1 Topic by shellwe (edited by shellwe 2015-04-13 02:20:21)

  • Registered: 2014-07-31
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Topic: getting a gallery in a separate area with wordpress

Another wordpress question

An example of our current site is here:
http://greatplainslandscapes.com/blog/gl-edging.html

You can see there is a photo gallery of rotating images and it is separate from the content and every single page has a personalized images associated with that particular page.

From what little I understand of wordpress, if you have pieces of content then you can use custom fields and place that content wherever you wish. I made a custom field labeled gallery and gave it a gallery and it just puts the gallery as plain text, as you will see here:
http://greatplainslandscapes.com/testpress/about-us/
It just says gallery: [juicebox gallery_id=" 3"] above the about header

I was wondering if any of you have used another method to get the juicebox gallery to load somewhere other than the main content window?

Edit: I should note in case the juicebox customer service reps see this after seeing my previous post, I am still having trouble with my previous issue of juicebox not loading at all in wordpress; knowing how forums and support can take time I am just trying to multitask instead of trying to resolve one issue at a time.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: getting a gallery in a separate area with wordpress

WP-Juicebox can be used only to embed Juicebox galleries directly into pages or posts.
It is not possible to use the plugin to embed galleries elsewhere (such as a header or sidebar widget).
Each WP-Juicebox gallery is associated with a specific page or post and it is not possible to manually insert a Juicebox shortcode somewhere which refers to a gallery associated with a different page or post.

However, you should be able to manually embed a Juicebox gallery anywhere (at least anywhere that you are able to insert the required embedding code) using the baseUrl method of embedding as documented here.
Essentially, once you have created a gallery with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, you would upload the complete gallery folder (not just the contents) to your web server and paste the baseUrl embedding code wherever you want the gallery to appear. It does not matter where on your web server you upload your gallery folder to as long as the two paths in the embedding code (the path to the 'juicebox.js' file and the baseUrl itself, pointing towards the gallery folder) are correct.