Some points to consider with image gallery plugins are: The linked demo, for plugins, is sometimes that of the original script author, not a demo of the default look of the plugin working on a WordPress site. Many of the plugins utilise 3rd party scripts that are not WordPress specific, for example written in JavaScript using jQuery. Some will build on the existing built-in WordPress galleries, and some provide features to upload and edit images themselves. They may be aimed at viewing images only, or to include other media, such as embedded videos, or may allow HTML content. The scope of what exactly the plugins do is hugely variable. They’re often hard to find as they may be tagged with different things, including: gallery, carousel, lightbox, slider, thumbnails, album, pictures, etc. There are a huge number of image gallery WordPress plugins within the plugins repository ( ). ![]() For want of a better name I’ll call these features an “image viewer”. If you want a pop-up preview aspect to the gallery, which often goes under the names of lightbox, carousel, or slider, you’ll need to use a plugin. Instead, you get taken to the URL of the image or the attachment page displaying the image. This means that, when using the basic WordPress image gallery, you can’t click on the image to get a full screen preview and then click an arrow or ‘next’ to move to the next image. For a single shortcodeĪdd the prefer_caption attribute to your shortcode: For all shortcodesĪdd the following snippet to the end of the functions.However, the WordPress gallery does not provide any form of fancy lightbox, slider, or carousel with which to view the images. Since plugin version 5.6.1 the Image Carousel shortcode uses post titles instead of image captions if the source is set to posts or taxonomy. Available since 5.9.3.Īdditional CSS class name(s) separated by space(s)ĭisplay image captions instead of post titles This option enables random order for selected images. The outline improves keyboard navigation. This option enables outline when carousel gets focus. This option only affects image quality, not the actual slide size. This option controls the size of carousel slide images. This option control slides transition speed. Sets the time interval between automatic slide transitions, in seconds. This option controls how slide links will be opened. This option adds links to carousel slides.Ĭustom (Custom link (added in media editor)) This option enables dots/pages navigation. This option enables left/right arrow navigation. Set this option to Yes to display image captions. Sets maximum width of the carousel container. Full option requires page template with no sidebar. Left, Right, and Center options require Max Width to be set. This option controls how the gallery will be aligned within a page. Set this option to Yes to ignore the columns parameter and display a single column on mobile devices. This option control the number of columns used in the carousel. This option allows to enable/disable image cropping and crop aspect ratio. ![]() This option control carousel controls appearance. ![]() This option control carousel slides appearance. Maximum number of posts to search featured images in (for recent media, recent posts, and taxonomy) Taxonomy: book/3,5 (Taxonomy term slug / term IDs) Images can be selected manually from media library or fetched automatically from post featured images, or even filtered by a taxonomy. This option defines which images will be shown in the gallery. Image Carousel was introduced in Shortcodes Ultimate version 5.4.0. With this shortcode, you can easily create beautiful image sliders and carousels.
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