How to Add a Photo Grid in WordPress (Without Plugins)

How to Add a Photo Grid in WordPress

A photo grid is a layout that displays multiple images in a structured grid format. It arranges photos in rows and columns, so they look clean, organized, and easy to browse. This could be an ideal option to showcase personal portfolios, product images, travel photos, and more visual elements.

Not only can it help highlight your key content, but it also lets visitors have a quick snapshot of what you want to display. With the Gutenberg gallery block, you can easily display your photos in a grid without having to use any additional plugin.

In this quick post, we’ll explain how to add a photo grid in WordPress with a step-by-step guide. Get started!

How to Add a Photo Grid in WordPress

As already said, you can create a photo grid in WordPress using its gallery block. If you don’t know yet how to use the block, this section is for you.

Step 01: Add the Gallery Block to the Editor

Open your desired post or page. Click the plus (+) icon on the editor. Type Gallery in the search bar. Once the Gallery block appears, add it to the editor.

Add the Gallery Block to the Editor

Step 02: Add Images to the Gallery

By the Upload button, you can add images from your local drives. And by the Media Library button, you can select and add images from your backend media library.

Do this part yourself.

Add Images to the Gallery

For this tutorial, we’ll add images from the media library. Select the images one by one that you want. Then, hit the Create a new gallery button.

Select images you to add to the photo grid

After images are selected from the media library, in the next step, you’ll be allowed to write a caption for each image. Next, hit the Insert gallery button.

Add captions to the images

You’ll instantly see that the photos are displayed in a grid format on the editor.

Photos displayed in a grid

Step 03: Customize Settings of the Photo Grid

Select the entire grid by clicking the Gallery icon on the toolbar. This will show up the Settings tab on the right sidebar.

From the Settings tab, you can change the column number, resolution, ordering, and cropping option for the images in the gallery.

Customize Settings of the Photo Grid

Step 04: Stylize the Grid

After that, come to the Styles tab. You can set a background color, padding, margin, border color, and radius for the border.

Stylize the Grid

Hope you can do these changes yourself, following the step-by-step guide mentioned above.

Conclusion

Hope you now know how to create a photo grid in WordPress. But before ending, we want to clarify one thing. With the default Gallery block, you can create only a basic version of the photo grid. Besides, it lacks many important features, like a lightbox.

If you want to make your photo grid feature-rich, you must use some additional plugins. Galleryber is such a plugin that you can use in this regard. Not only does it let you enable the lightbox feature but it also allows you to display your images in various grid formats, like Tiles, Masonry, Justified, and Square.

Get this advanced gallery builder plugin by clicking the link displayed below. And finally, don’t forget to let us know your feedback.

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