Combining Blog & Album

Am chiming in because I did something very similar -- I'm using the old blog template and grabbed the portfolio template's fitted-grid.html page (referenced to by tagged.html there) and adapted it for use by making a gallery.html page and plopping the code in there.

It'll need some tweaking but should be pretty much plug 'n play.

Blog: https://alongtheray.com

Gallery page: https://alongtheray.com/gallery

Ray.

You're going to need to dig into the template source code and manually merge the two templates yourself – I will think about ways we could make this more straightforward. Lots of people want what you're after so I will give the problem some thought

Raising my hand for this. I would love to combine a photography portfolio and a blog! It would allow me to get of Squarespace for good!

I'm trying to come up with an intuitive way to accomplish this.

Perhaps selectable options for different presentations of the 'tagged' page on the web template editor?

e.g. default tagged page layout: 'blog' tagged page layout for 'photo': 'grid'

I'm very interested in this idea!

Gonna familiarize myself with the Blog and Photo template code and see how far I get experimenting locally....

I don't know that what I'd like out of it is the same as anyone else, but if someone out there knows how to achieve it, here goes:

I want to have a page that displays the images like in the fitted-grid page in the Portfolio template, but that is sourced from a directory within the Blot folder vs. tags. I just want the folder of images to be rendered on that page with the ability to click the thumbnail to load the full scale image file. I just want to be able to have a photo page that's only those images, vs. images from posts, etc.

If you have some basic knowledge of CSS and HTML, you can visit TACHYONS, the CSS toolkit used by Blot. There, you can find components such as cards or collections. You can then edit the code to fit your current templates.

This is my custom tag view(WIP) made with collections components.

This is excellent guidance, thank you. I'm not the best at ground up dev in HTML and CSS, but give me something as a framework and some examples and I'll get through it.

While we're here and on this topic, anyone that wants to check out how I combined the Search, Tagged and Archives into a single page (on Archives), I'd be happy to share a copy of my tweaked Blog template files:

https://tangiblelife.net/archives