Galleries

A gallery is a named, ordered set of images and videos with a slug you embed by. Galleries → All Galleries.

Two content models

The layout decides how much structure a gallery has, and it is set per gallery:

• Simple — a flat set of items. A caption, maybe a link. This is what most stores want.
• Advanced — each item gets its own slug and detail subpage, product cards, and previous/next navigation. Use it when the items are the content — a lookbook, customer stories, project write-ups — rather than decoration.

Slugs are only generated for advanced galleries, so switching a simple gallery to advanced after the fact will generate them then.

Two display modes

Independent of the content model:

• Grid — a responsive grid, with a column count you set.
• Carousel — horizontally scrolling, with optional arrows and dots.

These are separate settings on purpose, so an advanced gallery can still be a carousel.

Embedding

<div
  data-evident-widget="gallery"
  data-gallery-slug="customer-photos"
  data-columns="3"
></div>

Options: data-display-mode, data-grid-columns, data-caption-position, data-show-title, data-show-description, data-show-submissions.

Filling a gallery

Three sources, and they compose:

1. Upload directly. Files go to Evident’s own storage, not linked from wherever they currently live.
2. Pull from approved photo reviews. This is the one to use first — customers have already given you the content and, by reviewing, the context.
3. Accept submissions. Turn on allowSubmissions and the widget offers an upload form. Submissions are moderated before they appear.

Lead capture

A gallery can carry a lead form — heading, description, fields, button text, position — and optionally include the viewer’s favourited items in what is captured.

This is worth using on a lookbook or a project gallery where browsing is genuinely a signal of intent. It is worth not using on a wall of customer photos on a product page, where it interrupts someone who was already going to buy.

Captured leads are listed against the gallery.

Hosting and durability

Images uploaded to a gallery are stored by Evident.

Product images, by contrast, are referenced from your platform’s CDN rather than copied. That is worth knowing: if your platform connection lapses or a product is deleted upstream, those images stop resolving. Gallery uploads and review photos do not have this problem — they are held by us.

Where galleries earn their keep

• Homepage — a customer photo carousel does more for a first-time visitor than another product grid.
• Product page, below reviews — photos of the actual thing, in real rooms, on real people.
• A dedicated page — an advanced gallery with detail subpages is a content section in its own right, and one search engines will index.
• Landing pages — a gallery filtered to a campaign’s content, with the lead form on.

Performance

Galleries lazy-load their images and reserve layout space, so adding one does not shift the page after load. A grid of thirty images does not cost thirty requests up front.