Built for motion, crafted for clarity
Carousel Gallery Block
The Carousel Gallery Block is part of FolioBlocks — a premium WordPress plugin that brings advanced, responsive galleries directly into the WordPress block editor. Designed for immersive, swipeable presentations, the Carousel layout lets your audience glide effortlessly through your images with smooth horizontal scrolling that feels fast, modern, and highly engaging.
Perfect for full-width hero sections, featured project strips, portfolios, and storytelling sequences, it offers optional autoplay, customizable navigation controls, and flexible alignment settings to help you create motion-driven galleries that command attention. With built-in Lightbox support, configurable playback behaviors, and responsive fine-tuning, it’s ideal for photographers, designers, and creatives who want to showcase their work with impact and movement.
Video Demo:
Features
Fully responsive
Set image resolution
Built in Lightbox with option to show caption
Show title on image hover
Randomize image order
Lazy Load Images
Right-Click Prevention
Add border & border-radius to gallery images
Allow users to download images
WooCommerce Integration
Support for Block Transforms
Gallery Demo
Bellow is a demo of the Carousel Gallery block with playback controls activated and with show title on hover activated:
* Images courtesy of Pixabay
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| Features | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Set Image Resolution on Slides | ✅ | ✅ |
| Responsive Design works on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile | ✅ | ✅ |
| Enable Image Downloads | ❌ | ✅ |
| Link to store products with WooCommerce Integration | ❌ | ✅ |
| Disable Right-Click | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Lazy Load | ❌ | ✅ |
| Autoplay Carousel | ❌ | ✅ |
| Carousel Playback Controls | ❌ | ✅ |
| Lightbox | ✅ | ✅ |
| Show Caption in Lightbox | ✅ | ✅ |
| Show Title in Overlay on Hover | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Hover Overlays (Blur, Fade, Gradient, Chip, & Color) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Carousel Playback Control Styles | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Border & Border Radius on Slides | ❌ | ✅ |
| Drop Shadow Effect on Slides | ❌ | ✅ |
Note: Disable Right Click feature adds a layer of protection but cannot prevent image access through browser developer tools or page source.
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What Our Customers Are Saying
FolioBlocks is trusted by photographers, designers, and creative professionals around the world to showcase their work beautifully and effectively. Here’s what a few of our users have to say:
Fantastic
“Setup was quick, and block-based workflow feels natural – drop in a gallery, choose from grid or masonry styles, tweak spacing and captions. Hard to design something that doesn’t look great.”
– Will MacDonald, Developer
Verified Customer
Easy to use with good number of features
“Setup was quick, and block-based workflow feels natural – drop in a gallery, choose from grid or masonry styles, tweak spacing and captions. Hard to design something that doesn’t look great.”
– Donna
Verified Customer
A Wonderful, Full-featured Image/Video Gallery Plugin
“I tested this plugin in beta and was impressed both by how well–and intuitively–it worked “out of the box” and by how responsive its developer was when I had questions. Highly recommend.”
– Josh
Verified Customer
Great plugin and really easy to use.
“Great plugin and really easy to use. The free version is really full featured but the pro version takes it to the next level. Highly recommended.”
– Cyril
Verified Customer
Works great
“Had an opportunity to test this plugin during the beta testing period and it’s really slick. It feels native to WordPress and is incredibly full featured.”
– Johan, Web Developer
Verified Customer
Just what I was looking for!
“The Video gallery block is just want I was looking for to use my website. Straightforward and easy to use.”
– Dave Marshal, Production Designer
Verified Customer
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