With Carousel active, any standard WordPress galleries you have embedded in posts or pages will launch a gorgeous full-screen photo browsing experience with comments and EXIF metadata.
How to Enable Carousel
You can enable Carousel by visiting the Media section at Jetpack → Settings → Writing in your dashboard. From this page you can also 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.
Carousel Options
Photo Exif Metadata
You can also choose to display the photo metadata (Exif) in the Carousel if it’s available. To view the Exif metadata in the Carousel, click on the information icon in the bottom right corner of the Carousel.
Comments
You can also give the users the option to comment on your photos in the Carousel. To view the comments in the Carousel, click the comments icon in the bottom right corner of the Carousel.
Background Color
You can set a black or white background for Carousel:
WP Admin Settings
Once you activate the Carousel feature, you will find the settings in your Dashboard under Settings → Media.
- Background color: Choose whether or not you want a black or white background for your Carousel as shown above.
- Metadata: Check this option if you want your photo’s EXIF metadata to be displayed.
- Comments: Check this option if you want a comments area to be displayed.
Open a Single Image in a Lightbox
To make a single image open in its own lightbox:
- Go to the Page or Post where you want to add the single image in a lightbox.
- Add an image block.
- Add your image by uploading directly to the block, selecting an image, or inserting from a URL.
- With the image selected, click on the link icon in the block editor toolbar.
- Set the link to Attachment page.
Now, when anyone clicks the individual image in the gallery, it will appear in the lightbox overlay view.
FAQ
Can I display videos in a Carousel?
Carousel is only for displaying images from a standard WordPress gallery. It will not display videos.
Carousel is active but is not launching for my galleries. What’s up?
Please verify if your theme has some custom gallery functionalities. 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.
Can developers extend the Carousel?
Theme and plugin authors have filters and actions they can hook into to force activate, customize and extend the Carousel if they wish, such as jp_carousel_force_enable, jp_carousel_enqueue_assets, etc.
Do image views from within a Carousel count in my stats?
Stats integration is deactivated by default. You can use the jetpack_enable_carousel_stats option to turn it on, if desired.
Click on an image to see it in action!
Privacy Information
This feature is deactivated by default. If you ever need to deactivate 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.
