Demo
A YouTube Shorts gallery for WordPress.
Shorts links become vertical posters from YouTube, saved to your Media Library. Hover plays a muted preview, a click plays the Short in the lightbox, from youtube-nocookie.com.
Live demo
Blender Studio Shorts
Eight Shorts from Blender Studio in a 9:16 grid. Try the carousel, too.
Settings layout: grid hover: zoom lightbox: dark
How to
Build it in three steps.
- Add a Filterable Gallery block to a page.
- Paste a Shorts link (
youtube.com/shorts/…). Gallery Z saves the vertical thumbnail as the poster. - Choose a 9:16 grid or a carousel. Regular YouTube videos, Vimeo and TikTok fit in the same gallery.
More demos: Artist portfolio, Illustration portfolio, Wedding photography, or all demos.
FAQ
Do regular YouTube videos work too?
Yes. Any YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok or Instagram link, and videos from your Media Library, next to photos in one gallery.
What about privacy and cookies?
The gallery page loads no YouTube code. Previews and the player come from youtube-nocookie.com, and only for the Short someone hovers over or opens.
Will a page full of Shorts be slow?
No. It is a page of lazy-loaded poster images; each player loads on demand. The gallery itself starts with about 3 KB of JavaScript.
Free · GPL v2 or later · No account
Get Gallery Z.
It’s free.
Download the zip, upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload, and add a Filterable Gallery to any page. No license key, no pro version, no upsell.