Creating a Gallery with WordPress
When I first started re-designing my webpage and building it completely on Wordpress, I used the WPG2 - WordPress Gallery 2 plugin to create and manage my image gallery. This served me fine at first, but after a while it became obvious that it had too many extra features that I didn’t use, trying to attractively integrate my G2 into my Wordpress theme was a pain, and it didn’t give me the easy control over my content that I desired.
So I removed it entirely and took a more serious look at my WP installation itself. After doing some more research in the Codex and browsing the forums, I found it was more than possible to build a gallery just using the tools Wordpress comes with.
Note: This does require some work to set up and continues to require some work with every post. But once you get the hang of it, it’s quick and easy to get exactly the look you want, and unlike a plug-in, it won’t run the risk of breaking your blog when you upgrade.
Go on to page 2 to see how I did it.
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