Easy Panorama

by Leonardo Giacone

Description

Easy Panorama plugin for WordPress websites allows you to display wide/panoramic images in a more accessible way: enjoy your panoramic photos scrolling them on the x-axis or moving your mobile device.

You can start embedding your panoramic images using the handy shortcode (TinyMCE editor) or the new Block.

Easy Panorama uses the packed Paver.

Main features

Enqueuing of Paver Javascript and CSS files.
Customization of Paver appearance and behaviour from the Panorama Settings page.
Other geek settings in the Advanced Settings page.
[easy_panorama] shortcode to embed panoramic images with no hassle.
Custom Panorama Block for a better editing experience.

Shortcode (Classic WordPress editor)

Include your favourite panoramic images in posts and pages using the built-in shortcode functionality.

If you are using the classic WordPress editor (TinyMCE), you will find the Add Panorama button above the editor: click on the button and select the image you want to include.
The shortcode will be inserted in the editor and replaced by the panoramic viewer when you visit the website.

You can customize the appearance and behaviour of the panoramic viewer through the Easy Panorama settings page or adding specific attributes to each shortcode: these will override the general settings.

Shortcode attributes cheat sheet:

id: attachment/image WordPress id (number) – Required
url: image url (string)
meta: determines whether a metadata overlay should be displayed (boolean)
title: image title, showed on overlay in case “Show image meta” (“meta” attribute) is set to true (string)
alt: image alternative text, showed on overlay in case “Show image meta” (“meta” attribute) is set to true (string)
graceful_failure: allows the display of failure message (boolean)
failure_message: this message will appear in mobile devices with no gyroscopic data or no physical orientation support (string)
failure_message_insert: the location where the failure message will be inserted (before | after)
minimum_overflow: the excess width the picture must have before panoramic viewer kicks in (number)
start_position: the start position of the panorama (number from 0 to 1)

Block (Gutenberg editor)

Include your favourite panoramic images in posts and pages using the built-in block functionality.

If you are using the Gutenberg editor (WordPress >= 5.0), you find the Panorama block ready to be embedded in your post.
Search for “Panorama” within the blocks list, select it and choose the image you want to include.
You can customize the appearance and behaviour of each panoramic viewer thanks to the Inspector Control.

Block features

Embed your panoramic/wide images in the new editor with no hassle.
Preview your panorama within the editor.
Customize the appearance and behaviour of each panoramic viewer thanks to the Inspector Control.
Transform “Image” blocks into “Panorama” blocks with one click.
Transform “Panorama” blocks into “Image” blocks with one click.
Transform previous inserted [easy_panorama] shortcodes into “Panorama” blocks with one click.

Requirements

Easy Panorama requires:

WordPress >= 4.5 (Required for TinyMCE shortcode)
WordPress >= 5.0 (Required for the new custom Panorama Block feature)
PHP >= 5.6
Node >= 8.9.X (Required for Block development)
Yarn (Required for Block development)

Contribution

There are many ways to contribute to this plugin:

Report a bug, submit pull request or new feature proposal: visit the Github repo.
Translate it in your language: visit the WordPress translation page.
Rate it 5 stars on WordPress.org.
Buy me a beer!

Support

Need help? Read the FAQ or visit the WordPress.org support page / Github Issue Tracker.

Installation

Download the plugin from WordPress repository.
Upload the plugin folder in /plugins/.
Activate the plugin.

Done! Now you can embed panoramic pictures into WordPress editor clicking on the “Add panorama” button. Choose the image and insert into the post/page: this will be rendered as panorama image.
If you are using the Gutenberg editor (WordPress >= 5.0), you will find the Panorama Block within the blocks list.
Visit the new admin page (Settings > Easy Panorama) to customize Paver scripts behaviour.

Screenshots

How to embed a Panorama using [easy_panorama] shortcode
How to embed a Panorama using Easy Panorama Block
How to transform [easy_panorama] shortcode into block
Easy Panorama settings page

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Reviews

Excellent solution on desktop, not so much on mobile.

By Chise Hachiroku (chise86) on April 6, 2025

To begin with, this is really one of the best solution on desktop, as it allows easy viewing with mouse movement, does not affect scrolling, and still displays the picture quite nicely when JS is not available.

As a design choice, on mobile platforms the movement is controlled by gyroscope, which is also quite intuitive when user figured that out, but only when the phone is being viewed with screen mostly parallel with the ground. It works dramatically worse, flashing from left to right, when the phone is operated perpendicular to the ground, like when lying down on one side, and it is rather annoying.

I really hope to see this gets resolved, such as on mobile the gyroscope position could be saved when the JS loads and movement is based on the delta values from the initial position. I know this is quite unlikely since it is an issue derived from the underlying solution, which has not been updated for years. For the time being, I am converting panorama pictures to 360 sphere to use other solutions out there.

Ottimo plugin

By ViaggioControMano (maxonline) on August 9, 2018

Per il momento do un quattro stelle perché il plugin è ben fatto, ma la documentazione è un po' troppo da esperti. Inoltre qualche parametro configurabile direttamente dal plugin sarebbe auspicabile, come disabilitare il giroscopio. Una volta capito però fa il suo dovere egregiamente

Not for Android?

By hansjcotten on February 20, 2017

Works fine on a desktop (Chrome). SCrolling by mouse, good view with bar on the bottom to indicate where you are in the panorama. On Android (recent version 6) the scrolling is done by device orientation, this means moving/tilting the tablet or phone. And all panorama's on the page respond to the tilting, not just the one you want. So no wipe/touch support for Android alas. Perhaps acceptable on a phone, unusable as is on a tablet. Such a pity, since it is a simple but adequate panorama viewer.

Best Free Panorama Plugin

By thunfischdose on January 28, 2017

For me the best and only way to present panoramas, when you want to provide mobile support. With the fullwidth jquery workaround (see support) and the option to style any img inside a div by adding class easy-panorama (very useful with div shortcode) you are enabled to add panorama where ever you want.

Great panorama plugin

By flintsonline on November 5, 2016

Does exactly what it needs to do... a simple implementation of the excellent 'Paver' panorama script that provides a simple yet elegant way of showing big panoramas. Simple to implement and use and it just works!

Changelog

1.1.5 (23/01/2023)

Bug fix: Sanitize and escape admin input fields. Thanks to riodrwn

1.1.4 (15/12/2018)

Bug fix: Added <MediaUploadCheck> + allowedType control
Design: Moved tooltip help icon at bottom/right corner of the block

1.1.3 (05/08/2018)

Bug fix: Replaced withAPIData with withSelect

1.1.2 (03/08/2018)

Bug fix: Updated from Gutenberg wp.blocks to wp.editor
Bug fix: Updated from Gutenberg ImagePlaceholder to MediaPlaceholder

1.1.1 (02/05/2018)

Bug fix: Paver dependencies are now enqueued in the right order

1.1.0 MAJOR RELEASE (26/04/2018)

Updated Paver to 1.3.4
New feature: Gutenberg Block
New feature: [easy_panorama] accepts attributes for appearance and behaviour customization. See “Shortcode” section
Updated readme.txt
Updated plugin Overview page

1.0.2 (06/05/2017)

Bug fix: HTML error in “Add Panorama” button + changed HTML from <span> to <button>. Thanks to icehouze

1.0.1 (08/10/2016)

Updated Paver to 1.3.2
Bug fix: startPosition value is sanitized correctly: from absint to float
Updated readme.txt
Updated plugin Overview page

1.0.0 (09/09/2016)

First commit