An Easy Gallery Option

Posted on May 7, 2009 and last modified on May 7th, 2009.

There are literally hundreds of ways you can make a gallery within WordPress, with various options, such as using gallery plugins, external scripts and plain ‘ol html code.

One option you may not be aware of though, is to use two plugins combined that run on the LightBox display structure.

Here are 6 images that I have uploaded to demonstrate how this gallery looks on the page, and then we will take a look at what is involved in setting up a gallery such as this.

Keyword: EASY

Personally, I am not a huge fan of the Media Uploader, [I much prefer to use ftp and my own-named image directory] however, for this exercise, I have used what WordPress specifically provides for this task.

So, what did I need to make this simple gallery?

1. Two plugins: Lightbox 2 [basic Lightbox which provides Ligtbox functionality] and Add Lightbox [automatically adds the rel="lightbox[ID-OF-THE-POST]” to images linked in a post. The ID-OF-THE-POST is unique per post so all images per post are grouped in one lightbox set.]

2. A few assorted images – I deliberately chose a mix of varying sizes for this example.

3. 5 minutes of your time.

And that’s it! What could be easier for a simple little gallery?

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