Galleries – Hugh's Views & News

There are many gallery blocks on WordPress, but did you know WordPress has added some secret gallery blocks and that you can add captions to them?

Banner for the blog post 'These Secret Gallery Blocks On WordPress Are Easy To Find. How To Use Them' — Have you found these secret Block galleries on WordPress?

Here’s how to find and use them.

On a draft post, click on the add a new block button (the ‘+‘ symbol) and click on ‘Patterns.’

Image highlighting the Patterns option on WordPress — Click the ‘**Patterns’** option.

Either click on the Featured box and select Gallery or click on the Explore box. In this post, I’m using the Explore box.

Image highlighting the Featured and Explore box on WordPress — Use the **Featured** or **Explore** box to find the secret galleries

Select Gallery from the new list that appears.

Image highlighting the Gallery option in Patterns on WordPress — Select **Gallery**.

Select one of the galleries. In this post, I’m selecting the Large image and grid gallery.

Image highlighting the large image and grid gallery in Patterns on WordPress — Select the gallery you want to use.

The gallery and images are inserted into your post. Note – the images already on this block are not downloaded into your media library.
To change the images to your own, click on an image and select the Replace button from the image toolbar that appears.

Image highlighting the Replace button on the large image and grid gallery in Patterns on WordPress — Click the **Replace** button.

Click on the Select Image button and the button where your image is located. In this post, I’m selecting images from my Media Library.

Image highlighting the Select Image button in Patterns on WordPress — Click on **Select** and then on the button where your image is located

Select an image from your media library. Don’t forget to align the image to centre the caption. Click here to find out how to align photos and images.

Image highlighting the align button in Patterns on WordPress — Don’t forget to align your image and caption

Do the same for the other images in the block.
Captions will display provided you have added them to the photos and images in your media library.
Your gallery is now complete. Here’s mine.

Photo of the Welsh Valleys showing mountains, fields and clouds in the sky — The Welsh Valleys

Photo of the back of a dog sat waiting — The Waiting Game

Photo of an old mustard coloured building with a large clock — The Waiting Game

When readers click on any photos in the gallery, any watermark or copyright information you have added will be displayed on each photo in the slideshow. Go ahead and click on one of the images in my gallery to see the watermark.

There are options available to change the background and text colours in the gallery I have used in this post. Click on the block and then on ‘Block‘ (in the top right corner of the draft page) to change them.

Other galleries available in this gallery block are –