# Patterns & archive template

> The Wisp Gallery block patterns (portfolio, travel journal, food menu, team, carousels) and the Gallery Category Archive template for block themes.

Source: https://wispgallery.com/docs/patterns/

Seven ready-made layouts to start from, and a template that turns every Gallery Category into a gallery page of its own.

## Patterns

Open the inserter, go to **Patterns → Galleries** and click one to insert it. Every pattern is made of regular blocks, so change anything afterwards.

| Pattern | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| **Photo portfolio** | Filter chips with counts above a masonry gallery of your photos, by Gallery Category, with a lightbox. |
| **Filterable portfolio** | A category filter above a masonry gallery of posts, with a lightbox. |
| **Travel journal** | A heading and intro, photos in justified rows, a quote and a carousel of more photos. |
| **Food menu** | Dishes as square photos with name and price below, filtered by course with theme-styled links. |
| **Team** | A portrait grid with names below, filtered by department. Link each photo to a profile page. |
| **Hero carousel** | A full-width carousel of wide photos that advances on its own. |
| **Latest posts carousel** | Recent posts as a carousel: featured image with the title below. |

The patterns that show photos use a **Gallery Media Query**, so they fill with your site’s own images right away. Afterwards, select the Media Query and choose which categories it shows.

Wisp Gallery Pro adds a pattern pack under **Patterns → Wisp Gallery Pro**: artist portfolio, wedding chapters, menu in pictures, property listing, fashion lookbook and more, plus a shop gallery when WooCommerce is active. Inserted patterns are regular blocks, so they keep working if a license ends.

## Gallery Category archive template

Every Gallery Category has an archive at `/wisp-gallery-category/<slug>/`. In block themes, Wisp Gallery provides a **Gallery Category Archive** template for it (`wisp-gallery//taxonomy-wisp_gallery_category`):

- the category’s name as the title,
- its description,
- one masonry gallery with a lightbox holding the category’s **images** (a Media Query with *Use the archive’s category*) and its **posts** (a Query Loop that inherits the archive query).

So a category page is a gallery page with no extra work: tag photos and posts “Architecture”, and `/wisp-gallery-category/architecture/` shows them all.

### Customize it

Edit the template in **Appearance → Editor → Templates → Gallery Category Archive**: change the layout, captions or lightbox like any gallery, or add blocks around it. If your theme ships its own `taxonomy-wisp_gallery_category` template, the theme’s template wins.

> The template needs WordPress 6.7 or newer (it uses `register_block_template`). Classic themes use their regular taxonomy archive.