After the plugin has inserted the SimpleViewer shortcode into your WordPress page or post, click the 'Add Media' button, drag and drop your images into the 'Insert Media' window and, once they have finished uploading, just close the 'Insert Media' window (do not click the 'Insert into post' button). This will attach the images to the post (no more, no less) and they will be displayed in the gallery.

hi again, i have a few more questions:

(1) i find that galleries created also have the featured image automatically inserted as the last image, how to avoid this?
(2) must i recreate the gallery for any modification like removing or adding an image?
(3) can i create a gallery using images already in the media library of wordpress>

thanks a lot, ava

This seems to be due to the order in which WordPress attaches uploaded images to posts.
Once the images have been uploaded, select 'Uploaded to this post' from the drop-down menu (in the 'Media Library' section of pop-up 'Insert Media' window), drag and drop a single image into a new position and then drag and drop it back to its original position. This should reorder the images into the order seen on screen.

No. You can remove an image from a gallery by deleting it from the Media Library. It will no longer be attached to the post and will no longer be displayed in the gallery. To add an image t a gallery, upload a new image to the Media Library and attach it to the post containing the gallery.

Yes. Simply attach images in the Media Library to the post containing the gallery. Please note that WordPress allows images in the Media Library to be attached to only one post so if the images that already exist in your Media Library are already attached to posts, you will need to upload them again.

It looks like you current theme might be causing problems with your gallery's percentage dimensions.
Try setting your gallery's width to an absolute pixel value rather than 75%.

If using the Media Library as the source of images for your gallery, WP-SimpleViewer will display all images attached to the post. It you use a featured image, this image is also attached to the post and will be included in the gallery.
Having WP-SimpleViewer exclude the featured image may be problematic.
If a user specifies one of the images from the gallery as the featured image and WP-SimpleViewer excludes the featured image, then this image would not be displayed in the gallery.
Therefore, I would recommend using one of the images in your gallery as your featured image.

However, if you want to exclude the featured image from the gallery, open the 'wp-simpleviewer/gallery.php' file in a plain text editor and change line 54 from:

$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent'=>$post_id, 'post_type'=>'attachment', 'orderby'=>'menu_order ASC, ID', 'order'=>'DESC'));

... to:

$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent'=>$post_id, 'post_type'=>'attachment', 'orderby'=>'menu_order ASC, ID', 'order'=>'DESC', 'exclude'=>get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id)));

Please note that the line number refers to the current version of WP-SimpleViewer (v2.3.2).

hi steven i don't know how to start a new post so i try this to reach u

simple viewer is great i used for years and have created 800+ galleries within my only website

but when i want to manage some old galleries i only find in the list the latest 200+ ones and there is no indication to go to next page or something like that

all the galleries display excellent but there are updates needed to be down from time to time, how can i access them?

thanks, ava

sorry steven i tried a bit but believe that i cannot solve the problem myself

please help checking my website, let me know where to send the information

thanks again, ava