Why the 9 image limit to galleries? I am not a Ghost User but am considering it for next projects. I work with images a lot and for me it’s a problem that galleries are limited to 9 images. I know I can add as many galleries as I want but that’s not ideal.
Imagine if a project contains ten images that you need to add another gallery for the last image.
If a project has 100 images then it is necessary to add 11 galleries?
I spoke to support and they said that I could suggest the idea to remove the 9 image limit here so here am! Anyone else feel that the 9 image limitation is counterproductive/not ideal?
Nine images is fine with me, but another, related thing: I wish there was a way to manipulate the layout a bit.
As of now, if I post 5 images they will render render in two rows with two and three images respectively. Six images will be 3x3, four images 2x2 etc. If I wish to have a gallery layout with four images in upper row and two in the lower row, that’s simply not possible.
Hopefully this sort of sophistication will come by time as Ghost evolves.
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Then once I add to a gallery I can’t figure out how to reorder it. Maybe that’s on me.
Drag-and drop. Image cards can also be dragged in and out of galleries to swap between gallery and image cards. If you need help with a feature, please search the forum (this has been answered multiple times before) and if no answer is found open a separate topic to keep things searchable and avoid derailing unrelated topics.
The reason there is a 9 image limit is because drag and drop re-ordering starts to fall apart when not all of the images fit (vertically) inside the viewport.
You can stack image galleries one after the other, and in most themes they will appear as 1 image gallery on the front end, which is an easy workaround.
Removing the 9 image limit will require completely redesigning the drag and drop behaviour of the gallery card, which is certainly possible, but there has historically been very little demand for.
If anyone wants to get involved as an open source contributor on GitHub and help make it happen, then it will probably happen. But if nobody is contributing, then there might not be enough demand from the wider community at the moment to do the work needed to make this possible.
This is my #1 feature request across all of Ghost (alongside native table support in the editor), having been using it for the past two weeks. (Great CMS - thank you :)).
I’d really like to be able to customize the layout - i.e. have more than 3 images per row, more than 3 rows, etc. In my case, I want to show a gallery with a ton of small image thumbnails (previews), without taking up massive real estate or making the user scroll a lot.
Some ideas of HOW
User can build their own grid - or add a table with specific X rows, Y columns (like on G Docs, Word, etc.).
Gallery accommodates as many images as it can fit per row, based on relative size of images.
User can adjust the size of image thumbnails shown in the gallery (e.g. a slider) - which in turn adjusts the # images that are fit per row.
I think gallery customization would be powerful & needed - more creators using images → more audience engagement → more ROI for everyone.
As a visual artist the main thing Ghost could improve to make it viable for professional portfolios is to improve the gallery or image handling.
None of the current themes really address this need, I know Ghost is mostly focused at writers/journalists but simple changes like improving the image gallery here would go a long way.
@John I am posting here instead of creating a new topic to keep the conversation in one place
Up until recently, I was able to add more than 9 images by dragging additional images into the gallery, and never had any issue with drag and drop ordering, even with 20+ images.
However, I made several posts last week that all had galleries with more than 9 image, but when I looked at them today, all the galleries only had 9 images, and all the additional images I had added before were just removed, both in the front end and back end.
I am also no longer able to add more than 9 images to a gallery by drag and drop, like I could before.
Was there an update in the last few days that changed this behavior? Is there a reason it can’t just automatically break galleries unto multiple galleries, instead of just removing the images beyond the limit?
I am starting to worry that basically every post I have ever made is going to be broken by this
