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qmrneo
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Is a wordpress gallery good solution for 20+ html pages with image?
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This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by
qmrneo.
Hey. I’m working on a website that is really image intensive, too, but I’m not migrating mine. I’m starting over. I also don’t know if a gallery is a good solution or not. I am an artist, so I’m uploading lots of artwork. And I mean lots. I am uploading them each as image posts so that I can utilize common WordPress widgets like Newest Posts, and make use of things like categories, tags, and dated archives. Think of how blogs organize their content, then imagine using a format like that for your images. I love the idea.
Why are you worrying about keeping HTML in the name? WordPress pages are built using PHP, so they will actually have a .php at the end instead of .html. Most people don’t worry about that, as WordPress organizes everything into folders.
For example, instead of migrate.com/my-sketch.html it would simply be migrate.com/my-sketch/ (the full path would be http://migrate.com/my-sketch/index.php) so it makes for much cleaner paths that are easier for people to remember.
You could utilize something similar to what I’m doing, with categories. If your sketch is, say, a mustang simply titled Mustang, a path could be migrate.com/sketch/mustang
Hope that’s helpful. Best of luck to you.
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qmrneo
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Thanks Aryenne for the suggestion. I thought of that too. But the changes to gallery page is not that often, so posts seems a bit lacking to me. Also, i wanted tthe used to see the image as responsive and in one go with title and caption. So i thought to choose single page and Jetpack gallery with carousel.
Now, the issue that came up was with url from old site and to be new site.
migrate.com/my-sketch.html is now showing as migrate.com/gallery/#jp-carousel-511
So this means SEO will take impact as title not in url. I am not bothered about the extension of the page. I just want the url to be same to keep the redirection clean and happy for google bots.
So far i have not found any solution to it.
One thing I am learning is that when you have a different vision in mind from the “norm” of how people use WordPress, it’s tricky to figure out.
