Carousel

Launch a gorgeous full-screen photo browsing experience with comments and EXIF metadata, with Jetpack Carousel.

Enable Carousel

To start using Carousel, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Media section at Jetpack →  Settings → Writing in your dashboard.
2. Toggle the Display images in a full-screen carousel gallery to ON.
3. Choose to show or hide the photo Exif metadata and the comments area in the image lightbox, as well as change the Carousel color scheme.

The Carousel will deactivate if it detects that the theme in use is overwriting the gallery shortcode, so as to not conflict with the theme. If the Carousel is not working, it may be because there is custom gallery functionality in the theme that is conflicting.

Click on an image below to see it in action!

Carousel works for images only, not videos.

Titles, captions, and descriptions in Carousel

You can add titles, captions, and descriptions to your photos by default in the Media Library.

A caption will show below an image in the carousel if the image has a caption added.

The title, description, and caption will show in the Exif Metadata for an image if those fields have been completed for an image.

WP Admin Settings

Once you activate the Carousel feature, you will find the settings in your Dashboard under Settings →  Media.

Open an image in a lightbox

To make a single image open in its own lightbox:

1. Go to the Page or Post where you want to add the single image in a lightbox.
2. Add an image block.
3. Add your image by uploading directly to the block, selecting an image, or inserting from a URL.
4. With the image selected, click on the link icon in the block editor toolbar.
5. Set the link to Attachment page.

Now, when anyone clicks the individual image in the gallery, it will appear in the lightbox overlay view.

Privacy Information

Carousel is deactivated by default. If you ever need to activate it, you can toggle the Display images and galleries in a gorgeous, full-screen browsing experience setting from the Media section at Jetpack →  Settings → Writing.

Data Used
Site Owners / Users The usage of this feature may expose photo-related information, such as EXIF data, GEO data, and camera information. Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.	Site Visitors For image view tracking* (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.
Activity Tracked
Site Owners / Users Image views*. We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We also track when, and which, configuration settings are modified.	Site Visitors Image views*.
Data Synced (Read More)
Site Owners / Users We sync a single option that identifies whether or not the feature is activated.	Site Visitors None.

^* Image views are only recorded if the site owner has enabled image view stats tracking for this feature, which is disabled by default. The majority of Jetpack sites do not have this enabled since it currently requires some custom code that toggles the jetpack_enable_carousel_stats option.