Display a WordPress Gallery with Toolset

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Problem:
Can we create a WordPress Gallery and laterd display that gallery or re-use the images added to it in Toolset?

Solution:
No, those galleries are a WordPress features, which create Galleries all coded by WordPress core.

In Views, you can basically produce the same, by creating sliders.

WordPress simply takes a few attachment ID's (Media, which you can query in Views too), and outputs them with some HTML, all thru the ShortCode

[gallery]

So, you can basically do the same with Views, but you cannot pass the ID values of the above ShortCode to a View Query, so to get only those Images.

The WordPress ShortCode

[gallery]

simply does not allow to return ID's only, which is what would be needed to pass them to a View.

You would have to create a gallery with Toolset Views instead.

Relevant Documentation:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-sliders-with-types-and-views/

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Tagged: Content Templates, Paginated lists, Sliders, Views, Views plugin

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Last updated by Chris 6 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Beda.

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February 22, 2018 at 1:20 am #618507

Chris

Tell us what you are trying to do?
If you go into posts > open a post > Add Media > Create Gallery you can make a gallery of images for a post. Is there anyway for Views to get this info so I could ouput the gallery within a custom <div> and then output each item as a unordered list somehow

Is there any documentation that you are following?
I could not find any. I found an old forum post but it did not seem to relate.

Is there a similar example that we can see?
I know how to make a gallery and I know I could manually make one with repeating image fields but I wanted to know if there was a way to do so using the built-in functionality as an alternative. I don't know when WP added this gallery functionality if its new or not but a client actually introduced me to it!

What is the link to your site?

February 22, 2018 at 12:54 pm #618623

Beda

No, those galleries are a WordPress features, which create Galleries all coded by WordPress core.

In Views, you can basically produce the same, by creating sliders.
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-sliders-with-types-and-views/

WordPress simply takes a few attachment ID's (Media, which you can query in Views too), and outputs them with some HTML, all thru the ShortCode [gallery].
https://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

So, you can basically do the same with Views, but you cannot pass the ID values of the above ShortCode to a View Query, so to get only those Images.

The WordPress ShortCode [gallery] simply does not allow to return ID's only, which is probably what would be needed to pass them to a View.

You would have to create a gallery with Toolset Views instead.

February 22, 2018 at 9:11 pm #618822

Chris

Thank you! I did not even know this Gallery thing existed, a client showed it to me when their gallery was not working. "This is how I was making the gallery." I said "Show me!" and then poof I learned this existed. 🙂 I was hoping now learning of its existence to be able to make some sort of fallback for this client but no biggy I will just have them use the images repeater fields I have added to the content entry.

Thank you for the help!
Cheers!