Comments on: Galleries in WordPress 2.5

By: Webstractions

Webstractions — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:49:57 +0000

“I can’t try it right now, but I guess that I just drop that function into the functions.php file in the theme and edit it from there?”

Yes, copy the whole function, including the function name/parameters/curlybraces, and paste it in the functions.php file in your theme subdirectory.

Any WP core function name found there will over-ride that core function. You can also add your own user-functions there, as Chris’ article explains. It is really pretty nifty and easy to use.

By: Webstractions

Webstractions — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:44:24 +0000

Forgot to add a couple of dynamite articles on what you can do with functions.php: Chris Pearson's How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog i.Farang's Wordpress Themes and the functions.php file

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:44:09 +0000

Thanks for that, I hadn’t realised you could do that.

Is this the best documentation page?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

By: Webstractions

Webstractions — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:36:03 +0000

Alastair – First, thanks for all the work you are doing on the Gallery for WP.

I just wanted to drop by and let you know that you don’t have to create a plugin. You can over-ride the core function by copying it into the functions.php file for your theme. Then make your changes there.

If there is any function in the core that is ‘not to your liking’, then copy it and tweak it as you see fit.

This method is good for creating themes with ‘embedded’ plugin functionality.

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:49:34 +0000

Webdiggr, it’s not really an ‘issue’, it’s not supposed to work like that.

Any gallery will link to the larger image (or a page for that), but putting a standard image in with a link should work.

By: webdiggr

webdiggr — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:36:22 +0000

I’m trying to get an image in the gallery to link to another website, but when I save the URL in the gallery and then save the post, it doesn’t work… It keeps linking the image to a WordPress page with the bigger image, and this image in turn links to the image URL. No matter how i’ve tried to save it it won’t work..

anyone have a fix for that issue?

Thanks

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:19:52 +0000

Hi sldesigns,

I’m afraid I couldn’t work out the nesting on the short-tags function, which is why I didn’t put captions underneath.

If you have a look at the bugs in the update, I’ve specified what I would want, but can’t code myself.

If you have a look you might be able to work it out, but it’s not something I’m going to maintain.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:56:01 +0000

There’s a comment on Justin Tadlock’s site from Matt Mullenweg saying that the gallery would be XHTML compatible by default in Version 2.6 Hopefully that also means they’ll remove the tag soup too.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/13/cleaner-wordpress-gallery-plugin#comment-4914

By: sldesigns

sldesigns — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:45:04 +0000

I’m using the plugin, love the use lists instead of dl. For me it doesn’t display a caption or title underneath, either on the gallery page or the link opener page. The alt tag is filled in. Have not made any changes to the plugin coding.

This also doesn’t use the same page for opening a gallery item in a new page (I believe it is attachments in gallery default). Can I get this
to either: use the attachments page or display title, description, caption on a popup page.

Thanks!

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:57:48 +0000

Thanks Justin, and thanks for the info on alts – I only came across you’re plugin just now and hadn’t had a chance to try it yet.