How do I get groups of more than 3 photos in a tiled gallery?
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this link is the example of the post I was creating after I had already been told that it was now possible to group more than 3 photos in one go. The only way I see more than 3 is when there is a number of photos that is eg 10 pics and they are grouped as 3, 3 and 4, even though I might have tried to group them as say 5 and 5.
Not sure if I put Modlook in the right place, but here goes!
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Hi there!
So let me make this clear. Are you trying to add more than 3 photos to the tiled gallery or are you looking to have 3 columns?
You can add any number of photos to a Tiled Gallery Block, but there are no layout settings to change how it’s going to be displayed.
If you’re looking to have a clean gallery with a predetermined number of columns, you’ll want to use the Gallery Block instead.If I misunderstood your query, please give us some more details about your process – what exactly are you doing to add the images, what do you expect to happen and what happens instead. If you’d like to attach a screenshot, you can use an online tool, such as https://snipboard.io/, and paste the link into your reply.
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From these you will see examples of when I have chosen to group 4 in one block – it was called Tiled Mosaic in the old system. Now, if I choose, say, 5 photos, it will give me two groups not one – one of 3 and one of 2. I don’t want that, I want 5 in a block!! :-)
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Now, if I choose, say, 5 photos, it will give me two groups not one – one of 3 and one of 2. I don’t want that, I want 5 in a block!! :-)
Do you mean that the gallery gets split if there are more than 4 images inserted? Can you please take a screenshot of those galleries so I can better understand what’s going on? You can use a tool like https://snipboard.io/ to quickly grab a screenshot.
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https://wordpress.com/post/rovingrodge.wordpress.com/15147
If you look at this post, you will see a set of three photos and immediately below them, two more. I had selected these as a group of five for a mosaic effect tiled gallery, but as you can see, it didn’t happen!
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Are you speaking of this?
That is a single gallery with five image. The images are just arranged across two rows.
The galleries in the example post you gave at https://rovingrodge.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/thawd-gatin-processions-drums-and-gongs/ works the same – the tiled gallery always arranges images into rows, based on the dimensions and orientation of the images you add. Sometimes it will arrange one vertical image, with two horizontal ones next to it in one row, as in that post. Other times it will simply arrange them into horizontal rows like on your recent post.
How this arrangement happens is determined automatically at the time the post loads in your browser, and is not something you can control.
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You know what? Your recent explanation has solved the mystery! I now understand that the gallery comprises all the photos but in rows. So it is one gallery but as many rows as the programme deems required.The thing I was wanting to achieve was the same as the old Mosaic effect in the tiled gallery, whereby a whole heap of pics fit into one outer frame, changing size and position accordingly. Seems that can’t be done.
Ok, so now I understand. Not what I would like, but if the new programme doesn’t allow it, well so be it. Unless something can be changed – I mean, if it USED to be possible, surely it can be made possible now? I often use clusters of 3 anyway, but sometimes I want more, and I do not like the effect of 4 teeny photos squished into one row.
Thanks for the explanation though.
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The thing I was wanting to achieve was the same as the old Mosaic effect in the tiled gallery, whereby a whole heap of pics fit into one outer frame, changing size and position accordingly. Seems that can’t be done.
It can’t be forced manually, but the gallery can still arrange images that way. It just depends on the images you add :)
I often use clusters of 3 anyway, but sometimes I want more, and I do not like the effect of 4 teeny photos squished into one row.
I’m with you on that, but that again depends on the images themselves. If you use four images in portrait mode, for example, there’s a bigger chance they’ll just appear in a single row than if one or two of those images have a landscape orientation.
So try to use images with different dimensions and orientations in your gallery. That increases the chance that the gallery will select a more interesting layout.
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Thanks! Yep – that sounds the way to do it. And I have already been advised that the IT team are looking to find a way to caption the tiled gallery too – which is great news.
Don’t you find it scary that a computer programme is in control of deciding for us what should go where?!! :-D
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