Title: Modifying the Gallery Shortcode
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Modifying the Gallery Shortcode

 *  Resolved [dailyfiasco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dailyfiasco/)
 * (@dailyfiasco)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-the-gallery-shortcode/)
 * I really don’t know PHP at all, and aside from being able to take the border 
   off in the media.php file for the Gallery shortcode, I can’t figure out how to
   customize it further — and I don’t even know if this is the solution to my problem.
 * I have a pretty straightforward mainbar/sidebar setup. I frequently run galleries
   underneath my posts by inserting individual thumbnails, and when readers click
   on them it takes them straight to the full-sized image file in the uploads directory.
 * What I’d like to do is set it up so clicking on the thumbnail takes the reader
   to the full-sized image, just more or less in a child post the way the Gallery
   shortcode would if it didn’t default to medium images. But I want to be able 
   to do this while keeping the layout of the thumbnail galleries I use now, which
   the shortcode doesn’t seem to allow me to do — especially if I want rows with
   different numbers of columns for horizontal and vertical thumbs. (Here’s an example
   of what it looks like: [http://dailyfiasco.com/2009/11/16/caliendo-starts-decade-run/](http://dailyfiasco.com/2009/11/16/caliendo-starts-decade-run/))
 * I really don’t know what the solution is here — Scraping together something in
   CSS? Will it require javascript? I spent most of the day trying out plugins and
   couldn’t find something that was suitable.

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