Allow the output of repeating image fields as a standard wordpress gallery.
How would you like this to work?
Note that WordPress galleries work with the ID of Images.
That is practically all it does, as the Media Edit experience to actually create a gallery, is not something we can port to Repeating Image Fields or Repeatable Field Groups.
Now, what you could do is create a Custom ShortCode that returns the Image ID's of your Repeating Custom Fields, or similar, that then populates the Gallery ShortCode, however, it might be much nicer and controllable if you create a gallery with Toolset?
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-pagination/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-sliders-with-types-and-views/
On the other hand, images uploaded to any field can be used in the Media editor to create WordPress Galleries, to those fields are already available for it, but since WordPress galleries are something designed to create on the fly with images in the media uploader, it is not something we can produce with Toolset when adding Repeating Fields or Repeatable Field Groups.
For that, we suggest creating Views, which query those images.
I suggest to open a Support ticket if its not clear how this is done.
The request itself would need more details to get filed, such as how it would have to work (how would you determine what images are in the gallery, other than WP`s native GUI? etc), and where (when adding Fields, when adding galleries? etc)
Maybe if you have more ideas about this, you can share them here so we can formulate a precise request.
I really just want the option to output the ids wrapped in the native short-code [gallery ids="234,543,234"]. I often use third party plugins, that will replace the default gallery, to handle these. It helps keep the look of my site consistent. Some of these plugins also have very powerful features on how column are handled on mobile.
Well, you can do that, by following the steps here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/The_WordPress_Gallery
That's a WordPress ShortCode and it takes as said the ID's of images, and it's built/assembled in the Media library/Editor, not on a post edit screen as fields.
It's possible to pick the images you upload to RFG or Repeating Fields from the library and creating galleries with it.
But it's not possible to list in the Media library only media that belongs to an RFG, for the simple reason that we would have to query all posts, all RFG and all images in it, and that would not really help to narrow them down to one post.
The best way to create such a gallery is to use WordPress suggested approach, which is to pick the images manually in the library.
I am not sure how other plugins with nicer galleries do this, or how it relates to the request, but I fear we cannot implement this, as it's out of the scope of Toolset, it would require a whole new GUI for just gathering the images of certain to be chosen posts in certain maybe not all Repeating instances.
Our gallery output is focused on Views, where we try to improve this constantly.
Since RFG images can be used in galleries, but the insertion of those is not so smooth, this is rather a request for WordPress, because it would require the whole gallery to accept much more inputs and construction methods, do you agree?
I hope to not massively misunderstand the request, please let me know
