Media Grid – Responsive, Filterable & Paginated Portfolio Builder

Media Grid is a powerful and highly customizable WordPress plugin designed to help you build unlimited responsive, filterable, and paginated media grids with zero coding. Perfect for designers, photographers, content creators, and agencies, Media Grid combines a masonry layout engine with a visual drag-and-drop interface, giving you full creative control over how your media content is displayed—across all devices.

Whether you’re building image galleries, multimedia portfolios, or dynamically populated grids from your site’s content, Media Grid makes it easy to organize and showcase your media beautifully and efficiently.

Overview

Media Grid excels in creating layout-free, dynamic or manual grids that can include any type of media: images, videos, audio, posts, sliders, and even custom content. Its seamless integration of visual tools, responsive layouts, deep SEO features, and lightbox effects makes it an all-in-one solution for building rich, interactive media galleries on WordPress.

With support for filtering, searching, infinite scroll, and lightbox popups, Media Grid provides both a user-friendly front-end experience and a highly efficient workflow on the back end.

Key Features

🧱 Unlimited Layout-Free Grids

Drag-and-Drop Grid Builder
Design your grids visually using a powerful drag-and-drop interface, including a mobile view mode for tailoring the layout to smaller screens.

Custom Grid Layouts
Create unique media presentations by freely shaping grid items—there are no forced layouts, giving you full creative freedom.

Dynamic Grids
Automatically generate grids based on a base layout, with optional element shuffling to add variation while maintaining structure.

Post Integration
Build grids from any public post or custom post type, and even mix them with custom Media Grid items for flexible content curation.

🔁 Flexible Pagination & Deep Linking

6 Pagination Systems
Choose from multiple pagination styles including:

• Infinite scroll

• Load more button

• Classic numbered pagination

• AJAX-based page transitions

Deep SEO Linking Support
Track and optimize every user interaction with SEO-ready deep links for:

• Lightbox items

• Filters

• Pagination

• Search

It updates the browser history dynamically so every action is traceable and shareable.

🎨 Full Media Type Support

Multimedia Item Compatibility
Add and mix any of the following within your grid:

• 📸 Single images

• 🎞️ Image sliders (with video support)

• 🎬 YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, or self-hosted videos (lightbox or inline)

• 🎧 SoundCloud and self-hosted audio (lightbox or inline)

• 🖊️ Inline text blocks with optional video background

• 🧾 Post content fetched from existing posts or CPTs

• 🔗 Custom links or lightbox with custom HTML content

• 🖼️ Animated GIFs (fully supported)

🔍 Filters, Search & Tag Support

Advanced Filtering System
Organize grid items with an interactive filtering menu—supporting custom tags and categories with animated transitions. Filters can be placed on the top-left or top-right of the grid.

Default Filter Option
Set a default active filter using a shortcode parameter, allowing you to pre-define which media category displays first.

In-Grid Search with Pagination Support
Users can search items by tags within the grid. The search function works even across paginated content, enhancing usability for large portfolios.

675 Built-in Icons
Enhance grid overlays and filters with a large set of customizable icons to match your brand or project theme.

🧩 Productivity Tools for Admins

• ⚡ 1-Click Grid Cloning to duplicate existing layouts quickly

• 🔄 Grid Reusability through shortcode embedding anywhere in your site

• 📱 Mobile Mode View during grid creation

• 💡 Fast performance with 100% CSS-based item shaping

• 💬 Custom Lightbox Content for added interactivity

Benefits

• 🎯 Total layout control without coding

• 🎨 Supports all major media formats—images, audio, video, text, and more

• 📱 Fully responsive and mobile-ready out of the box

• 🚀 Optimized for performance, using CSS and JavaScript with no heavy third-party embeds

• 📊 SEO-friendly with dynamic deep linking

• 🔍 Highly navigable with filters, search, pagination, and tags

• 🧩 Integrates seamlessly with posts and custom post types

• 🧠 User-friendly UI for building complex layouts with visual tools

Feature Summary

• 🧱 Unlimited responsive, layout-free media grids

• 🖱️ Drag-and-drop grid builder with mobile editing mode

• 🔁 Dynamic grid replication with optional shuffle

• 📰 Support for post content and custom post types

• 🖼️ Full media support: images, videos, sliders, audio, text, and GIFs

• 🔍 Interactive filtering and search system with tag support

• 📄 6 pagination types: infinite scroll, load more, AJAX pages, etc.

• 🔗 SEO-friendly deep linking for filters, search, pagination, and lightboxes

• 💡 Custom lightbox content and inline video/audio

• 🎨 675 icons for item overlays and filters

• 📦 Inline and lightbox support for SoundCloud and self-hosted media

• ✨ Smooth animations and transition effects

• 📱 Fully responsive and mobile-optimized

Whether you’re building an art portfolio, a product showcase, or an interactive gallery, Media Grid offers a versatile, design-first approach to media presentation on WordPress—powerful enough for developers, easy enough for creatives