Create a parent album, say its name is container and its id = 13. Do NOT upload any photos to the parent.
The shortcode on the Main photos page should be:
[wppa type=”album” album=”13″ size=”…”][/wppa]
Set the parent of the four albums to container.
Set Table VI-B1 to same as title and leave New tab and PSO unchecked.
Set in Photo Albums -> Edit Album Information: Link type: The album photos as slideshow and Link to: — the same page or post — for all 4 albums.
Check Table IV-A1: Use Ajax.
Configure the layout of the album covers in: Table IV-D3, Table I-D1,2 and 3
Configure the slideshow elements in Table II-B ( Check the things to be shown, uncheck others )
Thanks! This gave me an excellent “tutorial” even though I modified your instructions a bit to give me a kind of category page.
Just a few quick questions. My photo gallery home page is here and as you can see I have 2 top level albums (Restorations and Events) which are categories. Inside Events are 2 more Parent albums. Since these are parent albums I don’t need the entire page width for a description. If I could put them into two columns that would be great – but I don’t want to change the maximum page width for the Slide Shows in the child albums inside.
And also, I need to order the albums. I’ve given them each an Order Number and set each Photo Order to “Order #” but I can’t find where in settings you are supposed to activate the sort by order.
This is the best gallery I’ve ever seen!
Thanks
Charles
If I could put them into two columns that would be great
Set Table I-D1 to 400. This works like this: If the column is wider than 400 px, you will get 2 columns of covers. If those columns would be wider than 400 px you will get 3 columns, etc. until the cover is not wider than 400.
This works for any number ( 400 may be 500 etc ) and is a systemwide setting.
I need to order the albums.
Table IV-D1 and D2 if you want the largest first.
I tried “Set Table I-D1 to 400″ but in the source I see something is making wppa-text-frame covertext-frame style=”width:457px; float:right;” I presume the 457 is the problem but I can’t find where it’s coming from.
I want the actual number that is in the Order column where it says “sort order #” I have put in 1 and 2. But in IV-D1 and D2 “Order #” doesn’t work.
OK I got the order to work. But setting Max Cover width to 400 isn’t working. Something is making
album wppa-box wppa-cover-box wppa-cover-box-1 wppa-alt
width: 622px; I don’t see that width specified anywhere in settings. The only thing I have anywhere near that is Maximum Slide Show width at 600 – but changing that did nothing.
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