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FolioBlocks

Michael

<p>FolioBlocks is a native WordPress gallery plugin for building responsive image galleries, video galleries, portfolio layouts, and comparison blocks directly in the Block Editor. It is designed for photographers, designers, artists, agencies, creative businesses, and WooCommerce stores that need flexible visual layouts without shortcodes or external gallery managers.</p>
<p>Create Grid, Masonry, Justified, Carousel, Filmstrip, Modular, and Video galleries using familiar Gutenberg controls. FolioBlocks keeps your workflow inside WordPress while giving you tools for lightboxes, hover overlays, gallery filtering, image downloads, WooCommerce product links, EXIF display, and content protection.</p>
<p>The free version includes the core gallery and media blocks. FolioBlocks Pro unlocks advanced creative and commerce features, including Modular Gallery, gallery filtering, WooCommerce integration, image downloads, lazy loading, advanced styling controls, Pro List View thumbnails, and more.</p>
<p>Included blocks:<br />
* Background Video Block – Add an autoplaying, responsive background video with overlay content on top<br />
* Before & After Block – Compare two images with an interactive slider<br />
* Loupe Block – Highlight fine details with an elegant magnifying zoom effect<br />
* Carousel Gallery Block – Smooth, swipe-friendly horizontal image slider<br />
* Filmstrip Gallery Block – Scroll through large images with thumbnail navigation below<br />
* Grid Gallery Block – Classic evenly-spaced grid layout<br />
* Image Block – Display a single image with lightbox, hover overlay, optional downloads, and WooCommerce linking<br />
* Justified Gallery Block – Professional row-based gallery with balanced heights<br />
* Masonry Gallery Block – Pinterest-style vertical gallery layout<br />
* Modular Gallery Block (Pro Only) – Build custom, magazine-style image layouts<br />
* Video Block – Display a single video with custom thumbnail, lightbox playback, captions, and optional WooCommerce linking<br />
* Video Gallery Block – Showcase YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted videos</p>
<p>Core gallery features include:<br />
* Fully responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile<br />
* Built-in lightbox support<br />
* Caption support and accessibility-friendly interactions<br />
* Drag-and-drop image ordering<br />
* 100% native Gutenberg block editing (no shortcodes, no separate gallery manager)<br />
* Block transforms to convert galleries in one click<br />
* WordPress 7.0 List View inspector support for gallery children</p>
<p>Pro features include:<br />
* Custom image click actions for media files, custom URLs, Page/Post links, downloads, lightbox, and WooCommerce products<br />
* Gallery image filtering with per-image category assignment<br />
* WooCommerce product integration for images and videos<br />
* Download full-resolution images<br />
* Randomize image order<br />
* Disable right-click / content protection<br />
* Lazy load images for faster performance<br />
* Hover effects, image overlays, and overlay content controls<br />
* EXIF metadata display in lightboxes and hover overlays<br />
* Pro List View thumbnails for easier gallery reordering<br />
* Advanced gallery styling controls for borders, shadows, radius, filter bars, icons, and overlays</p>
<p>Why FolioBlocks?</p>
<p>FolioBlocks is built for users who want fast, native, block-based galleries without the complexity of third-party gallery builders or shortcode-based plugins. If you want a clean way to display photography, client work, products, portfolios, or case studies, FolioBlocks gives you those tools directly inside the editor.</p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>Public repository:<br />
https://github.com/folioblocks/folioblocks</p>



Gallery plugins historically have been annoying for me to use, and block-based ones, especially so. But FolioBlocks was fun to use. I love that so many different types of galleries can be chosen (masonry, grid, etc), it has the option to use its built-in lightbox, and just the simplicity of it all was sweet. And responsive on top of it! I'm definitely a fan now.


Easy to use with good number of features

Create fast, responsive photo and video galleries with grid, masonry, justified, modular, and carousel layouts—ideal for photographers and creatives.

Files.fm

<p>Files.fm file gallery is an advanced plugin for embedding photos, images, audios, videos, documents or any other type file galleries and portfolios in a grid-style reponsive layout. Supports file preview and streaming audio/video player. Gallery is fully responsive and mobile friendly. It has a thumbnail grid view and a pop-up “light-box view with detailed file info, tags, comments and other great features.</p>
<h3>Backend cloud storage</h3>
<p>You create a free Files.fm cloud storage account with 1GB+ permanent storage.<br />
Files in the gallery are uploaded, stored adn served from a backend Files.fm cloud file storage server.</p>
<h3>Convenient file management and statistics</h3>
<p>Plugin provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing files with the ability to batch upload, delete and manage files with a few simple steps. File preview and download statistics are available.<br />
Files can be managed through WordPress admin as well as at https://files.fm/filebrowser</p>
<h3>E-commerce and content sales</h3>
<p>E-commerce backend to sell digitals donwloads of photos, videos or documents. You can create your online store straight away and start monetizing your content. See more here: https://files.fm/sell-files</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Unlimited number of galleries and files in galleries</li>
<li>File descriptions, tags</li>
<li>Comments section for each file</li>
<li>Auto read EXIF and metadata in displayed tags</li>
<li>Direct file download</li>
<li>Enable/disable file download</li>
<li>PDF preview</li>
<li>Video player</li>
<li>Audio player</li>
<li>Full screen view</li>
<li>Drag & Drop upload, folder upload </li>
<li>E-commerce payments and content sales</li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO features</h3>
<p>Subscribe to Files.fm PRO or Business account to:<br />
– increase available storage<br />
– backup your galleries for later use<br />
– set pasword to access files<br />
– Files.fm logo removed<br />
and get other great features. More info here: https://files.fm/storage-plans</p>
<h3>About us</h3>
<p>Files.fm provides secure and customizable cloud storage solutions for business and private users to store, share, backup or sell content worldwide.</p>
<h3>Contact us</h3>
<p>We are always happy to hear feedback and suggestions from our users.<br />
Feel free to contact us: support@files.fm</p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>See demo here: https://files.fm/gallery_module/index.php?wp=1</p>


Photo gallery, image gallery, video gallery, file gallery plugin with cloud storage

We have invested good amount of time to develop file gallery features and file storage management based on our user feedback.
We hope you will enjoy the ease of use and 1GB of free cloud file storage :)

We hope, you will upgrade to PRO or Business to get more storage or features.
Your feedback is always welcome – please, contact us via website, if needed.
We are updating the features of the file gallery continuously, especially functions related to image / photo support.

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Responsive and mobile-friendly file gallery plugin for image, audio, video or other files with backend cloud storage and easy management.

FolioBlocks vs Photo gallery, image gallery, video gallery, file gallery plugin with cloud storage