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After working with NextGEN Gallery Plugin on DoctorLovington.com, I decided that instead of trying to hack together my own gallery code that I’d give this a shot. It turns out that it’s a lot more feature-rich than it initially looks – which is naturally great.

I started out by adding some macro stuff. I’m a bit limited since I don’t have PhotoShop right now, but I’m making due. Still plenty more to add, but I’ll keep on working on it and it’ll continue to trickle in.

I’m going to make a few strategic galleries as WordPress pages. Unfortunately, the default behavior of the galleries is to show just the thumbnail linking to the gallery. That’s not the mode that I wanted. If I’m providing a link to the gallery (as per a page in WP), I want you to go to the actual gallery. This requires that the page URL contain a few forward slashes. When you add these, WP sanitizes the URL and strips them out – defeating the exercise.

I discovered that you can trick WP into leaving them in the final URL by just url-encoding them (forward slashes are %2F, btw). If you later edit the URL again, you’ll have to re-encode them though – because they show up as forward slashes in the edit window. Not difficult, but a really nice option if needed – regardless of it being intended or not.

I’m truly and honestly excited about how this is coming together!

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