With Tiled Galleries, you can display your image galleries as a thumbnail grid, tiled mosaic, square tiles, circles, tiled columns, or as a slideshow. This page describes how to use Tiled Galleries when using the Classic Editor plugin or a Classic block.

You can follow the instructions in the Tiled Gallery Block guide to use Tiled Galleries with the Block Editor.

Add a Tiled Gallery to your page

Tiled Galleries are disabled by default. You can activate them anytime by following these instructions and clicking Activate next to Tiled Galleries.

To add a Tiled Gallery using the Classic Editor plugin or the Classic block, follow these instructions:

1. Click the Add Media button at the top of the Classic Block or Classic Editor toolbar.
2. Select Create Gallery from the Actions menu.
3. Select or upload the images you want to add to the gallery.
4. Click the Create a New Gallery button.
5. Choose your gallery type from the following options:
   • Tiled mosaic
   • Square tiles
   • Circles
   • Thumbnail grid
   • Tiled columns
   • Slideshow

Customization

Use the Gallery settings

In the Gallery settings, you can customize:

• the image size.
• number of columns in your gallery.
• whether to link each image to an attachment page or media file.
• whether to display images in a random order.

Define a specific width for your Galleries

Tiled Galleries are built to fill your theme’s content width. You can define a specific $content_width value by adding the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:

if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) {
    $content_width = 800;
}

If you do not feel comfortable editing theme files, you can also use the Custom Content Width plugin.

If your theme doesn’t define a content width, Tiled Galleries will default to 500px wide. You can read more about the Content Width theme feature here.

If your theme already defines a $content_width value, but if you would like to use a different value for Tiled Galleries only, you can use the tiled_gallery_content_width filter.

Image captions

You can enter a caption for each image when creating or editing your gallery. Captions will be displayed when hovering over the image if you are using the Tiled Mosaic, Square Tiles, Circles, or Tiled Columns layout. Thumbnail Grid and Slideshow layouts will not display a caption.

Troubleshooting

Tiled Gallery options do not appear, or do not display correctly

If your Tiled Gallery options aren’t showing, or if they’re showing incorrectly, follow these steps:

1. First, check whether you have a working Jetpack connection. If your Jetpack connection is broken, use our troubleshooting tips to fix any connection errors.
2. Next, from your WP Admin dashboard, go to Jetpack → Settings → Performance  -> Performance & speed. Make sure that the “Speed up image load times” option is enabled.
3. Try switching to a default theme like Twenty Twenty Four to check whether your theme is conflicting with Jetpack’s Tiled Galleries. If the Tiled Gallery options display properly when you’re using a default theme, contact your theme’s creator to resolve the conflict.
4. Disable any other slideshow or gallery plugins that are activated on your site. Using two slideshow or gallery plugins at the same time can cause a conflict.
5. Finally, if you use the Cleaner Gallery plugin or a theme that includes this functionality, you won’t be able to use the Tiled Gallery features on your site. To solve this conflict, you can install this small plugin to deactivate the Cleaner Gallery.

Slideshow option is missing

If you don’t see the Slideshow option for your Tiled Gallery, follow these instructions:

1. Navigate to your WP Admin dashboard.
2. Go to Jetpack → Settings → Writing.
3. Make sure the “Compose using shortcodes to embed media from popular sites” option is turned on.

How to display a single image in a gallery view

To make a single image on a post or page appear in a gallery view, follow these steps:

1. Click on your Tiled Gallery and navigate to the Gallery Settings.
2. Choose “Attachment Page” from the “Link To” dropdown menu, and save your changes.
3. Now, when your image is clicked, it will appear in the gallery overlay view.

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