Classic: Tiled Galleries

With Tiled Galleries, you can display your image galleries as a thumbnail grid, tiled mosaic, square tiles, circles, tiled columns or as a slideshow.

Note: this page describes how to use Tiled Galleries when using the Classic Editor plugin or a Classic block. You can add find instructions on adding a Tiled Gallery block here.

Here are some previews:

To use Tiled Galleries using the Classic Editor plugin or the Classic block, the first step is to create a new gallery. To do this, you can click on the ‘Add Media’ button at the top of the Classic Block or Classic Editor toolbar, then select ‘Create gallery’ from the Actions menu. After selecting / adding images, you can choose your gallery type, from the following options:

• Thumbnail Grid
• Tiled Mosaic
• Square Tiles
• Circles
• Tiled Columns
• Slideshow

You can also select the image size, number of columns, whether to link each image to an attachment page, media file or have no link, and whether to display images in a random order.

Image Captions

You can enter a caption for each image when creating your gallery. This will be displayed when hovering over the image if you are using the Tiled Mosaic or Square Tiles layout (captions don’t play nicely with circles!)

Customization

Define a specific width for your galleries

Tiled Galleries are built to fill your theme’s content width. You can define a specific $content_width value by adding the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:

if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) {
    $content_width = 800;
}

If you do not feel comfortable editing theme files, you can also use this plugin: Custom Content Width.

If your theme doesn’t define a content width, Tiled Galleries will default to 500px wide. You can read more about the Content Width theme feature here.

If your theme already defines a $content_width value, but you would like to use a different value for Tiled Galleries only, you can use the tiled_gallery_content_width filter.

Troubleshooting

Privacy Information

This feature is activated by default when using a Classic Block or Classic Editor plugin. To use the feature independently of the Image CDN, you can follow the guide here to make sure the Image CDN is deactivated and Tiled Galleries are activated.

When using the Tiled Gallery block, this feature is deactivated by default as it accompanies our Image CDN.