I am going to take a shot in the dark and say that you take image gallery widgets for granted. It’s such a basic feature of web design that most of us don’t even consider it out of the ordinary. But until November 16, 2017, there was no built-in WordPress gallery widget. You probably didn’t know that. Honestly, I didn’t, either, until the 4.9 pre-release notes were put out into the wild. It took until this update for you and me not to have to resort to a using a plugin to show our pretty, pretty pictures in our sidebars and widget areas.

And lucky for you, Divi Nation, our themes are jam-packed with widget areas for you to fill to the brim with those pretty, pretty pictures. Getting Started The first thing you have to remember is that the new image gallery is just a widget. So you’re not going to be using this inside your posts (you’re going to want to use the Divi module for that, and we’ll talk about it soon enough.) To make use of the new hotness, though, head into your Appearance ->Widgets area in your WordPress dashboard. You will see our new Gallery widget just doing it’s own thing, being pretty unobtrusive. If you didn’t know any different you’d think it had been there all along. Like any other widget, just drag it into the space you want to display it. Nox Pc Game.

You can pick any spot you want, obviously, but Divi and Extra users get a few extra widget spots you can choose from, namely the footer ones. (If you haven’t taken advantage of the footer widgets, my friends, I highly suggest you do. Dell Wireless Wlan Utility Driver- Download Preactivated Version on this page. You can access the specific options for them from Appearance ->Customize in your WP dashboard.) Once there, you get to start playing with your options. So click Add Images so you can get started. It’s a pretty simple screen next where you choose which images you want in the gallery. You know the drill here–add from your existing media library or upload new files.

When you finish, hit the save button on the widgets page and you can see your new gallery live on your site. Options for Layouts Now, like I said before, the fact this wasn’t already a part of the WordPress Core is kind of crazy.