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#1 2010-02-14 20:42:19
- kchau2
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Image gallery help
Sorry I’m still a Textpattern newbie but basically I am looking to create a gallery page that will have a drop down menu of different club categories. When you click on a specific club category only the images that are related to that club will show up.
What would be the best way to approach this? Different sections for each club?
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Re: Image gallery help
kchau2 wrote:
What would be the best way to approach this? Different sections for each club?
Depends on how you want the site as a whole organized. Image galleries based on categories are easy to do. What else do you want on the page with the images? What’s the scope of the site as a whole?
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#3 2010-02-14 21:09:09
- kchau2
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Re: Image gallery help
The page will only have images in them. Basically I want to create a landing page with a list of galleries.
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To generate your menu use category_list. I’m not sure if by “drop down menu” you mean a select box or a javascript-based menu, but in either case you can get category_list to work for you. For the list you can either specify categories with the categories attribute, or use type="image" to grab all image categories.
You might want to make a “gallery” section. Again, just depends on your design for the entire site. You can use the section attribute in category_list to link to that section.
Generating the galleries: there are various plugin options, but you could also use the core image_index and image_display tags to make your gallery. They aren’t the most flexible but they might be all you need. (I can’t find a single tutorial covering how to use these tags.) Just include both the image_index and image_display tags in your gallery page template.
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#5 2010-02-15 10:53:05
- kchau2
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Re: Image gallery help
Thank you jsoo!
Last edited by kchau2 (2010-02-15 10:53:25)
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