the same post there is a simple workaround.

    If you upload the gallery images and insert them as a gallery and then upload the separate pictures to separate posts ( which you don’t publish) you can then insert the individual images from the media library as normal without disturbing the gallery layout.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Well, it might be a solution, although you could end up with hundreds of unpublished posts – if you publish lots of pictures.
    The plugin mentioned above, has an “exclude” parameter, to not include certain images into the displayed gallery.

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