Plogins Reel - Product Gallery Zoom & Video for WooCommerce

Reel upgrades the WooCommerce single product gallery with product image zoom, an accessible gallery lightbox and a featured product video:

• Hover zoom. Gallery images magnify on hover at a zoom scale you set (1.0× to 3.0×). The transform is clipped to the gallery frame, so the rest of the page stays put.
• Accessible lightbox. Click, or press Enter/Space, on any gallery image to open it full screen. The lightbox is keyboard-operable: Tab stays on the close button so focus can't slip behind the overlay, Escape closes it, and focus returns to the image you opened. It's a fixed overlay that starts hidden, so it reserves no space until used.
• Featured video. Show a per-product video, a self-hosted MP4/WebM file or a YouTube/Vimeo (oEmbed) URL, after the gallery or before the product summary. The video sits in a 16:9 frame sized with aspect-ratio, so its space is held before it loads.

The markup is built in PHP and progressively enhanced by one vanilla-JavaScript file (no jQuery), deferred and loaded in the footer. Scripts and styles only enqueue on the single product page. Settings live under a top-level Reel admin menu. Each of the three features has its own on/off switch; you can also set the zoom scale and skip it on touch devices, show an alt-text caption in the lightbox, relabel the open-image control for screen readers, and choose the video's position, autoplay, heading and intro text. The per-product video URL is set on the Reel tab in the product editor, with an optional heading for that product. To place the video somewhere other than the gallery area, drop the [reel_video] shortcode (it takes id and title attributes) into any product content. It renders the current product's video in the same 16:9 frame. Source and issue tracker: https://github.com/wppoland/plogins-reel, the plugin is developed in the open, so bug reports and pull requests are welcome there. Documentation and links

• Documentation - https://plogins.com/reel/docs/
• Plugin page - https://plogins.com/reel/
• Source code - https://github.com/wppoland/plogins-reel
• Bug reports and feature requests - https://github.com/wppoland/plogins-reel/issues

Features

• Gallery image hover zoom with a configurable scale.
• Accessible, keyboard-operable full-screen lightbox (Escape / backdrop close).
• Featured product video (self-hosted or oEmbed) with selectable position.
• [reel_video] shortcode to place the video anywhere.
• Optional lightbox caption from the image alt text.
• Skip hover zoom on touch devices (where hover is unreliable).
• Custom accessible label for the open-in-lightbox control.
• Default video heading and optional intro paragraph.
• Reserved-space markup throughout, so no Cumulative Layout Shift.
• No jQuery; one deferred, in-footer script loaded only on product pages.
• Independent on/off toggle for each feature.
• "Settings" link on the plugins list; clean uninstall removes plugin options.
• Translation-ready: bundled .pot template plus a Polish (pl_PL) translation.
• HPOS and cart/checkout blocks compatible.

1.0.14

• Corrected the PRO pricing line. It implied a second currency was available; there is none. PRO is priced and charged in EUR.

1.0.13

• The video heading now falls back to the built-in "Product video" text, as the setting always said it would. With "Show heading" on and the default heading left empty, the video on the product page showed no heading at all; only the shortcode got this right. Set your own text in Reel > Featured video, or turn "Show heading" off if you prefer none.
• Autoplay now really plays. The video is muted whenever autoplay is on, which is the only way browsers allow it, so a video that used to sit there paused starts on its own with the sound off until the shopper turns it up.

1.0.12

• Stopped advertising a block that could not be inserted. The plugin registered reel/featured-video server-side only, with no block.json and no editor script, so it never appeared in the inserter, yet the readme and the settings screen told merchants to look for it. The [reel_video] shortcode does the same job and is unchanged.

1.0.11

• The featured video can now be set from the product editor. A Reel tab on the product data panel takes a YouTube, Vimeo or direct .mp4/.webm URL and an optional heading. The rendering side always shipped here, but nothing in the free plugin could fill those fields in, so the readme asked people to edit a meta field by hand. That was a feature with its interface missing, and it is fixed by adding the interface rather than by removing the feature.

1.0.10

• The package no longer ships .po and .mo files. Translations for plugins hosted on WordPress.org come from translate.wordpress.org, which generates and delivers them per locale. The .pot template stays, since that is what translators import.

1.0.6

• Translations: completed Polish, German and Spanish for the PRO upgrade panel.

1.0.5

• Restored the distinctive display name: Plogins Reel - Product Gallery Zoom & Video for WooCommerce.

1.0.4

• Fixed low-contrast admin headings under an OS dark-mode preference.

1.0.3

• Clearer name: Plogins Reel - Product Gallery Zoom & Video for WooCommerce.

1.0.2

• Added bundled Polish, German and Spanish translations for the plugin interface.

1.0.1

• First stable release.

0.2.1

• Renamed to Plogins Reel for WooCommerce for a more distinctive plugin name.

0.2.0

• Redesigned settings screen: card layout, toggle switches, inline help tooltips and a live zoom-strength control.
• Polished storefront styling: themeable CSS custom properties, fluid sizing, dark-mode support and reduced-motion guards.
• Accessibility: named lightbox dialog, role=tooltip help, visible focus styles and full keyboard operability.
• Robustness: graceful empty/placeholder states, a no-layout-shift video skeleton and hardened event handling.
• Add [reel_video] shortcode to place the featured video anywhere.
• Add lightbox caption (from image alt text) and an option to skip hover zoom on touch devices.
• Add settings for the open-in-lightbox label, a default video heading and an optional intro paragraph.
• Add a "Settings" link on the plugins list and an uninstall routine that removes plugin options.
• Bundle a translation template (languages/reel.pot) and a Polish translation.

0.1.0

• Initial release: gallery hover zoom, accessible lightbox and featured product video.