Creating a Photo Gallery

Overview

This document shows unit administrators or web committee members how to create photo galleries on their Drupal web sites. 

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Overview

This document shows unit administrators or web committee members how to create photo galleries on their Drupal web sites.

Creating Photo Galleries

Photo galleries are used to display photos for events, club members, award ceremonies. etc. The gallery will be its own page and you can link to the gallery from other pages within the website.

Step 1: Create a new Media Gallery

First click on 'Content.'

Next, click on the ‘Media Gallery’ tab (on the far right)

Now Click on the ‘Add Media Gallery’ Button

You should get this page:

Step 2: Fill in Optional Fields

The minimum this page needs to have is a title, but you can add a description of the gallery, if you like. Of course, you’ll want to add photos as well. Make sure to have the box "Use Pager" checked! Otherwise the photos will not go side by side. 

Step 3: Add Images to Your Gallery

In the Gallery Images section, click on the ‘Add Media’ button. This is where you will add your photographs.

Select ‘Image’ to add photographs to your gallery.

Click on Choose Files to add photographs from your computer.

Note: You can also add photos from other galleries by selecting the check box by the photo you would like to add (see below).

The files from your computer will pop up on your screen. Click on the file, select it and then click ‘Upload’.

To upload multiple photographs at once, select the ones you would like to add from your computer:

Now you will add the Alternative Text (required) and a caption, if you like. If you do not add a caption when you upload the image, you can edit/add captions later but it is another step so we recommend adding captions during upload. Read the documentation for adding or editing a caption later. 

Click on ‘Save’

You will now see this page with the photos you just added. They will have the boxes next to them checked.
At this time, you can add additional photos in the gallery by checking the box beside them.
Click on the ‘Insert Selected’ button to add the selected photos.

The new photos you added are now in the new Photo Gallery you created. Your page should look like this:

Make sure to have the box "Use Pager" checked! Otherwise the photos will not go side by side. 

Step 4: Save your new Photo Gallery

Click on ‘Save’

Step 5: View your Photo Gallery

You have now created your Photo Gallery and it should look like this:

Viewing All Galleries

This feature automatically creates a list of photo galleries in your site, if you have more than one. You can go to YOUR URL/galleries to see the list of photo galleries. An example of a site with multiple galleries is here: https://diversitythroughdance.franklinresearch.uga.edu/galleries. It looks like this: 

Want to embed a photo gallery in your basic pages or news articles? See the documentation.