Comments on: Theming Your WordPress Gallery

By: Tweaking your WordPress Website | archshrk

Tweaking your WordPress Website | archshrk — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:57:20 +0000

[...] optimize your image page and gallery. Sarah has some very useful information on Theming Your WordPress Gallery which I’ve used to improve the user experience, and the search engine [...]

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Using the WordPress Gallery :: Stuff by Sarah — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:22:01 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:15:29 +0000

The code I posted above replaces the wordpress loop code in the single.php file. I assume you’ve duplicated your single.php (or index.php if single.php doesn’t exist) and renamed it image.php. The look for the first line of the code above, which is the start of the loop, and look for the end of the loop which should look similar to the last couple of lines of the code above.

Then delete this code in the file and replace it with all of the code above (note you’ll need to remove the space between the question mark and ‘php’ if you copy the code. Side effect of the plugin used unfortunately).

Then if you view an image from your gallery it should output everything correctly. If you’re still seeing PHP code then check for the spaces between

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:06 +0000

btw Sarah, this post was very helpful and I'm so glad I found it, I bookmarked it for future template modifications thank you so much for your work!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:51:46 +0000

Hi Elaine. Just took a look at your gallery and the additional space is in there. If you change the first line of the EXIF code from

< ?php if (is_attachment()) : $imgmeta = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $id );


It should be fine    As I mentioned, it's an annoying side effect with the plugin that a space is inserted in the middle of the opening PHP tag, which prevents all the code from being parsed on the server. Trouble is the code tags are not great for outputting code as there's no colouring, line numbering or indentation.
Anyway, hope that fixes your problem. Let me know if it doesn't



By: Elaine
Elaine — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:45:33 +0000
in fact, i'll go back to last weeks post and post that code, and then you can see by going to my gallery



By: Elaine
Elaine — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:43:51 +0000
well i have an image.php files and tried replacing the code in there, and i tried it in the single post too, but that did nothing, but yeah it showed up as code when i put it in the image.php file, and i didn't see any reason why, as in your last post about getting exif data, the code was just another php statement, so it should have worked, but just printed out the code, perhaps i should have posted my problem on your last week's post about getting exif data



By: Elaine
Elaine — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:57:43 +0000
where are you supposed to put the code in the image.php file? because it didn't work for me, it just printed out the code on my page.. i don't want to see a bunch of php code in my gallery… guess i'll have to find another way of extracting the EXIF



By: Sarah
Sarah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:47:49 +0000
Good to hear John. Don't forget next week's post will end the 3 parter, with a few more tricks to use  



By: John Young | We Have
John Young | We Have — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:55:48 +0000
This is a very interesting post and one that I'll have to give some consideration in the future.  We've been toying with the idea of instituting a gallery on our site and this info will come in handy!