Comments on: How to Render Your Own WordPress Photo Gallery

By: NCPR

NCPR — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:30:34 +0000

Question; after doing all of this I still cannot scroll through my photos that are in my gallery. There is no “next” button. When I click on an image it just loads that one image and I have to click the back button and find where I was in the gallery to click on the next one. Is there an easy way to fix this?
Thanks

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:21:15 +0000

I used this code to create a gallery. But now I found out that if a user changes the images in the gallery from within the editor the changes are not respected anymore – for example: when I delete one image from the gallery and I look at the post I still see this image. It seems that the images are kept as attachments of the post. As your code uses the attachments of the post and not really the ids from within the shortcode (where the image’s id is deleted correctly) this issue appears. Is there any other way to change the output code of the gallery using the correct images?

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By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:58:46 +0000

In your original example of how to render your own gallery you left out how to input your own HTML markup – thats the part Im hung up on at the moment

You need to put all the HTML code into a PHP string, and then just return the string.

Are you familiar with PHP? You will need some of that to get the syntax right and to put in the proper image variables at the right place.

For a simple example, check out shiba-native.php or shiba-navlist.php in the Shiba Gallery plugin.

The [gallery] syntax is a shortcode, so it may also be useful to check out the shortcode API on the WP codex-
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

Good luck!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:53:27 +0000

Ok, I see what youve done in your example…
What Id like to do however is script out my own version of your plugin essentially that uses the Slides plugin (http://slidesjs.com/) instead. Id like to output different styles of galleries all utilizing this plugin though.

In your original example of how to render your own gallery you left out how to input your own HTML markup – thats the part Im hung up on at the moment

Your plugin looks great but it doesnt suite my needs for my project unfortunately so I need to build my own…that said, Im still learning how to hijack WordPress’ native gallery and render my own so a more detailed example of how that can be done is what Im looking for.

If you dont have the time to script something like that out I fully understand and I appreciate the time youve already offered me…If you even might have some good links for me to reference to help grasp this topic that would be a huge help as well!

Best,
Shaun

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:39:57 +0000

Thank you so much! I will check this out ASAP!

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:53:04 +0000

Released here -
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/shiba-gallery-3-7

There is example code at the end to change gallery type based on post or page.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:42:31 +0000

Sounds awesome, looking forward to when its released!
That said, if you have a moment I would love some insight as to how to go about adding multiple gallery markups to the function

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:06:08 +0000

I am about to release a new version of the plugin that allows you to just hook into a filter to change the gallery default values. Just have to do a bit more testing.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:08:21 +0000

Also if you dont have time to give an example, may I ask which template file in your plugin I should examine to see how to go about scripting my own html to be outputted from the custom gallery?