{"id":53204,"date":"2011-07-13T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=53204"},"modified":"2013-04-17T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:50:17","slug":"display-wordpress-categories-in-a-fancy-grid-style-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/display-wordpress-categories-in-a-fancy-grid-style-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Display WordPress Categories in a Fancy Grid Style Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After you&#8217;ve seen enough WordPress blogs, you might start to think that they all look alike with similar displays of posts, categories, and archives.<\/p>\n<p>Want to do something a little more creative with your content? Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/category-grid-view-gallery\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Category Grid View Gallery<\/a> plugin. It offers you a visual way to display categories on your WordPress site. The plugin generates a grid view of the categories by grabbing the first images from posts within those categories.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of Category Grid View Gallery in action, taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.anshulsharma.in\/always-n-forever-season-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live demo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53208\" title=\"mouseover-category\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mouseover-category.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"650\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Highly configurable shortcode makes it easy to customize the gallery display<\/h3>\n<p>The best feature of this plugin is that it&#8217;s very easy for anyone to implement &#8211; simply paste in the shortcode on the page where you want the category grid gallery to display. The shortcode gives you the ability to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Control which category to show<\/li>\n<li>Number of posts to show<\/li>\n<li>Posts to exclude<\/li>\n<li>Size of the thumbnail<\/li>\n<li>Whether or not to show the title<\/li>\n<li>Category ordering options<\/li>\n<li>Quality of thumbnails<\/li>\n<li>Show posts only with specific tags<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and many more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides a highly configurable shortcode, the plugin also has a few more excellent features. Thumbnails are generated on the fly and dynamically resized for you, which is a huge time saver. The plugin&#8217;s author has built in a caching feature to reduce the load on the server. You also have the option to display posts in a popup lightbox-style window on click.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a new creative way to display your blog, photo gallery, portfolio or featured posts, give the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/category-grid-view-gallery\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Category Grid View Gallery<\/a> plugin a try. Download it for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n<h4>Related posts:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-show-posts-from-one-category\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Display Posts from One Category in WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do something a little more creative with your content? 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