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FotoGrids 1.1.1: your own gallery addresses, and folder imports that work

FotoGrids 1.1.0: the EXIF fix, and faster uploads

FotoGrids 1.0.0 is here

Building a gallery API endpoint with the WordPress REST API

Hook-driven extensibility: how to extend a gallery plugin

Multisite gallery licensing patterns

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Wordpress Galleries
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Gallery hover effects — when they help and when they hurt

Hover effects look great in the plugin demo. Then a third of your visitors arrive on a phone, where hover doesn't exist. How to use them without hurting non-hover users.

How to test whether your gallery’s lightbox is actually accessible

Plenty of gallery plugins claim to be accessible. The only way to know is to test — and you can do most of it yourself in fifteen minutes, no expertise required.

Gallery layouts for portfolios: which one fits your work

The layout that makes a wedding portfolio sing makes an architecture portfolio look chaotic. Layout is a function of what your work communicates.

Gallery filters and search: when complexity is worth it

Filterable galleries feel professional. They are also a great way to add friction nobody asked for. Baymard found 36% of filter setups "downright harmful." When filters earn their place.
Performance & Speed
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Self-hosting vs embedding video: the real trade-offs in 2026

The self-host-vs-embed debate usually gets framed as cost. In 2026 it is really a privacy and control question — and that changes the answer.

How to add video to a WordPress gallery without killing page speed

A single auto-loading YouTube embed can outweigh your whole gallery. The facade pattern and the right settings for adding video the fast way.

Video in galleries: MP4 vs YouTube vs Vimeo vs Cloudflare Stream

Adding video to a gallery is easy. Adding it without wrecking page speed, your bandwidth bill, or GDPR compliance is the part nobody warns you about.

Mobile performance for photographers’ portfolios

Your portfolio looks stunning on your 27-inch display. Your clients see it on a phone, on hotel wifi, the night before the wedding. Here is how to make it fast there.
Image SEO
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How AI search engines crawl images (and what that means for your site)

What we actually know about how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude find and cite images — and the handful of things worth doing about it.

Image SEO mistakes that kill rankings (and the fixes)

Most image SEO mistakes aren't malicious — they're defaults. The seven that quietly hurt rankings, why each one matters, and how to fix it.

Image SEO for WooCommerce product pages

Product image SEO is its own discipline. Naming, alt text, product schema, and dimensions that win the buyer journey through Google Images.

How to optimize gallery images for SEO

A gallery is image SEO at scale. The nine levers per image, the lazy-load rule, and gallery-sized sitemaps so a 200-image gallery is found, not invisible.

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Photographer Workflows
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Booking page essentials for photographers

Every extra click on your booking page is time for the client to reconsider. The essentials that capture the deposit before the moment passes.

Print sales from your WordPress portfolio

The digital files are what clients ask for. Prints are where the margin is. How to sell prints from a portfolio you already own — without a SaaS lock-in.

Pricing your wedding photography (and showing it on your site)

Should you put prices on your site? The most-argued question in photography — and the answer is not yes or no, it is how. The patterns that filter and convert.

The portfolio gallery problem (and what works in 2026)

Your portfolio has 200 photos because you are proud of all of them. That is exactly why it is not booking work. The portfolio problem is a curation problem.
Developers & Agencies
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Building a gallery API endpoint with the WordPress REST API

register_rest_route, permission_callback, and arg sanitisation — the three things a custom REST endpoint must get right. A working gallery endpoint, built properly.

Hook-driven extensibility: how to extend a gallery plugin

Actions, filters, and a clean hook surface are what separate a plugin you can build on from one you fork. How to extend a gallery plugin without touching its source.

Multisite gallery licensing patterns

"One licence, unlimited sites" meets the reality that each subsite is often a separate activation. How multisite plugin licensing actually works.

White-labelling a WordPress gallery plugin for clients

What white-labelling actually means for an agency hand-off: branded client experience, intact update path, licence terms respected. The professional standard, explained.
E-commerce
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Lookbook to cart: shoppable galleries in 2026

Social commerce is a $2T+ market that trained shoppers to expect every image to be tappable-to-buy. The static lookbook is becoming a discovery engine.

Mobile product galleries that don’t kill conversions

Mobile is most of your store traffic and a smaller share of orders. The gap is where your mobile product gallery is failing — usually three specific things.

Variable products + variant galleries done right

A customer picks navy and the gallery still shows red. Baymard found 54% of sites do not match images to the selected variant. The fix.

Product image zoom: which patterns actually convert

Baymard found 25% of sites lack sufficient zoom — and watched shoppers abandon products over it. The zoom patterns that convert, on desktop and mobile.

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