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Managing your media

Using the Pro Gallery

Wix Pro Gallery: Managing Your Gallery


The Wix Pro Gallery allows you to showcase multimedia content all in one place. With this gallery, you can easily reorder gallery items and duplicate / copy galleries onto the same or different pages. We also make it easy for you to manage the social and interactive settings of your gallery, such as the heart and download icons.



Downloading images from a gallery


Allow visitors to download gallery items by enabling the Download toggle in the Settings tab. A download icon appears on each individual item upon hovering. Visitors can download your original images but not Free Wix media.


To enable downloading of images in the Wix Pro Gallery:


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Click the Settings tab.

  5. Click the Download toggle to enable it.


Screenshot of live gallery with Download icon highlighted.

Note:


The pro gallery has a built-in Right Click Protect feature on desktop, so it's not possible to save images added to your gallery with a right-click.



Duplicating a gallery


Save yourself time and duplicate your gallery onto the same page, or copy and paste it onto a different page of your site. The gallery's content and settings are carried over onto the duplicate.


To duplicate a gallery:


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Right-click on the gallery and choose what you want to do:

    • Duplicate a gallery on the same page:

      1. Click Duplicate.

      2. Drag the gallery to your preferred location.

    • Copy and paste a gallery elsewhere:

      1. Click Copy.

      2. Navigate to the relevant page on your site.

      3. Right-click anywhere on the page and select Paste.


Screenshot of menu that appears when you right-click on the gallery with the Cop and Duplicate options highlighted.


Reordering items in a gallery


You can change the order of the images, video or text in your gallery from the Organize Your Gallery window.


To reorder your gallery items:


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Click Manage Media.

  4. Click and drag the gallery items into the order you want.


Screenshot of image being dragged into position.

  1. Click Done.

    Tip: You can also sort the images alphabetically by image title or file name. Click the Arrange by icon

    Wix Pro Gallery: Managing Your Gallery

    and select an option.



Adding a heart icon to gallery items


Track how many "likes" your images and videos are getting by adding a heart icon to media items in your gallery. This is a great way to see how your site visitors are responding to your content. The heart icon and counter both appear on your live site when you hover over an image in your gallery.


To add a heart icon to your pro gallery images and videos:


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Click the Settings tab.

  5. Enable the Heart icon.

  6. Select Show with counter to enable the "likes" counter.


Screenshot of Settings panel with heart icon toggle and options highlighted.


FAQs


Click a question below to learn more about managing your gallery.


No. Currently, it is not possible to download all gallery items at once. If that is something you'd like to see in the future, you can vote for that feature.


Currently, it is not possible to track and analyze information on gallery items that have been liked or downloaded by your site visitors. If that is something you'd like to see in the future, you can vote for that feature.


It is not possible to prevent images from being saved on mobile devices where a browser's built-in features (such as long tap and save) are used for this purpose. The best way to protect images from being stolen is to add a watermark.


Currently, it is not possible to randomize the order of your gallery items in the Wix Pro Gallery. If this is a feature you would like to see in the future, vote for it here.


Your heart counter may not be visible for any of the following reasons:

  • You have not applied a hover overlay to your gallery: For the Heart icon to be visible, you must apply a hover overlay to your gallery. You can set the transparency to 0 if you don't want the overlay to be visible. If you choose a partial overlay, make sure to set its size to 40% or more.

  • Your gallery is not wide enough: To ensure the heart icon and counter are visible, enlarge the gallery using the drag handles or stretch the gallery to full-width.

  • Your files are too small: If your uploaded files are too small, upload larger files to make the pro gallery frame large enough to display the heart icon and counter.


Currently, it is not possible to get a notification when a visitor clicks "like" on one of your images or videos in the pro gallery. If that is something you'd like to see in the future, you can vote for that feature.


It's likely that you will experience some performance issues if you have several pro galleries on one single page. Galleries are optimized to showcase multiple media files at once.

We recommend having one gallery with several media items per page, as opposed to multiple galleries with less items.

Having too many individual elements on a single page (even if the elements are identical) can affect site performance. Learn more about site performance.


Your Wix Pro Gallery behaves responsively when you choose certain layouts and set it to Full Width, using the Stretch icon

Wix Pro Gallery: Managing Your Gallery

. In order to fill the full width on a device screen, the gallery may change the position and size of your gallery items and / or the number of items per row.


To move your gallery to another page on your site, right-click the pro gallery element in your editor and click Copy. Then go to the relevant page, right-click anywhere on the page and click Paste. The gallery's content and settings are carried over onto the duplicate.

Note: Currently, it is not possible to save your pro gallery to My Designs in the Wix Editor or as an asset in the Studio Editor. If this is something you'd like to see in the future, vote for that feature.


No. Currently, it is not possible to add filters or tags to your pro gallery in the Organize your gallery window to help you better organize your media. It is also not possible to display filters or tags on your gallery on your live site, to help users better navigate your gallery.

If this is something you'd like to see in the future, vote for that feature.


No. Currently, it is not possible to automatically arrange your gallery items by the date they were added. You can reorder gallery items manually with drag and drop, or sort them alphabetically by image title or file name.

If this is something you would like to see in the future, vote for that feature.


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