WordPress 3.6 introduced quite a few new functions that are helpful when working with media attached to a post. One of my personal favorites is a helper function that lets you retrieve the URLs of images that have been inserted as parts of galleries in the post.
We covered a lot of information in the User Submitted Image Galleries tutorial series, everything from registering our post types and custom taxonomies to performing advanced queries; from uploading images on the front end to configuring the backend; from outputting our images in a gallery to displaying additional images by the same user. There were…
In this final part of the User Submitted ImageGallery tutorial series, we will look at adding just a couple more features to our gallery system. We are going to add the ability to view all images by a particular user. This will be done by clicking on the name of the author when viewing a…
Part 7 of our User Submitted Image Gallery tutorial series is going to demonstrate how to customize the dashboard columns of our image post type, and also how to add a new widget to our dashboard that displays the latest pending image submissions. In this part we are really focusing on two customizations to the…
Part 6 of User Submitted Image Galleries will show you how to setup the single image page that shows the details for a particular image. This section is not very complex, but it covers a few very important techniques that are really good to know when it comes to modifying information on post templates via…
The new repeatable upload field in Easy Content Types, which was announced yesterday, provides a really easy to use method for creating simple image galleries. We are going to build off of the end result of the Creating a Simple Events System with Easy Content Types and add a minimal, but effective, image gallery to…
In part three of this User Submitted Image Gallery plugin tutorial series, we created the function that processes image uploads. Now it is time to build our gallery’s short code, which will be used to display the complete gallery of user submitted images. This short code is rather complex and we won’t fully finish it…
In part three of the User Submitted Image Galleries series, we’re going to look at automatically creating our “guest” user account, and process the image uploads from the submission form. This is where our plugin really begins to take shape. After this section, we will get into actually displaying our images on the “gallery” page.…
In this part of the User Submitted Image Galleries series we will look at setting up our custom image sizes and also the image submission form. In the previous part we registered out custom post types and taxonomies, and setup the basic structure of the plugin. This entry is part 2 of 9 in the…
In part one of the User Submitted Image Galleries tutorial series, I’m going to walk you through the beginning steps of setting up our User Image Gallery plugin. This is a plugin that will allow us to have a user-submitting gallery of images our website. If a user registered an logged-in, they will be able…
