Gallery integration in WordPress (on the cheap!)

[lacy_dillard]

<p>I'm back at Photo.net after a long vacation. I'm working on developing a professionally oriented blog/portfolio with WordPress. I like how the entries are formatted (the gallery function works well) but I haven't figured out a way to incorporate a streamlined gallery into the blog. As it stands, I don't have the funds to pay for a pro-design or hosting for a linked flash gallery etc so I'm working on a pretty limited scale. All of my searching on blog help sites has turned up very little in the way of free work-arounds for galleries in blogs .. any ideas or links? I'd appreciate any comments or feedback you all have!</p>

<p>You can see the general format of the site at <a href="http://laceyelainedillard.wordpress.com" target="new">laceyelainedillard.wordpress.com</a> including a link to the page I'd like a gallery to fit into.</p>

<p>The only idea that's popped into my head so far is to make separate files (even of photos already posted on the blog) with a watermark, and then to attach them directly to the "Portfolio" page in order to get a framed gallery just like the examples on the blog area.</p>

[lacy_dillard]

<p>It looks as if Robert Schultze of Photo.net has linked to his own blog in <a href="../website-creation-forum/00U6ik">this</a> post which does exactly what I mention above .. attaching photos to his "photos" page to set up a thumbnail gallery. It's simple, and it does work, but are there any other options?</p>

[mrossi]

<p>Take a look at Lightbox <a href="http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/">http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/</a> it seems to have become a very common way to show images nicely, I use it in my blog to allow people to look at sets of images in a nice way. This isn't exactly a 'gallery' as you ask, but it's nice for blog entries as you can click on an image, have it enlarge, then navigate to next/previous without loading a new page.</p>

<p>For a proper "gallery", I went with the same setup as what they use here at photo.net which is monoslideshow (see <a href="http://www.monoslideshow.com/">http://www.monoslideshow.com/</a>), I use that for my porfolio or topical galleries.</p>

<p>Both these options take some tweaking to get into a blog. Personally if I were going to do one or the other I'd do lightbox and stick it into your existing blog layout.</p>

<p>I'm not meaning to plug my own blog but see <a href="http://photo.asic.ca/blog">http://photo.asic.ca/blog</a> for the lightbox version and to see some galleries that use monoslideshow look at <a href="http://photo.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/asicrecent?Openview&c=2009">http://photo.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/asicrecent?Openview&c=2009</a></p>

<p>Hope that helps!</p>