October 9, 2008 | New WordPress Gallery System

Over the past several days I been working on upgrading the attachment system to include multiple gallery support in the code. I am please to announced that this feature coded and ready to be put into the trunk. For those who are currently using 2.7.x on your production blog (who what to test out this system by using the patch file provided here), you will have to run the upgrade script (wp-admin/upgrade.php) as your attachments will not be in the attachment tab (formally the gallery tab) for multiple gallery items to work. [ gallery ] and the subsequent user-defined items should still work as normal unless you start to item up into different galleries. Then you will need to define the group number (i.e. group=”1” ).

Attachment System w/ Galleries

Other things that would be included:

• Full XHTML 1.0 Compliance when showing the Gallery
• Browse groups ^*
• Insert a gallery by name, not by number or post (i.e. [ Air and Space Museum ]) ^**
• Insert the gallery of a post/page from another post. (i.e. [ gallery name="D.C. Visit - Day 2" ] or [ gallery name="D.C. Visit - Day 2" group="2" ])
• Master listing of all galleries ^*
• Conform to 2.7.x WireFrames ^*
• [ gallery ] shows all items in groups 1+. Items that are in the default non-group section do not show.
• (Planned: 2.8) TinyMCE would display a preview of the [ gallery ] just as you see a single image preview. ^*

This is the planned first commit of the system into the trunk. Additional features in this list will be added before the ticket is fully closed and complete (minus the TinyMCE feature). Enjoy!

Note: Items that are marked with a * or ** are yet to be coded. Item ** uses the tax system as when you want to show just a gallery group [ Air and Space Museum ] it picks it up as a vaild choice, and displays it as so.