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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.

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/markhowellsmead/pt-remotegallery/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

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

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.

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

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.

Say Hello GmbH, sayhello.ch.

GPL v2+