Adding multiple gallery pages in Wordpress

naturalEnquirer

Joined: 2008-06-15
Posts: 52
Posted: Tue, 2008-07-08 15:50

Is there a way to add a Wordpress page that opens a subalbum in addition to or in place of the main album? E.g. album has animals, plants, and places with many subalbums. Rather than opening at the top level, I'd like user to see animals, plants, or places to start with.

Thank you.
 
ozgreg
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Posted: Wed, 2008-07-09 02:56

naturalEnquirer,

Hmmm you could create a series of Wordpress Pages that you can embed the relevant top Album into or Gallery2 also has a multiroot plugin that allows you to select different entry points.. Either has it's pluses and minuses.

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naturalEnquirer

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Posted: Wed, 2008-07-09 23:01

How exactly do I embed an album into a WordPress page? I want the visitor to see the album as soon as he or she visits the page.

Thanks.
 
ozgreg
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Posted: Fri, 2008-07-11 03:21

In the Edit Pages, you can Insert the Album using the G2Image Selection Tool just click on the G2Image icon and insert the Album rather than an individual photo. (I believe it is the TOP selection item not the one further down)

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naturalEnquirer

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Posted: Wed, 2008-07-16 12:25

Thanks for thought. I tried that before, but the Insert album option just inserts a link to an album. If I am wrong, please give more details.
 
ozgreg
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Posted: Thu, 2008-07-17 01:30

naturalEnquirer,

Please ensure you are selecting to insert a WPG2 Tag to the album, a link is not going to work..

Thanks..

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xadium

Joined: 2008-11-09
Posts: 5
Posted: Sun, 2008-11-09 16:26

Hi

Using the WPG2 tag just puts a link to an album in a post, albeit with a nice little picture of the album highlight. What I want to do (and maybe it was what naturalEnquirer was trying to achieve) is a have a link in my pages bar at the top of the site which goes straight to an album. While it's fine to put in a link (hardcoded) to http://xx/v/albumname, when visiting that URL the Gallery menu item is highlighted/class-ed 'current page'. It's like a 'fake' separate gallery (it's hidden from the top level).

Is it possible to create a page like the WPG2 page, that points straight at an album within G2 and is the correct 'current page'.

Thanks
Ali
 
naturalEnquirer

Joined: 2008-06-15
Posts: 52
Posted: Mon, 2008-11-10 17:16

Here is how I achieved what I wanted, which I think is the same thing you are wanting. I found a Wordpress plugin called "Page Links To" at http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/

Plugin is very easy to use and hopefully this is what you're after.

Author's description:
"Page Links To is a plugin that allows you to make certain WordPress pages or posts link to a URL of your choosing, instead of their WordPress page or post URL."
 
xadium

Joined: 2008-11-09
Posts: 5
Posted: Fri, 2008-11-14 22:28

Thanks for that, gets me part way there but I'm still having fun with the menu highlighting for 'current page'. If I click on the link for Portfolio, the page loads up but it's Gallery which is highlighted in the menu bar at the top (which is technically correct because the album is part of WPG2).

Any ideas on fixing that? (kinda tempted to maybe removing the menu highlights for current page...)

Ali