Wix Pro Gallery: Choosing a Wix Pro Gallery Layout (Custom vs. Presets)

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Wix Pro Gallery offers several stunning layouts. Choose from a Custom or Preset layout to showcase your media.

Custom layouts allow full customization of aspects such as gallery spacing, direction and orientation. With a Preset layout, the bulk of the work is done for you - meaning the layout itself is not customizable, but the gallery's design is still in your hands.

In this article, learn more about:

Custom layouts

These gallery layouts allow you to design and customize your Pro Gallery from scratch. Each customizable layout offers a range of settings you can personalize. Choose from static or sliding gallery layouts, or select the Magic layout and let us generate a unique layout for you.

To choose a Custom layout:

Go to your editor.
Click the Pro Gallery element on your page.
Click Settings.
Click the Layout tab.
Select a layout for your gallery.
Click Customize Layout to change the layout to look exactly as you want. Click a layout below to learn more about its features:

Collage

Masonry

Grid

Use this layout when you want your images to be shown within a grid.

Scroll Direction: Choose a Vertical or Horizontal scroll.
Thumbnail resize:
- Crop: You can choose the image ratio.
- Fit: Adapts image size to the size of the gallery.
  Note: The Border width & color and Corner radius options are only available In the Item Style tab when you choose to crop your thumbnails in your layout's settings.
Image ratio: Choose from the image ratio options available e.g. (4:3, 1:1).
Slide automatically: (This option is only available if you choose Horizontal as your scroll direction). Choose to display your items in a continuous slideshow:
- Intervals: Your gallery slides to the next item after your chosen amount of time. Drag the Time Between Images slider to change the number of seconds between the items. Note: If you want to change the transition effect, please go to the "Slide Animation" tab in the Design settings.
- Continuous: Your gallery slides automatically. Drag the Slideshow Speed slider to adjust how fast your gallery slides.
- Pause on hover: Enable the toggle to have the slideshow pause when a visitor hovers over a gallery item.
Fit to screen: Shows as many images as can fit within the gallery with a fixed size
Set items per row: Drag the slider to show more or less images per row.
Note: Currently, it is not possible to display more than 5 images per row in a Pro Gallery with a Grid layout. If this is something you'd like to see in the future, vote for that feature.
Thumbnails size: Choose how big images in the gallery are.
Image per column: Choose how many images are shown per column (only when Horizontal orientation is chosen).
Spacing: Choose how much space to have between the images.
Load more button: Choose to show or hide the Load more button.
How many images load: (This option is only available if you choose to enable a Load more button). Choose how many images load when visitors click Load More:
- All images
- One more section (adds another section of the same size as the original gallery).

Thumbnails

Use the Thumbnails layout when you want to show multiple thumbnails next to the selected image.

Gallery ratio:
- Manual: Freely adjust the height and width of your gallery.
- Fixed: Maintain the same ratio on any screen size using one of the suggested ratios.
Thumbnail resize:
- Crop: Adapts the image size to the size of the gallery.
- Fit: Shows the image in its original ratio and adapts it to the gallery size. If there is too much empty space around the image you need to increase the height of the gallery.
  Note: The Border width & color and Corner radius options are only available In the Item Style tab when you choose to crop your thumbnails in your layout's settings.
Thumbnail placement: Choose where you want thumbnails to appear on the screen (below, left, above or right of the current image on display).
Thumbnails size: Drag the slider to choose how big images in the gallery are.
Note: If you have only a few images and there is an empty space under the main image, you need to increase the thumbnail size.
Loop images: Choose whether you want the “Next” button deactivated on the last image or not.
Note: The “Left” button always gets deactivated when you reach the first image while scrolling backward.
Slide automatically: (This option is only available if you choose Horizontal as your scroll direction). Choose to display your items in a continuous slideshow:
- Intervals: Your gallery slides to the next item after your chosen amount of time. Drag the Time Between Images slider to change the number of seconds between the items.
  Note: If you want to change the transition effect, please go to the "Slide Animation" tab in the Design settings.
- Continuous: Your gallery slides automatically. Drag the Slideshow Speed slider to adjust how fast your gallery slides.
- Pause on hover: Enable the toggle to have the slideshow pause when a visitor hovers over a gallery item.
Thumbnail Spacing: Drag the slider to choose how much space is between the images.

Note: Currently, it is not possible to adjust the alignment of your thumbnails. If this is something you'd like to see in the future, vote for that feature.

Slider

User the Slider layout if you want to show multiple images with a horizontal scroll.

Note: The number of images shown at a time in this layout depends on the gallery size. If some images look cut, you need to change the size of the gallery. Another solution is to choose Crop for the Thumbnail resize and Responsive for the image ratio in the Layout settings.

Gallery ratio:
- Manual: Freely adjust the height and width of your gallery.
- Fixed: Maintain the same ratio on any screen size using one of the suggested ratios.
Thumbnail resize:
- Crop: Choose whether the ratio is fixed or responsive.
- Fit: Shows the image in its original ratio and adapts it to the gallery size. If there is too much empty space around the image you need to increase the height of the gallery.
  Note: The Border width & color and Corner radius options are only available In the Item Style tab when you choose to crop your thumbnails in your layout's settings.
Image ratio:
- Responsive: The image size will adjust automatically depending on the viewer's device.
- Fixed: Choose from the image ratio options available e.g. (4:3, 1:1). Images will appear in this ratio across all devices.
Loop images: Choose whether you want the “Next” button deactivated on the last image or not.
Note: The “Left” button always gets deactivated when you reach the first image while scrolling backward.
Slide automatically: (This option is only available if you choose Horizontal as your scroll direction). Choose to display your items in a continuous slideshow:
- Intervals: Your gallery slides to the next item after your chosen amount of time. Drag the Time Between Images slider to change the number of seconds between the items. Note: If you want to change the transition effect, please go to the "Slide Animation" tab in the Design settings.
- Continuous: Your gallery slides automatically. Drag the Slideshow Speed slider to adjust how fast your gallery slides.
- Pause on hover: Enable the toggle to have the slideshow pause when a visitor hovers over a gallery item.
Spacing: Choose how much space to have between the images.

Slide Show

Strip

Column

Bricks, Mix and Alternate

Magic

Screenshot of the Layout tab in the Settings panel with all Custom layout options visible.

Preset layouts

These ready-made gallery layouts allow you to speed up the process of showcasing your images on your site. Preset templates come in horizontal and vertical displays, and include a range of built-in layout features.