How to Create a WordPress Photo Gallery

When I first made a WordPress blog, one of the first things I wanted to do was create a photo gallery for my article.

It seems like it should be an easy task, but I had a difficult time figuring out how to create my gallery from the WordPress Edit Post interface.

Here is a step by step tutorial on how to -

• Create and insert a photo gallery into your WordPress article.
• Remove images from your WordPress gallery.
• Add new images into your WordPress gallery.

First, we need to edit or create the Post for our WordPress gallery. We can do this by clicking on the Posts tab to the left of our WordPress Dashboard. Then click on Add New to create a new post or blog article.

Enter in a title for our post and we are ready to create our first WordPress gallery.

Step 1. Click on the Add an Image button right under our article title.

Step 2.

This will open a pop-up window that allows us to upload images from our computer, from a web URL, or from our WordPress media library.

For now, we just want to upload images from our computer so we click on the Select Files button, navigate to the directory of our choice, and Ctrl-Click or Shift-Click to select multiple images.

Step 3.

Once we are done uploading all our images, click on the Save all changes button at the bottom of the pop-up window.

After clicking on Save all changes, we will be presented with our new gallery.

From this gallery screen we may further customize how our gallery will appear in our blog article. In particular we may set -

• Link thumbnails to - Whether our gallery thumbnails should point to the source image file (Image File) or to the theme formatted image file (Attachment Page).
• Order images by - Which attribute to use to order our images.
• Order - Whether to sort our images in ascending or descending order.
• Gallery columns - The number of columns to use to show our images.

Once we are happy with our gallery settings, click on the Insert Gallery button at the bottom of the window.

This will insert the gallery into our post. We may now add whatever text we want above or below our WordPress gallery. For example, in the screen-shot below we have added the text "This is my first WordPress gallery!" below our gallery object.

We may also edit our gallery settings at any point by selected our gallery and then clicking on the Edit gallery button at the top-left of the gallery object.

And just like that, we are done!

Remember to click on the Publish or Update button to save your new gallery enhanced blog article.

Click on the Preview button at any time to get a quick look at your WordPress gallery.

After creating a gallery, we may want to add new images to it, or remove old images from it.

To achieve these tasks, click on the Media Library tab on the left our WordPress Dashboard.

Notice that the images we just uploaded into our WordPress gallery are listed here. Also note that these images are attached to the Post we just created for our gallery.

To remove an image from our gallery, simply delete it in the Media Library screen.

Single images can be deleted by hovering your mouse over the image row and selecting the Delete Permanently option.

Images can be deleted in bulk by -

1. Click on the checkbox of all the images to be deleted.
2. Select the Delete Permanently option from the Bulk Actions drop-down menu above.
3. Click on the Apply button to delete the selected images.
   

To add an image to our WordPress gallery -

1. Click on the Posts tab and edit our newly created gallery Post.
2. Then click on the Add an Image button right below our Post title.
3. Select the images we want to add into our gallery from our local computer.
4. Click on the Save all changes button once we are done.
   

There are a variety of WordPress gallery plugins that allow you to display styled and interactive javascript photo galleries. For example, the screen-shot below shows a Noobslide gallery rendered using the Shiba Gallery plugin.

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