[Theme: Hatch] Adding the gallery squares?

Hi there,

I’ve just signed up to WordPress to host my photography page. I was hoping that someone could guide me in setting up my Hatch theme so that the main page works this way: http://demo.alienwp.com/hatch/sticky-post/
As in when you click on a photo, it acts as a sort of in-screen pop-up.

I know very little about coding I’m afraid so what I say might not be the technical terms for things.

I’d love to have that as a default for the main page for a single photo, so that when I just want to upload a single photo it pops out when clicked on, and then in the situation where I want to upload a gallery of photos from an event for example, it leads to a separate page where a gallery is displayed, and when a photo is clicked on, it once again pops out like they do on that example page above.

I’d really appreciate if someone could help me out, as I’m at a complete loss of where to begin with this!

Very best,
David

Yes The link above is prob really a page/post that has been set to be the “HOME” page, the one visitors first see. It uses the Gallery features of a post/page to pop out the photos because in photo settings it is set to link to photo file not attachment page.
The attachment page is a separate post/page that people can comment on and move thru photos in a gallery.
The default is what I have it set to display is the thumbnails that link to the post/page the can have the galleries/photo.
It is a very sweet theme with all its diff options but not easy to figure out.
Its even hard to write about…for me anyways because I hate having to write anything. 🙂

I will try:

1st – can you make a gallery on post or page – do you know how?

2nd – do you know how to upload photos?

3rd – how long have you been using WordPress?

I was just wondering to know how much i may need to include

Basic way is to create “page” (not post) and then got to “settings”> thn “reading” and on top – check where it says “static page” and select your page (with gallery) from the “Front Page” pull down menu! CLICK SAVE CHANGES! This depends on you knowing how to make gallery, uploaad photos and create page. Also if you can post the url to your site so we can see!

If you need help with the other stuff too let me know or if this dont help i will try again…lol

PiperArts – If you follow what givesuccess instructed, you should have no problems setting up a static page that will allow you to have a gallery laid out as a homepage.

Remember: In the Gallery setting once you’ve uploaded photos, if you want them to simply pop out of the screen to full screen, you need to specify that the imagine links to the image itself, and not to a separate page. You should get the option at the bottom of the gallery settings, you’ll see what I mean.

I’m not sure what the story is with adding photos to an existing gallery, I’ve never actually done this, as I decided to go with the classic blog system in the end in which a new gallery is created for each page. I’m sure it’s possible to add some photos to one though so that you can keep updating the gallery when you want to add some photos to it.

File size: I’m not sure how much you know about the use of photos online, so forgive me if what I’m saying is blandly obvious, but remember that you don’t need the same DPI in online photos as you do for print. 72dpi is perfect for web (you can go a touch bigger if you want, it’ll just take longer to load) and you also don’t need the full resolution either. If you’ve shot on a 5D for example you’re looking at over 20 megapixels. There’s no situation where someone will need that full resolution online, so you can easily drop it down. You should find the upload speeds speed up considerably if you hadn’t been doing this so far.

All the best,
RD Photography

You guys are all so helpful! Thank you so much for your time! Honestly – I don’t think I’ve ever gotten such great support from any other forum I’ve posted on.

Unfortunately, I’m still ready to pull my hair out.

I’ve figured out how to create a page that has more of a ‘Gallery’ feel that I think will work for me for the time being, until I can perhaps create a post for each image somewhere down the line. Here’s the test page I put together: http://piperarts.ca/?page_id=54

Here is the issues that I’m now running into – somehow I can’t get this page, looking just like this, to appear as my home/front page. When I go into ‘Reading’, click to set it to ‘Static’ and then choose this page, the page doesn’t seem to appear the same as it does when you pull the page up using its own URL. It just shows the featured image (thumbnail size), with the page title in the bottom right corner when I hover, and when I click on it, it takes me right back to the same thing. No gallery, no text, no nothing. What am I doing wrong??? (wish I could send a screen shot)

Thanks for the tips about image size, RDphotography. When I get to loading the rest of my images, I will have to figure out how to re-size and upload the smaller files.

I have a few other issues as well, but they are off this particular topic, so I will do some more searching, and start new threads if need be.

Thanks again. I am so appreciative of your time.

Jen

I am going to be putting a site up inplace of the demo I made for this hatch theme so it may show something else (theme) and confuse people who go there from here to see hatch theme demo so If you do sorry!

It may be a week or so but if the admin here can edit out the links to http://bestindelaware(.)com/ with xxxxxx’s or put note for me higher up b4 the links so people wont be mad. I cant seem to find a way to edit the old psot myself or I would do myself.

If someone need help with this theme oir any I might be able to put demo back on diff url i have not being used at that time. Always glad to help when I can ..to give back to the community (good karma)

Thanks !

what is your sites url so i can take a peek?

Its not my theme i just liked it and wanted to help.