Why can I not add photos from media library to a gallery?

  • So strange with the advance functions of WordPress that it is still not possible to take photos from media library and create a new gallery in a new post. I read some old forum threads about this and it was something about that galleries are attached to a specific post but that is not the problem.

    The problem is I want to take a couple of photos I already have in the media library and create a new gallery of them. That would be so frikkin basic I can’t believe it does not exist. What I have to do now is upload the same photos like 4-5 times which takes up soooo much space.

    Is there any solutions to this? Will they have try to make this work or is there plugins for this? For a photographer like me that uses photos all the time, the site gets so slow.

    Thanks!

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  • I′m also at a loss for how to fix this, guess I′ll have to re-upload all images rather than select them from the media library as I would like. I can′t believe there isn′t a solution. I′ll keep searching online.

    @jamesveale5 – I’m with you! Let me know if you find anything out. I’m not a coder either but it seems to me to be a fairly straightforward thing to fix. I’ve hunted and hunted and just keep finding myself being pointed back to NextGen. I’m a sculptor and regularly need to add new works of art to my existing galleries, but I keep having to add duplicate images to apear in different galleries on different pages. I’m quite happy with how Nextgen works but I now can’t create new NextGen galleries from the (hundreds of!) pics already in my media library. It’s most vexing!!

    it seems to me to be a fairly straightforward thing to fix

    It isn’t. And this really is an issue for the various gallery plugins – not WordPress core itself.

    I’d be perfectly happy to ask NextGen if there’s a way around this, but if you go to nextgen-galery.com and click on their support tab…guess where it takes you…so here I am…again.

    guess where it takes you

    Not here. Try https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery

    Thanks Esmi. That’s exactly what I did try. And if you go to the bottom and find the search tool, search for threads about adding to gallery from media library and I end up back here. Or another very similar thread in a very similar forum giving very similar (mostly inconclusive) answers.

    Use the post form at the bottom of that page.

    I’m fairly new to WP, but find this to be a surprising little roadblock. The sites I am working on are image intensive, being able to add shots to a gallery feels from the media library feels like a must have. Did anyone figure out a more simplified workaround?

    Thanks in advance

    b

    @simmsimaging — please start your own thread. This one is outdated and likely not relevant since the media library has been changed since then.

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