In order to use the gallery shortcode outside the loop, you need to specify the post id. Something like this:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery id="15"]'); ?>
Please try it out.
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Pru
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Hi, it does not work if I just put the <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[gallery id="15"]‘); ?> outside the loop. If I put [gallery] inside the post loop, then the lightbox works both in the loop and outside the loop.
When I just use the code outside the loop without using [gallery] in the post, the three images in my gallery drop to a single column. When I click on them, it opens the image in the browser and shows nothing else. Sorry, I don’t have a live site or I’d give a link.
I am using the Single Post Template Plugin from http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/single-post-template/ so maybe that is causing a problem, but I can’t test without that plugin since I use it to display my other content.
I have this issue also…
Ideally I would like to call the gallery dynamic from within a loop for a specific category. However the code above and the following code pulled from wordpress codex on the gallery also doesn’t work
<?php
//$gallery_shortcode = '[gallery id="' . intval( $post->ID) . '"]';
//print apply_filters( 'the_content', $gallery_shortcode );
?>
The above didn’t work exactly, it pulled all the gallery images on the page in a column and once clicking on the images, it went to the image page versus lightbox.
I also tried
<?php
$gallery_shortcode = '[gallery]';
print apply_filters( 'the_content', $gallery_shortcode );
?>
And that didn’t work either..
Do you have a suggestion for pulling multiple galleries within the loop ?
Thanks in advance,
