Wisp Gallery

Wisp Gallery turns photos, posts and pages into galleries visitors can filter by category, in five layouts, right in the block editor. It is built on core blocks and the Interactivity API: 3 KB of JavaScript to start, the rest only when a gallery needs it, and no jQuery or other dependencies. See it live and try every setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x6ApvQHA1M Three blocks

• Filterable Gallery – lays out its content as masonry, justified rows, grid, carousel or accordion, with columns, row height and crop per device (desktop, tablet, mobile). Click an item to open the lightbox, follow its link, open the media file, or nothing.
• Gallery Filter – category buttons (or a dropdown) that filter one gallery or every gallery on the page, with counts and a smooth animation. Place it anywhere: above, below or beside the gallery.
• Gallery Media Query – images from the Media Library by Gallery Category, inside a gallery. New uploads in those categories show up by themselves.

A gallery holds regular core blocks: Image blocks, and Query Loop blocks (the "Gallery Posts" variation) with Post Featured Image and Post Title. Everything core offers for those blocks keeps working. Free, and complete

• Five layouts: masonry, justified rows, grid, carousel (centered slides, endless loop, autoplay) and accordion.
• A native <dialog> lightbox with keyboard, swipe, captions and a counter.
• Scroll reveal (rise and fade) and hover zoom, in pure CSS.
• Gallery Categories for images, posts and pages. Set them in the gallery (one image or several at once), in the Media Library (column, filter and bulk actions) or in the post sidebar.
• Patterns: photo portfolio, travel journal, food menu, team, hero carousel, latest posts carousel and a filterable portfolio.
• An archive template for Gallery Categories in block themes.
• Command palette: add a filterable gallery, switch all galleries between Edit and Preview, tag selected images.
• Abilities API (WordPress 6.9+): AI agents can list categories, find and tag images, and create galleries.
• Translated into German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Japanese and Dutch.

Switching from another gallery plugin Tools → Wisp Gallery import brings over galleries from Envira Gallery, NextGEN Gallery, Modula and FooGallery: images in their order, alt text, captions, links, layout, columns, spacing, lightbox and tags (as filter categories). Each gallery becomes a draft page. Optional replacement shortcodes keep existing posts working, including the Envira, Modula and FooGallery blocks. Also available as wp wisp-gallery import. Wisp Gallery Pro A separate plugin, Wisp Gallery Pro, adds more for the same blocks. This plugin is complete without it: nothing in it is locked, and it shows no ads or notices.

• Videos next to photos: Media Library files, YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok and Instagram.
• Load more, with a button or on scroll, and albums (a gallery inside a gallery).
• WooCommerce: products with price and add to cart in the lightbox, and the Product Collection block.
• Lightbox download and share buttons, camera settings (EXIF), deep links, and lightbox styles and colors.
• Filter styles and presets, button sizes, count badges, any taxonomy, and the filter in the URL.
• Caption looks and colors, more hover and reveal effects, filter animations, and carousel arrow designs.
• A pattern pack of ready-made galleries.

Source code The JavaScript and CSS in build/ are compiled from the human-readable sources in src/, which ship with the plugin. To rebuild them: npm install && npm run build (uses @wordpress/scripts).

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New, search for "Wisp Gallery" and click Install, then Activate.
2. In the block editor, add a Filterable Gallery block and drop in images, or pick them from the Media Library.
3. Give the images Gallery Categories (select them in the gallery and use the toolbar, or use the Media Library).
4. Add a Gallery Filter block above the gallery. Done.

To move galleries over from Envira, NextGEN, Modula or FooGallery, open Tools → Wisp Gallery import.

1.2.2 2026-10-15

• Links in image captions, like a photographer credit, keep their own address. Before, the Lightbox and Media file click behaviors pointed them to the image, and None removed them.

1.2.1 2026-10-15

• Uploading several images at once into a gallery no longer adds some of them twice.

1.2.0 2026-10-12

• Three days after install, a one-time notice asks whether you want news about Wisp Gallery. Nothing is sent unless you click "Yes, keep me posted" (what is sent: see External services in the readme); "No thanks" hides it for good. The review request waits while it shows.

1.1.2 2026-10-12

• Updated a bundled library to the latest version.

1.1.1 2026-10-06

• A "Rate Wisp Gallery" link on the Plugins screen, and after 14 days a review request on the Dashboard, Plugins, Media Library and gallery screens. "Maybe later" waits 30 days; once rated or dismissed it never comes back.

1.1.0 2026-10-05

• Renamed from Gallery Z to Wisp Gallery, with a new logo; the site is now wispgallery.com.
• No third-party SDK or licensing code anymore; the plugin makes no requests to other servers.
• Patterns, imported galleries and the archive template use the plugin's own filter and caption styles.

1.0.1 2026-09-27

• The plugin now includes the source code of its scripts and styles (src/), with build instructions in the readme.
• Readme: an External services section.

1.0.0 2026-09-27

• Five layouts in one Filterable Gallery block: masonry, justified rows, grid, carousel and accordion, with columns, row height and aspect ratio per device.
• Gallery Filter block: buttons or a dropdown, counts, multi-select; filter changes animate with View Transitions.
• Native <dialog> lightbox that zooms out of the thumbnail, with swipe, keyboard and captions.
• Carousel navigation: arrows on or below the photos. Autoplay on or off.
• Reveal-on-scroll effects without JavaScript (rise and fade).
• Gallery Categories for images, posts and pages; images, post queries and media queries mix in one gallery.
• Importers for Envira Gallery, NextGEN Gallery, Modula and FooGallery, with replacement shortcodes.
• Patterns, a Gallery Categories archive template, commands and Abilities API support.
• Translations: German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Japanese and Dutch.