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  • I’m an artist and I’ve run into a small problem with my website’s gallery plugin. I currently use WP Canvas – Gallery. It has 2 of the things I need: mosaic style gallery & images open to a new page. The problem is that it isn’t responsive & it doesn’t offer pagination – two additional things I now need. I’ve attempted to contact the author without success.

    Is there another gallery plugin that has a mosaic style gallery where images can be opened into a new page (NOT a lightbox), that also offers pagination & is responsive? I’ve done search after search for one but it seems every plugin designer thinks lightboxes are the end-all-be-all but personally I can’t stand lightboxes. Every piece of my art has an individual page (for a reason) and I want to keep it that way. I’ve tried so many plugins over the last few months, and spent a ton of money in the process but still can’t find one that does all four things.

    While a free plugin would be awesome, I’m not opposed to premium plugins.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    WordPress’s built-in gallery system will do what you’re describing: https://codex.wordpress.org/The_WordPress_Gallery

    And, you can add a mosaic stye to it with the Jetpack plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ with specific details on that at https://jetpack.com/support/tiled-galleries/

    Thread Starter HMiller

    (@hmiller-1)

    Thank you James, but that only takes care of 3 of the four things I need….unless I’m not seeing something. The instructions say images can only open to the attachment page or media file. I don’t see a way I can change it to a real page (not an attachment page) which is why I went with WP Canvas – Gallery because it does that. I already have created 100+ pages and don’t even want to think about the number of 301 redirects I’d have to create in addition to moving all the information from one page to the next.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Depending on the theme, most of the themes I have encountered really, attachment pages are nearly indistinguishable from other page types.

    Thread Starter HMiller

    (@hmiller-1)

    I loaded my theme on my testing site to test this. Sadly the attachment pages don’t actually function like real pages. I have specifically formatting on my art pages that I can’t do with attachment pages. Plugins don’t recognize them, I can’t go to an area and see a list of all the attachment pages or make draft pages, among other problems. I’ve always been baffled by what purpose the attachment pages actually serve tbh, I’m even more baffled now that I tried to use one.

    I’m grateful for the suggestion though! Thank you for taking the time to offer your help!!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Ah ok, then I’m not aware of any myself that will function as you describe, but hopefully someone else is. 🙂

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