Making a Gallery Manually

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  steigerwaldsource · Member · Jul 20, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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  So I know how the gallery function works. It pulls every image that is active within a post into one big gallery. That would be fine if I didn’t need to separate some of the images with headers (on one page). I need it to look something like this:

  Header
  Gallery

  Header
  Gallery

  etc.

  Since I don’t think this is possible with the gallery function I have been trying to enter images manually, trying to follow how the gallery looks. I wanted 3 images per row. When I try to do this though the images become staggered. (I’m using the left, center, right buttons and I’ve tried selecting none and have gotten the same issue). I want the images to be beside each other like if I were to make a gallery, but instead it ends up looking like the following: http://steigerwaldsource.wordpress.com/gallery-2/covers/aspen/fathom-volume-2/

  If anyone knows how to fix this I’d be very grateful. (Sure it’d be easier if you could enter multiple galleries on a single post divider by headers but I haven’t found this possible.)

  Thanks ahead of time for any help.

  -Thomas

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 20, 2010 at 4:14 pm

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  1) It’s possible with the gallery feature, but I don’t think it’s worth it: you have to go to Media>Library, note the ID number of each image, then use the gallery shortcode with the include or exclude option (see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/ ).

  2) Align left/right/center/none doesn’t mean place left/right/center/none only: left and right alignment mean wrap-around as well (rest of content starting next to the image) while none and center mean no wrap-around (rest of content above and below image, nothing next to it). For a row of images you need to set the alignment of all the images to left, and insert them without separating them by line breaks.

  Alternative: table coding in the html editor.

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  steigerwaldsource · Member · Jul 20, 2010 at 4:36 pm

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  Inserting the images to the left and no line breaks works, so thanks for that! Here’s my next question after seeing the result. With the gallery when you clicked on an image it opened in a different page but still on the blog and you could view whatever description you had entered. Now when I click on the image it just shows the image file, not on a blog page.

  Is there anything that can be done to fix this? I liked having the description below the larger image after clicking the thumbnail…

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 20, 2010 at 5:33 pm

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  See here:

  Uploading and inserting images: the three (plus one) link options

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  steigerwaldsource · Member · Jul 20, 2010 at 5:49 pm

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  Doesn’t work. If I choose “Post URL” and save/update and then go to the blog page and click the image it opens a page that says “Page not found”.

  Hm…