Alex T.

Hello,

Thanks for your response. But I think you are mistaken. The name of the business is Secret Compass. But there is no theme out there called Secretcompass. If i’m wrong, please let me know.

https://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ says “WordPress detected, but the specific theme details could not be determined. It is probably using a customized or proprietary theme.”

Hi JakePT, oh, Envira is not shy at all in promotion of its many features and its constant reminders about upgrades, which are not cheap.

You make a great point about shortcode method not automatically updating. Thank you.

Can suggest a similar method to reuse galleries that would automatically update (without buying Envira)? It’s not just wanting to avoid paying for Envira. Its lightbox layout I’ve seen in the free version is kind of clunky. I already have achieved pretty good-looking layout and navigation using free tools like PhotoSwipe.

I just want to be able to reuse galleries in different posts but have them automatically update when I later change the galleries. For example, is there a way to give a gallery a code name, instead of spell out the photo id’s in shortcode? There must be a free and simple plugin that does that.

Thank you in advance.

I think I went over the top with my criticism of your advertising for upgrades. Sorry about that. Coming from Drupal, I’m sort of surprised how many WP products are for sale and not available for free use. It’s a different approach in WP and I need to get used to.

Hello Angie, thanks for your reply. i have found that I can reuse any gallery by just putting the coding inside another post.

For example, I can put, say:

[gallery link="file" ids="23,22,21,18,17,25,24,20,19,16,15,13"]

in middle of any post , or put it in a new post by itself to for an independent gallery.

This is so simple. So my question is: why do I need a gallery like Envira, which advertises ability for “standalone” galleries?

thank you.

An example of a free theme I am looking for might be the Shaken Grid theme but the authors website is down. Seems out of business. https://www.wphub.com/shaken-grid-wordpress-theme/

Hello, upon further research, I found out I am looking for a “grid based” theme that automatically indexes posts and pages in the homepage in the style of the “justified images gallery” plugin.

There are similar themes here https://wplift.com/grid-wordpress-themes but is there a free one?

TIA