Latest in my WordPress 2.5 gallery endeavours
Well, it’s taken a bit of work, but I have almost gotten my WordPress 2.5 galleries functioning the way I want them to. The last step has been creating a custom category template that can show all my galleries on one page, with a short description for each one. Again, the inspiration for this was Matt’s site. A little bit of reading clarified how category templates worked, but I had no idea where to start on this. Thankfully, a kind person on the WordPress.org forums posted a basic gallery category template. I used this as my starting point, modifying the code to get it to look the way I wanted. Happily, this was easily done, and I only needed to make a few additions to my stylesheet to get it to look pretty. You can see the final result here. The category template is available here, and I have included the relevant styles inline.
I then created a new page and used the Links to Page plugin to get it to link to the gallery category page. You can see the link up on the top nav menu.
Things are now almost exactly as I want them. The only thing I haven’t been able to figure out is why the current page indication in the top menu is a bit wonky. I have posted the question on the WordPress forums. If anyone has any suggestions, thanks for going over there and letting me know.
It looks great. Contrats on being among the first (I think) to get image.php figured out and a gallery that actually looks like Matt’s. (Was that a test?)
Since you’ve done so much, I thought I’d challenge you one step further. Whoever designed the gallery had a pretty awkward idea about navigation. Two very large thumbnails under each image is a pain (you have to keep scrolling down to see them on vertical images).
Have you thought about replacing them with simple arrows or even text “Previous” and “Next” links? (I have but I couldn’t figure out how to do it…)
Hey Andy. I spent a bit of time trying to figure this out but I was unable to find a solution. I am afraid my PHP skills are largely of the cut and paste variety. I did note however that you seem to have solved this on your site. How did you manage it?
UPDATE: OK, a little bit of internet searching shows me where you found the answer
Hi!
I found this posting very informative, I’m also interested in building my gallery this way. I have a few questions though!
When I use the template here, when watching the gallery category, in my description text the [gallery] code shows up. I can get this away by placing the more-tag between the description and the gallery, but then instead of seeing the gallery on my home blog page (index.php), I get only the description and the read more-link. On the posts individual page however, everything works. How did you solve this?
I also wanted to ask you if you know how to get the home blog page (index.php once again) to show only the first thumbnail and the description (like on the gallery category page), the way it works on matt’s page? Now it only shows up like this when you’re under the gallery category.
I also noticed that you only display the description text on the gallery category page and not on the home, index.php, page. These are the mysteries I can’t figure out. I hope you can enlighten me! I like you page by the way, very nice design!
// Jens.