Out of the Block vs Meow Gallery

Meow Gallery is the lightweight, polished gallery solution for WordPress. Built from scratch for simplicity, appearance, and speed. Features a Gallery Block, shortcode support, or works as an override for the standard WordPress gallery. It’s responsive, retina-friendly, with modern layouts, and tightly optimized. Stop fighting bloated gallery plugins that turn your WordPress into a slower experience! 😘 Meow Gallery focuses on what actually matters: Beautiful Layouts and Performance. Check out our official site and see the layouts in action to get started. Core Features 🎨 Beautiful Layouts Choose from Tiles, Masonry, Justified (like Flickr), Square (like Instagram), Cascade, and Horizontal. Pro version adds Carousel and Map layouts. 🚀 Performance First Built from scratch with modern code. No legacy bloat, no unnecessary features. Just clean, fast galleries. 🔌 WordPress Native Works naturally with WordPress and Gutenberg without hacking it. Use the Gallery Block, shortcode, or override the standard WordPress gallery. Switch back anytime—no lock-in. 📱 Responsive & Retina All layouts are fully responsive and retina-ready for crisp images on any device. Compatibility Since Meow Gallery works with WordPress naturally, it’s compatible with most plugins and themes: Lightbox: Use any lightbox you prefer. We recommend Meow Lightbox for the best experience. Lightroom: Fully compatible with Photo Engine for media organization and Lightroom sync. External Links: Use Gallery Custom Links to add custom URLs to your images. Audio: Add audio to images with Audio Story Images. SEO-friendly with automatic sitemap integration (works with Yoast SEO and others). Pro Features Infinite/Lazy Loading: Faster page loading and smoother experience Carousel Layout: Dynamic slider/carousel that can also work as a hero Map Layout: GPS-based photo display for travel galleries Animations: Bring your galleries to life with smooth animations You can find more information on Meow Apps: Meow Gallery.

A map block for Gutenberg which uses OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.js. It needs no API keys and works out of the box (or, out of the Block, if you prefer). Benefiting from Gutenberg’s potential, the plugin tries a different take on how to add your locations on the map and rethinks a few things, UX-wise. Instead of manually adding coordinates for each one of your markers, just click-and-drop them directly on the map. You want to adjust their position? Just drag them wherever you want. And instead of filling-in custom fields to set each marker’s popup content, just open that popup and start writing in it, the Gutenberg way (it supports WYSIWYG editing, with links, images, and all). It even stores the map’s zoom level as you use it so that you don’t have to set it by hand. Follow the project’s development on GitHub Release history Roadmap Hooks🪝 Shortcodes Features No need for API keys. Just install and use it. Support for multiple markers. Support for a different icon per marker. Support for polygons and polylines. Marker clustering: group nearby markers into clusters that expand as you zoom in. Dead-simple interface. Don’t search for coordinates and don’t get overwhelmed by too many fields when using multiple markers. Just point and click on the map to add your marker where you want it and edit it’s popup content directly from there. Place search. Find locations by typing keywords. Remembers the zoom that you set when adding the markers and stores it so that you don’t set it by hand (which you can do anyway if you prefer). AI integration which allows you to add markers by using commands in natural language. Just say “please” to activate (e.g. “Please, show me where GOT was filmed”). Requires an API key from an AI Provider, or a site-level AI connector on WordPress 7.0+. Read more. Query Maps: Supports creating a map out of maps added on other posts or post types. This can be quite powerful when, for example, you have a custom post type for “Places” with each place having its own map, and you want to dynamically gather-up all the places on a single map. Shortcode support: You can use the shortcode [ootb_query] as an alternative way to use the aforementioned Query Maps feature (see the FAQ for more info). Support for a location custom field, which can be used to store a post’s or post type’s location, following the Geodata guidelines. Read more in the v.2.8.0 release notes. Adjust the map height. Change the default marker icon with a custom one. Enable or disable map dragging. Enable or disable touch zoom. Enable or disable double-click zoom. Enable or disable scroll wheel zoom. Set a minimum and maximum limit that the user can zoom on the frontend. Setting the same value to both fields will lock the zoom at that level. Support for other Layer Providers: MapBox (using your own API key) and Stamen. Option to export locations in a JSON file Option to import locations from a JSON file