[Resolved] Have 2 Content field in From, need one to be called in other post

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[adriS]

I want the client to be able to create the content for his post front end. The post must have the ablitlity to create a gallery on the post page and that gallery needs to be able to automatically be added to the Gallery page.

So the idea was to have to body content sections on front end from, one to write content and one to create the gallery. The gallry content I want to call again on the gallery page, with the past heading and thumbnails gallery.

My client is disable and see very difficult so it needs to be as simple as possible. How can I make him create a gallery front end with his post, with the abbility to seperate the gallery from the post so that it can display in Main Gallery page aswel.

[Christian Cox]

I think a repeating image field would be easier to use than a WYSIWYG field, where you have to click "Add Media", then navigate through the Media Library, then insert code, etc. With a repeating image field, the user clicks "Add image" then selects their image on the desktop, and it's done. It's a simpler process. See the attached screenshot. Do you agree?

More information about repeating fields here:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/repeating-fields/

To display a gallery, you can use the WordPress gallery shortcode. The only issue here is that the gallery shortcode requires a list of image IDs. Types repeating image fields contains a list of URLs. So a custom shortcode is required to retrieve a list of image IDs. Add to your functions.php file:

function prefix_get_img_ids($atts) {
  global $post;
  $postid = isset($atts['post_id']) ? $atts['post_id'] : $post->ID;
  $images[] = get_post_meta($postid, 'wpcf-repeating-image-slug', true);

  $ids = array();

  global $wpdb;

  foreach($images as $img) {
  $query = "SELECT ID FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE guid='$img'";
    $id = $wpdb->get_var($query);
    if($id)
      $ids[] = $id;
  }

  return implode(",",$ids);
}
add_shortcode("get_image_ids", "prefix_get_img_ids");

Then you must register 'get_image_ids' and 'wpv-post-id' in Toolset > Settings > Front-end Content > Third-party shortcode arguments.

Now you should be able to use the gallery shortcode and the get_image_ids shortcode to display a gallery in any post:

[gallery ids="[get_image_ids post_id='[wpv-post-id]']"]

Place that code in a Content Template or Layout for your posts. If you want to place this gallery on the gallery page as well, you should create a View of posts. In the Loop Output editor, place the post title and the gallery shortcode. The gallery will appear for each post.

This is a lot of instruction, I know, but once you set it up it will be easy to keep up-to-date, and your visually impaired user will have the least number of steps to follow. Let me know if you have additional questions about this.

[adriS]

Thank you very very much