Gallery Block vs. Layout Grid

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    2egold · Member ·

    I have found portrait photos work better in the Gallery Block and landscape images work better in the Layout Grid (I chose the ‘Three Images Side-By-Side’ block from the Patterns tab when you click to add a block). When I put landscape images in the the gallery and put two or three together on a line they get cut off. That doesn’t happen in the layout grid.

    One difference I have noticed is that when you click on an image in a gallery block a carousel and lightbox open up and the viewer can easily scroll through my images and then click anywhere to go back to the previous page.

    When I use the layout grid, images do not pop up when clicked. I linked each to a media file but the pop up of the image isn’t the same as when using the gallery block. I don’t like that there are differences in format.

    What other type of block is similar to the gallery block where I can have that carousel and lightbox pop up feature but can also put landscape photos side by side?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I’ve never experienced landscape photos getting cut off in a gallery. Can you give a link to a post on your site where this is visible?

    And are you using the gallery block, or the tiled gallery block? The tiled gallery block arranges your images to fit, and should definitely not crop any images in any way. The regular gallery block might, as that displays images in a grid at preset dimensions.

    Alternatively, you can also look at the gallery blocks available via our CoBlocks integration. Those have their own lightbox feature, though, so they don’t use the built-in gallery carousel.

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/coblocks/

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