RDphotography

PiperArts – If you follow what givesuccess instructed, you should have no problems setting up a static page that will allow you to have a gallery laid out as a homepage.

Remember: In the Gallery setting once you’ve uploaded photos, if you want them to simply pop out of the screen to full screen, you need to specify that the imagine links to the image itself, and not to a separate page. You should get the option at the bottom of the gallery settings, you’ll see what I mean.

I’m not sure what the story is with adding photos to an existing gallery, I’ve never actually done this, as I decided to go with the classic blog system in the end in which a new gallery is created for each page. I’m sure it’s possible to add some photos to one though so that you can keep updating the gallery when you want to add some photos to it.

File size: I’m not sure how much you know about the use of photos online, so forgive me if what I’m saying is blandly obvious, but remember that you don’t need the same DPI in online photos as you do for print. 72dpi is perfect for web (you can go a touch bigger if you want, it’ll just take longer to load) and you also don’t need the full resolution either. If you’ve shot on a 5D for example you’re looking at over 20 megapixels. There’s no situation where someone will need that full resolution online, so you can easily drop it down. You should find the upload speeds speed up considerably if you hadn’t been doing this so far.

All the best,
RD Photography

Sorry, I think I’ve got it figured out. I’m guessing I can’t make the photo on the very front page pop out as an individual photo because in fact that’s just the ‘summary’ of my posts right? That is only a thumbnail which links to the actual page on which the photo is displayed.

No worries! I’ve also figured out how to make the image pop out within a photo gallery.

Hi there,

I’ve just signed up to WordPress to host my photography page. I was hoping that someone could guide me in setting up my Hatch theme so that the main page works this way: https://demo.alienwp.com/hatch/sticky-post/
As in when you click on a photo, it acts as a sort of in-screen pop-up.

I know very little about coding I’m afraid so what I say might not be the technical terms for things.

I’d love to have that as a default for the main page for a single photo, so that when I just want to upload a single photo it pops out when clicked on, and then in the situation where I want to upload a gallery of photos from an event for example, it leads to a separate page where a gallery is displayed, and when a photo is clicked on, it once again pops out like they do on that example page above.

I’d really appreciate if someone could help me out, as I’m at a complete loss of where to begin with this!

Very best,
David