WordPress 2.5 Gallery Problems

Chris — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:30:09 +0000

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.

Another Place by Antony Gormley

Chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:29 +0000

Here’s a selection of photographs I took of Another Place by Antony Gormley. Another Place is the name given to the array of 100 iron cast statues that stand on Crosby beach in the northwest of England.

The main reason for publishing these was to finally test the new Gallery Feature that has been added to WordPress 2.5. To make the gallery I simply uploaded the photographs using the multi-file upload, another new feature in WP 2.5. After that the gallery was added with just one click. Really easy and efficient way to display a series of photos on a WordPress blog.