Artclick Gallery Lite
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Responsive image galleries with a modern lightbox and a built-in slider/carousel. Pure vanilla JS — no jQuery, no frameworks.
Artclick Gallery Lite lets you create beautiful, fast image galleries in minutes. Choose a responsive grid (1–6 columns) or switch a gallery into a slider/carousel with a single setting — no extra effort required. Every gallery ships with an accessible lightbox, native lazy loading, a shortcode, and a Gutenberg block.
Built for performance: assets load only on pages that actually contain a gallery, the frontend uses pure vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery), and gallery data is stored in post meta — no custom database tables.
Key Features
- Unlimited galleries, managed in a dedicated, clutter-free admin
- Responsive grid layout with separate column counts for desktop, tablet, and mobile (1–6 columns)
- Built-in slider / carousel mode — show one image or several at once, with a per-device "Slides to Show" setting
- Slider controls: autoplay, autoplay speed, loop, slide/fade transitions, plus keyboard, touch-swipe, and mouse-drag navigation
- Navigation dots with selectable position (over the slider or below it) and a custom color
- Customizable previous / next arrow color
- Aspect-ratio options — Original (uncropped) or 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 3:2
- Image fit (cover or contain), rounded corners, and hover effects (zoom, lift, grayscale, brighten)
- Adjustable horizontal and vertical spacing between images
- Modern, accessible lightbox — previous/next, close, ESC, click-outside, image counter, thumbnail strip, optional slideshow button, keyboard navigation, focus trapping, and swipe
- Native lazy loading with no layout shift
- Drag-and-drop image reordering with per-image captions
- Shortcode, Gutenberg block (live preview), and a Classic/TinyMCE insert button
- Optional lightbox for normal post/page content images
- One-click gallery duplication
- Translation ready (ships with a Japanese translation)
- Accessibility first: ARIA labels, focus states, screen-reader friendly controls, and reduced-motion support
- Clean uninstall — removes its galleries, meta, and options
Performance
- No jQuery dependency on the frontend
- Vanilla JavaScript only, with minified assets
- Assets load only when a gallery is present on the page
- Data stored in post meta — no custom database tables and no unnecessary queries
About Artclick
Artclick Gallery Lite is built and maintained by Artclick.
- Japan: https://artclick.jp/
- Global: https://artclickdev.com/