Use get_children
I used this code to extract all the images from a page gallery in the chosen order. you can include this code in the loop or use it stand alone. just choose the appropriate post_parent code (see bellow the code example).
This example show all images associated to the page id 1, have a look:
$images = get_children( array( 'post_parent' => 1, 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'orderby' => 'menu_order', 'order' => 'ASC', 'numberposts' => 999 ) );
/* $images is now a object that contains all images (related to post id 1) and their information ordered like the gallery interface. */
if ( $images ) {
//looping through the images
foreach ( $images as $attachment_id => $attachment ) {
?>
<?php /* Outputs the image like this: <img src="" alt="" title="" width="" height="" /> */ ?>
<?php echo wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment_id, 'full' ); ?>
This is the Caption:<br/>
<?php echo $attachment->post_excerpt; ?>
This is the Description:<br/>
<?php echo $attachment->post_content; ?>
<?php
}
}
Find the post id you wan to extract images from and insert it into this argument:
'post_parent' => 1
(replace the 1 with your page id)
you can also use:
'post_parent' => $post->ID
If you want to use get_children in a loop, and get the post id from the returned post id.
If you want to exclude the image selected as a featured image i would have a if
statement check if the image URL is equal to the featured image URL.
Hope this helps! 🙂