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title: "Albums"
date: 2026-09-06
author: "nK"
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# Albums

Pro FeatureThis is a part of the **Visual Portfolio Pro** plugin.  
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An album is a gallery item that opens a set of images in the lightbox instead of one picture. The item shows a stacked-images icon and, optionally, the number of images.

## Create an album

SourceHow**Posts**Set the project’s Format to **Gallery** and pick **Album Images** in the sidebar. Without Album Images, the images attached to the post are used, up to 50**Media**Open the image’s Media Settings, set Format to **Gallery**, pick **Album Images****Taxonomies**Automatic: each term’s album is made of the album images (or featured images) of its posts, newest first, up to 50, cached for an hour## Show albums

- Click Action **Popup**. In **Media Object Priority**, **Album** is placed before Image by default, so an album item opens its album; move it to change that. See [Click Action](https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/items-click-action/).
- [Skin](https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/skin/) → Overlay → **Display Gallery Icon** (on by default) shows the icon; **Display Images Count** in the Elements section shows “12 Images”.
- Advanced click action can target the **Gallery** format.

## Lightbox behaviour

[Settings → Popup & Lightbox](https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/settings/popup-gallery/) → Albums:

SettingDefaultEffect**Isolated Album Popup**onThe lightbox holds only that album’s images. Off: all gallery items and all album images in one sequence**Album Lazy Load Threshold**20Images rendered with the page; more are fetched from the REST API when the album opens, 50 at a timeTitles and descriptions of album images follow the block’s Title Source and Description Source. Deep links (Pro) address album images as `pid=3-album-2`. Watermarked copies are served when the block has Add Watermarks to Photos on (see [Watermarks](https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/settings/watermarks/)). A Custom Popup Image is ignored for album items.

## Limits

- 50 images per automatic album (attached images, taxonomy albums); Album Images picked by hand have no limit.
- The REST route that serves the remaining images is public and serves published posts only; if REST is blocked for visitors, only the first images of an album open.