Is it possible to setup a gallery in the backend without including it in the content?

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I want to setup a gallery without including it in the content to be able to access it in the theme files.

Currently I use a dummy page that only contains the gallery and isn’t reachable from the front end. I would prefer to skip this step and keep the gallery setup on the page where it is displayed.

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If the gallery has to be include in the content could I modify the handling of the shortcode in a template specific way and include the gallery before calling the_content();?

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  1. I’ve used this to display the gallery under the content in a few of my website, or in a custom position, you can manipulate it however you need. The only draw back (sort of) is if there are 2 galleries, it will only work with the first gallery.

    <?php
    get_header();

    // Get Post Gallery before The Loop
    global $post;
    $gallery = get_post_gallery($post->ID);
?>

    <?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
        <?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
            $content = strip_shortcode_gallery( get_the_content() );                                // remove Gallery Shortcode
            $content = str_replace( ']]>', ']]&gt;', apply_filters( 'the_content', $content ) );    // Resetup Content
            echo $content;                                                                          // Echo Content
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    <div id="gallery">
        <?php echo $gallery; ?>
    </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    Functions.php

    function  strip_shortcode_gallery( $content ) {
    preg_match_all( '/'. get_shortcode_regex() .'/s', $content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
    if ( ! empty( $matches ) ) {
        foreach ( $matches as $shortcode ) {
            if ( 'gallery' === $shortcode[2] ) {
                $pos = strpos( $content, $shortcode[0] );
                if ($pos !== false)
                    return substr_replace( $content, '', $pos, strlen($shortcode[0]) );
            }
        }
    }
    return $content;
}