new gallery system

I’ve started using the WPG2 Plugin for Gallery2 with WordPress.

The reason for this is because the number of photos I’ve been putting in my gallery is getting ridiculous. Nowadays I have a sound grasp on using database systems so I don’t need the comfort factor of the file based database of Minigal that I’ve been using at http://tombamamnn.org/photos.

There was a neat trick for getting everything integrated nicely. For my “Simple Header Code” I use:



This forces the content wrapper to the centre of the page, and extends it out to fit nicely on a 1024×768 screen. (I’m a little disappointed about lack of dynamic resizing based on window size.)

Then, in Gallery under the themes options I’m using 940px wide to spread the Gallery content out to take full advantage of the 1024×768 optimised screen size.