Welcome to WPBeginner and thank you for watching.
In today's video, I'll show you how to
create a photo gallery with albums in WordPress
While galleries allow you to show multiple
photos on a single page, albums will allow
you to display multiple galleries and this
help you organize your pictures better.
To show you how this works, I'm going to create
three galleries. Each gallery has all the
pictures of three different trips.
Then I'll add all my galleries to a new album
called vacations.
To get started, first install and activate
the Envira Gallery plugin. Then make sure
you add your license key and verify.
Once activated, go to the addons tab to install
and activate the standalone addon and the
albums addon.
Before creating an album, you'll need to have
an image gallery first. I've already setup
my galleries so I'll go to albums and click
add new.
I'll name it vacations. And I want to drag and
drop the galleries that I want to be included
in this album. I can rearrange them by draggin
them around like this.
I can click on the i here to add a title and
alt text, I can choose which picture I
want to be the gallery's cover image.
Now we'll save the metadata and I want to do
that for all my galleries.
On the config tab we can choose different
items for the album like the number of columns.
I'll see what three looks like.
I also want to display gallery titles and
the image count.
I want to enable the lightbox. This will
show each gallery in a lightbox while staying
on the album page.
There are other tabs that you can customize even
further, and you'll want to spend some time
tweaking this to your taste, but I'm happy
with the changes I've made here so I'll click publish.
Now to show the album, I need to go and create a new post. I'll name it vacations and then click on the
add album button and I'll pick my new album that
I just created and I'll click publish.
Now let's look and see what it looks like on my site. Here is the vacations post and here is the album
with 3 galleries on them.
I see the tile of them here as well as the
number of photos and when I click on one,
it opens in a lightbox for me to look through.
Again these are all based on the settings
that I've picked. You can customize just about
every aspect of the albums, galleries and
photos with Envira gallery.
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