{"id":2186,"date":"2020-05-22T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2020-05-22T22:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:40:22","slug":"understanding-albums-galleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/user-guide\/understanding-albums-galleries\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Albums &#038; Galleries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><head><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the difference between Albums (\u201cPhoto\/Video Albums\u201d or just \u201cAlbums\u201d) and<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Galleries (or just \u201cPhotos\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>in some themes).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a bit old-fashioned, in a physical world, your photos are still contained in the photo-albums. Same happens in the theme: each Album contains a set of media files: photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>You can display media files in 2 modes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Albums<\/strong> \u2013 in this mode, you can see a set of Albums (fig. 1.1).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.the7.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Fig._1._Albums_page..png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3314\" src=\"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Fig._1._Albums_page.-2.png\" alt=\"Fig. 1. Albums page.\" width=\"1105\" height=\"361\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1.1. Albums page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click on one of these albums will open it and reveal photos inside (fig. 1.2). This mode is sometimes also called the \u201c2-level gallery\u201d:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.the7.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Fig._1.2._Photos_inside_of_an_album..png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3315 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Fig._1.2._Photos_inside_of_an_album..png\" alt=\"Fig. 1.2. Photos inside of an album.\" width=\"1083\" height=\"456\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1.2. Photos inside of an album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>2. <strong>Gallery<\/strong> \u2013 media files from one or couple of albums are being displayed on a page (fig. 2). Clicking on a media file thumbnail will activate it (photos will be enlarged, videos will start to play). This mode is also called the \u201cflat\/plain\u201d, \u201c1-level\u201d or \u201cclassical\u201d gallery:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.the7.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gallery-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2352\" src=\"https:\/\/guide.the7.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gallery-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fig. 2. Gallery \u2013 set of images displayed on a page.\" width=\"850\" height=\"313\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 2. Gallery \u2013 set of images displayed on a page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the difference between Albums (\u201cPhoto\/Video Albums\u201d or just \u201cAlbums\u201d) and\u00a0Galleries (or just \u201cPhotos\u201d\u00a0in some themes). If you\u2019re a bit old-fashioned, in a physical world, your photos are still contained in the photo-albums. Same happens in the theme: each Album contains a set of media files: photos and videos. You can display media files in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom-post-types","category-user-guide","category-16","category-9","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the7kennisbank.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}