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WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 3 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records CTC Masonry Gallery version 2.8.0 as active, updated 24d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
CTC Masonry Gallery creates flowing image collections in the WordPress Gutenberg editor. 0 brings a refined editor, a polished image viewer, and more reliable image loading while preserving the existing gallery features and saved block markup.
Key Features
Masonry layout: Images retain their proportions and arrange automatically as the gallery resizes.
Refined editor: A welcoming image-selection state, a live gallery preview, an image count, and a clear Edit gallery action.
Grouped settings: Layout, Interaction, and Appearance panels keep every existing control easy to find.
Image viewer: Browse thumbnails, navigate to the first or last image, zoom in or out, and play or pause a slideshow.
Keyboard access: Open the viewer with Enter or Space; use Left/Right to browse, Up/Down to zoom, and Escape to close. Tab stays within the viewer and focus returns to the selected image on close.
Hover enlargement: Optionally enlarge images on hover. Hover enlargement and the image viewer remain mutually exclusive.
Custom shadows: Adjust shadow size and color, including transparency.
Flexible spacing: Set image width from 1–100% and the gutter from 1–50 pixels.
Reliable loading: Cached, slow, and failed image loads no longer keep the entire gallery hidden.
Existing galleries preserved: No migration is needed; the original masonry and viewer libraries remain in the plugin.
What’s Next
Explore my other WordPress projects:
CTC Gallery 🎨 – Four unique premium galleries block in same plugin
Gravity Forms Add-ons
CT Commerce Lite 🛒 – A block-based eCommerce plugin.
Development
`sh
npm ci
npm run build
npm run lint:js
npm run lint:css
`
The src/ directory contains the editable source. js. The webpack adapter in tooling/ exposes the classes from the existing js-masonry and ctc-gallery-viewer packages; both dependencies and all existing npm scripts are retained.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
image album
block
gallery
masonry
overlay
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.7.2 · PHP 7.4.9
Update activity8 Oct 202624d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version2.7.0→2.8.0
WordPress requirement5.8→5.7.2
WordPress compatibility7.1→7.1.3
WordPress compatibility7.0.4→7.1
Tracking & source
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