I am looking for an image gallery plugin where it is possible for every image from every gallery to show up on a page.

Currently I'm using NextGen gallery but it requires my client to manually insert galleries into the page using the content editor.

I would like to simply be able to code something into a template to tell Wordpress to insert every gallery into the page, along with each thumbnail for each gallery.

Also, I would like for there to be the gallery headings and descriptions, so the output would be like the following:

<h2>Name of a gallery</h2>
<p>Description of the gallery</p>
*** thumbnails go here ***

<h2>Name of another gallery</h2>
<p>Description of another gallery</p>
*** thumbnails go here ***

Is this possible? I have a feeling it may be possible by using templates with NextGen gallery, but the documentation on creating templates appears to be very limited, not only that but I couldn't even get the plugin to switch templates at all (even with one of the other templates!)

Perhaps it was conflicting with the hosting environment?

Does anybody have any suggestions?

When you want to use short codes in the actual theme files you need to use;

PHP Code:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[slideshow id=x w=width h=height]'); ?>

Then the client won't have to do it manually.

Thanks, but I need it so that the client can create a new gallery and for it to automatically appear on the page, rather than me having to update the template with the additional shortcode.

Do you know if that's possible?

The only way it can show up is if the short code is either in the post content created in the admin area OR in the file itself.

If it were me, I would:

1. Copy the page.php file and create a new custom page titled "Gallery".
2. Then add the short-code mentioned above in this file where the gallery should show up.
3. Have the client select that custom page from the list of page templates on the right when they want a gallery.

Make sure you create the page template properly. (ie: comment at top indicating page template name.)

PHP Code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Gallery
*/
?>
...then your regular code here...

This way, multiple pages can share this template.

Reference:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

I have found this to be the easiest way to have clients add a gallery. This is, of course, provided a Page is ok vs. a Post. Then it would need to be a custom Post template which is slightly harder to create if you are a novice at WP.