Make Your Best Photos Shine

Photos on your website can be a representation of who you are, what you do, or what you love. We want your photos to show to your visitors as best they possibly can, no matter what kind of device they are using.

July 22, 2021

Andy P

We’ve recently launched an upgraded photo carousel experience that takes photo viewing to the next level on mobile devices. Now your visitors can swipe, zoom, and double-tap with ease and get the best look at those beautiful snaps!

Video Overview

Here’s a short video overview of using the photo carousel on a mobile device and the upgrades we’ve introduced:

What’s New

Smooth, Hands-on, High Resolution Photo Viewing

  • Full-width photos expand to the display of your device
  • Swift, smooth pinch-to-zoom, and double-tap-to-zoom through your photos
  • New, higher resolution images that stay crisp and clear however far you zoom
  • A simpler, faster tap-to-close button to move back into the thumbnail gallery view

Faster, Clearer Navigation Between Photos

  • Responsive, fast swiping between your photos
  • Clear photo numbering navigation to show where you are in your gallery
  • With 5 or less photos, a dot navigation system you can tap to jump to any photo in the sequence

Easy Access Metadata and Comments for Every Photo

  • One-tap metadata for every photo
  • Per-photo comment notifications, with a single tap to view comments

Getting Started

If you’ve previously used our image carousel feature, your site has been upgraded automatically so your visitors will get the new experience starting right now.

If you haven’t added a carousel to your site so far, now’s a great time to give it a try. Simply insert a gallery block using our editor and your photos will show using the carousel whenever your visitors click or tap an image.

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  1. gabrieluttley1 Jul 23rd at 7:23 am

    Thanks for the info

    Liked by 16 people

  2. Digital Wonders and Smiles Jul 23rd at 12:52 pm

    Yay! Thank you so much WordPress team!

    Liked by 20 people

  3. PRAPTI GUPTA Jul 23rd at 4:08 pm

    Nice!!

    Liked by 22 people

  4. Aveera k mehta Jul 23rd at 5:20 pm

    🌸

    Liked by 15 people

  5. Blazewing Firebird Jul 23rd at 7:37 pm

    Thanks for the information!

    Liked by 22 people

  6. Pyro Jul 24th at 1:54 am

    Awesome!

    Liked by 19 people

  7. Healthy Long Jul 24th at 4:45 am

    Nice

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  8. mamkkay Jul 24th at 3:13 pm

    Thanks so much

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  9. robertball3710 Jul 25th at 5:47 am

    Greatest information ever, thanks WordPress! Now only if I could succeed and make alot of money do I can help and donate to more people in need! 😢😥😭

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  10. Harry's Corp Jul 25th at 10:41 am

    nice

    Liked by 1 person

  11. Subhraroy Jul 25th at 11:24 am

    Fine

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  12. Noorlance Jul 25th at 11:49 am

    noicee

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  13. SaveGirlUg Jul 25th at 12:16 pm

    Amazing!

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  14. chriscalix Jul 25th at 1:51 pm

    Thank you check mine.

    Liked by 1 person

  15. Bikram Chakraborty Jul 25th at 2:14 pm

    Wow

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  16. Dia❣🤦‍♀️ Jul 25th at 5:24 pm

    What people must know and what people keen or eager to know? Can somebody help me, ✌

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  17. Anderson Gomez Jul 25th at 7:01 pm

    Thanks for the concrete information

    Liked by 1 person

  18. Ginikaoti Jul 26th at 1:51 am

    Thank you so much for the info

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  19. mazzadia Jul 26th at 3:07 am

    Thank you so much

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  20. Akinola Oladele Jul 26th at 9:57 am

    Nice

    Liked by 1 person

  21. JenT Jul 26th at 1:37 pm

    What a great update to an already great feature. Thank you, WordPress.com!

    Liked by 13 people

  22. Joyinspirational Jul 26th at 3:39 pm

    Amazing, thanks

    Liked by 12 people

  23. Deepak Mundiyafi Jul 26th at 5:21 pm

    Good one

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  24. Md Arif Jul 27th at 5:42 am

    Half

    Liked by 1 person

  25. heidl Jul 27th at 6:16 am

    No, I’m afraid I can’t share the praise.

    The new view may be good for displaying images, but it isn’t possible anymore to show the description below the image – which is a total bummer for long-time users like me who have used this field excessively!

    Not only do I now have to revise all my existing 100+ blog posts now, no, I also have to come up with a solution to make the information from the image descriptions available to my visitors again.

    New updates are meant to add features, not strip away existing ones…

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  26. deepanilamani Jul 28th at 11:33 am

    Very interesting and useful. Thank you for the upgrades 🙂

    Liked by 17 people

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