Designed for Creative, Waterfall Layouts
Masonry Gallery Block
The Masonry Gallery Block is part of FolioBlocks — a premium WordPress plugin built for photographers, designers, and creatives who want complete visual control inside the block editor. It delivers a modern, free-flowing layout where images naturally fall into place, creating the signature waterfall-style presentation that makes your portfolio feel organic, dynamic, and beautifully unstructured.
Unlike rigid grid-based galleries, the Masonry layout embraces mixed aspect ratios, allowing tall portraits, wide landscapes, and unconventional crops to sit together harmoniously. This makes it ideal for storytelling sequences, editorial collections, event coverage, and any portfolio that benefits from visual rhythm and variety.
Video Demo:
Features
Fully responsive, just set desired column amount on Desktop, Tablet, & Mobile
Option to remove gap between images
Set image resolution
Built in Lightbox with option to show caption
Show title on image hover
Lazy Load Images
Randomize image order
Add border & border-radius to gallery images
Make gallery filterable by adding categories to images
Option to allow users to download images
Right-Click Prevention
WooCommerce Integration
Support for Block Transforms
Gallery Demo
Bellow is a demo of the Masonry Gallery block with the Lightbox activated:
* Images courtesy of Pixabay
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| Features | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Set Image resolution | ✅ | ✅ |
| Responsive design ready works on Desktop, Tablet, Mobile | ✅ | ✅ |
| Set Column Amount on Desktop, Tablet, Mobile | ✅ | ✅ |
| Drag & Drop Image Re-Ordering | ✅ | ✅ |
| Block Transform (Convert to Justified or Masonry Gallery) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Remove Image Gap | ✅ | ✅ |
| Randomize Image Order | ❌ | ✅ |
| Enable Image Downloads | ❌ | ✅ |
| Link to store products with WooCommerce Integration | ❌ | ✅ |
| Disable Right-Click | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Lazy Load | ❌ | ✅ |
| Image Lightbox | ✅ | ✅ |
| Show Caption in Lightbox | ✅ | ✅ |
| Show Title in Overlay on Hover | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Hover Overlays (Blur, Fade, Gradient, Chip, & Color) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Gallery Image Filtering | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Typography & Styles on Gallery Filter Bar | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Border & Border Radius on Slides | ❌ | ✅ |
| Drop Shadow Effect on Images | ❌ | ✅ |
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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