sandywp / plugins / photoblocks-grid-gallery

Gallery PhotoBlocks

5.0 out of 5 stars. 5.0 76 reviews

Design your personal image gallery or photo gallery or even a portfolio using a handy builder. Add stunning effects to your grid and always justified …

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About this plugin

This is an image and photo gallery plugin perfect to make galleries with justified edges!
You can zoom the images thanks to a fast lightbox. Add special effects to your grid gallery.
Use our builder to create justified galleries.

Drag and drop functionality

Handy builder

PhotoBlocks Grid Builder is the stellar feature that makes PhotoBlocks special and different from other galleries.
With this tool you can design the layout of your gallery simply by dragging the images. You can make a gallery
with images spanning on more columns or rows.

Features

  • Drag and drop builder to design custom layouts
  • Pixel perfect justified gallery
  • Lightbox to zoom photos
  • Special effects on mouse hover
  • Loading special effects
  • Social sharing
  • Captions with title and description
  • Caption positioning
  • Responsive and mobile ready
  • SEO friendly
  • Open videos on image click
  • Open pages on image click
  • Fast loading gallery
  • Full width galleries
  • Shuffle images
  • Jetpack’s Photon compatibility for high speed
  • Post galleries (premium feature)
  • CDN support for even faster image loading (premium feature)
  • Text blocks (premium feature)
  • Filters/Categories (premium feature)
  • Additional hover effects (premium feature)
  • Additional loading effects (premium feature)
  • Additional captions layouts (premium feature)
  • Handle shortcodes inside blocks (premium feature)

Uses

  • wedding album photo gallery
  • designer portfolio photo gallery
  • photography portfolio photo gallery
  • products showcase photo gallery

Questions

Images fail to loading

  • Are you using Hostgator? Simply contact their support via phone or live chat to report mod security blockage. Send them the faulty link to a thumbnail.
  • If you are not on Hostgator but getting 403 errors then try adding these lines to your .htaccess file in the WordPress installation folder. Revert the modification if it has no effect and contact the hosting’s support.

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

  • Are you on Bluehost’s Optimized Hosting for WordPress? Make sure you turn off Varnish caching. It empties query strings.
  • Open your .htaccess file and ensure you do not have this line in it:

php_value mbstring.func_overload 2

  • Or something like this:

RewriteRule wp-content/plugins/(.*.php)$ – [R=404,L]

  • Make sure you have GD library. A possible error is “GD Library Error: imagecreatetruecolor does not exist – please contact your webhost and ask them to install the GD library”.
  • iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) settings > System Tweaks > Configure Settings > Disable PHP in Plugins – Off. Also, System Tweaks > Filter Suspicious Query Strings – Disable.
  • Sucuri Security plugin > 1-Click Hardening – Do not use it.
  • WP All in ONE Security: WP Security > Firewall > Additional Firewall Rules (tabs at top of page) > Bad Query Strings – Untick.
    AND/OR WP Security > Firewall > 6G Blacklist Firewall Rules (tabs at top of page) > Enable 6G Firewall Protection – Untick.

The layout doesnt’ look correct

Check the console of the browser and look if you see errors, if case please open a support ticket in our forum.

Can I import galleries from other plugins?

Currently galleries made with Envira, FooGallery, Instagram, NextGen, JetPack, Modula, etc cannot be imported.

Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Gallery PhotoBlocks plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.”

5.0

76 reviews

  • 5 ★ 74
  • 4 ★ 2
  • 3 ★ 0
  • 2 ★ 0
  • 1 ★ 0

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