Story Show Gallery – vertical photo gallery – mobile friendly (story-show-gallery) free WordPress plugin

SSG is vertical gallery lightbox optimized for mobiles (notch area included). SSG will support your brand and marketing. It has optimally placed captions, no ugly arrows, full screen lightbox.

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Story Show Gallery lightbox works with existing WordPress galleries (and images) or optionally with galleries made with other plugins. SSG is Gutenberg ready and works out of the box.

Your photos in the main role

Give your photos maximum space with SSG full screen lightbox, it works on every display size, it is mobile friendly. The gallery doesn’t have any ugly arrows next to a photo, it has non-dis­tracting environ­­ment.

On mobiles, full screen mode works like on You­Tube. It activa­tes after rotating a phone into landscape mode. SSG can use the whole display (including notch), there are no white sidebars as other galleries have.

Browsing without clicking and thinking

Scrolling is the most natural interaction with a webpage. Story Show Gallery works like Facebook – as a user scrolls down new pictures are constantly loading.

Story Show Gallery is vertical and therefore great for use with mobiles. In portrait mode a user usually sees a part of the next photo, so he keeps scroll­ing to see it whole.

Brand building and social sharing

SSG can display your logo or some text (emoji) over images. You can configure it in the SSG settings.

Social sharing icon is not put aside, it is part of a content, but subtle. A spectator’s eyes will literally crash into the share icon at the end of a caption or in the corner of a photo. It can be disabled in the settings.

You can deep link into the gallery to show a part­icular pict­ure. Just use image name in the hashtag

Complete your photos with captions

With captions you can tell the whole story behind pictures or amuse a spec­tator with some fun fact.

Google treats captions as a text content. Especially when you haven’t much text on your page, captions will help a lot your page to rank higher in Google search.

SSG is probably the only gallery which can place each caption individually according to image size vs. screen size. It is especially important on smartphones to utilize the whole screen.

Some more features

• Optional 3D animation of image thumbnails.
• EXIF info in captions and EXIF listing on click
• Support of Google analytics. Find out, how long site visitors view each photo and how many times.
• 4 visual themes
• Animated transition while scrolling is similar to old slide projectors – it is combi­nation of sliding and fading.
• Protection of photos from being copied via right click menu.