I wrote a plugin to handle the invalid XHTML and style it inserts into the page. It’s still in beta but should work:
Cleaner gallery plugin
I’ve modify the gallery shortcode to do a better and a cleaner job
here’s the code
wp-includes/media.php line 384
function gallery_shortcode($attr) {
global $post;
// Allow plugins/themes to override the default gallery template.
$output = apply_filters('post_gallery', '', $attr);
if ( $output != '' )
return $output;
// We're trusting author input, so let's at least make sure it looks like a valid orderby statement
if ( isset( $attr['orderby'] ) ) {
$attr['orderby'] = sanitize_sql_orderby( $attr['orderby'] );
if ( !$attr['orderby'] )
unset( $attr['orderby'] );
}
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'menu_order ID',
'id' => $post->ID,
'itemtag' => '',
'icontag' => '',
'captiontag' => '',
'columns' => 4,
'size' => 'thumbnail',
), $attr));
$id = intval($id);
$attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $id, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => $order, 'orderby' => $orderby) );
if ( empty($attachments) )
return '';
if ( is_feed() ) {
$output = "\n";
foreach ( $attachments as $id => $attachment )
$output .= wp_get_attachment_link($id, $size, true) . "\n";
return $output;
}
$listtag = tag_escape($listtag);
$itemtag = tag_escape($itemtag);
$captiontag = tag_escape($captiontag);
$columns = intval($columns);
$itemwidth = $columns > 0 ? floor(100/$columns) : 100;
foreach ( $attachments as $id => $attachment ) {
$link = wp_get_attachment_image($id, $size, true);
$output .= '<a href="'.wp_get_attachment_url($id).'">'.$link.'</a>';
}
$output .= "<br style='clear: both;' />";
return $output;
}