Justified Gallery

About Justified Gallery

The Justified Gallery plugin enhances the native WordPress gallery by adding a responsive layout, a justified image grid, and a lightbox. It is easy to install and use, and it works well with the Gutenberg block editor. There is also a premium version available with additional features for optimizing the loading time of large galleries.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Justified Gallery?

Justified Gallery is a WordPress plugin that enhances the native WordPress gallery by adding a responsive justified image grid and a lightbox. It aims to improve the display of galleries that themes might render in an unappealing way.

How do I use Justified Gallery?

If you use the block editor, insert the Justified Gallery block or transform an existing Gallery block. For the Classic Editor, it works out of the box with native WordPress galleries using the [gallery] shortcode.

What are some key features of Justified Gallery?

Key features include a beautiful justified layout, compatibility with Gutenberg, support for image descriptions, and a PhotoSwipe lightbox. It is also responsive, adapts image quality for different screen sizes, and allows configuration of gap width and row height.

Changelog

1.10.0, January 27, 2025

UPDATE: Freemius SDK

1.9.0, November 18, 2024

ADD: Ability to set background and text color in the gallery preview
ADD: Ability to limit the number of images in the gallery preview
FIX: Unwanted image cropping when max row height is set to -1
FIX: Incorrect display of links in the description in Photoswipe lightbox
FIX: Deprecation warning when editing a gallery in the block editor
TWEAK: Stop using a server-side mobile device recognition library
UPDATE: Freemius SDK v2.9.0

1.8.1, July 08, 2023

FIX: Incorrect image caption background color for Layla tile style

1.8.0, July 05, 2023

FIX: Unnecessary loading of Swipebox files when using Photoswipe lightbox
FIX: Unnecessary database post query in plugin settings page
FIX: Ensure that plugin notices are closed by the current user
UPDATE: Justified Gallery library v3.8.1
UPDATE: Freemius SDK v2.5.10

1.7.3, January 11, 2023

FIX: Plugin security enhancements and code-related best practices

1.7.2, January 10, 2023

FIX: Plugin security enhancements and code-related best practices
ADD: Update Photoswipe library
ADD: Update Swipebox library

1.7.1, December 23, 2022

FIX: Securing shortcode attributes
ADD: Freemius SDK v2.5.3

1.7.0, November 22, 2022

ADD: New “Simple” tile style with two caption display modes
ADD: Ability to transform core gallery block and [gallery] shortcode into a Justified Gallery block
ADD: Possibility to edit Justified Gallery block settings directly in the block editor
CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.6.0, May 24, 2022

REFACTOR: Rebuilt gallery block for the block editor
FIX: Justified Gallery block cannot be selected in the block editor
FIX: Justified Gallery block preview in the block editor is not visible in WordPress 6.0

1.5.1, March 01, 2022

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK (security fixes)

1.5.0, July 20, 2021

FIX: Change to ‘media’ category in block editor
FIX: Compability with PHP 8
CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.4.5, December 09, 2020

FIX: Swipebox compability with jQuery 3.x
CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.4.4, May 11, 2020

ADD: Compability with Twenty Twenty theme

1.4.3, December 19, 2019

CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.4.2, March 02, 2019

ADD: Security patch

1.4.1, December 16, 2018

FIX: Undefined wp.editor for the Gutenberg block in WordPress 5
CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.4.0, September 13, 2018

ADD: New Gutemberg block called “Justified Gallery”
ADD: New option to disable outer space of the grid, when adding space between images!.
FIX: Conflict with the Jetpack Lazy Images module
FIX: Conflict with the Lazy Load by WP Rocket
FIX: Description in Photoswipe white (wedding) theme
CHANGE: Latest Freemius SDK

1.3.1, April 3, 2018

ADD: Notice “How to use?” on fresh installs
FIX: Blurry images on some themes
FIX: Swipebox default settings
CHANGE: Small changes on settings page

1.3.0, March 14, 2018

ADD: New lightbox – Swipebox
ADD: New tile style Layla
ADD: New hooks and filters
ADD: Performance improvement – load script only if needed
ADD: Lightbix preview on the settings page
ADD: Tiles style preview on the settings page
ADD: Pro version advertisement
FIX: Restoring the param link=none
FIX: Description appearance
CHANGE: plugin textdomain as a string
CHANGE: Code refactoring

1.2.3, September 23, 2017

FIX: Quotation marks in a image description
FIX: Images were linked to “Attachment Page” for selected option “Media File”
CHANGE: Move admin menu item to the Settings

1.2.2, July 25, 2017

ADD: Admin notice for better feedback from users
FIX: Share URL after changes in Facebook API

1.2.1, July 10, 2017

ADD: Freemius SDK
ADD: Option to disable hover effect
FIX: Facebook share link
FIX: Unnecessary hover effect on mobile devices
CHANGE: File structure refactoring

1.2.0, February 25, 2017

CHANGE: LightGallery is replaced by PhotoSwipe because of license
FIX: Admin bar that covers lightbox window

1.1.0, August 17, 2016

ADD: Compatibility with the Enhanced Media Library
ADD: Allows to use links in a media description
FIX: PHP Warnings caused by using the ‘post_gallery’ filter by other plugins without a third parameter: $instance
FIX: Trivial CSS

1.0.0, June 25, 2016

ADD: Loupe icon if there is no caption

0.9.1, June 4, 2016

First public release