VertiFeed – Vertical Media Gallery

Description

VertiFeed adds two Gutenberg blocks for creating vertical swipe video galleries on your WordPress site.

VertiFeed Gallery — A container block that displays videos as a responsive gallery grid of poster thumbnails. Clicking a thumbnail opens a fullscreen overlay with a vertical swipe video player.

VertiFeed Video — A child block for adding individual videos from the Media Library.

Features

  • Responsive gallery grid of poster thumbnails (no autoplay on the page)
  • Fullscreen overlay player opens on click, starting at the chosen video
  • Vertical swipe, scroll, and keyboard navigation; close with Esc or the X button
  • Self-hosted videos from the WordPress Media Library
  • Muted autoplay inside the overlay with tap-to-play/pause
  • Optional captions overlay per video
  • Configurable columns, gap, aspect ratio, loop, progress bar, and mute toggle
  • Built with the WordPress Interactivity API and block.json

Development

Source code and build tools are in the public repository:
https://github.com/loopcreators/vertifeed

This plugin is built with @wordpress/scripts. To regenerate the compiled files in build/:

  1. Install dependencies: yarn install
  2. Build assets: yarn run build

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Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • VertiFeed Gallery Display videos as a gallery grid; open a fullscreen vertical swipe player on click.
  • VertiFeed Video A single video from the Media Library.

Installation

  1. Upload the vertifeed folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Insert a VertiFeed Gallery block in the block editor
  4. Add VertiFeed Video blocks inside and select videos from the Media Library

FAQ-e

What video formats are supported?

Any format supported by the WordPress Media Library and the visitor’s browser (typically MP4 and WebM).

Can I use YouTube or Vimeo videos?

Not in v1. VertiFeed currently supports self-hosted Media Library videos only.

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Contributors & Developers

“VertiFeed – Vertical Media Gallery” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.0.1

  • Updated VertiFeed branding across plugin assets, block icons, and overlay mark.
  • Renamed plugin display name to VertiFeed – Vertical Media Gallery.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
  • Gallery grid of poster thumbnails with fullscreen overlay player.
  • Video child block for Media Library videos.
  • Columns, gap, tile aspect ratio, and player controls.
  • Multi-select videos from the Media Library.