Last updated on August 18, 2025
Initial planning is complete for a full-featured narrative image gallery system that treats visuals as a storytelling layer rather than just decoration. The goal is to allow images—art, memes, album covers, scans, etc.—to be organized, tagged, and reused across CPTs with meaningful structure.
Rather than turning images into a separate CPT, I’ve decided to keep them as Media Library attachments and enhance them using ACF fields and taxonomy. Planned fields include:
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featured_image_in_gallery(ACF toggle) -
gallery_caption -
image_type(e.g., symbolic, aesthetic, documentary) -
related_chapter,related_concept,related_song, etc.
Images will be linked symbolically using the existing non-hierarchical theme taxonomy—allowing for hashtag-style traversal across media.
The gallery will be built as a front-end page at /image-gallery/ and will query all featured images, with filtering by theme and/or related CPT. The system will support both standalone exploration and contextual embedding within CPTs like chapters or lyrics.
Next, I’ll go through the media library and tag all images I consider “gallery-worthy.” This curated layer will guide both structural decisions and content gaps, likely exposing the need to develop more visual content going forward.
