Thou shall make your Wordpress Theme a Wordpress 2.5 Compliant

If you’re blog is already running with Wordpress 2.5, I bet you must have created tons of image galleries within your posts already. Otherwise, it could be because you have disliked how the gallery post, the inside gallery pages and all its elements looked like. If that’s the case, I’m 99% sure that your Wordpress Theme is not Wordpress 2.5 compliant.

A Wordpress 2.5 Compliant theme must have an image.php template file. Having just a single.php template is not enough for you to be able to optimize the looks and functionality of your Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery. Without this new file, your image gallery would only look as dull as this as compared to the screen shot below. And how to make an image.php template file is what we’re going to expound in this entry. But fret not, for creating this image.php template file is easy, even a faint-hearted soul would not have much trouble if the necessary procedures are followed.

First, you’ll have to make a duplicate copy of your single.php template file and name it as image.php.

Sample Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery post [Read more]