Title: Featured Image Gallery Widget
Author: Nick Halsey
Published: <strong>November 9, 2018</strong>
Last modified: July 12, 2024

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# Featured Image Gallery Widget

 By [Nick Halsey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-image-gallery-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image-gallery-widget/)

## Description

Widget areas are great opportunities to stimulate content discovery on your site.
The featured image gallery widget makes this process visual, automatically showing
the featured images for all of the posts on a given view (archives, taxonomy terms,
etc.) in one place. The widget is only displayed on views with multiple posts, and
uses the same styling as the core gallery widget.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Two-column featured image gallery widget in a custom theme’s sidebar.
 * [[
 * Three-column featured image gallery widget in the Twenty Fourteen theme’s content
   sidebar.

## Installation

 1. Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin installer OR
 2. Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Add the widget to your sidebar or footer

## FAQ

### Not Linking to Post

The images within the gallery will typically link to the post where they’re featured.
This only works when the image is uploaded to the post. Images that are selected
from the media library (previously uploaded elsewhere) when being featured are not“
attached” to the post, and will not link back to the post in this widget.

### Gallery Display Issues

This plugin relies on core and theme gallery markup and styling. If your theme does
not display the gallery well, ask your theme author to implement support for the
core gallery widget. You can also customize the display by adding additional CSS
in the customizer.

### Hiding Captions

To hide captions, paste this CSS into the “Additional CSS” editor in the customizer:

    ```
    .widget_featured_image_gallery_widget .gallery-caption {

        display: none;

    }
    ```

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Featured Image Gallery Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Nick Halsey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/)

[Translate “Featured Image Gallery Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-gallery-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-image-gallery-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-image-gallery-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-image-gallery-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.6.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [gallery](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery/)[image](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image/)
   [media](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)[widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-gallery-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Nick Halsey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/)

## Support

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