WordPress 2.9 brings a new function for users of gallery’s the add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’) function. with this you will get a new item on your new post window named Post Thumbnail (see right). After you have added a post Thumbnail to a post, you need to display it. By using a “gallery” category, creating the below two files (or adding the code to files) and editing your category.php file, you may display a custom gallery page.
To start, create a new file named gallery-function.php and add the following code to it, this file should live in the root of your current theme’s directory.
gallery-function.php
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>gallery-function.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<div id="gallerypost-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div id="gallerypost_main-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div id="gallerypost_thumbnail-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php post_thumbnail(); ?>
</div>
<div id="gallerypost_body-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php $images =& get_children( 'post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image' ); ?>
<h2><a rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div><small>Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small></div>
<div>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="gallerypost_sub-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div id="gallerypost_sub_left-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<p><?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'people', 'Who: ', ', ', '<br />' ); ?></p>
<p><?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'events', 'What: ', ', ', '<br />' ); ?></p>
<p><?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'places', 'Where: ', ', ', '' ); ?></p>
</div>
<div id"gallerypost_sub_right-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
This Album contains <?php echo $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_type = 'attachment'" ); ?> items.
</div>
</div>
</div>
Next create a file named gallery-function.css and also add it to our current theme’s root directory.
gallery-function.css
.gallerypost {
background-color:#fff;
display: block;
hNeight: 300px;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 20px 10px 10px 10px;
overflow: hidden;
border-bottom: 1px solid #D2C4A2;
}
.gallerypost_body {
float: right;
width: 430px;
margin: 0 20px 0 0;
}
.gallerypost_body p {
margin: 50px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.gallerypost_body .entry p {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.gallerypost_body .entry {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.gallerypost_main {
width: 690px;
}
.gallerypost_sub {
display: block;
padding: 210px 0px 0px 10px;
}
.gallerypost_sub {
display: block;
padding: 210px 0px 0px 10px;
}
.gallerypost_sub p {
vertical-align: bottom;
margin: 0;
}
.gallerypost_sub_left {
width: 220px;
display: block;
float: left;
}
.gallerypost_sub_right {
width: 220px;
display: block;
float: right;
}
.gallerypost_thumbnail {
float: left;
}
.gallerypost_thumbnail img {
margin: 0 0 0 10px;
color: #000;
}
And lastly you will need to add the following to your functions.php file in your current theme’s root directory (you may add it anywhere in functions.php).
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
set_post_thumbnail_size(200, 200);
Now that we have our functions built, we need to add some code to your category.php file.
Right after:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Add the following code. This will display the gallery-function.php code when a post is in the “gallery” category.
<? if ( is_category( 'gallery' )) {
include('gallery-index.php');
} else { ?>
Next Before:
<?php endwhile; ?>
Add the following to close the if statement.
<?php } ?>
And that should do it, you should now see the post image on the gallery category page similar to below.
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