This is part 3 on using the built in WordPress Gallery features. Part 1 and Part 2 are recommended reading also.

So, you’ve created a few galleries, you’ve got your single image page looking spot on with all the details and EXIF data displaying. However when you create a new gallery what happens on the front page of your site? If you’re display the full post, the whole gallery will display. If you’re displaying an excerpt, you’ll get a short excerpt if you’ve set one. Personally I like the way Matt Mullenweg has set…

I am working on a new site for an online publication From My Bottom Step and I wanted to be able to allow authors to display external links from the post and additional resources in the sidebar or the footer of the post like some major newspaper sites do. To do so I enlisted them help of a little used wordpress feature, custom fields.

The issue however was that I wanted it to be brain dead simple for authors to use. I didn’t want them to have to format the links with…

Last week I wrote about using the WordPress Gallery and EXIF features, introduced in WordPress 2.5. This week I want to explain how to create your large photo theme file.

Last week (if you’ve not read last week’s post, I do recommend it before proceeding!) you may remember that I mentioned that when you click one of the thumbnails it will display the medium sized photo, and that you should be able to create a theme name image.php to control this display, otherwise the single.php file would be used. However, at the…

The release of WordPress 2.5 included a built in gallery feature. Nothing major by any means, but it gave you the option of using a simple gallery to display your photos. It also included the ability to pull the EXIF data from your photos. However, whilst the features are there, there’s not much information or tutorials on using them. Hopefully this post will give you a bit more information on how to get the most from this new feature.

Create the Gallery

You can create the gallery in a post or a page.…

Last week I explained the 3 content tags, which you can use either in your WordPress template files or whilst writing your post.

So how can you use these to create a different front page? Using a simple if statement you can determine which post you’re displaying and alter your settings to suit. For example, display your most recent post in full, then the rest of the posts in excerpt format.

Using The Loop

The WordPress Loop is used to display the post(s) or Page content on the selected page. It first checks if…