An Album is a collection of Galleries. Where a Gallery holds individual photos, an Album holds Galleries — it’s one level up in the hierarchy. Albums let you organise related Galleries together and give visitors a single place to browse your work.
How albums work #
An Album displays its assigned Galleries as a grid of covers. Each cover shows a featured image (taken from the Gallery’s marked favourite item, or the first item if no favourite is set), the Gallery title, and an item count. Visitors click a cover to open that Gallery.
When a visitor opens a Gallery from inside an Album, FotoGrids can navigate back to the Album without a full page reload, keeping the browsing experience smooth. This behaviour is on by default and controlled by the AJAX transitions setting on the Album.
Albums have their own settings panel for fine-tuning layout, styling, and behaviour. These settings control how Gallery covers are presented — the spacing between them, captions, hover effects, borders, filtering, sorting, and more.
Albums vs. Galleries #
| Gallery | Album | |
|---|---|---|
| Contains | Individual items (photos, videos) | Galleries |
| Displayed via | Shortcode, block, or direct URL | Shortcode, block, or direct URL |
| Has own settings | Yes | Yes |
| Has own statistics | Yes | Yes |
Creating and managing albums #
See Creating and Managing Albums for step-by-step instructions on creating Albums, assigning Galleries, and reordering them.
Displaying an album #
Once created, an Album can be embedded anywhere using its shortcode or the FotoGrids Gutenberg block:
- Shortcode:
— replace123with the Album’s post ID. - Block editor: Add the FotoGrids Album block and select the Album from the dropdown.
The Album post ID is shown in the URL when you edit the Album in wp-admin: post.php?post=123&action=edit.
