Extra space before and after a gallery

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    justpi · Member ·

    Yes, the one possible alternative is the gallery ID trick. Instead of using private posts, you can use static pages (created in Pages > Add New). You don’t need to make them private: you’ll just create a custom menu in Appearance > Menus and add only Home and About to the menu.*
    This way your top menu will display only those two tabs, no matter how many other pages you publish, and no one (including you) will be able to see those other pages.
    *Details here:
    http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

    When you click on a gallery thumbnail you get a larger view of the image against a dark background, with previous/next arrows left and right: that’s the gallery carousel slideshow. Do you want that or not? If not, there’s a second alternative to using ID numbers.

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    cravingthis · Member ·

    Yes, the gallery carousel is what I’m currently using and what I would want. Thanks for explaining it, I was confusing it with the slideshow option.

    I’ve printed off your link above to practice creating a static page (I knew there must be a way to hide private posts, but I certainly wouldn’t know)!

    Please share with me the second alternative to using ID numbers.

    Thanks again!!

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    cravingthis · Member ·

    Hi justpi,

    I realized your post “did” indicate the steps for creating a carousel already, using a static page. You’re right, the include/exclude workaround is ok, but very time consuming. I’m practicing with the static pages and how to hide them.

    Thanks again for all your assistance!

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    justpi · Member ·

    You’re welcome. Seems you’re practicing successfully!

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    tihmban · Member ·

    justpi – just wanted to post back that the static pages worked like a charm!! Can’t thank you enough!! I did read your instructions (first about the difference between menus/tabs) and when I was in the menus section, I just started playing around, trial and error and figured other things out as well, such as what happened to my “About” tab. It all made sense to me once I was in there.

    1. So, the static pages are always hidden on the left side because I only chose to drag “home and “about” to my menu bar, clicked saved, and that’s it.
    2. Do a lot of bloggers choose static pages for this reason (as well as others), to create multiple galleries?
    3. Am I correct that when I created a new page and named it “Vacation,” I then needed more pages, so I named each one Day 1, Day 2, but under “Page Attributes”, I chose the Parent of “Vacation,” to keep them organized?

    Thanks again, your time and assistance is much appreciated!

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    tihmban · Member ·

    sorry, forgot to add that I used my second blog as a test blog (tihmban is me, cravingthis).

    Thanks

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