Galleries are where the images are stored, Albums are for organizing galleries,
We have Albums inside of albums in this system for ordering
Example:
Spring Galas (Album)
2016 (Album)
2016 Gala Posed. 2016 Spring Gala Dinner Dancing , etc (Galleries)
(See how the structure in detail) you may want to review this section first
Once the structure is understood, we can begin to build a gallery
We build Galleries first, then after, we can organize them in Albums
(We can also edit existing galleries)
- Go to the Add Galleries tab
Click add new button
give gallery a name
You will want to have a gallery preview image and it is important to keep track of ordering things it is good practice to make a directory for each gallery our preview image would also go into this folder/directory
name it
click into the directory
drag image ( you can add all the images for a gallery, then pick the preview after)
select uploaded images
make sure to save when making changes or apply (upper right had corner of window)
We can also edit galleries from the Add Galleries/images tab
by clicking the gallery name or the edit button
in the add images button bottom left
we will can add images to the directories
below that we can drag and drop to reorder using the symbol
to drag
Creating Albums
(The containers for Galleries or other Albums with galleries in them, see structure tutorial to review)
Clicking the albums button we can create a new Album or edit and reorder existing Albums and the galleries in them.
clicking into a name, Spring Gala 2012, in this case
we can delete (red X) or add galleries see and change the order of the galleries, by dragging and dropping for that specific page
Below is the page the above album is on
Adding into a post (page)
for new or existing posts, we can add albums
making sure we have a category if for a new post
with this little Photo Gallery Button
For now we will use Theme 1, can make others moving forward if needed
(carousels not in use now, pick album creation)
and choose the Album to be placed
and then insert
we will now see as below
which we save and preview
Note: if you click on the camera it brings you back to where you choose the albums
preview (which you can click on to view the slide shows
Right now, some Albums are brought into Album Landing Pages via programming, we may need to have accent do some of the placement of albums into existing album landing pages