Photo Gallery Using WP Tiles

  • I’m trying to use WP Tiles to make prettier photo galleries than the stock WordPress galleries.

    The directions for WP Tiles say to use the stock WordPress gallery maker and check an option to use WP Tiles instead. I don’t see that option anywhere. Can someone point me to where it should be?

    Also, is there a way to do this using short codes? I tried playing around with using short codes to make a gallery, but it just looks like the stock WordPress gallery.

    Thanks for the help.

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  • Thread Starter billdf99

    (@billdf99)

    If anyone else is interested, I figured out the shortcodes to use WP Tiles as a photo gallery. Here’s what I used:

    [gallery tiles="true" ids="784,789,788,787,786,785" grids="Photo_Gallery_1" small_screen_grid="Mobile" breakpoint="560" padding="2" animated="true" byline_effect="slide-up" byline_height="35%"]

    Now I just need to figure out how to get photos to open in a lighbox.

    Thread Starter billdf99

    (@billdf99)

    I tried a few different options to get the photos in a WP Tiles Gallery to open in a lightbox. The Jetpack carousel caused the WP Tiles gallery to completely dissappear. There would just be a blank space on the page where the gallery was supposed to be. Could be an issue with my theme, but I’m not sure. Another lightbox plugin, WP Lightbox 2, caused the WP Tiles gallery to become distorted. Finally, I settled on Responsive Lightbox by dFactory. Its a great lightbox with a ton of features and options. Its very easy to set up, and worked like a charm with WP Tiles. In order to get it to work, I added link=”file” to my short code. It now looks as follows:

    [gallery tiles="true" ids="784,789,788,787,786,785" grids="Photo_Gallery_1" small_screen_grid="Mobile" breakpoint="560" padding="2" animated="true" byline_effect="slide-up" byline_height="35%" link="file"]

    thanks with the shortcode here, i basically manage to show galleries via WP Tiles.

    Using Responsive Lightbox works fine when applying WP Tiles via a Gallery, but when I try generating a shortcode to pull custom posts into a tiled gallery the link does not trigger the Lightbox. It just opens the media file.

    I have set Responsive Lightbox to “Try to force lightbox for custom WP gallery replacements, like Jetpack tiled galleries” but it still isn’t working.

    Any ideas? Many thanks for any help you guys can offer!

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