Wordpress as a gallery system

[Nnnnsic]

I'm not sure how many people do this, but after making the shift for my personal blog from Serendipity to Wordpress (don't ask how much of a pain that was, I'm still cleaning it up), I decided to see whether it was possible to make the shift from Singapore - my outdated and no-longer-made gallery system that didn't use SQL databases - to Wordpress.

Apparently it is, but Wordpress does have some issues and since I've been developing with WP, I've certainly gotten a few of the tricks worked out.

Check out my new gallery at http://spore.leighlo.com

I'm using a theme from GraphPaperPress that I've applied numerous tweaks to. WP certainly isn't made to handle a lot of images, but you can get it working well provided you have a lot of patience and the ability to edit code.

[radar]

Looks great Leigh, well done. Photos integrate nicely in WP.

[Mj]

Leigh, there are also a number of reasonable gallery plugins that are worth a look... caveat being that they may not work as you'd like outa-the-box so some php and javascript knowledge is handy. The prob with your current approach is that you end up rendering lotsa photos on one page which can take quite some time.

[Onyx]

Leigh, why does your blog assume your viewers have 30" screens?! I can really only see the first three squares of images, the bottom ones below the menu tend to be cut off on my little netbook. Keep it to 600 vertical pixels plz. Like I can see from the 'categories' drop down list infrared as the bottom most entry. There's no scroll bar on the list - in fact there's no scroll bar on the page to get me past that, it's only when I press the down arrow on the keyboard that I'm able to see that the list ends at 'social', and also the bottom half of the images.

[Nnnnsic]

Hmm. Good point. I think it assumes you have an average 19- or 20-inch screen minimum. There is a button for you to click over to the left (it does nothing on my screen as I use a 20") but the vertical I can see being a problem.

I have tested it with my netbook and yes, it hates it too.