Managing images

Overview

Open a gallery under Photo Gallery → All Galleries, or make a new one with Add Gallery. The left side of the editor holds the gallery’s items — photos, videos and feeds — in the order they are shown.

Adding photos

Drag & drop — drop files from your computer anywhere on the editor. Each one shows its upload progress and lands at the end of the gallery. A file larger than your server’s upload limit is named and skipped.
Upload — the same, with a file picker.
Media Library — pick images you already have; one image can be in many galleries.

Uploaded files go to the Media Library like any other image, so other plugins (image optimizers, CDNs, backups) treat them as usual.

Adding videos

Click Add video and paste a link:

a YouTube video (youtube.com/watch?v=…, youtu.be/…, Shorts and live videos)
a Vimeo video
the address of a video file: MP4, WebM, OGV or MOV

The thumbnail and title are fetched automatically. The video plays in the lightbox. A video’s title and caption are stored in the gallery, not in the Media Library.

Arranging

Drag thumbnails to move them. Several selected images move together. With the keyboard: focus a thumbnail and press Alt + arrows.

Sort puts the items in order once — by file name, by title or by the date the photo was taken — and Reverse turns the order around. To change the order on the site without moving the items, use the Order setting of the layout.

Selecting

Click — select one
Shift + click — select a range
Ctrl + click (⌘ on a Mac) — add or remove one

Select all and Clear selection are above the grid. The toolbar shows how many are selected.

Editing many images at once

Select the images and click Edit selected. The panel shows the fields of all of them:

Field	Where it is used
Title	on the image, below it and in the lightbox
Caption	under the title
Description	the lightbox’s longer text
Alt text	for screen readers and search engines
Link	where the image leads when On click is Follow the image link; with Open link in a new tab
Tags	the filter buttons above the gallery

A field the selected images do not share says Mixed — leave empty to keep: leave it empty and each image keeps its own value; type something and all of them get it. For tags choose what happens: Add to existing, Replace or Remove these. Click Apply to selected to save the changes to the images.

Title, caption, description, alt text, link and tags belong to the image in the Media Library, so they are the same in every gallery that shows it.

EXIF and IPTC

When a photo is uploaded, its camera information is read from the file: camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and the date it was taken. It can be shown in the lightbox (Camera info (EXIF)) and Sort → By date taken puts the photos in the order they were shot.

Fill title & caption from EXIF/IPTC — takes the title and caption you wrote in Lightroom, Capture One or Photo Mechanic.
IPTC keywords become tags automatically, so photos keyworded in Lightroom are ready for filter buttons.

Preview

The right side shows the real gallery, with its layout, effects and lightbox, as visitors will see it. Switch between Desktop, Tablet and Phone to check the columns of each width.

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