A gallery does not have to be made of uploaded photos. Your blog posts, your case studies, your products already have images and titles. The new Posts gallery shows them as a grid that looks like the rest of your galleries and keeps itself up to date.
What the Posts gallery is
Posts is a new source of the Fusion Grid, the gallery engine behind Robo Gallery's modern layouts. Instead of images from the media library, its cards are entries of your site: posts, pages, products or any other public post type. Each card has the entry's image and title and links to it.
Because it is a Fusion Grid, it takes every Fusion Grid layout (grid, masonry, horizontal masonry, justified and the new slider), and its hovers, lightbox and navigation options.
Two ways to choose the entries
- A query. Pick the post type, the categories, tags or other terms, and the order. The gallery fills itself: a new post in the category appears in the grid without editing the gallery.
- A hand-picked list. Choose the exact entries and their order, for a "Featured work" block or a page of selected projects.
A query is right for a blog section or a shop category. A list is right when the selection is the point.
Where the card image comes from
Not every post has a featured image, so the gallery looks for one in this order:
- the image you chose for that entry in the gallery;
- the featured image;
- the first image in the content;
- the first image attached to the entry.
The first step is the useful one: you can give a post a better picture for the gallery without changing the post itself.
Only what visitors may see
The gallery shows only published entries of public post types, and never entries with a password. A draft, a private page or a protected post does not leak into a grid on the home page.
Where it works well
- A portfolio built from project posts, each card opening the full case study.
- "Latest from the blog" on the home page, as a slider.
- A product category shown as a picture grid instead of a shop table.
- A page of hand-picked articles for a topic.
How to make one
- Click Add New Gallery. In the gallery type dialog choose Fusion Grid, then Posts as the source, and a layout.
- In the Content tab set the query or pick the entries.
- Optionally set a gallery image for entries that need one.
- Place the gallery with the block, the Elementor widget or the shortcode.