Using the WP built in gallery

  • Hey

    I noticed this in an 2 year old threadl: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/using-the-built-in-gallery?replies=5
    I am testing out WordPress built in gallery function with version 3.3.1

    Media Library a place to upload images?
    I added all my images to the media library as I wanted to pick out images to add to my acting image page. Creating a gallery. But I did not notice how to do so. I tried attaching various images but it would not work.

    Deleting the images in the library and selecting a page and from there adding images they will me added to a Gallery. When I check the Media Library the various images are now attached to my acting page.

    What I want to do with the built in gallery is this:

    Title: Acting images

    Title: From Krem Nasjonal
    then 5 thumbnail images.

    Next title: From Gaate Music Video
    5 thumbnail images.

    Next title: 21 Grams
    3 thumbnail images.

    I am redoing this site in WordPress:
    https://myactingportfolio.com/images.html

    As I say it would be nice if I could just use the WP built in gallery function. Has anyone worked on the built in gallery at all for the last two years? It would be nice if someone could improve it so that I can make something like the images page above.
    I checked out NextGen gallery for a few minutes but there was no intuitive way of adding images similar to my images page.

    Edit:
    Another question…
    I have added captions to each image and would like to backup the page where the captions are located just in case I will need to delete the gallery again. So that I can add the captions again if needed. In which page are the captions stored?

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  • Thread Starter Paal Joachim Romdahl

    (@paaljoachim)

    Edit2 (actually this edit was too late so I adding another post):
    Another question
    I have added a gallery to an acting images page.
    I would also like to split up the various acting page images and place various images as a gallery into each post it belongs to. So 21 Grams images should be in a Gallery inside the post named 21 Grams. Etc… Do have need to re upload the images so that a Gallery is automatically created?

    Thread Starter Paal Joachim Romdahl

    (@paaljoachim)

    I have been testing out the WP gallery plugin.

    I created a few posts containing image galleries. And a page gathering them together. In the html section of the images page I added this code:

    The id is then the post number seen in the permalink above the content for the specific post.

    (the name you use for the gallery) image gallery 1
    [gallery id=“of the post the gallery belongs to” link=“file”]

    image gallery 2
    [gallery id=“of the post the gallery belongs to” link=“file”]

    image gallery 3
    [gallery id=“of the post the gallery belongs to” link=“file”]

    image gallery 4
    [gallery id=“of the post the gallery belongs to” link=“file”]

    This way I was able to have a gallery in the specific post containing the specific project and then also add it to a general images page.

    For more information about the shortcodes for the Gallery check:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Gallery_Shortcode

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