Robo Gallery 6.0 is out. It adds two new kinds of galleries and a slider layout, replaces the settings and the image editor with new ones that every gallery shares, and reworks how galleries are embedded, protected and seen by search engines. Your existing galleries keep their settings and look the same.
New galleries: posts, YouTube and a slider
The Fusion Grid, the engine behind Robo Gallery's modern layouts, now has three sources: the media library, YouTube and posts.
- Posts gallery: your posts, pages or products as a grid, chosen by a query or by hand, each with an image.
- YouTube gallery: channels, playlists and single videos in one grid, with or without an API key, and every video editable.
- A new slider: seven effects, vertical sliders, progress pagination and several slides in view; any Fusion Grid gallery can be a slider, including a post slider.
A new gallery type dialog puts the Fusion Grid first: choose the source and the layout (grid, masonry, horizontal masonry, justified or slider) from drawn previews with links to demos. The classic types are on their own tab.
More: Show posts, pages and products as a gallery →
More: The new YouTube gallery: channels, playlists and videos in one grid →
More: The new slider: seven effects, post sliders and any gallery as a carousel →
One settings panel for every gallery
Fusion Grid galleries and the classic types (grid, masonry, mosaic, polaroid, wallstyle, custom) are now set up in the same panel. It saves a second after each change, resets any field to its default and previews hovers and navigation. Settings can be saved as option themes and reused across galleries, and the album tree is edited by drag and drop in the header.
More: One settings panel for every gallery: autosave, themes and previews →
A new image manager
Sorting by drag and drop with undo, upload, import from many links at once (images or pages such as Flickr and Pinterest posts), videos from eight platforms and your own MP4 files, files from a server folder, one dialog for everything about an image, bulk edit, a duplicate finder and recommendations for missing alt text and broken links. Fusion Grid titles and descriptions can now be formatted.
More: The new image manager: add, sort and fix images faster →
Popups and new ways to embed
A gallery can open in a popup from a button or a link, and any link to #rg plus the gallery ID opens it from the text. The Gutenberg block was rebuilt and shows the real gallery in the editor; there is a Robo Gallery widget for Elementor and a button for the classic editor.
More: Open a gallery in a popup, and other new ways to embed it →
Private galleries and share links
Galleries can be reachable by direct link only, by a link with a secret token, by a WordPress password or only for logged-in users. One access check now covers every way a gallery is shown, and direct-link galleries are kept out of search, albums, feeds and sitemaps.
SEO, speed and compatibility
Feeds, AMP and noscript get a plain list of images, galleries can join the core, Yoast and Rank Math sitemaps, archive pages no longer render full galleries, and the view counter ignores bots and editors. The plugin's Font Awesome and jQuery no longer clash with the theme's. Every write in the plugin now checks rights and every setting is sanitized.
More: Galleries search engines can read: static fallback, sitemaps and cleaner pages →
Updating from an earlier version
- Classic galleries keep their stored settings and look the same on the site.
- The old option boxes, category pages and Manage Images field are replaced by the settings panel, the album editor and the image manager. A legacy mode keeps the old image window for those who want it.
- The old YouTube type stays as YouTube (Legacy).
- The gallery HTML cache and the add-ons page are removed; data such as YouTube answers is cached instead.
As with any big update, make a backup first and update on a staging copy if you have one.