Tiled Gallery Carousel Without JetPack

This is by far my favorite gallery plugin. I love what it does, and I love that I can get it without Jetpack. Really looking forward to the gutenberg version, it’s going to be epic.

I’ve been using this plugin for a while and it’s been great but it hasn’t been updated in a while and it’s not playing nice anymore. My galleries are “warped” upon scrolling and never look good anymore unless I sit there while the gallery loads very slowly. I’m now potentially stuck having to redo all of my galleries bc I can’t find another plugin that did it like this one (AKA without annoying short codes etc!). I hope the creator updates soon!

Works great for community sites involving lightboxes + comments as well as personal photography sites. Has a beautiful Mosaic layout while automatically generating thumbnails to prevent scaling down. Works great on touch devices and has automatic links to each gallery item which is a treat for SEO and link sharing. Most lightboxes don’t have this.

Thank you for your continued support for Carousel.

For a long time, I was planning to get rid of JetPack because it is a huge burden for the site. I only use two modules of JetPack – the wordpress.com stats and the tiled gallery. I simply love the tiled gallery of JetPack which I did not find anywhere so far. This plug-in gave me the same feature of the JetPack Tiled Gallery and saved my life!

I am giving it a 4* because it loads an extra 3 JavaScript files if you need to use the LightBox carousel, which is pretty bad for the site speed. I’ll increase my ratings to 5* if this improves in the future. Right now I’ve disabled the carousel and searching for a lightweight plugin to use with it.

Thanks for developing the great plugin! Keep maintaining it, please!!

I agree entirely with the premise of this plugin – Jetpack is too bulky and adds bloat to your website.

This plugin does add a CSS file and 2 JS files, but somehow manages to only do it if you’re using the gallery on a page. I’m using it, for example, with Advanced Custom fields and while I call the shortcode, that is in my theme…yet the proper CSS and JS files are loaded so the plugin just works, but not loaded on all of the other pages.

So, in short, great plugin.

It gets 4 stars because it adds a menu item in WordPress which is unnecessary and against WordPress best practices.

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus#Determining_Location_for_New_Menus

It is rare that a plugin would require the creation of a top-level menu. If the plugin introduces an entirely new concept or feature to WordPress, and needs many screens to do it, then that plugin may warrant a new top-level menu.

This just adds clutter on the backend, but otherwise this plugin is written really well.