th23

WordPress has come a long way to be a fully featured content editor system, but the default gallery does not keep up with it. And while there are many plugins with various features, I did not find a small and simple one putting the focus on enlarged images.
<a href="https://photoswipe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhotoSwipe</a> is a great basis and thus core component of my th23 Gallery plugin, which replaces the WordPress default to output galleries into a way containing all key information required while maintaining a simple and easy markup.
th23 Gallery is built with some few goals in mind:
<ul>
<li>Unintrusive way to focus on images</li>
<li>Leveraging PhotoSwipe / Lightbox-like overlay</li>
<li>Navigation between images in all galleries in a post via intuitive swipe, keyboard or mouse activity</li>
<li>Compatibile with modern blocks and legacy shortcodes</li>
<li>Simple markup and styling for thumbnail preview images (polaroid-style)</li>
<li>Plain styling for medium / large preview images allowing for theme based style</li>
<li>Minimized footprint on page loading</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
th23 Gallery works out-of-the-box and does not require any special handling – right after activation all embedded galleries will use PhotoSwipe to enlarge pictures.
Note: Polaroid-style works only on galleries which have set the preview image size to <code>Thumbnail</code>
Note: Previously inserted galleries might require a review to ensure link to media file and preview image size are set to work as expected – especially when also using the plugin on legacy <code>[gallery]</code> shortcodes.

th23 Gallery

Replace standard Wordpress Gallery block and legacy [gallery] shortcode handler, opening galleries using PhotoSwipe

Daniel Floeter

Adds styles, image filters and sorting by images for the WordPress core/gallery.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Animated, inside lines style</li>
<li>Cross hover style</li>
<li>Disable captions</li>
<li>Foreground-, background and text colorpicker</li>
<li>Filter duotone, multiply, luminosity</li>
<li>Font-size, font blend-mode</li>
<li>Sort by: As uploaded, Media Id, Title, Filename, Exif created, WordPress date, WordPress modified</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo</h4>
Please check out our demos: <a href="https://demo.tiptoppress.com/gallery-styles/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo.tiptoppress.com/gallery-styles/</a>
<h4>Tip Top Press</h4>
We’re <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tip Top Press</a> and create Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress. If you want to know about what we’re working on and you are interested in backgrounds then you can read all newes storys on our <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/blog/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=readme.txt&utm_campaign=category+archives+block" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a>.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at <a href="https://github.com/DanielFloeter/gallery-styles" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).

Gallery Styles

Additional Styles for the WordPress core/gallery.

th23 Gallery vs Gallery Styles