WP 2.5’s Gallery Sucks
Apr 29th, 2008 by Vienna
It took me a long time to find a suitable theme and until now I haven’t found that which I think is perfect. For now, I will settle with this theme because it looks simple and neat. I already changed the header and I might change the background (when I learn how to do it 
) into something too.
I gave up with the Gallery. The new WP doesn’t have that much options with its gallery. Sure you can upload multiple photos at one time but after you put the gallery code in your editor and set how many columns, rows, etc you like to display then that’s it. Wordpress will just display a thumbnail of all of the photos. Boring! Then if you click a thumbnail, the full size will be displayed in another page—that is so uncool!
Then there are plugins like Lightbox JS and the others for WP gallery but I guess they are intended for coders themselves and not for common Wordpress users like me. I am sorry but I have tried to install this plugin (lightbox JS and the likes) several times following different approaches but all failed. It just doesn’t work.
So I settled with Pictobrowser. It’s neater and you’ll be able to see the photo’s full size in the same page. I wanted to host my own photos but Pictobrowser only works if your photos are hosted by Flickr. By doing so, I am not using WP 2.5.1’s gallery which is so bad because the gallery is supposed to be what WP 2.5 is all about (schade!)!
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hey there,
i caught wind of your last blog on WP with the drawing you did…was going to respond there but you mentioned not posting to that blog anymore so I figured why bother posting there, lol.
i agree though…the new WP gallery does suck and i often wonder why certain changes/layouts are made when the original was better!
anyway…nice drawing too
keep up the bordem and maybe you`ll have a whole storyboard soon.