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FolioBlocks

FolioBlocks is a modern gallery and portfolio plugin built specifically for the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and Full Site Editor. Designed for photographers, designers, artists, and creative professionals, FolioBlocks makes it easy to create beautiful, fully responsive image galleries, video galleries, and before-and-after comparison blocks—all without shortcodes or external gallery systems.
Build professional galleries directly inside Gutenberg using flexible layouts including Grid, Justified, Masonry, Modular, Carousel, and Video Gallery blocks. Every block is performance-focused, mobile-friendly, and optimized for real portfolio use cases. FolioBlocks brings powerful visual tools into the native editor so you can work quickly and maintain full creative control.
Included blocks: 
* Before & After Block – Compare two images with an interactive slider 
* Loupe Block – Highlight fine details with an elegant magnifying zoom effect 
* Carousel Gallery Block – Smooth, swipe-friendly horizontal image slider 
* Grid Gallery Block – Classic evenly-spaced grid layout 
* Justified Gallery Block – Professional row-based gallery with balanced heights 
* Masonry Gallery Block – Pinterest-style vertical gallery layout 
* Modular Gallery Block (Pro Only) – Build custom, magazine-style image layouts 
* Video Gallery Block – Showcase YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted videos
Gallery Features – All gallery blocks include: 
* Fully responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile 
* Built-in Lightbox 
* Caption support and accessibility-friendly interactions 
* Drag-and-drop image ordering 
* 100% native Gutenberg block editing (no shortcodes, no separate gallery manager)
Advanced Features (Pro) – Unlock advanced tools designed for photography websites, creative portfolios, and WooCommerce-powered shops: 
* Gallery Image Filtering 
* WooCommerce Product Integration 
* Download Full-Resolution Images 
* Randomize Image Order 
* Disable Right-Click / Content Protection 
* Lazy Load Images for faster performance 
* Hover Effects and Image Overlays 
* Advanced Gallery Styling Controls (borders, shadows, radius, etc.)
Why FolioBlocks?
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, modern way to display photography, client work, products, portfolios, or case studies—FolioBlocks gives you those tools directly inside the editor.
<h3>Source Code</h3>
Public repository: 
https://github.com/folioblocks/folioblocks


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.

odude

No more looking for fast, easy gallery plugin with simple and very beautiful, highly customizable design. 
With our plugin you can let your visitors to post images, YouTube , vimeo , PDF, MP3, MP4 & type of files from frontend without login and convert those content into gallery. If you allow membership, visitors can manage their submitted post & administrator have option for it’s visibility. At the same time WordPress professionals get advanced tools and freedom of creativity. 
Just download and use blocks to generate gallery & forms. 
Fall in Love with this plugin like we do!
Look Screenshots for quick understanding of it’s scope. You can do lot more then listed. 🙂
<a href="https://odude.com/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Flexi Demo</a>
<h3>Help</h3>
<a href="https://odude.com/flexi/docs/flexi-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
<h4>Flexi is divided into 3 sections</h4>
1- Forms – Let visitors submit content from frontend (Eg. URL, images,video,audio, others) 
2- Gallery – Showcase of content into various layouts (Eg. Masonry Layout) 
3- Detail – View content into popup or in full detail single page. (Eg. Lightbox)
<h4>KEY FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block – Implemented Flexi Block (Visual Builder) for simple and fast configuration of the plugin in Gutenberg editor. Shortcode is generated along with live preview. </li>
<li>Advance Shortcode – Generate Gallery & Forms and all other features with shortcode. </li>
<li>Fully responsive and Mobile features – Plugin implemented with advanced settings for different devices screen size.</li>
<li>3 Hover effects – & 5 Caption effect at gallery page.</li>
<li>3 Gallery layout & 1 Detail Page – Masonry , Wide & Regular layout</li>
<li>Advanced Load more function – implemented very attractive navigation mode. Auto pre loading images like endless list of the images. Available navigation options are Page Number , Load More Button, Load on mouse scroll</li>
<li>Tags for images – every image contain tags for easy navigation and visitor can create new one during submission.</li>
<li>Multi Categories – multi categories albums support. You can create your own galleries tree, depend of your needs with thumbnail of each category</li>
<li>User ‘My Dashboard’ – Page to view,modify, delete own submitted records.</li>
<li>Lightbox or Popup – Popup opens for image,mp4,pdf,youtube,vimeo when clicked on thumbnail.</li>
<li>Detail page – Content can be open in full Detail Page or single page with added features.</li>
<li>Extra Controls – Lots of controls like ‘Number of column’ , ‘Records per page’, ‘Image dimension’ , ‘Layouts’ , ‘Icons visibility’ and many more.</li>
<li>Standalone Gallery – It will display large image with small thumbnail separated from gallery group.</li>
<li>Gallery Filter – Gallery can be filter based on different type (user, category, tags, type)</li>
<li>Gallery Sorting – Gallery sorting based on (ID, date, name, random, modified)</li>
<li>Submission Form – Form can be generated with Gutenblock and advance features and sorting options with the help of powerful shortcode. Separate forms for video urls & images.</li>
<li>Powerful Ajax – Gallery, form have ajax and classic support. No change in page URL if ajax is enabled.</li>
<li>Icon Management – Toggle view of various icons like view,trash, edit, profile</li>
<li>Temporary Disable – Ability to temporary disable all forms in one click from settings.</li>
<li>Custom Fields – Collect extra information from visitors while submitting form and display/hide it at gallery, lightbox & detail page. </li>
<li>Moderation – All submitted can be moderated so that it is visible only after approval by administrator.</li>
<li>Any Type of File – Ability to submit any type of file format allowed by administrator</li>
<li>File size limit – Specify each file size (MB) limit that the visitors can upload. </li>
<li>Conflict Management – Special settings available to manage the conflict with other plugins & theme.</li>
<li>Live Reloading – If gallery & form is on same page, the submitted post will be visible as soon as form is posted without any page refresh.</li>
<li>Like/Unlike button – Option to display like & unlike button at gallery & detail page.</li>
<li>Count Post – View count for each post can be displayed at gallery & detail page. </li>
<li>Personal layout – Developers can create their own gallery. Make a Installation file and handover to client for importing.</li>
<li>PHP function – Own php functions can be added through shortcode to gallery so that gallery goes beyond the current features. </li>
<li>CSS Classes – Options to add own css classes through shortcode. In setting page ‘appearance & style’ to change look & feel.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Frontend Form Submission</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode based form Builder</li>
<li>Submit any type of files and regular post without images too.</li>
<li>Create own custom fields and with control over duplicate entry.</li>
<li>Selection of category, inserting tags, bulk upload, captcha security and many more.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Layout Builder</h4>
<ul>
<li>Basic – Detail layout – 5 changeable location</li>
<li>Complex – Detail layout – 12 changeable location</li>
<li>Custom – Lightbox layout – 5 changeable location for popup</li>
</ul>
<h4>WORKS GREAT WITH</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ultimate-Member plugin. It will display user submitted records on user profile tab.</li>
<li>BuddyPress plugin. It will display user submitted records on user profile section and BuddyPress activity with image thumbnail.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Stress Free Gallery</h4>
As on the title, just copy paste <code>[flexi-form attach="true"]</code> to any wp-page and wp-post. 
It will have gallery & form on same page. This form can be toggle display between member & public. 
As soon as the form is posted, the submitted post will be visible at the page which won’t be displayed on other pages with same shortcode. 
You can also add/remove form fields based on pages & posts. 
No more require to generate shortcode after the gallery is created as other plugins does.
<h4>VIDEO URL</h4>
<ul>
<li>Video URL – Copy/Paste YouTube.com & Vimeo.com video URL into submission form</li>
<li>Auto Thumbnail – Thumbnail image for video is auto generated. No need to post thumbnail manually.</li>
<li>Lightbox – Video is played over popup with full media controls given by provider.</li>
<li>Full Page – Option to view video in full page with video detail long description & custom fields submitted by visitors.</li>
</ul>
<h4>SUPPORTED FILES to UPLOAD</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube URL</li>
<li>Vimeo URL</li>
<li>All type of images</li>
<li>All type of Videos Eg. MP4, m4v, webm (Video Player supports: //mp4, m4v, webm, ogv, wmv, flv)</li>
<li>Video files like mp4 will generate animated video thumbnail in gif format. </li>
<li>All type of Audio Eg. MP3, m4a, m4b</li>
<li>All most all type of files Eg. PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT, CSV</li>
<li>Flexi-PRO user has ability to add own file/type in settings.</li>
<li>Admin has ability to restrict & allow certain type of files</li>
</ul>
<h4>CORE FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>No extra files on media manager – It uses WordPress default image handling. It will not create any additional image size on server which saves your space. Due to this features you can install other 3rd party plugins for image management. But you have option to set width & height of images based on true css only.</li>
<li>Implemented to avoid AJAX libs conflicts – code implemented in native WordPress style as result our plugin don’t have any conflicts and work really stable.</li>
<li>SEO Friendly – designed as a wordpress regular post with additional features.</li>
<li>Multisite Support – implemented multisite support. You can install plugin in admin dashboard and enable plugin for all child blogs.</li>
<li>Delete Post – I permanently delete media files associated with post after it is trashed by user or administrator. No more unused images on your server.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<ul>
<li>List Album List all or selected album at sidebar or any widget location.</li>
<li>List Tags List all tags into dropdown list at sidebar or any widget location.</li>
<li>Flexi Showcase Widgets – Easily place gallery at sidebar based on latest, modified & random post (Elementor supported) </li>
<li>Flexi Gallery Sidebar – This is special sidebar for gallery page where any widgets can be added.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Category & Tags</h4>
<ul>
<li>Album – Administrator can create unlimited deep tree category.</li>
<li>Tags – User can generate their tags from frontend. </li>
<li>Album List – Shortcode <code>[flexi-category]</code> can display album to frontend</li>
<li>Album Widget – List of categories can be displayed at sidebar</li>
<li>Album Thumbnail – Admin can set own custom thumbnail image. </li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>German language (de_DE)</li>
<li>Italian Language (it_IT)</li>
<li>Dutch language (nl_NL)</li>
<li>Hindi India language (hi_IN)</li>
<li>Spanish Language (es_ES)</li>
<li>French Language (fr_FR)</li>
<li>Danish Language (da_DK)</li>
</ul>
<h4>PRO KEY FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Batch images upload – Allow to upload batch of the images by one click. Just drag and drop set of the gallery images and it’s upload automatically to the server.</li>
<li>Google reCaptcha support for form security while submitting form.</li>
<li>Custom Fields extra 17 fields on top of free version. </li>
<li>Edit Post Let visitors to update the submitted post with own set of fields. </li>
<li>More Mime Types – Add more file type to allow visitors to upload. </li>
<li>User File Limit – Limit the number of post to get submitted based on user roles.</li>
<li>File Size – Visitors can upload more then 100MB cap limit to 9999MB.</li>
<li>Animated thumbnail – High quality animated gif file for mp4 and other video formats</li>
</ul>
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If any suggestion, contact at navneet@odude.com 
 Byte update at https://github.com/odudename/flexi
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Flexi – Guest Submit

Visitors submitted images, video, documents, music, youtube file without registration and display into gallery.

FolioBlocks vs Flexi – Guest Submit