Comments on: How To Use The WordPress Gallery Shortcode

By: LucyBeer

LucyBeer — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:42:47 +0000

hi lisa – can you post a link to where I can see the problem?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:47:11 +0000

Hi Lucy, thanks for this. However, the photos in the gallery are weirdly distorted – really tall and skinny and stretched. I have tried changing the sizing in media settings, different number of columns, etc, but always the same result. Any ideas>?

By: GARY CHIRO

GARY CHIRO — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:50:40 +0000

Thanks Lucy this article cleared up a lot for me. I cant believe I have been sing WordPress for over two years and didn't know this option was available on self-hosted wordpress sites. The only thing they need to do to make it less techie is to simplify the removal of images from the gallery instead of manually looking up image id's and using shortcode like [gallery exclude="21,32,43"]

By: LucyBeer

LucyBeer — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:06:15 +0000

Hey Bill
Yes indeed. I have used the gallery in conjunction with a plugin called Lightbox Plus and it worked really nicely. I used this shortcode for the gallery: [gallery link="file"]
making the thumbnails click to larger versions which open in the lightbox.
Cheers
Lucy

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:16:16 +0000

Thank you for clarifying the gallery tag. Is there a way to integrate the gallery tag with a lightbox?

By: Tema Frank

Tema Frank — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:41:42 +0000

THANK YOU! I’ve been hunting for days for a clear explanation of how the gallery feature works.

By: Roving Jay

Roving Jay — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:15:30 +0000

Thanks for this post… I didn't know I could exclude specific photo's – the Codex link was useful. Jay

By: LucyBeer

LucyBeer — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:32:05 +0000

I haven't tried it with external images but I think you are correct in that it's not designed to work with external URLs. I would recommend looking for a plugin that does that. There's tons of photo gallery plugins, I'm guessing you can find something that will do what you want that doesn't rely on the in-built WordPress gallery function. If you find something good, please come back and post it here!

By: rhassall

rhassall — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:09:39 +0000

In addition to creating the shortcode, as you suggested I also was able to acheive the same results by performing the follwing steps, from within the Page Edit screen:

1) Using the upload/insert image button, upload any and all the images you want to include in the gallery, make sure to just click “Save All Changes” instead of “Insert Into Post.”

2) Under the Gallery Settings, make your selections (I have 1 issue with an opttion)

3) Clikck the "Update gallery settings" button

4) That's it you are done!

On the Page Edit screen, if you select the html tab, you will see the shortcode created from the settings you selected under Gallery Settings.

My issue is that I want my images to be linked to external urls that link to other websites, it appears that these options only provide you with linking the images to the "Image File" or the Attachment Page"

I have tried deleting the saved URLs and entering the URLs of my choice, with no success.

By: rhassall

rhassall — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:36:33 +0000

This is great that WP has integrated this. But, how do you get these images to link to external URLs when you click on them?

My issue is that I want my images to be linked to external URLs that link to other websites, it appears that these options only provide you with linking the images to the "Image File" or the Attachment Page"