WordPress 2.5 Gallery Problems on Blog24

WordPress 2.5 Gallery Problems

Posted by Chris
On April 01, 2008
Categories: Photography, WordPress

Having appreciated an easy way to upload and display photographs using the new gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 I have only just discovered that it has broken my theme’s layout.

At first I thought it was the extra long titles given to each photo. After editing every title the layout is still screwed up! I’m sure it is just a snippet of CSS away from a fix and I will have to look into it.

Another Problem (Perhaps)

I have also noticed that the pages created to display the photos are placed into the default category (Design on Blog24). While this might not be a major issue the fact that I haven’t seen a way to change these pages’ categories is. Again it is something that I will have to look into.

The best solution I’ve thought of so far is to change the default category to Photography so when the gallery feature is used at least they will be in a suitable category.

ALT and TITLE Attributes Issue

There may be a very slight problem with the way that alt and title attributes are assigned. I need to examine the resulting code further as I could be wrong. If I am right, I will report back.

How Many Classes?

Finally, I am slightly disgruntled with the class attributes that are added when adding uploaded photos to a post. Again further investigation is required and it could be these classes which are interfering with the theme’s CSS.

‘Temporary’ Conclusion

While the introduction of the gallery feature into WordPress has been welcomed by many it is still early days and no doubt improvements will be made. WP’s Gallery does look promising but perhaps there is a plugin that will provide a more elegant solution for bloggers to add galleries in their posts. (Suggestions below please.)

It will take time to look into these problems further and when true solutions and conclusions are found I will publish them.

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