Choose gallery layouts
Show gallery thumbnails or one gallery’s photos on your homepage. Set homepage and gallery layouts independently.
On this page
Portfolio overview and gallery pages
The portfolio overview is the list of galleries visitors choose from. Each thumbnail links to a gallery. Inside a gallery, the photo grid presents that gallery’s photographs. Changing one does not automatically change the other.
Homepage photos and the gallery index
In Homepage → Content → Photographs, under Show on homepage, choose Photos from one gallery and select a public gallery with finished photos. This is available on Free and Plus. Choose Galleries to return to the thumbnail overview. Save content, then publish when you are ready to update the live site.
The first selection copies the gallery’s photo-grid settings once. Adjust layout, photo shape, columns, spacing, and captions in Homepage → Design → Photos. With Contained, choose Aligned grid for matching cells or Packed rows for centered rows with consistent size limits. The tab is called Galleries when your homepage shows the thumbnail overview. Changing a gallery’s appearance later does not change the homepage; photos and their order remain shared. Switching the source gallery keeps your homepage settings.
When the first photo is also your homepage image cover, Repeat first photo below the cover controls whether it appears again in the grid. A text-only cover or a different cover photo does not hide that first photo.
With several public galleries, the Galleries menu link opens the full index by default. You can hide the link in Pages. Each gallery keeps its direct address and own appearance. The index uses a short Minimal cover with a bottom-left Galleries title, your name or logo linking home, and your menu. The cover and page share your portfolio colors. The Galleries title and thumbnail titles use your portfolio content heading font. Change these shared settings in Typography and Colours on the Homepage preview. Select Galleries in the preview toolbar to edit its thumbnails. The Homepage and Galleries preview switch is available for photo homepages with an eligible gallery.
Arrange gallery thumbnails
- Open Homepage → Design
Find the gallery overview controls.
- Choose the image layout
Cropped grid fills uniform frames. Contained grid keeps the full image inside a frame. Justified keeps complete images in aligned rows.
- Set shape, columns, and spacing
For Cropped grid and Contained grid thumbnails, choose Landscape (4:3), Square (1:1), or Portrait (3:4). Each layout remembers its own shape. Adjust the available column, width, and spacing controls and check the mobile preview.
- Choose a representative thumbnail
Open a gallery’s Design tab to choose a portfolio thumbnail when the header photo is not the best introduction to the gallery.
Arrange photos inside a gallery
- Open the gallery’s Design tab
Use the photo layout controls for that gallery.
- Choose the layout
Masonry uses mixed-height columns. Cropped grid fills uniform frames around each photo’s focus point. Contained keeps each photo whole. Choose Aligned grid for matching cells or Packed rows to center each row. Photo shape sets the cell shape or size limit. Justified places complete images in equal-height rows.
- Adjust columns and spacing
Choose the desktop column count and spacing. Smaller screens use a responsive arrangement; preview both sizes.
- Review captions and navigation
Enable Show titles and captions if you want grid text. Check the Gallery navigation settings to choose where visitors go next.
Check the sequence at different widths
Use Reorder in a gallery to see its saved layout while arranging photographs. Check Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile in the preview; on a phone, switch from Arrange to Preview.
Masonry fills mixed-height columns, so a photo’s visual position changes with screen width. Cropped grid, Contained, and Justified follow your sequence across rows. The preview includes publishable photos; draft and other ineligible photos may be omitted. Save order keeps the draft sequence, and publishing updates the public gallery.
Save one gallery or apply broadly
Save updates the current draft. The broader save options can apply appearance across galleries. Check the confirmation scope: gallery content, photos, visibility, and passwords are not copied as appearance settings.
Preview and publish to replace the live layout.
Open Studio to make the change.
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