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.
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!
Posted: Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 11:52 pm. Filed in New Features, Photos, Social, WordPress.com.
Nov 10th at 11:51 am
I really like these photos!
Nov 10th at 3:03 pm
Great really amazing wanted that since long time.
Nov 10th at 6:21 pm
Fantastic!!!
Nov 11th at 3:00 am
Love to see the cool effect on WordPress. Great.
Nov 11th at 5:15 am
Another awesome innovation. I really love WordPress for its perpetual progress. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Nov 11th at 9:54 am
Are you only allowing comments that are positive about this new feature??
Like I said – already – the feature is a good idea but why are you imposing it on every user?
Nov 11th at 11:01 am
Great! but… i have galleries with long descriptions below each image and that description is not showing anymore…
Nov 11th at 1:45 pm
I’m not a fan of this new Photo Carousel… =(
I worked so hard on my photoblog and now it changes everything…
Besides it runs very slowly.
Is it possible to turn it off somehow????
Nov 12th at 4:08 am
Fantastic!
Nov 12th at 7:20 pm
So nice!! Many of us have been waiting for this for a long time.
Thank you.
Nov 12th at 7:58 pm
Please allow an opt out feature. It does look very nice but it messes up a lot on my blog.
Nov 12th at 8:58 pm
It’s really nice, great work.
Nov 13th at 6:42 pm
This looks great! Will photo galleries on older posts be updated, or will this only work on future posts? Thanks!
Nov 29th at 9:59 pm
Thanks! Photo galleries on older posts are already running the new photo carousel feature.
Nov 13th at 10:10 pm
I’m one who uses detailed descriptions with pics in my photo gallery. I do love the opportunity to showcase the pieces in this new way but wonder how many visitors to WP will know what “permalink” means. Took me awhile to figure it out
I definitely want to make it easy for visitors to see the descriptions easily, not just the captions. Thanks for your ongoing efforts to make things better for us all.
Nov 14th at 10:45 am
I really do hope that staff improve this carousel so that comments can be added to each image, and so that all the descriptions the administrator may have previously painstakingly added can be included- this is VITAL to many of us using the gallery setting as a means to promote our images, especially professional photographers and artists who do need these added features, please : )
Nov 14th at 11:19 am
I seem to be in the minority but I think it’s rubbish and the fact that it’s been imposed is totally shocking. My blog has six galleries and they look so ridiculous on this stupid Carousel I’ve had to take them off line. Surely, the author of a blog should decide how content its is displayed, and when changes like this are made they should be on an ‘opt in’ basis.
Nov 14th at 11:29 am
Just used a gallery for the first time! Looks great
Nov 14th at 12:06 pm
Cool, can’t wait to use it!
Nov 14th at 2:53 pm
This new format has some advantages… only thing… now all my older galleries are not working as they should!! The captions don’t appear!! I’ll have to edit each photo individually… some schlep!!
Could you please look into writing code that can rectify this little matter… also, now one can’t enlarge a specific photo in the carousel…
I’m sure the gremlins will be sorted… I don’t want to start editing my galleries if the team is looking at resolving the issues…
Thanks… I hope you can help!!
Nov 14th at 6:01 pm
cool
Nov 15th at 2:17 pm
How long before having a Jetpack version of this? I’d love to have it integrated with the React Pro theme I just purchased!
Nov 16th at 9:17 pm
I would prefer a choice..
don’t care for the carousel at all…
Nov 19th at 9:57 am
Awesome pics, really mesmerising.
Nov 19th at 12:01 pm
But… does it work with pictures from URL’s or you have to upload them from your computer? thx
Nov 29th at 10:04 pm
It works with pictures you upload from your computer and display in a gallery.
Nov 22nd at 9:17 am
To have this jammed down our throats and messing up existing sites is pure bull)*&%#@ It is now much harder to see the pictures on my site – not happy at all
Nov 23rd at 6:54 am
Reblogged this on Broad Division's Blog and commented:
I have been away for too long. Time to revamp my blog!