Creating a Gallery with WordPress
Step 3A: Making Sub-Galleries (In Posts)
In my gallery, I turn ordinary posts into sub-galleries with good ol’ HTML style gallery templates. Tables are your friends. I link the thumbnails to the WP created image page, which gives each picture a comment and description area without me having to create individual posts.
I’ll admit to this seeming a little stone age when compared to the nifty PHP and CSS functionality of Wordpress — but it’s also easy to use and easy to customize. It results in a limited number of posts instead of multiple posts for each individual picture.
Step 3B: Making Sub-Galleries (In sub-Categories)
You can also organize your gallery the same way you created it: with categories and category templates.
1 - Create a child category under your main gallery category. Follow the instructions from <a href=”http://www.scatterwind.com/creating-a-gallery-with-wordpress/2/”>step one</a> to give it a gallery layout or it’s own particular design.
2 - Create a post with a gallery preview image and file it under the main Gallery category. Link the image to the sub-category.
And that’s it!
To see all this in action, view my gallery.
If you’ve designed your own gallery using WordPress, link it in the comments.
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