Posted: Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 11:52 pm. Filed in New Features, Photos, Social, WordPress.com.
Your Memories Take Center Stage with the New Photo Carousel
Photo galleries on WordPress.com are a great way to share the pictures you’ve taken with your friends, family, and your followers. But the design of your theme can limit how large your high-resolution photos are displayed. Today, we’re announcing a great new way to make the most of your photos: a full-size carousel view that presents your images as large as your display can contain them.
To experience the carousel, just click an image in a photo gallery on any WordPress.com blog. You can navigate between photos using the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking or tapping the arrows on the left and right. Click the Permalink below any image to see its attachment page or the image file directly, depending on how you setup your gallery. You can easily like a photo from the carousel, too. When you’re done, click anywhere in the background or press the Esc key on your keyboard to return to the thumbnails.
Check it out here, with this gallery of images taken by some of our colleagues during our recent meetup in Budapest.
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- Nighttime walk
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- Chess set at Vásárcsarnok Market
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- Ceiling of Széchenyi Baths
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- Alley flowers
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- Statues
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- St. Stephen’s Basilica
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- Széchenyi Chain Bridge
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- Avenue
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- Castle Hill Tunnel
Now, whether you’re using a tablet or a large desktop display, you’ll see photos in the best light possible. And the best part of all: if you’ve already been posting photo galleries on your WordPress.com blog, you’ll get the new full-screen carousel view without lifting a finger. If you haven’t posted your first gallery, there’s never been a better time to try!
November 8th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
This is great! I might just use a gallery in the future then!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:00 am
Oooh! Very nice! Good job!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Pretty cool….:-)
November 9th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Some folks are going to love this new feature. Thanks.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:23 am
Is this ready to go? I’m not seeing any difference on my previous galleries or any options for it in the “gallery” tab.
November 29th, 2011 at 10:33 am
It’s ready and working. Click on an image in a gallery to see it in action.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:28 am
THIS IS A GREAT NEWS!!!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:28 am
Absolut great..Like!!!!!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!! Thanks you hard working friends at the WP.com!! This makes me giddy. Oh thanks!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:54 am
One more reason to love WP…
November 9th, 2011 at 1:09 am
Perfect! Awesome work!
November 9th, 2011 at 1:09 am
THIS IS A GREAT NEWS
November 9th, 2011 at 1:11 am
Oh! It’s so cool to see it in effect. I had about 4 blog entries where I used gallery, and it’s so cool to see this photo carousel in effect. WordPress is the best when it comes to site improvement and modification!!!
November 9th, 2011 at 1:17 am
Okay, that is very cool. I can’t wait to give it a whirl!
November 9th, 2011 at 1:21 am
wow another great feature!!! thank you
November 9th, 2011 at 1:22 am
This looks great. Helps that you photos are pretty awesome too! I look forward to using it and promoting it with some of the student bloggers and keen photographers I know. Nice one WP!
November 9th, 2011 at 1:23 am
Very cool. Is there a plugin in the works for self-hosted sites? This would be a far better solution than many of the plugins currently available.
November 9th, 2011 at 1:35 am
Yes — we’ll be looking at adding the Carousel to a future version of Jetpack.
November 9th, 2011 at 1:30 am
Very useful and cool! I ever had the frustrating experience that large pics didn’t work well with the narrow style themes…
November 9th, 2011 at 1:33 am
Thank you! Very cool! I might have to try it out, since some of my blog heavily relies on photos.
November 9th, 2011 at 1:42 am
great…nice pict.i like it
November 9th, 2011 at 2:07 am
Actually, I don’t like it. I found that some of the images don’t open.
November 29th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Images should open. Please contact the support team with specific details if you’re still having trouble.
November 9th, 2011 at 2:59 am
I give it a thumbs up. Can’t wait to see what my flower pictures look like.
November 9th, 2011 at 3:07 am
This is definitely going in my photo posts, thank you!
November 9th, 2011 at 3:14 am
VERY nice!
November 9th, 2011 at 4:20 am
This is fan-freakin-tastic. Kudos to the WordPress team.
November 9th, 2011 at 4:30 am
I just check it out on my blog (http://tangentsky.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/flower-delight/) It looks awesome!!!
November 9th, 2011 at 4:47 am
It’s really nice
November 9th, 2011 at 4:58 am
Wow! You guys have no idea how long I have been waiting for something like this! This is absolutely fantastic. Will have to re-do my galleries now completely, but once that’s done…
Thanks a lot!
November 9th, 2011 at 5:05 am
A good idea for lover of photograhic.
Luis Pizarro
November 9th, 2011 at 5:16 am
Looks great, but how do I use it? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m a newbie.
Kev
November 9th, 2011 at 5:22 am
We love newbies! Just follow the 5 steps under “Adding a Gallery” on the Gallery Support Page and you’ll get the carousel automagically.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:28 am
A touch of class!
November 9th, 2011 at 5:29 am
This is probably one of the best things for photo blogs. I genuinely love this feature. Thank you Matt & folks.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:30 am
Beautiful. WordPress is going from strength to strength. Lucky me..!
November 9th, 2011 at 6:06 am
Aha… it’s really good idea!
November 9th, 2011 at 6:32 am
It is wonderful. I hope to have a chance to visit?
November 9th, 2011 at 6:35 am
Looks great. Hope I can figure it out
November 9th, 2011 at 6:39 am
Yipee…I love this feature….love photos
November 9th, 2011 at 6:52 am
Author Phil Simon is right: it’s really the “Age of the Platform”.
You’re one of the most promising ones!
November 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am
yeah its great..!!!! anticipating for more cools application in word press…cheers!!
November 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Thanks – at last! This was one of the big holes for the wordpress.com blogs. Pleased it has been sorted as it allows my galleries to be seen in a much better way!
November 9th, 2011 at 7:06 am
It’s so cool to see it in effect
November 9th, 2011 at 7:21 am
While a “lightbox” style image viewer has definitely been one of the most hotly requested features here on WordPress.com, for those of us who have used the Gallery’s image attachment page to give extra information about the photo, drawing, sketch, etc. (think travelogue, portfolio, etc.) all of that information is now completely invisible to the viewer.
Please consider offering the Carousel as the default behavior for those Galleries that have been linked to an image rather than making it the default action for all Galleries.
As always, thanks for making WordPress.com the best place to blog.
November 9th, 2011 at 7:29 am
Love it! Love it! LOVE IT!! Thank you soooo much, WordPress. This is a fantastic feature! Now I’m just curious to see whether captions will show up as well beneath the pictures, so that it is a little like the slideshow option…?
November 9th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Just great!!, when I saw this functionality in other sites, I really thought how nice it would be for wordpress. Now wordpress got it big
November 9th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Greatfull ! Thank you sooooo much, Guys
with love <3
November 9th, 2011 at 7:50 am
This is great! I’ve been shopping third party themes and plugins looking for this feature! It’s so great to have it implemented natively in WordPress so it’s in all themes!
Any idea when the next version of JetPack which includes the Carousel will be out?
I can’t wait.
Greg
November 9th, 2011 at 8:03 am
Just found the Carousel feature by accident as I was posting a new gallery.
This is absolutely fantastic for featuring photo stories that I have created in the past and Boomerang Girl looks amazing. http://mixphotography.co.uk/2010/12/01/boomerang-girl-gallery/#wpcom-carousel-482
Another fantastic add on WordPress – and that’s why we love you.
November 9th, 2011 at 8:04 am
Great. Wonderful way to navigate a picture gallery, so smooth, so cool.
Any easy way of zooming in on on a picture to see details?
November 9th, 2011 at 8:22 am
Cool!!
Do you also offer a Flickr like slideshow ?
And I suggest that you replace the small esc with a huge cross or a large close sign. I found that a bit confusing…
Cheers
Mihir
November 29th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
The new carousel feature is the closest thing we have right now to a Flickr like slideshow. We also have an in-page slideshow which you can add to posts and pages. And if you want to display an actual Flickr slideshow into a post, you can place the slideshow URL on a line by itself and it will auto embed.
November 9th, 2011 at 8:24 am
I like it!
November 9th, 2011 at 8:41 am
Brilliant!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:00 am
This is great! Something that I’ve always been wanting on wordpress. My only ‘gripe’ with it is that it loops back to the beginning of the gallery without a clear indication that the user had reached the end, so that may be a bit confusing. I think there’s a ‘space’ in between when it loops back to the beginning, but something more obvious (but still subtle) would be helpful.
November 9th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Really LOVE it ! THank you!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:23 am
This is a really nice feature for photographers. Could this be extended to a ‘lightbox’-type feature on single images?
November 9th, 2011 at 9:34 am
I LOVE PICTURES ! I’M GOING TO PUT A PICTURES GALLERY ON MY SITE!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:40 am
FANTASTIC
November 9th, 2011 at 9:42 am
great for photographers to display their photos! nice one wordpress!
November 9th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Awesome! Waiting for the new Jetpack!
November 9th, 2011 at 10:42 am
A great way to show off your collection
November 9th, 2011 at 10:59 am
This is wonderful! So many improvements as of late.
November 9th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Thank you!
November 9th, 2011 at 11:33 am
It amazes me how you guys are always trying to improve wordpress. I’m so glad my son told me to use wordpress for my blog.
While I’m sleeping you guys are working on stuff and waking up and seeing the news apps is like christmas!!
I love God…My husband…..and wordpress!
Oh I forgot…My kids….
November 9th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
veru good upgrade
now the photo gallery is more stylished and gives a greater a view for your photos, keep up the good work
November 9th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Just another great news for photo lovers!! Thank for the great feature you created.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Brilliant feature!
Sufficient guidance and encouragement even for the newbies.Overall,it seems quite manageable.
I will try my hand at it with great enthusiasm.
Many thanks WP for the endless,positive stimulus.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
You took the cake with this one, awesome! Thanks!
November 9th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I’m so excited about this! Awsome job.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Thanks! As a photographer most my posts have a gallery!
November 9th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
WP you are the best!!!! xD
November 9th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
nice pic…beautifull picture… ^_^.. I loved it
November 9th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Hello everyone
Thanks for the New Photo Carousel I’ll try it out later
November 9th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
This is wonderful! Thank you!
November 9th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Oh noes…
When somone has commented on one of my photos in my gallery…
That disappears now when you have changed this… 
Other from that, I like it…
Regards Nicole
November 9th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Beautiful photos.
November 9th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Question!! I do a travel blog for the groups we escort. The participants family/friends like to leave them a comment on a particular picture. Have we lost this capability? I see that they can “like” it, and leave a comment for the whole posts, but can they leave a comment and attach it to a certain photo? Thanks for your help.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
If your galleries previously linked to the photo attachment pages (where users can comment on photos), clicking the “Permalink” on a photo in the carousel will take you to that page now. We plan to do more to improve the experience of commenting on photos; stay tuned for that.
November 9th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Very nice work!
November 9th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
NICE!
November 9th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I like it!
November 9th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Fantastic! I love WP!
November 9th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
amazing
November 9th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
This is a fantastic feature! I don’t currently use galleries, but I think I will with this new feature! Thanks, WP!
November 9th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Thank you Matt. (See my question above) That does work. Is this something I need to do when I load a gallery, or will anyone looking at the picture have to click on permalink on each picture? If it is something I can do, how? I guess I don’t understand exactly what permalink does.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
For now, users will need to click the Permalink to comment on your photos.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Looks cool…nice clean look……BUT…….. what happened to the photo descriptions? The new carousel only includes captions/titles but not descriptions? Is this going to be changed?
November 9th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
This is just the first version of the carousel — we’ve got more in store for the future. But if you click the “Permalink” on any photo, you’ll be taken to the photo attachment page you’re used to, with title, description, and comments.
November 9th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Great! What an improvement!
November 9th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Thank you, Matt. This new photo carousel is AWESOME. You mention above that you might include a plugin version with Jetpack. I have a client that would love to use the carousel on their self-hosted site. Can they get the plugin now or do they need to wait until it’s added to Jetpack? Thanks again. -Mark
November 9th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Not at this time — but we’ll announce it on the Jetpack News page when that changes.
November 9th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Very polished. I like how all the galleries now have it without us needing to go back and change anything. Thanks!
November 9th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Thanks mate !!
November 9th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Thanks A lot!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
So happy you did this! Looks great!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
love it love it love it!
November 9th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Great work
November 9th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Great Feature, Thank you! Wish it could sync with Flickr sets/gallery images…. then it would be a dream come true!
November 9th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Thanks! Great job. Enjoyed seeing the photos. Liked the ability to capture the image page permalink. As a professional photographer, anything to make it easier for clients to note their favorite image, the better. Also thanks for the step-by-step instructions.
November 9th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Fantastic! The WP team is the best!
November 10th, 2011 at 2:17 am
The work you guys do is top drawer excellent finesse. Thank you many times over.
-L
November 10th, 2011 at 4:21 am
I do not like the carousel feature at all. You should give people the option of turning it off. I will now have to change the way all my photos are loaded. The carousel doesn’t show the text with the photos and people will not know how to get to the single photos. It is certainly intuitive. I am new here and I’m very disappointed with this change.
November 10th, 2011 at 4:23 am
Not intuitive in the above comment.
November 10th, 2011 at 4:53 am
Great work ………..Thank you.
November 10th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Castle Hill Tunnel is my favorite! so beautiful- -
November 10th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Excellent progess, thank you! I will however wait until you add the features pertaining to comments and description. Looking forward to seeing them as soon as possible.
November 10th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Excellent idea! I loved it very much! Thank you!