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.