I need each post to be two… I think.

  • I’m having an organization problem, and need some advice.

    I have a photo blog, and each post has at least a couple hundred pictures. I need to highlight some of them.

    My template has a picture and the excerpt from recent posts on the front page. The picture is a “custom field”, and I need the excerpt to remain text.

    The post, then, needs to consist of two different galleries. One smaller one for which I’d like to use a flash gallery (simpleviewer), and an extended gallery with ALL of the pictures for that particular post (I’m using NextGen gallery).

    Are you still with me? I like the front page with excerpt the way it is, and I would like to have the simpleviewer gallery have a link like “see the rest” and take me to the larger nextgen gallery. But for organization’s sake, I’d prefer them to be linked somehow.

    The only solutions I can come up with so far is to make each nextgen gallery it’s own static page, which I can link from the post with the simpleviewer. Or just keep the non-wordpress gallery I’m currently using for the big galleries and link to those from each post; they would then not be included in wordpress at all.

    Or is there a more elegant solution that I’m missing? Can I “nest” posts somehow, and include two on a single post-page? And then somehow exclude the 2nd post from index.php?

    I included the specifics of the gallery plugins I’m using because I’m open to different suggestions, however: I love the look of the simpleviewer for my gallery “excerpt”, and I like how nextgen keeps each gallery in it’s own folder (essential given the number of images and frequency of my posts). And both allow right-click downloads, another essential feature.

    Thanks in advance for your ideas! I can clarify any of this if it makes no sense.

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  • The simplest way would be to just leave the flash gallery and NextGen Gallery in one post, and then stick a “Read More” in between the two so that only the flash gallery showed up on the home page.

    The disadvantage here though is that both would show up on the full post page. Sounds like you don’t want it like that.

    To get around this, you could have just the content you want in the full version in your post. But then use a custom field to add in the flash gallery. Then it won’t show up unless you call it.

    To get only your headline and that flash gallery to show up on the home page, you will have to customize the template just like how you would for a magazine style theme where the images are before the headline.

    However you do it, I’d recommend trying to keep it all in one post. It will give you less headaches in the long run and result in less duplicate content.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter electriccupcake

    (@electriccupcake)

    Hm, thanks for your advice! (I’m a little late on this).

    I’m actually just revisiting this problem, after sleeping on it for, uh, like 3 months. And I haven’t quite decided what I want to do yet. But I think you might be right on the keeping it all in one post idea. I did figure out how to only include one category of posts on my front page if I decide to do it that way, though. My PHP skills exist somewhere, they just lie dormant 99% of the time. *sigh*

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