Hey everyone, I'm Marina from Yes to Tech, and welcome back to my channel. Wondering
how to add a custom photo gallery to your Wix website? In this Wix pro gallery tutorial,
you’ll learn how to add a Wix photo gallery to make the most out of your Wix images.
By the end of this video, you’ll know exactly how to add a photo gallery in Wix and how
to customize a Wix gallery. If you're excited about this video, make sure you like this
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First off, if you don't have a Wix account yet, just click on the link in the description
box below to sign up for free. Once you've logged in to your Wix account, click on the
pencil icon above the website you want to add a Wix pro gallery to, to access your Wix
editor.
There are two ways that you can add a Wix photo gallery to your website: by adding a
new page using a photo gallery template or by embedding a photo gallery into an existing
page. We'll be covering how to do both.
To add a new page using a photo gallery template, in your Wix editor, click on the pages dropdown
menu on the top, left-hand side, click on 'manage pages' at the bottom, and then on
'add page' at the bottom again.
Click on 'gallery' from the left-hand side panel, and then choose a custom photo gallery
template of your choice from the available options: basic, captions, minimalist, creative,
masonry, descriptive or grid. If you hover over any of these gallery templates, you can
click on 'add page' to add it to your website or on 'preview' to have an idea of what it
will look like.
Let's go ahead and click on 'add page' on the 'basic' Wix pro gallery template to add
it to our website. Rename your page in the 'site menu' popup, and then click on 'done'.
Now click on the Wix pro gallery and then on 'manage media' from its individual toolbar
to customize your custom photo gallery.
From here, you can select any existing image, and hover your mouse over it to adjust the
image overlay or remove it from the gallery. On the right-hand side, you can replace the
image, put the focus where you want the most attention, as well as add a title, description
and link to your image. You can also click on the 'add media' button up top to add a
new image, video or text to your Wix pro gallery. Once you're done making changes, remember
to click on 'done' at the bottom.
Let's x out of this 'manage media' popup and click on 'settings' from the Wix pro gallery's
individual toolbar. Under 'main' you can access the same 'manage media' popup to display your
high quality work online with the most professional gallery.
Under 'layout', you can click on the 'custom' tab to pick a layout and then customize how
it looks, including collage, masonry, grid, thumbnails, slider, slideshow, strip, column,
bricks, mix, alternate or magic, or click on the 'presets' tab to choose a readymade
pro gallery preset created by Wix's design team.
Under 'settings', you can set the gallery settings, including what happens when you
click on an item (open in expand mode, a link opens, nothing happens or open in full screen),
as well as the social settings, including the option to download or not, the ability
to social share or not, and add a heart icon or not.
Under 'design', you can customize the design of the Wix pro gallery's overlay and icons,
including the overlay and icon's gradient, color overlay, icon color and overlay effect,
texts, including the info to display (text and / or description), what happens to the
info on hover (appears, disappears or no change), and the text design of the title style and
color, description font style and color, horizontal alignment, text vertical padding, text horizontal
padding,and space between title and description, buttons, including the option to add a custom
button or not, item style, including border width and color, corner radius, hover effect,
what show when the image is loading (a blurred image or a color placeholder), and which color
to use (the main color from each image or one color for all images), scroll animation,
which is how images appear when scrolling down the page, including no effect, fade in,
grayscale, slide up, expand, shrink, zoom out, and one color, as well as expand mode,
which is where you can click on 'customize expand mode' to customize how your expand
mode will look, change the background color, text styles, and more.
Under 'advanced', you can customize the image settings, including image quality and image
sharpening, video settings, including the option to play videos on hover, autoplay or
on click, play with sound or not, playback speed, loop videos or not, show play button
or not, as well as the gallery direction from left to right or right to left.
Under 'support', you can access the Wix pro gallery support forum, view app updates, review
the pro gallery, understand more about images on protected pages, and the gallery info.
Let's x out of this 'Wix Pro Gallery' popup and click on 'stretch' from the Wix pro gallery's
individual toolbar. From here, you can select whether you wish the Wix pro gallery to be
stretched to full width or not, as well as set the size of the margins.
Unde the question mark icon from the Wix pro gallery's individual toolbar, you can access
the Wix help center.
Now that you know how to add a new page using a photo gallery template in Wix, let's cover
how to embed a photo gallery into an existing page. To do so, in your Wix editor, click
on the pages dropdown menu on the top, left-hand side to select the page you'll be adding a
custom photo gallery to.
Once on that page, click on 'add' from the left-hand side panel, and then on 'gallery'.
From here, you can view all of the gallery types Wix offers: recommended galleries, pro
galleries, grid galleries, slider galleries, and more galleries. Locate a gallery of your
choice, such as one of Wix's pro galleries, and then click on it to add it to your website.
Just as before, you can click on the Wix pro gallery, and then on manage media, settings,
stretch or on the question mark icon to make the most out of your Wix images.
Once you're done adding a photo gallery in Wix and customizing how the Wix gallery looks,
click on 'publish' on the top, right-hand side to make your changes active. For more
details on what you can do with Wix, make sure to check out my Wix tutorials playlist.
I'll leave the link to it in the description box below.
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