Using Jetpack carousel w/o creating a gallery [closed]

Adding another better solution: This displays only the first image in a gallery, linked to launch the carousel. You would make that first image, and it’s caption, clearly indicate it as a link to a gallery.

Give gallery an HTML ID:

<div style="display:none">

</div>

Then add CSS:

#gallery-link .tiled-gallery-item { display: none; }
#gallery-link .tiled-gallery-item:first-child { display: block; }

Note: .tiled-gallery-item is the class inserted by Jetpack when Settings> Media> Image Gallery Carousel is set to Tiled Galleries.

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Here’s old original answer, which has some value, and works fine when launching a gallery on another post, but not on same post:

This is tested, but NOT rigorously; seems to work: write the shortcode with the images you want (attachment IDs); put it in post, but don’t display it:

<div style="display:none">

</div>

Then you can trigger the Carousel w/ a href URL that looks like:

http://examples.com/your-post#jp-carousel-111

where “111” is the ID of the first image attachment ID you want Carousel to start with.