gallery

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A gallery is a deliberately curated set of photos, that may itself be a post, or an archive view, or potentially dynamically created via tags.

Layout

Gallery layouts are usually organized in some sort of grid fashion.

IndieWeb Examples

Aaron Parecki
- https://aaronparecki.com/2017/03/11/6/pdx-highball-week

Platform Examples

Projects and other software platforms that have a notion / feature support of "gallery".

WordPress

WordPress software offers two image related post formats.

image - A single image. The first tag in the post could be considered the image. Alternatively, if the post consists only of a URL, that will be the image URL and the title of the post (post_title) will be the title attribute for the image.
gallery - A gallery of images. Post will likely contain a gallery shortcode and will have image attachments.

Silo Examples

Flickr

Flickr confusingly has several different kinds of galleries each with their own quirky limitations:

Set (also called Album in the UI) - a curation of your own photos
Gallery - a curation of other people's photos
- They have a "special" Galllery called Favorites now (with 2014 UI update), whereas Favorites used to be a completely separate thing.
Photo Book - ??? something new

Software Examples

MediaWiki

<gallery> is also a special MediaWiki element (open and close tags) for embedding multiple columns (multicolumn) of images. E.g. used on this wiki:

streak#Duolingo

Code sample:

<gallery heights="480px" widths="240px">
File:2025-01-08-Duolingo-streak1.png|Duolingo's app notification when you complete a lesson and extend your streak
File:2025-01-08-Duolingo-streak2.png|top|thumb|Duolingo's app streak summary page, found by clicking on the streak number at the top of the home screen
</gallery>