CTC Gallery — Responsive WordPress Gallery Blocks

Turn your images into polished galleries with four customizable WordPress blocks. Built for portfolios, photography, product showcases, and image collections, CTC Gallery combines refined styling with interactive previews directly in the block editor.

Four gallery styles

• Carousel Gallery: Full-frame slides with navigation arrows, optional autoplay, and compact circular thumbnails.
• Image Carousel: A layered carousel with clickable image cards and keyboard navigation.
• Masonry Gallery: Responsive image columns with adjustable spacing, shadows, optional hover zoom, and a centered fullscreen viewer.
• Lightbox Gallery: A large main image with selectable thumbnails and navigation buttons at both ends of the preview strip.

Refined details

Centered captions appear in a slim, full-width dark translucent overlay on hover or keyboard focus. On touch devices, captions remain visible. A small translucent image-count badge sits at the bottom left, while empty captions automatically hide their panel.

The masonry fullscreen viewer includes 100–300% zoom, reset-to-fit, drag-to-pan, touch swipe navigation, a thumbnail dock, and an optional slideshow.

Customize inside WordPress

Select, reorder, and remove images without leaving the block editor. Adjust captions, alternative text, gallery dimensions, image fit, corner radius, and visual surfaces. Interactive editor previews use the same gallery markup, styles, and libraries as the frontend.

Built with accessibility in mind

Keyboard navigation, focus restoration, reduced-motion support, and autoplay pause controls help make galleries easier to use. Autoplay pauses on hover, keyboard focus, in hidden tabs, and when the gallery leaves the viewport.

Live Demo

Demo

What’s included

• Installable CTC Gallery plugin ZIP
• All four gallery blocks
• Production assets and editable source files
• Documentation and regression tests
• All five original gallery libraries, bundled locally without an external CDN

Compatibility

Version 0.2.10 requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.3, with nine JavaScript regression tests and PHP checks on versions 7.4 and 8.3. Theme styling may affect the final appearance.

Easy installation

Upload the ZIP through Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, activate it, and choose a block from the CTC Gallery category.

Licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.