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Setting up a gallery is fairly easy with EduPress – although slightly more tricky than the previous two ‘advanced’ options. Follow these instructions carefully, however and you’ll be up and running in no time! 
1. The Tiger Style Administration interface doesn’t play nicely with the Lazyest Gallery plugin which we’ll be using to create the gallery. Consequently, whilst you’re setting up your gallery you’ll need to go back to the default interface. Do this by disabling the Tiger Style Administration plugin in Plugins
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2. You’ve still got the same options available – it just looks slightly different! Go to Options/Lazyest Gallery
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3. There’s lots of different options you can play with in the Lazyest Gallery page, but we’re going to concern ourselves with just three. The first thing you need to do is find where it specifies the location of the gallery folder
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Change it to read gallery/
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Then press the Update options button at the bottom of the page
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Once you’ve pressed the button, instead of giving you a warning that the gallery folder doesn’t exist, it should look like this:
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4. There’s two more options with which we’re going to be concerned. The first is straightforward: the Sort files and folders by option. This determines whether you want the files and folders organized by name or by date. It depends on what function you have in mind for the gallery – for most people, I should imagine, it’ll be best to leave it as being sorted by Name
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5. The second option is fairly straightforward as well: Image to show for each album. If you want simply the name of the gallery (set by the name of the folder containing the images) then choose None. If you want each folder to be represented by an icon (shown below) then select Folder Icon. Finally, if you want a Random image of this folder, choose that option.
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6. Now that you’ve configured your gallery you need to upload some files! To do this, you need to use an FTP program to find the gallery folder in the root directory on the server of your EduPress-powered blog:
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Within that folder, right-click and select Create Directory
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In this example, I’ve created a directory called test. Double-click on it to enter it. You should see the following in the Remote Site window of Filezilla (or your other FTP client)
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Before you transfer files across, check that their largest size is 500 pixels or less. If they’re larger than this they won’t show up properly on your blog. To transfer files across simply locate them on your hard disk in the Local Site window and then drag-and-drop them across into the folder you created:
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Once they’re finished transferring, you should see something like this in the Remote Site window:
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7. Now, if you go to the root directory of your blog with the suffix /lazyest-index.php (e.g. http://edupress.mrbelshaw.co.uk/lazyest-index.php) you should see something akin to the following:
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8. The simple thing to do now would be to create a page using the Admin Control Panel which links to this gallery page. Alternative, you could add a link to this page in your Links section. If you’re happy doing this, then simply do so (and don’t forget to re-activate the Tiger Style Administration plugin!)
Congratulations, you’ve finished! All you need to do is create a new directory using your FTP program and upload images for each gallery folder you want to put on your blog.
9. Those who have a bit more knowledge of things or simply want to experiment might want to put links to folders in the gallery in the Sidebar. If this is the case, do the following:
a) Go to Presentation/Theme Editor and click Sidebar in the underlined list down the right-hand side of the page:
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b) You need to enter some code into this file to make the folder show up. Where you put the code determines where the folders show up. Before you do this, however, it might be a good idea to copy & paste the current contents of the Sidebar file into Notepad or a text editor so it can be restored easily if things go pear-shaped!
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c) Scroll down in the Sidebar file until fairly near the bottom you see the following piece of code (the bit to keep your eye out for is highlighted):
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(if you can’t see this clearly, it begins with < ?php if ((function_exists('get_flickrRSS')) &&)
d) Directly above this, in the space, copy & paste the following code:
< ?php lg_list_folders("Gallery"); ?>
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Press Update File once you’ve done this.
e) Now when you view your blog you should see a link to the folders in your gallery in your Sidebar
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Congratulations! You’ve finished. 
(note that if you want to change the title of the gallery in the sidebar, simply edit the part in between the quotation marks in the code you inserted…)
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