Media Boxes Portfolio – WordPress Grid Gallery Plugin

WordPress Media Boxes is a portfolio plugin that allows you to display all kind of content in a highly powerful grid. Use it for blog posts, display media, clients, portfolios, galleries and more.
it comes with a powerful filter, sorting and search system!

You can put the plugin in any page or post and it will adapt to its container, also you can quickly customize it via the admin panel or the skin editor.

• Fully responsive grid and popup
• Fully customizable and adaptable to your needs
• Friendly admin panel
• Friendly skin editor
• Import & Export portfolios and skins
• Custom meta data on post
• Custom post types support
• Video tutorials available
• Tons of overlay effects
• Powerful filtering system
• Searching system
• Sorting feature
• Lazy load Feature
• One of the fastest grids out there
• You can define the grid layout (the number of columns or the width) for different resolutions, for example maybe you want only one column for a mobile resolution, 3 columns for a tablet resolution and 5 columns for a desktop resolution.
• Full width, the grid will adapt to the 100% of its container
• Set the number of boxes to load at start and when you click the “load more” button
• Retina ready icons
• You can load a lot of stuff in the popup like images, videos, sounds, iframes, HTML text, Google maps and ajax content (It doesn’t support video/sound files like .mp4 or .mp3, they need to be iframe based, like in Youtube or SoundCloud)
• The plugin is using Isotope v3 which is currently one of the fastest grid systems with filtering out there. Also it uses the best browser features when available (CSS3 transitions and GPU acceleration) and a fallback of simple animation for older browsers
• Deep linking: Directly link to the popup so you can share the popup content with your friends or in your social network, just copy and paste the URL generated when you open the popup.
• CSS3 Effects and GPU acceleration
• Free Technical Support

I’ve used the following icons and scripts

• Font Awesome
• Isotope v3 ($25 Developer License)
• Fancybox 3 ($119 Extended Comercial License)
• Magnific Popup
• Other JS scripts that you can find in the JS folder

v1.5.5 – January 18, 2023

• Fixed issue with some WP installations

v1.5.4 – February 8, 2022

• New option to chose the link target (either new tab or same window) when you click on the thumbnail

v1.5.3 – December 17, 2021

• Plugin’s files in the back-end are loaded only in the plugin’s admin section

v1.5.1 – March 17, 2021

• Fixed small issue with deeplinking when using checkboxes
• Improved performance of the WP_Query
• Updated the JS components

v1.4.8 – January 7, 2021

• Fixed small issue with WP 5.6 (images were not showing up when using the “Original Resolution”)

v1.4.5 – August 13, 2020

• Fixed small issue with WP 5.5 (the admin section was showing a loading icon only)
• Added support for WP Custom Fields in the skin editor (same steps as ACF fields)

v1.4.4 – July 29, 2020

• In the Skin Editor now you can use WP Custom Fields as well as the ACF

v1.4.3 – May 24, 2020

• Fixed small bug: you were not able to save a custom url in the skin editor

v1.4.2 – February 05, 2020

• In the skin editor now you can use the post-categories and fields from the ACF Plugin
• Files of the plugin are only present if the shortcode is used in the page
• Fixed issue with random order not being able to be selected
• Fixed issue with the first item in the grid, sometimes you were not able to click on it

v1.4.1 – July 29, 2019

• Fixed issue where changes were not saved when erasing images from the custom media gallery
• Improved performance on the custom media gallery

v1.4 – July 25, 2019

• Fixed issue with the custom media gallery, the filter groups had an issue when updating, removing or adding a new filter item
• Fixed issue with fancybox when using the auto start feature

v1.3 – June 01, 2019

• Updated all the components
• Added SEO support, now you can specify the title and alt tags, otherwise it will use the post title
• Now the custom gallery is saved in JSON format, this will fix the issue when a server had a max number of inputs allowed in a page and the plugin was using to many, this is not longer the case, YOU MUST RE-SAVE YOUR PORTFOLIOS if you are using the custom media gallery (the plugin will automatically convert it when you click “save”)

v1.2 – March 06, 2019

• Now you can use “cascading filters” or “hierarchical filters” since I added the feature that the visibility of certain filter can depend if other is selected
• All components were updated
• Added the ability to use checkboxes as filters
• Added support for the post excerpt in the skin editor
• Added the ability to specify multiple image urls to the popup image
• Fixed CSS conflicts in the admin section when the theme is using jQuery UI

v1.1.1 – December 17, 2018

• Fixed small issue when deleting a skin that’s already being used by a portfolio

v1.1 – December 13, 2018

• Now when creating a “Custom Media Gallery” you can add your own categories and associate the images to them, see how this works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2O3idiHIW8
• Compatible with WordPress 5 and fixed meta-data design for the new Gutenberg editor
• Now you can specify a different skin for a specific post, see this new option in the Meta Data options below your post
• Now you can clone/copy your skins and portfolios
• If the “pages” have categories then the plugin will use them (for example when using a plugin named “Add Categories to Pages”
• Added more video-tutorials to the documentation for easier understanding (if you want a video-tutorial for an specific skin or example let me know)
• Fixed an issue when entering single and double quotes in the text fields of the admin section
• Fixed minor issues (clear your browser cache since some JS and CSS files were modified)

v1.0 – November 20, 2018

• initial release

You can take a look to the documentation HERE