Finally!
I’ve got a working Gallery/Photos Page.
Since beginning my blog, I’ve been trying to get a gallery of some description working, and to my liking. It’s taken a while, but I think that we’re there!
My first attempt was a manual one, which was very labour intensive, and lasted all of two minutes.
I then came across “Gallery 2“, and its associated plug-in for Wordpress, “WPG2“, which my friend Sam had installed on his blog. This was a vast improvement on the manual way that I had been doing things. But sadly, I couldn’t get it to integrate as I wanted to with my blog. Whether this was the theme I was using for my blog at the time, or just me not getting my head around “Gallery 2″ and “WPG2″. I soon gave up, as I didn’t have the patience or the perseverance at the time.
The next plugin that I came across was the NextGEN Gallery. On first impressions this seemed to be the answer to what I was looking for, but over time, it seemed to be a little more hard work updating albums and galleries etc.
But now, I’ve returned to Gallery 2 and WPG2. And everything seems to have fallen into place. The Gallery is integrating nicely with my WP theme. I think what has made the difference is that I installed one of the standard themes for Gallery2.
Over the coming days, weeks, or whenever I will update the gallery with some more of our photos. Hope you’ll enjoy them.
Themocracy
Aye, Gallery2 isn’t so bad. I can’t stand the admin interface but when you finally get it all working it does the business. Your gallery is looking goooood!
On my mac I’ve got an “export to Gallery” plugin for iPhoto (the native Mac photo manager thingy), so getting pics onto the blog is really easy and painless – always the best way!
I’m gradually adding more photos to it. It’s great when everything just drops into place!