Responsive Filterable Portfolio Gallery – Media Grid & Video Portfolio

by Nks

Description

Need a clean, professional way to showcase your work without slowing down your website or writing a single line of code?

Responsive Filterable Portfolio lets you create stunning, mobile-friendly media grids that your visitors can filter by category instantly. Whether you want to showcase photography, client case studies, design concepts, or video showreels, this plugin handles it automatically.

Simply add your images, YouTube videos, Dailymotion videos, or custom links, assign your tags, and watch your portfolio build itself with ultra-smooth filtering transitions and a built-in responsive lightbox popup.

It works flawlessly out of the box with any WordPress theme via a simple shortcode or our dedicated, lightweight Gutenberg block.

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Why WordPress Creators Love It

Instant One-Click Tag Filtering — Seamless category filtering without frustrating page reloads.
Mixed Media Freedom — Blend images, YouTube/Dailymotion videos, and external clickable links inside a single cohesive grid.
Smart Video Thumbnail Fetching — Simply paste a video URL; the plugin automatically pulls the thumbnail, title, and description for you.
Optimized Responsive Lightbox — Media opens in an elegant, modern popup modal that scales flawlessly from large 4K monitors down to mobile screens.
100% No-Code Customization — Tweak thumbnail heights, widths, spacing, and background colors straight from your dashboard settings.
Blazing-Fast WebP Support — Fully compatible with lightweight, next-gen image formats to keep your Core Web Vitals score high.
Native Gutenberg Block Included — Drag, drop, and configure your portfolio visually right within the block editor.

Perfect For:

Photographers, UX/UI Designers, Creative Agencies, Freelancers, Videographers, Architects, and Web Developers who need a beautiful gallery that “just works.”

Free vs Pro Comparison

Portfolio Grids – Free version includes 1 grid. Pro version unlocks UNLIMITED separate grids for different pages.
Layout Styles – Free version includes standard grid layout. Pro version adds beautiful Masonry & Justified layout styles.
Media Sources – Free version supports Images, YouTube, and Dailymotion. Pro version adds Vimeo, Metacafe, and self-hosted HTML5 video.
Image Uploading – Free version requires single image uploading. Pro version introduces Mass Image Bulk Uploading to save you time.
Sorting Controls – Free version has basic sorting. Pro version features an advanced drag-and-drop Mass Order Update UI.
Pagination Controls – Free version displays all items at once. Pro version includes pagination controls for large, heavy portfolios.
Lightbox Extensions – Free version uses a standard lightbox. Pro version adds media descriptions and custom thumbnail captions right inside the popup.
Click Behavior – Free version opens items in a lightbox only. Pro version lets you choose between opening in a lightbox OR redirecting directly to a custom link.
Multisite Support – Free version is for single-site use. Pro version includes full WordPress Multisite compatibility.
Support & Ads – Free version relies on community forums. Pro version offers priority developer support and is 100% ad-free.

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Usage

Add Media: Go to Responsive Portfolio > Manage Media to add your images, links, or videos. Don’t forget to add tags for your filter categories!
Style It: Tweak your grid alignment, thumbnail sizes, margins, and colors in Portfolio Settings.
Display It: * Gutenberg Editor: Search for the “Responsive Filterable Portfolio” block and add it to your page.
- Shortcode: Paste [print_responsive_portfolio_plus_lightbox] into any page, post, or widget area.
- PHP Template: Use <?php echo do_shortcode('[print_responsive_portfolio_plus_lightbox]'); ?> directly in your theme files.

License

This plugin is free and open-source software, released under the GPLv2 or later license. You are fully welcome to use it on personal, freelance, or commercial client websites free of charge.

Installation

From your WordPress Dashboard

Go to Plugins > Add New and search for Responsive Filterable Portfolio.
Click Install Now and then Activate.
Navigate to the new Responsive Portfolio menu item in your sidebar to start adding media.

Manual Installation

Download the plugin zip file and extract the responsive-filterable-portfolio folder.
Upload the folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory via FTP.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in your WordPress dashboard.

Screenshots

Portfolio Settings – Easily change thumbnail dimensions and grid colors.
Manage Portfolio Media – Quick dashboard interface to add text, links, and tags.
Portfolio Add Media – Seamless panel to upload images or paste video URLs.
Live Portfolio Preview – Test your layout directly inside the backend.
Lightbox View – Beautiful, mobile-responsive popup layout for videos and images.
Responsive View – Perfect scaling on tablets, laptops, and smartphones.
Front-End Display – Elegant, clean look your website visitors will see.
PRO Feature – Unlimited portfolio management dashboard.
PRO Feature – Advanced bulk media sorting UI.
PRO Feature – Pagination and custom caption configurations.
PRO Feature – Stunning Justified structural grid layout.
PRO Feature – Seamless Masonry layout style for multi-sized media assets.

Faq

How do I display the portfolio grid on my website?

You can easily add it using the custom Gutenberg block named “Responsive Filterable Portfolio” inside your editor. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the shortcode [print_responsive_portfolio_plus_lightbox] into any page, post, or widget text area.

What media types are supported in the free version?

The free version fully supports local Images, YouTube videos, Dailymotion videos, and custom redirect links. If you need support for Vimeo, Metacafe, or self-hosted HTML5 video files, please upgrade to the Pro version.

Can I create multiple distinct portfolio galleries for different pages?

The free version allows you to create and display one primary portfolio grid across your site. To build unlimited, independent portfolio grids with different items and tags on different pages, you will need the Pro version.

Why isn’t my YouTube video fetching a thumbnail?

Please ensure you paste the full youtube.com/watch?v=... URL format rather than the shortened youtu.be/... link. Once pasted, click the info-fetching button to pull the thumbnail and metadata automatically.

How do I customize the appearance of the layout?

Head over to the Portfolio Settings page in your admin menu. From there, you can completely customize thumbnail heights, widths, grid item spacing, and container background colors without needing to write CSS rules.

Reviews

Excellent plugin

By torres182 on April 10, 2021

I spent a long time looking for a plugin that will do the following: Quick and easy to add videos. Tag filtering, which a lot of plugins do not include unfortunately. Auto pulls image and info from sites like Youtube/Vimeo (hopefully they will add Rumble.com too). Supports self-hosted and other video sites. Great price! Torres

Regretful experience

By xoj on April 1, 2021

No support for Pro edition. Advertised features don't work beyond one page in the pagination. Editing is tedious for large size portfolios, yet no possibility to duplicate a completed portfolio if you need some minor changes. Regretful experience and waisted money

best plugin in this category

By SoulSearcher (alios24) on March 6, 2020

really great work

Great plugin with great support

By (thoms005) on February 6, 2020

The plugin is very easy to setup and use. It is filterable and allows both images and video and it is hard to find a plugin that does both. I bought the Pro version to show Vimeo videos and it works great for such a low cost. I contacted Nik with a small z-index issue with my theme and a feature request. He responded right away with a fix to the issue. He also added the new feature in a couple of days! He has been super responsive on email and answered all my questions. I highly recommend this plugin.

Simple and Nice

By sandilyan515 on July 20, 2019

Simple and Nice, user friendly

Great plugin, Excellent support

By itandgeneral on July 6, 2019

Plugin is powerful and easy to use. Nik was able to quickly address an issue with the pro version showing that it needed an upgrade when using wp-cli. Thanks Nik. Excellent support!

Simple but great!

By johncarteroz on June 4, 2019

Awesome plugin to display a library of youtube videos with the abilit yto filter on TAG! So simple but so hard to find!!! I notice someone also suggested it would be good to be able to change the sorting of the tags, perhaps a popularity sort? I would prefer that since as you get many videos and many tags, the obscure tags would drop off to the end of the tags 🙂 Also, a multiple selecting of tags... would be super nice... why? well, as the video library grows in my case, visitors could select on a year, month and or speaker name as I drop all these things into tags. Finally, 1 last suggestion and the only reason why I looked at another plugin is the ability to add a description (not just a title) and author :)... If you do all these then I would need to buy the pro version!!!!

no support.

By asamadu on January 13, 2019

It takes forever to respond on support section. deactivating the plugin. 🙁

perfect one

By Anonymous User 7823331 (anonymized_7823331) on November 8, 2018

nice, easy, perfect

Nope

By pavveu on October 11, 2018

Reading all "support" for double tags, found only :spacing problem: - no solution - problem still exist :/ Not for me

Changelog

1.0.28

Improve security on save files (Images etc)

1.0.27

Added a friendly, dismissible review request prompt on the plugin admin pages.
Added Pro feature previews in the admin UI so you can see what Pro unlocks.
Cleaned up the admin side panel.

1.0.26

Added a native Gutenberg block — add your portfolio from the block editor, no shortcode needed.
Added an icon to the admin menu.
Replaced third-party ads in the admin side panel with Pro version information.
Fixed an upgrade link that was not displaying.