Photos are the heart of a great website, so ProPhoto adds powerful photo gallery features to the standard WordPress capabilities. You can upload or select a collection of photos and create a ProPhoto gallery that can display as a slideshow, a thumbnail grid, a carousel strip, or a manual slider gallery.
There are several areas in your dashboard where you can create and work with galleries:
- in the WordPress block editor when you work on your posts and pages
- in the special Galleries area added along the left in the WordPress dashboard
- in ProPhoto's Visual Builder, in the Elements > Galleries area of the sidebar
Each ProPhoto gallery lives in WordPress as a "custom post type" and you are able to manage all your galleries in a special area within the WordPress dashboard:
Since ProPhoto galleries are stored as a special type of page in WordPress, they have their own unique address that you can customize. Linking to a gallery URL will display that gallery as a standalone page.
Galleries can also be inserted into the content of your posts, pages, and may even be placed in ProPhoto page layouts. Much like fonts, ProPhoto offers gallery styles that are used by your galleries. A style is used by every gallery when it is viewed.
Below we have some general info about photo galleries, followed by links to our guides about how to create and work with galleries.
Size and resolution of photo galleries
"Standard" type gallery styles use the first image to set the aspect ratio of your gallery viewer. This means that a tall first image will fix the gallery in a portrait view, and a wide first image will fix the gallery in a landscape view. You might choose to make a specific image first in a gallery, just to get the aspect ratio you want.
Then, the gallery will grow/shrink to any resolution to fit. This means that on very large screens, all images will upscale to fill the gallery view. (You can use the gallery height constraint option in the gallery style settings to limit how tall standard galleries can grow.) On small screens or a narrow column, all images will downsize to fit the gallery view.
Your image resolution will be optimized automatically for the best quality possible on the device. When sizing your images for your galleries, 2500px is what we recommend as a starting point.
Address path 'permalink slug' for galleries
The address for your photo gallery pages will use pp_gallery between your site address and the address of your gallery, for example:
https://freakingcool.photo/pp_gallery/matilda-and-ryan/
If you would like to use something different for the pp_gallery portion of the address, you can customize in the "ProPhoto > Settings > Site Settings > Misc" area, seen here:
In the example here, using photo-galleries will change my gallery addresses into:
https://freakingcool.photo/photo-galleries/matilda-and-ryan/
Also, to view all galleries in an archive page format (similar to the blog) just visit the main address directly, like this:
https://freakingcool.photo/photo-galleries/
The gallery archive page will adopt the styling of your blog posts page template.
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