Orchard 1.8.1 Containable/Container Layouts

Question

I am using Orchard 1.8.1 and one of the sections of the site I'm building is for a standard photo gallery. Since all the modules involving photo galleries are ancient, I opted to stay native and try using custom content types to build it instead. The way I accomplished this is with a Photo Gallery content type that has the Container part associated, then a Photo Gallery Item content type that has the Containable part associated to it.

Using the Shape Tracing tool, I was able to build out the main gallery page that shows all the individual galleries, but when you go inside a single gallery is where I get lost. The attached screenshot probably shows it best, but in the Content zone, I can see there are two individual items contained under Model.ContentItem.ContainerPart.ItemCount, however I can't figure out how to access those individual items to build a template to show them. The point of the gallery page will be implementing the gallery from Galleria, so whenever I view the individual page for the Photo Gallery content type, I need to access all child items underneath it to build this.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use a media library picker field configured for multiple media, and then edit each image to set its caption and title. Then, it's just a matter of customizing a template override in your theme to make it look exactly the way you want.