Full background gallery image

  • Hi! I’ve been googling for some time and almost everything I find are plugins that display a single gallery of photos sliding on the background of posts, pages…

    What I am trying to achieve is a bit different. I am setting up a portfolio page. Each post is a project that has some photographs (different for each project). I have uploaded them to the post and created a gallery. This is what I am trying to achieve:

    When you visit the post, the full background is one of the images of the project. There is an arrow in the left and another one in the right, to navigate to the previous/next image. So all you see are the pictures. Then, if you scroll down, a small piece of text comes up so you can read a description about the project. If you scroll down again the text goes.

    I think it is simple, but can’t seem to find the right way to look for a solution. Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    If you’ve been unable to find a suitable plugin, a custom coded solution would be in order, or hacking an existing plugin that is close to your needs. Depending on how the plugin is written, it may be a clean hack, or a dirty one where updates would overwrite your changes.

    If you’re unable to manage custom code yourself, you can find help at jobs.wordpress.net, amongst other resources.

    Thread Starter muydelpalo

    (@muydelpalo)

    Thank you, bcworkz!

    What I am actually looking for is a coded solution to this design. I don’t like using plugins when I have a very concrete need to fulfill. Thus I was asking for help to at least guide my steps. Maybe there is someone out there who has already done this or knows how I should address it.

    I guess it will require the use of php, css and jquery. Maybe I could tweak Jetpack’s carousel, but I don’t really know if it’s really worth trying. As far as I know, image galleries are wordpress related, not theme related, so I don’t really know how to proceed. Maybe I am wrong.

    I am currently working on a local install, so I don’t mind fiddling around with code until I get what I’m looking for. Also, it is a good way to learn.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    WP of course has a default image gallery that can easily be overridden. I’ve seen a few themes with their own image galleries, and of course there are numerous plugins. And still it’s a challenge to find just the right one!

    There’s nothing wrong with using a few well written plugins, though many site admins go way overboard with dozens of plugins of varying quality. Gagh!! If you can find a plugin whose gallery is close to your needs and it appears to have numerous hooks for other devs to extend functionality, then it may be worth tweaking it.

    Without such hooks, you could still tweak it, but you’d essentially be forking it for your own use and never update it. You’d be responsible for the entire thing as it is. It would be a good way to learn, but it could be buggy and frustrating as well.

    I would say starting a complete, user friendly image gallery from the beginning is too much of a project for anyone but an experienced coder. Not impossible, but the process will be long and trying for one who is still learning.

    However, it may be possible to generate a bare bones gallery that does exactly what you need and no more. Skip the user friendly interface stuff. If you need to alter something, alter your code. It won’t be elegant, but it could work. It’d be mostly HTML and CSS, with a little PHP and JS or jQuery. It could be done as a custom page template.

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