What is this feature?
I love photography just as much as I love hiking or exploring because it allows me to capture those experiences! And I also really love that WordPress permit’s us to create such an awesome array of photos on our website by simply creating a “gallery” for your images.
How to create a gallery:
Widgets are super fun, there like little decorations to help “spruce up” your website, at least in my opinion. They can really help visitors and followers easily navigate their way on your page. If you’re interested in placing a gallery on your web page, it’s really as easy as one, two, three!
- Go to your webpage> Click customization> Add a widget > Select the “gallery” widget
- Click edit gallery and now you may upload your images > Give your gallery a title > Title and/or date your images as well so web visitors know what they’re looking at
- While in edit… Adjust size, style, and order of images > You can choose the size of the images: medium, large or full size > You also can choose the style or presentation of the image: thumbnail grid, tiled mosaic, square tiles, circles, tiled columns, or even a slideshow > Hit update gallery and publish> ¡Voila!
Still Confused?
- You should be on the customization page of your webpage.. I simply hit widgets and this is where it brought me, the widgets are displayed in alphabetical order so you will have to scroll to find “gallery”
- Now that you’ve added a “gallery” widget, you can start personalizing it however you please by adding a title and uploading your favorite images by clicking “add images”
- Woo! You’re almost there, by now you should have your images uploaded and ready to edit
- Click and image to individually edit it, as you can see you have many edit options… such as -random order, image size, type…etc. Don’t let that confuse you. Simply play with the features and choose what best suits your webpage and have fun with the widgets!
- ATTENTION: however, it is critical you do give your images an alt text because it is required by international law.
Check out my Example Galleries!:
I hope this helped you folks learn how to create and use a gallery, feel free to check out the two galleries I have on my webpage. You can find one located on my homepage located below my calendar, by clicking on the images it will pop up the full size, and in doing so you are able to scroll through the gallery. My second image gallery is located on on my “Essentials for Your Hike” page.
Hope you enjoy!
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