Title: Plugin not automatically adding galleries to posts
Last modified: May 6, 2026

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# Plugin not automatically adding galleries to posts

 *  [alysoncoletta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alysoncoletta/)
 * (@alysoncoletta)
 * [3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-automatically-adding-galleries-to-posts/)
 * The last few days I have no longer been able to have galleries automatically 
   added to my posts when I hit the button to insert it. Instead, I now have to 
   copy each short code over. Is there a reason this would stop working? I am currently
   using the Classic Editor.

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 *  Thread Starter [alysoncoletta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alysoncoletta/)
 * (@alysoncoletta)
 * [4 days, 7 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-automatically-adding-galleries-to-posts/page/2/#post-18983751)
 * [@sayontan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/) Crissy put it in a
   staging site and disabled every plugin and the insert gallery button still doesn’t
   work
 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [4 days, 6 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-automatically-adding-galleries-to-posts/page/2/#post-18983757)
 * OK – in that case, I am sorry and cannot offer you an alternative. I could suggest
   downgrading to an older version of the plugin (3.23), but the changes to WP 7.0
   and future versions might prevent that from working.
 * There are legacy ways of using the plugin, but they are more painful. E.g., you
   could pull up the list of your album ids from your admin dashboard under _Photonic
   → Helpers_, and manually construct a shortcode in this format:
 * `[gallery type='smugmug' view='images' album='abcdef']`
 * This takes the gallery wizard out of the workflow, but will work without issue.
 * If this is not acceptable, your only alternative is to look for another plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * Last activity: [4 days, 6 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-automatically-adding-galleries-to-posts/page/2/#post-18983757)
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