VertiFeed — Vertical Media Gallery
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Show Media Library videos as a gallery grid; click a thumbnail to open a fullscreen vertical swipe player.
VertiFeed adds two Gutenberg blocks for creating vertical swipe video galleries on your WordPress site.
VertiFeed Gallery — A container block that displays videos as a responsive gallery grid of poster thumbnails. Clicking a thumbnail opens a fullscreen overlay with a vertical swipe video player.
VertiFeed Video — A child block for adding individual videos from the Media Library.
Features
- Responsive gallery grid of poster thumbnails (no autoplay on the page)
- Fullscreen overlay player opens on click, starting at the chosen video
- Vertical swipe, scroll, and keyboard navigation; close with Esc or the X button
- Self-hosted videos from the WordPress Media Library
- Muted autoplay inside the overlay with tap-to-play/pause
- Optional captions overlay per video
- Configurable columns, gap, aspect ratio, loop, progress bar, and mute toggle
- Built with the WordPress Interactivity API and block.json
Development
Source code and build tools are in the public repository: https://github.com/loopcreators/vertifeed
This plugin is built with @wordpress/scripts. To regenerate the compiled files in build/:
- Install dependencies:
yarn install - Build assets:
yarn run build