Combine Galleries vs Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

This plugin gives you the ability to use standard WordPress galleries and taxonomies to organize and reuse your images. Let’s say you’re a builder and you post all your jobs on your site and include an image gallery with each post. Now, suppose you want to display all your job images on a single portfolio page. What’s the easiest way to do that? Use the following: [combine-galleries] Suppose you build patios, decks, and enclosures. Now, suppose you want to display all your job images, grouped by job type, on a single portfolio page. Categorize your job posts (patio, deck, enclosure) and use the following: [combine-galleries category="patio"] [combine-galleries category="deck"] [combine-galleries category="enclosure"] Finally, suppose you want to create a page optimized for a specific city (let’s use Raleigh). And, on that page you want to display all your Raleigh jobs grouped by type. Tag your job posts by city and use the following: [combine-galleries category="patio" tag="raleigh"] [combine-galleries category="deck" tag="raleigh"] [combine-galleries category="enclosure" tag="raleigh"] Combine-Galleries allows you to combine and display gallery images from multiple posts based on taxonomy. The combine-galleries shortcode combines and displays image galleries from posts that match the categories and/or tags you specify. You don’t need to categorize or tag your images, just the posts. If you just want to display all gallery images on a single page, you don’t need to categorize or tag anything. Supports custom types. Compatible with the WordPress gallery shortcode and WordPress gallery plugins and viewers. Quickly and easily create galleries for your archive pages. See usage examples and options below… If you find this plugin useful, please consider a small donation of $5. All proceeds go to fund my current feature film project, Mango Dreams. Usage There are several options that may be specified using this syntax: [combine-galleries option1="value1" option2="value2"] You can also print a gallery directly in a template like so: Options ----------------------------------------------------- Supported options are listed below. All options are, well, optional. You are not required to provide any options. For example, “[combine-galleries]” will work just fine and will display all gallery images from every post and page on your site. Default option values are used when options are not specified. type Comma delimited list of post types from which to display images. Custom types are supported. Default = “page,post”. category Comma delimited list of categories used to filter posts. If more than one category is specified, the default behavior is to AND the categories together. For example, if category=”featured,decks” then only images from posts categorized as both “Featured” and “Decks” will be displayed. Category values are case-insensitive. If no category is specified then no filter is applied. By default, all categories are included. tags Comma delimited list of tags used to filter posts. If more than one tag is specified, the default behavior is to OR the tags together. For example, if tag=”raleigh,durham,chapel hill” then images from posts tagged as “Raleigh” or “Durham” or “Chapel Hill” will be displayed. Tag values are case-insensitive. If no tags are specified then no filter is applied. By default, all tags are included. taxonomy_join Specify the boolean operator used to join multiple taxonomies, i.e. categories and tags. Combine-galleries does not support custom taxonomies… yet. The default boolean operator used to join multiple taxonomies is AND. For example, if category=”Patios” and tag=”Denver” then, by default, only images from posts categorized as “Patios” AND tagged as “Denver” will be displayed. Bool operators include: AND (Default) OR category_join Specify the boolean operator used to join multiple categories. AND (Default) OR tag_join Specify the boolean operator used to join multiple tags. AND OR (Default) orderby Specify the order in which galleries are combined. Order of galleries is based on their post. The default is post_date. ID – order by post ID post_author – order by post author post_title – order by post title post_date (Default) – order by post date comment_count – order by post comment count order Specify the sort order of gallery posts. ASC or DESC (Default). For example, to sort by post ID from biggest to smallest: [combine-galleries orderby=”ID” order=”DESC”] limitposts Limit the number of posts. By default there is no limit. limitpostimages Limit the number of images displayed per post. By default there is no limit. columns specify the number of columns. The gallery will include a break tag at the end of each row, and calculate the column width as appropriate. The default value is 3. If columns is set to 0, no row breaks will be included. For example, to display a 4 column gallery: [combine-galleries columns=”4″] size Specify the image size to use for the thumbnail display. Valid values include: “thumbnail” (Default) “medium” “large” “full” Any additional image size registered with add_image_size. The size of the images for “thumbnail”, “medium” and “large” can be configured in WordPress admin panel under Settings > Media. For example, to display a gallery of medium sized images: [combine-galleries size="medium"] Advanced Options itemtag the name of the XHTML tag used to enclose each item in the gallery. The default is “dl”. icontag the name of the XHTML tag used to enclose each thumbnail icon in the gallery. The default is “dt”. captiontag the name of the XHTML tag used to enclose each caption. The default is “dd”. For example, to change the gallery markup to use div, span and p tags: [combine-galleries itemtag=”div” icontag=”span” captiontag=”p”] link Specify where you want the image to link. If this option is not specified or if no value is given, the image links to the attachment’s permalink. Options: “file” – Link directly to image file “none” – No link Ignored WordPress Gallery Option id specify the post ID. combine-galleries ignores the id option. The design goal of combine-galleries is to combine and display images from multiple posts based on taxonomy. The id option is used to display images from just one specific post. If you need to display images from a single post then the gallery shortcode is best.

This WordPress Plugin adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. It detects if a post contains a Gallery or Image Block and then loads & initialize baguetteBox.js, a pure JavaScript Lightbox script without any dependencies and a modern minimal look. There is no lock in effect. It does not add a new Block Editor/Gutenberg Block and relies solo on the standard WordPress Gallery and Image Block. You can deactivate this plugin at any time and your Gallery and Image Blocks will work as they’ve done before. Just without the lightbox. Just one important thing to remember: You always have to select Link → Link to image file or Link images to media file (see screenshots below) for all of your Image & Gallery Blocks to work properly. If you choose None or Link to attachment page it will not work. But that’s fine if you don’t want the Lightbox for a specific Image or Gallery. Take a look at the YouTube video from Jakson where he reviews this plugin: Features Here are the features of baguetteBox.js: Written in pure JavaScript No dependencies (e.g. jQuery) Image captions support Responsive Supports swipe gestures Around 13 KB, 7 KB gzipped Works with Gallery Block (Default Block) Image Block (Default Block) Media and Text Block (Default Block) Gallery (Default Classic Editor Gallery) CoBlocks Gallery Collage / Masonry / Offset / Stacked Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block) Don’t forget to select Link to → Media File for all of your Galleries & Images to work properly. Notice: At the moment, just Blocks inside a post are supported. Not Blocks in a Widget. You can make it work but have to enqueue the necessary style & script yourself. See FAQ –> How to enqueue the necessary assets (script & style) for blocks outside of posts or for block types that are not supported by default?