Understanding Albums & Galleries

What’s the difference between Albums (“Photo/Video Albums” or just “Albums”) and Galleries (or just “Photos” in some themes).

If you’re a bit old-fashioned, in a physical world, your photos are still contained in the photo-albums. Same happens in the theme: each Album contains a set of media files: photos and videos.

You can display media files in 2 modes:

1. Albums – in this mode, you can see a set of Albums (fig. 1.1).

Fig. 1. Albums page.

Fig. 1.1. Albums page.

Click on one of these albums will open it and reveal photos inside (fig. 1.2). This mode is sometimes also called the “2-level gallery”:

Fig. 1.2. Photos inside of an album.

Fig. 1.2. Photos inside of an album.

2. Gallery – media files from one or couple of albums are being displayed on a page (fig. 2). Clicking on a media file thumbnail will activate it (photos will be enlarged, videos will start to play). This mode is also called the “flat/plain”, “1-level” or “classical” gallery:

Fig. 2. Gallery – set of images displayed on a page.

Fig. 2. Gallery – set of images displayed on a page.