First you have to create a gallery. From your admin sidebar, open Galleries > Add New Gallery. You will get add new gallery form. Enter gallery title and description then click “Publish”.
Next you have to add images to this gallery. From gallery admin page. Click on “Upload Image”.
Then select images you want to upload to this gallery. Once you finish upload each image. It will automatically attach to this gallery. You can also change image title and description from this page. If you want to change order of images within gallery. You can easily drag&drop image next to each one. Once you finish dragging, click “Update” to save changes.
Gallery Excerpt & Featured Image
Next you can add gallery excerpt for example short description about the gallery and also gallery featured image which display as gallery cover in gallery archive page.
Gallery Option
OK now you have images in your gallery. Next step is to select gallery template. In Edit Gallery Page, you will find “Galleries Options” box. Then select “Gallery Template” you want. In this case, selected “Gallery Fullscreen”.
You can also add “Password Protected” for this individual gallery page. Just enter your gallery password and when visitor view your page, they will need to enter password, you have entered here. This is option is best for displaying image gallery for certain customers.
Next you can upload .mp3 music to the gallery and it will play automatically on your gallery page.
Sorting Images in The Gallery
By default you can drag&drop to order images using gallery admin. However if you have many images in the gallery. It’s not easy to change image order using drag&drop. So you can overwrite image order using Theme Setting. Open Theme Setting > Gallery > Gallery Images Sorting and select sorting option you want to use.
Global Gallery Settings
You can change global sorting option, image caption and description display, font size using Theme Setting > Gallery > Global Gallery Setting
Gallery Slideshow Settings
You can also change gallery templates options (Fullscreen slideshow, Kenburns, ImageFlow etc). Open Theme Setting > Gallery > Gallery Font Settings
Setting up Gallery of Categories page
Theme also has built-in “Gallery Categories” so you can organise galleries into category. When you create a gallery. Look at Gallery Categories box and check category you want to assign the gallery to and click “Update”.
Next is to create a gallery category page. Go to Appearance > Menus. On the left side, you will find “Gallery Category” box (If you can’t see it, click on screen option (top right) and check on gallery categories). Check the category you want and add to menu item. Once finish, click “Save Menu”.
Setting up Gallery Archive page
Once you assign galleries to gallery categories. You can also create gallery archive page. Go to Pages > Add New then select “Gallery Archive” as page template.
Next you can also filter galleries by gallery category. Look at page option and select “Gallery Category” you want to filtered.
Gallery Image Caption & Description
You can enable image caption to display small description text of your photos. From your admin sidebar, open Galleries and click on gallery you want to change its image caption. Click on image and it will open image edit form. Enter image caption and click “Update”.
Once you finish editing images caption and description. You can enable or disable it via Theme Setting. From your admin sidebar, open Theme Setting > Gallery.