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I wanted to add gallery with Thickbox effect(Pop up), i achieved this easily on the posts page by using WordPress gallery and the lightbox plugin.But the theme is custom made there is a footer.php.I don't know how to add this gallery to the footer pro grammatically please help

EDIT:Code on Posts Page

<a href="http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/image.png">[gallery]
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What did you do on the posts page? Can you edit your question to include the code? – Chip Bennett Nov 16 '12 at 15:40
@ChipBennett Plz see edit – asf Nov 16 '12 at 15:45
By "code on posts page", I assume you mean code entered into the Post Editor? – Chip Bennett Nov 16 '12 at 15:54
@ChipBennett I went to the posts page and and from the inserted the gallery from the visual editor and the code is obtained from the html version of the editor(html tab) – asf Nov 16 '12 at 15:59

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Since the gallery is rendered via a [gallery] shortcode, you can try using do_shortcode() in footer.php. For example, assuming you want to output a gallery with an ID of 1:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[gallery id="1"]' ); ?>
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Thanks tried it but all i got was echo do_shortcode( '[gallery id="1"]' ); printed on the Homepage – asf Nov 16 '12 at 15:56
It's PHP code, and thus needs to be wrapped in <?php / ?> tags. – Chip Bennett Nov 16 '12 at 16:00
Added it.Now nothing is printed but the gallery is not shown – asf Nov 16 '12 at 16:03
What are you using for $id? Are you sure a gallery with that ID exists? – Chip Bennett Nov 16 '12 at 16:08
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"How can i find the id of the gallery?" - Use the ID of the post to which the gallery is attached. – Chip Bennett Nov 16 '12 at 16:15
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