I’ve added the option of vertical item spacing in the Columns layout today, staged for the next free update. This was working in the Masonry layout, if you needed vertical spacing already.
Both Columns and Masonry layouts (at this point in time) are almost nearly identical. But when web browsers start supporting the new level 3 CSS grid specification next year, you’ll begin to see a noticeable difference in the direction that thumbnail images are displayed in, between Column and Masonry layouts. If you compare the result in Firefox Nightly right now, you’ll see what I mean.
For that reason, this is why both layouts exist, even though they appear at first glance to do the same thing. It’s all work towards future-proofing ProGallery and adding progressive enhancements.
The choice of settings in the Regimented Grid layout has been expanded to this, which will be available in the next update:
So you’ll be able to define up to 4 custom breakpoints (normally mobile, tablet, large tablet and computer). Then control the thumbnail image widths, heights and spacing (gaps) at those 4 breakpoints.
As before, you’ll note that I don’t force you into using pixels for these units of measurement. Because this is a “professional grade” level stack, you have the freedom to use your own units of measurement in the boxes - like rem, em, px, %, vw, vh - whatever you are most happy using. Plus advanced things like calc, or min, max and clamp if you need to do really advanced things with the sizing.
This particular thumbnail layout was added by request of a few users to replace the similar controls in the obsolete Nick Cates Photo stack. It’s called “regimented” , because it lets you strictly lock thumbnail images to a particular aspect ratio. Good to use if your images are different sizes / shapes and you don’t care if they are cropped a bit to fit.
You might want to keep this forum post up, in case you or anybody else has further feature requests for the next update. I can confirm that there are already at least 2 new thumbnail layouts going into the next update, plus a few other minor additions on the todo-list.
