Gallery in the sidebar with free WP version?

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  kavlungnet · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 7:21 pm

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  I’m trying to find out if I can add a gallery to my sidebar (Gallery Widget) when using the free WP version? Or is it only possible with the privately hosted version?
  Thx, Ylvali

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 9:12 pm

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  If you are talking about a site hosted on WordPress.com, we can use the Gallery shortcode in a text widget in our sidebar. Other options are the flickr widget or flickriver’s code in a text widget.

  More here:http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/
  Even more here: http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/not-the-official-wordpresscom-gallery-faq/

  flickr widget:http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/flickr-widget/
  flickriver: http://www.flickriver.com/badge/create

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  kavlungnet · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 8:03 pm

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  Thank you Jennifer,
  I´ll have to try the flickr solution then. I couldn´t get it to work with the shortcode and the text widget.

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 12, 2011 at 6:55 am

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  If it wasn’t clear from reading the resources I pointed to, you have to use an already published Gallery to use its shortcode in a sidebar text widget and then you use the Post or Page ID number in the shortcode.

  You might also have to fiddle a little with the shortcode to make it fit the width of your sidebar, especially the number of columns, so a Gallery with one column would look like this, without the spaces around the brackets:

  [ gallery ID=”239″ columns=”1″ ]

  This will produce a one-column Gallery of thumbnail images from Post 239.

  If there are a lot of images in Post 239, then you might want to use the “exclude” parameter and image ID# to reduce the number of images displayed. So,

  [ gallery ID=”239″ columns=”1″ exclude=”1538,1535,1541″ ]

  Hope that helps.