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Permanent Tourist: Remote Gallery Block

A WordPress plugin to get and render an image gallery based on a remote custom API.

by Say Hello GmbH · github.com/markhowellsmead/pt-remotegallery

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/markhowellsmead/pt-remotegallery/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/markhowellsmead/pt-remotegallery ↗

Permanent Tourist Remote Gallery

A lightweight WordPress plugin that registers a Gutenberg block (Remote Gallery) to render a remote image gallery fetched from a JSON API.

 Requirements

  • WordPress 7.0+
  • PHP 8.3+

What it does

  • Registers a block (apiVersion 3) and server-side renders a container with data-endpoint and data-images-per-page attributes.
  • Frontend JavaScript fetches paged image data from the configured endpoint and renders a responsive grid (grid500-style).
  • Images are lazy-loaded and will fade in when loaded. Captions are rendered in the DOM but hover-to-show CSS has been disabled by default.
  • The block currently does not link images and has no lightbox.

How to use

  1. Install the plugin into wp-content/plugins/pt-remotegallery and activate it.
  2. Insert the "Remote Gallery" block in the editor.
  3. Configure the endpoint (default: https://gallery.permanenttourist.ch/api) and imagesPerPage in the block inspector.
  4. Publish/preview the page — the block will fetch and render images on the frontend.

Notes for developers

  • Server render is in render.php; block metadata is in block.json.
  • Frontend JS/CSS are in build/frontend.js and build/style.css.
  • The CSS variable --grid-target-height defaults to 320px and is increased to 500px on tall viewports (>1024px).
  • Filters and the lightbox are disabled; hover-show caption CSS has been disabled but caption markup remains.

If you want changes (re-enable hover captions, restore lightbox, alter layout heuristics), open an issue or request edits in the codebase.

Author

Say Hello GmbH, sayhello.ch.

 License

GPL v2+