Photographic History Galleries
Introduction These galleries are in the Photographic History section of the web site. The images that appear in each gallery are sorted based on the title of each image. The images have been assigned a number which appears at the beginning of the title and the numbers have been assigned so that the images appear […]
Working with Photo Galleries
Overview The site contains more than 50 FooGallery galleries. Most are either Photographic History galleries or Record of Service Card galleries. The Photo Gallery Manager plugin provides the managed upload workflow and checks the relationship between FooGallery galleries and their Media Categories. The important principle is that each managed FooGallery gallery is linked to a […]
Editing Image Details and Media Categories
All uploaded images are represented by attachment records in the WordPress Media Library. These records hold the file URL together with descriptive information such as title, caption and description. Select an image Go to Media → Library, locate the image using List or Grid view, and open its attachment record. Title WordPress initially derives the […]
Media Library
The WordPress Media Library is the site’s central catalogue of uploaded images, documents and other media files. Open it from Media → Library in the dashboard. Finding media Use List or Grid view and the available search and filter controls to locate a file. With a large Media Library, descriptive titles, captions and descriptions make […]
Replacing an image
Replacing an image requires care because the same Media Library attachment may be used in more than one place on the site. Before replacing an image Do not assume that uploading a new file with the same filename will overwrite the existing attachment. WordPress normally creates a separate Media Library item. Before deleting the old […]
Adding images
Use the Media Library for ordinary images that are part of pages, posts, maps or other site content. Images intended for the managed FooGallery photo galleries should normally be added through the gallery upload workflow instead; see Working with Photo Galleries. Before uploading Use a descriptive filename. For historical photographs, include enough information to distinguish […]