To build the gallery plugin, I started by having the plugin create a page for the gallery. I could have skipped this part and will probably remove it later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The commented note for the page title is the clue to what makes this whole function not necessary. I opted to make a shortcode for the gallery content instead of creating the different pages through the plugin. The plugin still works, and still creates a page if needed, and inserts a shortcode automatically that will display all of the gallery posts. But I don’t need it to do that anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next part was to create a custom post type. For my custom gallery posts, all I needed was an image and a title. And you can see from the commented out code that I changed my mind a few times as to how the posts would be organized and where they would display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I decided to do was to create a custom taxonomy for the gallery posts that would be used to help determine which portfolio page the gallery posts appeared on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next part of the code displays all of the posts of the custom post type, “mll_gallery_post” and orders them in descending order. If a category is passed in the shortcode, then the post array will only include posts from that category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/screenshot-gallery-page-function.png\")
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