Native WP Gallery – Display # of Images

to set the number of images that a WP gallery displays

Since the total images in Native WP gallery is set by users upon creating the gallery, so I suppose you mean the number of image column.

We can do that by using “columns” option. The default when not specified is 3, we can change this putting our own number.

Suppose we have this, which will display 3 columns

[gallery ids="729,732,731,720"]

We can do this to display them in 4 columns

[gallery ids="729,732,731,720" columns="4"]

offer navigation to the next image(s) in the gallery

To do that we need to use some lightbox JS, look for a plugin that says “works with Native WP Gallery”. Since you already have Jetpack installed, try activate the image Carousel module and play around with it.

Thank you for your reply!!

I want one column, one large image, caption to the right, and navigation through the images as a gallery, not as attachments. I have coded the custom CSS but definitely need to figure out how to only display one image and navigate through the gallery one image at a time. My intent is to minimize plugin use, though I do have the native js plugin installed for another category – but that gallery is displaying in full.

So basically, I want to paginate the gallery.

Anyone have any knowledge on this topic // whether it can be done or an alternative solution for the native gallery feature?