You may have noticed that the posts that were supposed to go up as galleries (that were in fact, previously galleries) no longer appear as galleries on the new website layout.
We are currently working to fix that, and it should in fact be fixed soon.
Thank you for bearing with us. We’re about to introduce a few other website changes that should be pretty interesting as well. Keep your ears peeled.
You can upload your pictures by clicking on “Media” in the left hand side bar of your Dashboard, and then “Add New”. This way you can upload all of your photos at once.
Once you have uploaded your images, you’re going to create a post.
Click on “Posts” and then “Add New”.
Write the title of the post as “Day Month Year – Part ??”. If you are unsure what part we are up to, just leave it as question marks and I will get back to it and change it accordingly.
On the right hand side of the Edit Post window there is a box labeled “Format”. Select “Gallery”. Once you’ve done that, go up to the button right above the edit bar where it says “Add Media”. Select as many pictures as you think the Gallery will be able to handle. (Thus far I’ve discovered that it prefers landscape pictures over portrait, I would see how many it can handle of just the landscape ones.) Once you’ve added all the pictures and clicked publish, go back to the post and delete all of those pictures. This seems like an odd step, but it will keep the images linked with the post but not display them in the body of the post. (If you decide to view the post before deleting the images from the body of the post, you’ll see what I mean.)
If you have any pictures you would like to display by themselves, select “Image” for the format and then click on “Set Featured Image”. (That is at the bottom of the right hand sidebar.) When you set a featured image, you can side step the whole insert/delete process that you have to go through for a gallery.
Even if you do a gallery post, SET A FEATURED IMAGE. The Featured Image is what displays on the home page of the website! We can tell the difference between updates and new galleries quickly because updates don’t have an image. They show up on a black background.
Have any questions after this? Just shoot me an email: robin@foxtrotfirefly.com