Essential Grid Premium Grid Design WordPress Plugin

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Essential Grid is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to create beautiful galleries of images, videos, and audio. It supports multiple sources, including the built-in gallery feature of WordPress, posts, and pages, as well as albums created by other plugins like NextGen Gallery. Additionally, you can connect large social media feeds like Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, and Flickr, or create a fully custom gallery grid.

The template library of Essential Grid offers a rich variety of example grids that perform excellently on mobile devices and are easy to configure and fill with your content. Whether you are a designer, photographer, or content creator, Essential Grid can help you achieve professional-level gallery effects quickly.

This plugin features high customizability, allowing you to tweak grid layouts, animation effects, colors, fonts, and other details to meet your design needs. Moreover, Essential Grid supports responsive design, ensuring your galleries display perfectly on various devices.

Essential Grid is continuously updated to fix known issues and optimize features, ensuring users always have the best experience. Whether for personal blogs, corporate websites, or online stores, Essential Grid adds visual appeal to your site.

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The update log for the Essential Grid plugin is as follows:

v3.1.9 (April 11, 2025)

New Features

Added option to control nonce verification in frontend AJAX calls

Added search functionality in the font icon dialog

Added global option to choose between using local date or GMT date in date functions
Bug Fixes

"Page" post type grid item selection

CSS issues

Custom grid item AJAX loading

JS optimization

lightbox media title/description

Multi-select metadata filter

"Create New Metadata" link fails to open metadata tab in global settings

PHP warnings
Changes

Removed "Debug Log" option from global settings

Updated "Font Awesome" to 6.7.2
Version 3.1.8 (February 18, 2025)
Changes

Updated Extended Search to search taxonomies for all post types
Fixes

Load balancer uses incorrect option to store server

Template popup height

CSS load order

WordPress dashboard activity thumbnails

Compressed resources break inline styles
v3.1.7 (February 1, 2025)

New Features

Added Elementor widget

Added "Wait for Viewport" option in "Grid Settings > Smart Load" section to control whether Essential Grid should wait for viewport initialization
Changes

Updated tp-tools library

Updated Twitter to X.com in lightbox share popup
Bug Fixes

Widget rendering

jQuery.fn.scroll() event shorthand deprecated

Load more token issues

WPBakery compatibility

WooCommerce products displaying empty prices instead of "Out of Stock" status

Elementor page preloader breaking grid lightbox
v3.1.6 (January 16, 2025)

Changes

- Updated tp-tools library

- Updated code to follow WordPress coding standards

- YouTube thumbnails follow image source type settings
Bug Fixes

- User-controlled plugin "Auto Updates" feature

- Custom metadata filters for pages

- Standardized links for grid items

- Grid item images not using title attribute

- Titles not displayed in lightbox when watermark plugin is enabled

- Current menu not closing when opening filter dropdown on mobile

- Content-based lightbox grouping

- "Start Sorting By" feature not functioning

- "Load More" loading incorrect number of items

- Cover links in grid skin tab

- Slider Revolution not usable in lightbox

- Custom post type "Exclude from Search" not loading via Ajax
Version 3.1.5 (August 9, 2024)
Changes

Updated tp-tools library

YouTube thumbnails respect image source type settings

BUGFIX Fixes

Cyrillic text in skin layer

Youtube thumbnail images for custom grids

Calling member function get_cart_contents_count() on null

ESG does not load Slider Revolution using SR6 engine

Image loading error for relative URLs

Unable to disable custom post types

Deprecated PHP errors

Code cleanup

Recent posts grid
v3.1.4 (July 10, 2024)

Changes

Updated tp tools library

Changed tp tools library slug for compatibility
Bug Fixes

Lightbox wheel parameter escaping

Close button on lightbox article content
Version 3.1.3 (July 3, 2024)

New Features

Added global option to control cross-origin image attributes for grid-loaded images

Added global option on overview page to control other grid info (ID/handle)

Added option to (un)select all filters in the filter group

Added option to control missing taxonomy creation during post-based grid import

Added 'Close' button for missing plugin popup
Changes

Updated mobile detection library

Improved PHP code

Updated wp_remote_ to wp_safe_remote_ calls

Added copy shortcode button for editing grid pages

Updated tptools lib to 6.7.11

Updated grid overview search to support searching by alias/ID
Bug Fixes

Filtered page title

Loaded post content into lightbox

Styles for website editor iframe

Gutenberg blocks

Javascript errors

CSS errors

Multi-select meta not populating values for custom grids

Shortcode filter not using single or multiple filter type classes

WPML filters

Resized grid animation

Custom filter editing issues