Can I create an automatic photostream gallery of any images I upload in a blog?

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  tigermumintraining · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 10:53 am

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  I would like to be able to have my photos that I add to my blogs to be shown automatically in a gallery on a page I have called My Photostream.

  Can this be done without having to upload them again to flickr or elsewhere? or without me having to edit a WordPress gallery everythime?

  Thanks ever so much.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 11:03 am

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  Not to a Gallery, but if you tag or categorize them Photos, then they will always show on the tag or category page of Photos for your blog http://tigermumintraining.com/category/photos

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  tigermumintraining · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 11:29 am

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  Thanks for the reply – How do I create the Photos category page? Sorry – new to this!

  Thanks

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  tigermumintraining · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 11:52 am

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  Hi – I have managed to create a category page using the Appearance > Menu area but I just wanted it to show images only on this page and no the whole blog post.

  Can this be done?

  Thanks in advance

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  tigermumintraining · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 1:50 pm

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  Also, I am using the Matala Theme – does that make a difference?

  Thanks

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 6:21 am

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  Not by using the Category page.

  If you only want the photos to appear, you can create a Page, then use the Gallery shortcode together with the Post ID number, which would look something like [gallery ID="XXX"] You can find the Post ID number by hovering your mouse over the title of the Post on the Posts page and looking in your browser’s status bar.

  The downside is that you will have to update this Page manually each time you want to add a new set of photos, but all you are adding is the Gallery shortcode to that Page.

  You can read more about using the Gallery with Post ID here:
  http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/galleries/

  and here:
  http://agallerydemo.wordpress.com/parent-page/child-page-1/grandchild-page/great-grandchild-page/

  All themes support using the Gallery shortcode.