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.

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MetaSlider

MetaSlider Gallery is the ultimate WordPress gallery plugin. You can build an image gallery. You can also show your images, videos, and slideshows in a beautiful gallery window. Plus, MetaSlider Gallery is deeply integrated with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/" rel="ugc">MetaSlider Slideshow</a> plugin so you can create stylish sliders.
The MetaSlider Gallery plugin allows you to create beautiful image galleries that can be placed anywhere on your WordPress site. You can also show a wide variety of media inside a lightbox gallery window, including these:
<ul>
<li>Images</li>
<li>Image galleries</li>
<li>Videos hosted on WordPress sites</li>
<li>Vimeo videos</li>
<li>YouTube Videos</li>
<li>Featured images</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/" rel="ugc">MetaSlider slideshows</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Create stylish image galleries</h3>
MetaSlider Gallery allows you to create stylish image galleries that work with the block editor, the Classic Editor, and any page-builder. To create a new gallery, find the “Galleries” screen.
There are five layouts available for your image gallery: Grid, Masonry, Justified, Carousel, and Showcase.
<ul>
<li>Grid: Show your images in rows and columns. Each row and column will be the same size.</li>
<li>Masonry: Show the images in a grid-like layout, but this approach has a flexible placement that fills gaps left by shorter items.</li>
<li>Justified: This allows each image to keep its original aspect ratio, so it won’t always be possible to fill each row edge-to-edge.</li>
<li>Carousel: Show one main image at the time. The visitor can use arrows or the thumbnail navigation to browse to the next image.</li>
<li>Showcase: Shows one image at a time. In this layout, the arrows and the thumbnail navigation are both underneath the image.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/create-image-galleries/" rel="nofollow ugc">See how to create WordPress image galleries</a>.
<h3>Show your single images in a gallery window</h3>
You can really enhance your WordPress media with gallery windows. Visitors can view your images or videos and then open them inside a modal. This can make the image or video larger and also darken the background so it’s easier to focus on the media.
MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to images in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all images, or you can do it manually via the “Enlarge on click” setting. This works with both the block editor and the Classic Editor. You can also use this gallery window with page-builders such as Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder, thanks to the CSS feature.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/images-lightbox-modal/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with images</a>.
<h3>Show your image galleries in a stylish window</h3>
MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to image galleries in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all images, or you can do it manually via the “Enlarge on click” setting. Each image in your gallery can get its own gallery window setting.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/image-galleries-lightbox-modal/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with image galleries</a>.
<h3>Show your videos in a gallery window</h3>
You can use the MetaSlider Gallery plugin to show videos inside a gallery window modal window. The MetaSlider Gallery plugin supports videos hosted inside your WordPress media library. You can use MetaSlider Gallery to showcase your .MP4, .WebM, and .MOV videos.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/video-lightbox" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with local videos</a>.
<h3>Show your YouTube videos in a gallery window</h3>
MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to YouTube videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all YouTube images. You can use many different YouTube URL formats. <a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/youtube-url-formats/" rel="nofollow ugc">There’s a list of formats here</a>.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/youtube-videos-lightbox-modal/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with YouTube videos</a>.
<h3>Show your Vimeo videos in a gallery window</h3>
MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to Vimeo videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all Vimeo videos
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/vimeo-videos-lightbox-modal/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with Vimeo videos</a>.
<h3>Add a gallery window to your MetaSlider Slideshows</h3>
The MetaSlider Gallery plugin connects deeply with the MetaSlider Slideshow plugin.
A slideshow allows you to create a beautiful showcase of images or videos for your visitors. You can enhance your slideshow with a gallery window. Visitors can view your slideshow and then click on an image and see a larger, higher-resolution version of the image. Often the background is darkened so that the viewer’s eyes can focus on the image alone.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/slideshows-lightbox-modal/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more gallery windows with MetaSlider slideshows</a>.
<h3>Design Options for MetaSlider Gallery</h3>
The MetaSlider Gallery plugin has a wide range of design options to allow to customize the gallery window effect. You can customize the gallery window background and overlay appearance. You can choose the navigation icons (close, previous, next arrows) that appear in all gallery windows. You can modify the “Open in lightbox window” option that can be added to media.
<a href="https://www.metaslider.com/docs/design-options-for-metaslider-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see gallery window design options</a>.

MetaSlider Gallery – Image Gallery, Lightbox Galleries, Modal Windows

MetaSlider Gallery is the ultimate gallery plugin. Build an image gallery, or show your images, videos, and slideshows in a beautiful gallery window.

FolioBlocks vs MetaSlider Gallery – Image Gallery, Lightbox Galleries, Modal Windows