Creating a Gallery in Textpattern

Textpattern allows many methods for accomplishing the same thing. Many methods for developing an image gallery now exist. The puzzling thing for me has always been the lack of support for default tags available to access the basic content contained in the database for images. There are no native tags for thumbnails and capitions for whatever reason, for example, txp:article_thumb and txp:image_caption.

Thankfully, there are plugins that can perform these functions and others in developing a means of displaying images and thumbnail galleries.

Following is a list of examples of galleries built with Textpattern:

The best implementations of the gallery seem to be based on issue 170 from A List Apart by Jeremy Keith. Jeremy has an article about developing a Javascript Image Gallery on his site.

There are also several examples of how one might accomplish an image gallery on the Textpattern Forum.

And there are some articles at Textpattern Resources:

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