Gallery

Theme section

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The Gallery section displays a grid of images and captions in an Instagram feed-like way. It's great for curating your actual social media posts while having total control over how they're presented..

Set up section

Add this section to any template (except Checkout) and use the drag-and-drop handles to re-order its position. You can add this section multiple times with different content and settings.

Editing a template changes all pages that use that template. To edit specific pages, you can create new templates or insert dynamic content with metafields.

STEPS

In your theme editor (Customize):

  1. Select a Template to edit from the dropdown menu in the top bar.

    Learn how to use templates in our Templates guide.

  2. Under Template, click (+) Add section and select Gallery.

  3. Click and hold the drag-and-drop handles ⋮⋮ to re-order your sections.

Add gallery items

Add as many Gallery items as you like, each one made to look like an image-focused social media post.

Note: On mobile devices, the gallery displays one image at a time with clickable arrows that customers can click through.

STEPS

In your theme editor (Customize):

  1. Click an Image block to open the settings.

    Click (+) Add image to add more gallery items.

  2. Under Image, click Select image to upload and select your image file.

    There are no required image dimensions but a Square (1:1) orientation is ideal. We recommend all images have the same width or height (or aspect ratio).

  3. Add a caption in the Text field to display below the image.

    We recommend keeping this to a short, one or two sentence caption.

  4. Select or paste a URL in the Link field.

    The gallery item will be clickable and take customers to the link destination.

    Make sure you copy the full URL, including https:// at the start. For example: https://instagram.com/abc123.

  5. (Optional.) Click and hold the drag handles ⋮⋮ to rearrange the blocks:

    Click Remove block in the block settings to delete a block.

    Click the Eye icon to hide or unhide a block..

  6. Click Save.

Section style

In the section settings, change the colors and control the height of the carousel image when they appear on mobile.

STEPS

In your theme editor (Customize):

  1. Click on the Gallery section to open the section settings.

  2. Change the Heading text to display as the section title.

  3. To display a link, paste or select a Link and change the Link text.

    If you want to link to an external page, make sure you copy the full URL, including https:// at the start. For example: https://instagram.com/abc123.

  4. To make your images a uniform shape and size, select the Image aspect ratio to crop your images to Square, Landscape, or Portrait.

    The default Natural setting will display the original orientation of your image.

  5. Set the amount of Images per row using the slider.

  6. Click Save.

Related links

Mosaic grid (2 columns) Mosaic grid (3 columns) Slideshow

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