Freemius

FolioBlocks

Michael

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.
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.
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.
Included blocks: 
* Background Video Block – Add an autoplaying, responsive background video with overlay content on top 
* 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 
* Filmstrip Gallery Block – Scroll through large images with thumbnail navigation below 
* Grid Gallery Block – Classic evenly-spaced grid layout 
* Image Block – Display a single image with lightbox, hover overlay, optional downloads, and WooCommerce linking 
* 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 Block – Display a single video with custom thumbnail, lightbox playback, captions, and optional WooCommerce linking 
* Video Gallery Block – Showcase YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted videos
Core gallery features include: 
* Fully responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile 
* Built-in lightbox support 
* Caption support and accessibility-friendly interactions 
* Drag-and-drop image ordering 
* 100% native Gutenberg block editing (no shortcodes, no separate gallery manager) 
* Block transforms to convert galleries in one click 
* WordPress 7.0 List View inspector support for gallery children
Pro features include: 
* Custom image click actions for media files, custom URLs, Page/Post links, downloads, lightbox, and WooCommerce products 
* Gallery image filtering with per-image category assignment 
* WooCommerce product integration for images and videos 
* Download full-resolution images 
* Randomize image order 
* Disable right-click / content protection 
* Lazy load images for faster performance 
* Hover effects, image overlays, and overlay content controls 
* EXIF metadata display in lightboxes and hover overlays 
* Pro List View thumbnails for easier gallery reordering 
* Advanced gallery styling controls for borders, shadows, radius, filter bars, icons, and overlays
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 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.

Gaucho Plugins

limbcode

Limb Gallery lets you make beautiful photo and video galleries with responsive layouts and customizable styles. The process of the photo and video gallery creation is very easy and enjoyable due to its high speed and the fact that the main actions of the plugin, such as adding images and preview images are animated movements. Limb Gallery has 5 different views for the gallery layout and 3 views for the album layout.
Moreover, one gallery can be published multiple times with different themes and options and you can also collapse them into the albums and publish them, too. The plugin has a single page admin which enables you to control everything just from one single page. It also has a very functional built-in uploader which accelerates the process of the gallery and album creation with the help of its advanced functions, such as uploading, renaming, deleting images and creating folders. Finally, Limb Gallery has a very important characteristic which is the opportunity to choose the exact pro-features of the plugin that you need without purchasing the others. 
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<h4>Limb Demo</h4>
*<a href="https://limbcode.com/#demo" rel="nofollow ugc">DEMO</a>
<h4>Free key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited galleries</li>
<li>Unlimited albums</li>
<li>Gutenberg enabled</li>
<li>Custom order with “Drag and Drop”</li>
<li>Full width gallery</li>
<li>Widget gallery</li>
<li>Social gallery</li>
<li>Video gallery</li>
<li>Mix content (uploaded photos, youtube/vimeo videos, instagram photos/videos, flickr photos) gallery</li>
<li>Two default themes from our disigners (Tender black, Black)</li>
<li>Limb media uploader</li>
<li>WordPress media library</li>
<li>Creating folders in uploader</li>
<li>Editable shortcode popup window</li>
<li>Carousel gallery</li>
<li>Thumbnail gallery</li>
<li>Thumbnail album</li>
<li>Masonry gallery</li>
<li>Masonry album</li>
<li>Customizable lightbox</li>
<li>One lightbox effect</li>
<li>Social shareing in lightbox</li>
<li>Swipe functionality in lightbox</li>
<li>All CSS styles are external</li>
<li>Load more button</li>
<li>On scroll loading</li>
<li>Pagination with numbers</li>
</ul>
Shortcode
The shortcode function of the plugin allows users to publish one gallery in multiple ways due to many editable options. Adding a Limb Gallery button is available both in visual and text tabs of the WordPress editor. The function also gives the opportunity to set the type of layout for the gallery and parameters based on the chosen view type. Moreover, the main options for the creation of the lightbox are also in the shortcode function.
Custom order with “Drag and Drop”
With drag and drop the order of images in the gallery can be custom. No matter when the image was added to gallery, it can easily get a new order.
Video Gallery
Social and video galleries are also available. Gallery can be created via YouTube and Vimeo videos and can include Instagram photos/videos and Flickr photos, too.
Lightbox
The lightbox with high functionality allow to view images, create slideshows with multiple effects. There are also options which enable social sharing which help users to share images in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. The comments function allow to post comments to images.
Pagination
Pagination can be produced in the following ways: scrolling, numbers, and a load more button.
Responsive layouts
Plugin is fully responsive, so users can view it on any device.
<h4>Pro key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>The opportunity to create unlimited themes with over 300 parameters</li>
<li>Filmstrip</li>
<li>26 Lightbox Effects</li>
<li>Mosaic gallery</li>
<li>Mosaic widget gallery</li>
<li>3D Carousel gallery</li>
<li>Comments in lightbox</li>
</ul>
Themes 
Limb Gallery has over 300 theme styles that allow you to create powerful themes. Moreover, the count of themes is not limited and one can get multiple styles for the same gallery and change them anytime. We try to get more customizability for getting creative design for a gallery. Each part of a gallery view can be styled with the user’s own manner.
Filmstrip 
This is a great feature for showing images in lightbox alongside with the main image since it helps you to navigate to the exact image from lightbox easily without opening and closing the pictures many times. There is a move count option for filmstrip navigation in order to set how many images to move by one click.
26 Lightbox Effects 
There are 26 effects that Limb Gallery Lightbox possess which make the slideshow more attractive and enjoying.
Views 
There are different approaches to show gallery. Our plugin enables to create attractive galleries with Thumbnail, Carousel, Mosaic and Masonry layout types and there are more than 100 styles for their customization. Multiple hover captions such as full width containers, justified aligning of images, etc., allow to show the images in more attractive way.
Comments 
Limb Gallery gives viewers the opportunity to share their impression easily by posting comment in lightbox. They can discuss the image immediately in the gallery and the owner can also review the received comments and opinions.
Learn more about <a href="https://limbcode.com/#features" rel="nofollow ugc">Limb Gallery features.</a>
If you have suggestions about the creation of some new functions for Limb Gallery or customization of the existing functions or if you face some problems related to the plugin, you are always free and welcome to contact us at <a href="mailto:support@limbcode.com" rel="nofollow ugc">support@limbcode.com</a>. 
Limb gallery is developed according to the modern website’s requirements, that gives our users the opportunity to create galleries in a unique way.By our systematic updates, we are always trying to stay in the frames of the current trends of WEB development.We just not fix the bugs but always try to bring something new and useful for our users. 
In case you need additional help you are always welcome to contact us. 
Thank you for the interest. 
Best Regards, 
Limb Gallery team 
<a href="mailto:support@limbcode.com" rel="nofollow ugc">support@limbcode.com</a>.
<h4>Minimum requirements for Limb Gallery.</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.3+</li>
<li>PHP 5.x</li>
<li>MySQL 5.x</li>
</ul>

Limb Gallery | Create Beautiful Image & Video Galleries

Limb Gallery is a responsive gallery plugin for displaying images and videos in multiple beautiful layouts.

FolioBlocks vs Limb Gallery | Create Beautiful Image & Video Galleries