How to duplicate an already populated gallery ?

Very briefly:

a simple gallery (not dynamic) works just like a native WordPress gallery. That is, an array of images is written to the post (a set of meta data available at the time the post was saved) and when a visitor views your page, the gallery is simply displayed as a piece of pre-formed code (like a regular text block – Paragraph)

Thanks – that, with my current level of unfamiliarity was what I hunched was the case.

To follow the analogy – if start with a have a preformed text block, I can copy or duplicate it and then I can modify each block independently.

I created a ‘master’ gallery which does not appear on my published pages and I ended up (whether or not this is the correct way of working) placing it on a published page. Changes to the master synchronize fully and end up as changes on the published page.

I dont want two identical placed blocks linked to the same master. I dont want to have to build a new gallery and go through the whole process of tagging the same master set of images and tweak the gallery preferences – so I can pick and choose image on it independently.

What I want to do is to place another copy of this gallery (which has all my design elements and tags etc) and place it on another published page. And then – as per the text block – remove or move images around in each of the two blocks.

Assuming that my master gallery is just code – I am failing to see how I just copy it to another page. I see a copy option but dont see any paste button when I change pages. I see a move to button, but choosing that gives me no dialog box.

Clearly I am an missing a fundamental point somewhere – is there a tutorial somewhere which would help me achieve a viable work flow

thanks

yes, just copy the master gallery then change the content in the copy and don’t worry about the master gallery.

to past use Ctrl+V or command+v

great thanks

Meantime I achieved copying master gallery and published gallery using
‘Copy & Delete Posts’ plugin. Now I have 2 independent sets with tags etc based on the initial customized galleries/pages.

I would be nice to have tag info/ captions attached to the individual pics as per EXIF – which would apply wherever that image is placed.

I had the superficial impression this was possible. Was this incorrect ?

copying gallery blocks does not require third-party plugins (these plugins are often harmful). Tags and description are attached to the image as meta data. If you change the tag or description of the image, then you just need to synchronise (update) the data in a particular gallery – to do this, simply select the required gallery in the post and update the gallery by clicking on the Reload Gallery button ?and Update Post