Posted 3 years ago #
As I always post galleries into a special gallery category, I was thinking of some automation generating the gallery tag.
I want to automatically echo the tag:
[gallery columns="6" orderby="post_name"]
If the post is in the gallery category.
I managed to get it working in single.php and the in_category check. But the php echo shows the real plain text [gallery columns="6" orderby="post_name"] and wordpress doesn't interpreter it.
How can I get this working?
Posted 3 years ago #
what do you mean when you write "I managed"? what exactly you did?
did you read http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode ?
Posted 3 years ago #
I opened single.php and made a php if statement.
Something like this (not real code, because I removed it again).
<?php if ( is_category(4)) echo {("[gallery columns="6" orderby="post_name"]'); } ?>
category 4 is "Gallery".
So it means that if a post is in the category gallery it should automatically show all thumbnails instead that I have to manually insert the gallery in the post.
The IF works, but the only problem is that the output are not the gallery thumbnails, but the plain text tags -> [gallery columns="6" orderby="post_name"]
Posted 3 years ago #
You get me now? :D I don't want to insert the [gallery] tag into all my posts manually. WordPress should insert the tag automatically in all my posts which belong to the category "gallery"
Posted 3 years ago #
:)
you just echo-ing string "[gallery...", php and wp do it as you want
if you want to use gallery code, you need to use this what is at site which i mentioned
echo do_shortcode('[gallery...
Posted 3 years ago #
Thanks! that works great :D
Posted 3 years ago #
Now I only need to load a random thumbnail from the gallery. Do you know how to get that working?
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