Gallery with Flexible Content

• Matthias

• August 13, 2013 at 4:58 am

Hi

I purchased Gallery and Flexible Content plugin and juts tried to let them work together but if I use this code `<?php

$image_ids = get_sub_field(‘gallery’, false, false);

$shortcode = ‘
[gallery ids="' . implode(',', $image_ids) . '"]
‘;

echo do_shortcode( $shortcode );

?>`
it does not work.
I changed get_field to get_sub_field but I only get [gallery ids="Array,Array,Array"]

What do I have to change to get it working?

Best regards Matthias

• Elliot

• August 13, 2013 at 2:14 pm

Hi @Matthias

The get_sub_field does not have an option for formatting.

You will need to construct the $ids like so:

<?php 

$images = get_sub_field('gallery');
$image_ids = array();

foreach( $images as $image )
{
	$image_ids[] = $image['id'];
}

$shortcode = '[gallery ids="' . implode(',', $image_ids) . '"]';

echo do_shortcode( $shortcode );

?>

• Matthias

• August 13, 2013 at 7:40 pm

Thanks

• Paul

• December 17, 2013 at 1:20 pm

Elliot – thank you, thank you, thank you! I was trying to use the Gallery plugin with the Repeater plugin and I was having the same problem. I couldn’t figure out why the original WP Gallery code example wouldn’t work with get_sub_field.

It took me quite a while to find this thread. As a suggestion, you might consider putting this code example in either the Gallery or Repeater documentation (or both).

Thanks!

• Elliot

• December 17, 2013 at 2:16 pm

Hi @Paul

This code is already in the gallery field documentation down the bottom!

Thanks
E

• Paul

• December 17, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Hi @elliot

The original code that Matthias and I both tried to use is at the bottom of the gallery field documentation, but I couldn’t find your revised code to use a gallery sub_field anywhere but on this thread. That’s the code I think it would be helpful to post in the documentation. Did I miss it?

Thanks,

paul

• Paul

• December 17, 2013 at 9:23 pm

Hi @elliot

I used the code that you posted in your original reply exactly as you wrote it, with the exception that I changed

echo do_shortcode( $shortcode );

to

echo apply_filters('the_content', $shortcode);

It seems to be working fine, but some of this is a little over my head so I wanted to get your opinion. Do you think there’s any problems with using apply_filters instead of do_shortcode? Will this require more processing and potentially slow down the page?

I made this switch because I’m trying to use a plugin called Simple Light Box, and it won’t work if the gallery isn’t run though the the_content filter.

Thanks,

paul

• toddtoven

• April 3, 2014 at 5:24 am

Hi there,

Confirming that this solution worked for me as well, but I’m not seeing it in the Gallery documentation as was indicated earlier in this thread.

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/gallery/

Perhaps it’s in another location, or could it be added?

Thanks for your help!