Widgets don’t usually allow shortcodes in them (they treat them as normal text). What you have to do, is to tell this widget, it should run do_shortcode on it’s text. To do it, you can use this snippet: add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’); Just place it in your function.php file. Then you can place shortcodes in Text Widget … Read more
Update: It looks like there exists an attribute link=”none” after all 😉 For example: So we don’t need to reinvent the wheel, like in my previous answers 😉 Previous: Plugin to handle link=”no” in the gallery shortcode: Here’s a demo plugin to add the option to remove the image links in the gallery. You can … Read more
Adding an HTML wrapper to the gallery can be done using the post_gallery filter. Here’s a fully commented example. add_filter( ‘post_gallery’, ‘gallery_custom’, 10, 3 ); /** * Filters the default gallery shortcode output. * * If the filtered output isn’t empty, it will be used instead of generating * the default gallery template. * * … Read more
Take the file the custom post type is registered in, put it in the plugins folder, and add a comment at the top, e.g.: <?php /** * Plugin Name: David A. Frenchs Custom Post Type Plugin **/ Save and visit the plugins page to activate it, and that’s it! A plugin is just a file … Read more
The default Shortcode will add that markup when necessary and only if the active WordPress theme didn’t enable HTML5 support for the gallery Shortcode’s markup/output. Or, in rare cases, a plugin or a custom code may have disabled the support. So an easy way to get rid of that <br> tags, is by enabling HTML5 … Read more
There is a project going on about the image sizes. You can follow it right here. Right now, you can try using shortcode_atts_gallery filter. Take a look at these codes to get a hint: /* Register shortcode_atts_gallery filter callback */ add_filter( ‘shortcode_atts_gallery’, ‘meks_gallery_atts’, 10, 3 ); /* Change attributes of wp gallery to modify image … Read more
Photospace http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/photospace/ If you want to just use jquery I recommend http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/ galleriffic.
You should use the ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ parameter for the get_children() attachments function. For instance: $images = get_children( array( ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, // this is random param ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘post_parent’ => get_the_ID(), );
I had the same issue and was previously using get_children() to retrieve the top 4 images from a gallery for a given page. Here’s the solution I came up with: // helper function to return first regex match function get_match( $regex, $content ) { preg_match($regex, $content, $matches); return $matches[1]; } // Extract the shortcode arguments … Read more
Add order and/or orderby parameters to your shortcode. For example: https://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode#Options