Your Memories Take Center Stage with the New Photo Carousel
Photo galleries on WordPress.com are a great way to share the pictures you’ve taken with your friends, family, and your followers. But the design of your theme can limit how large your high-resolution photos are displayed. Today, we’re announcing a great new way to make the most of your photos: a full-size carousel view that presents your images as large as your display can contain them.
To experience the carousel, just click an image in a photo gallery on any WordPress.com blog. You can navigate between photos using the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking or tapping the arrows on the left and right. Click the Permalink below any image to see its attachment page or the image file directly, depending on how you setup your gallery. You can easily like a photo from the carousel, too. When you’re done, click anywhere in the background or press the Esc key on your keyboard to return to the thumbnails.
Check it out here, with this gallery of images taken by some of our colleagues during our recent meetup in Budapest.
Now, whether you’re using a tablet or a large desktop display, you’ll see photos in the best light possible. And the best part of all: if you’ve already been posting photo galleries on your WordPress.com blog, you’ll get the new full-screen carousel view without lifting a finger. If you haven’t posted your first gallery, there’s never been a better time to try!
- November 8, 2011
- New Features, Photos, Social, WordPress.com
WordPress.com News 
I really like these photos!
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Great really amazing wanted that since long time.
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Fantastic!!!
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Love to see the cool effect on WordPress. Great.
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Another awesome innovation. I really love WordPress for its perpetual progress. THANK YOU SO MUCH! 🙂
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Are you only allowing comments that are positive about this new feature??
Like I said – already – the feature is a good idea but why are you imposing it on every user?
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Great! but… i have galleries with long descriptions below each image and that description is not showing anymore…
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I’m not a fan of this new Photo Carousel… =(
I worked so hard on my photoblog and now it changes everything…
Besides it runs very slowly.
Is it possible to turn it off somehow????
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Fantastic!
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So nice!! Many of us have been waiting for this for a long time.
Thank you.
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Please allow an opt out feature. It does look very nice but it messes up a lot on my blog.
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It’s really nice, great work.
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This looks great! Will photo galleries on older posts be updated, or will this only work on future posts? Thanks!
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Thanks! Photo galleries on older posts are already running the new photo carousel feature.
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I’m one who uses detailed descriptions with pics in my photo gallery. I do love the opportunity to showcase the pieces in this new way but wonder how many visitors to WP will know what “permalink” means. Took me awhile to figure it out 😉 I definitely want to make it easy for visitors to see the descriptions easily, not just the captions. Thanks for your ongoing efforts to make things better for us all.
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I really do hope that staff improve this carousel so that comments can be added to each image, and so that all the descriptions the administrator may have previously painstakingly added can be included- this is VITAL to many of us using the gallery setting as a means to promote our images, especially professional photographers and artists who do need these added features, please : )
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I seem to be in the minority but I think it’s rubbish and the fact that it’s been imposed is totally shocking. My blog has six galleries and they look so ridiculous on this stupid Carousel I’ve had to take them off line. Surely, the author of a blog should decide how content its is displayed, and when changes like this are made they should be on an ‘opt in’ basis.
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Just used a gallery for the first time! Looks great 😉
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Cool, can’t wait to use it!
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This new format has some advantages… only thing… now all my older galleries are not working as they should!! The captions don’t appear!! I’ll have to edit each photo individually… some schlep!!
Could you please look into writing code that can rectify this little matter… also, now one can’t enlarge a specific photo in the carousel…
I’m sure the gremlins will be sorted… I don’t want to start editing my galleries if the team is looking at resolving the issues…
Thanks… I hope you can help!! 😉
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cool 🙂
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How long before having a Jetpack version of this? I’d love to have it integrated with the React Pro theme I just purchased!
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I would prefer a choice..
don’t care for the carousel at all…
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Awesome pics, really mesmerising.
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But… does it work with pictures from URL’s or you have to upload them from your computer? thx
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It works with pictures you upload from your computer and display in a gallery.
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To have this jammed down our throats and messing up existing sites is pure bull)*&%#@ It is now much harder to see the pictures on my site – not happy at all
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Reblogged this on Broad Division's Blog and commented:
I have been away for too long. Time to revamp my blog!
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