Image Gallery on a Page

Posted by mlecha on September 22, 2015 at 6:09pm

I'm wondering what site builders are using to create a gallery on a page of content? Seems to be one of those things that's easy with core Wordpress (but not without issues there too!)

Browsing around I see lots of tutorials that create an "image gallery" content type.
I'd like to include galleries in regular pages of content and be easy for the end user to create and add to page.

Node Gallery looks popular with 9,000 sites using it.
https://www.drupal.org/project/node_gallery

I'll start there. Just curious.

Comments

Many options...

Posted by joel_osc on September 22, 2015 at 6:19pm

I would just use an appropriate field formatter... we're big fans of the wetkit distro which provides a 'Wetkit Lightbox' field formatter that you can configure when you add the field to your node_view page override (page manager).

Another great option is the flexslider http://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider field formatter provided by the flexslider module. Again, this can be configured on the field in page manager.

Re: creating an image gallery

Posted by chris.smith on September 22, 2015 at 6:22pm

Hi @mlecha

Often, I try to keep my implementations as close to the core of Drupal as possible.

If you use a content type and taxonomy to store the images and their respective galleries, then you can use Views and the Views Slideshow module to create a gallery.

Using this approach, you will have a lot more flexibility in your implementation than if you choose a gallery module, like node_gallery.

Let me know if you have any questions,

Chris