Most of the time spent on a gallery is spent on its images: adding them, putting them in order, writing titles and alt text. The image manager was rebuilt for exactly that work.
One manager for every gallery
The image manager is the Content tab of Fusion Grid galleries and the Images box of the other types. It saves as you go, without reloading the page.
Sorting with undo
Thumbnails of all images, sorted by drag and drop. Every change can be undone and redone. A select mode works on many images at once, and search and a tag filter find the one you need in a gallery of hundreds.
Five ways to add images
The Add button of the manager has five sources:
- From the media library, as before.
- Upload files, or drag them from your computer straight into the manager.
- Add video / playlist: paste links to YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok or Spotify, one per line, or a whole YouTube playlist. The cover and title come with the video.
- From a server folder, for administrators: the functions of the Robo Bulk Uploader, now built in.
- Import from link: paste many links at once, either direct image links (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP) or pages with a preview image, such as a post on Flickr, Pinterest or Unsplash, or a YouTube video. The images are saved to your media library and added to the end of the gallery.
Video on any image
Any image of a Fusion Grid gallery can carry a video link, and the video plays in the lightbox while the image stays its cover. The gallery plays YouTube (Shorts too), Vimeo, Wistia, Twitch, TikTok, Facebook, audio from Spotify and SoundCloud, and your own video and audio files: a link to an MP4 or audio file needs no video platform at all.
The classic gallery types play YouTube and Vimeo. The image dialog tells you right away if this gallery cannot play a link.
Everything about an image in one dialog
The image dialog holds the title, alt text (with a "Use the title" button), caption, description, link, video link, tags, column span and hover effect. For a video link it checks whether the gallery can play it. It also shows the other galleries the image is used in.
Previous and next buttons go through the gallery and save on the way, so you can caption 50 images without closing the dialog.
Fusion Grid galleries also get formatted titles and descriptions: bold, italic, underline, font size and color, shown in the hovers, the polaroid panel and the lightbox.
Bulk edit, duplicates and recommendations
- Bulk edit changes the selected images in one go.
- The duplicate finder shows the same file or the same video added twice.
- Recommendations list what needs attention: missing alt text, bad links, videos the gallery cannot play.
Alt text matters twice: for visitors with screen readers and for image search. The recommendations make the missing ones easy to find.
Prefer the old way?
A legacy mode keeps the old field and the old Manage Images window for those who are used to them.