“How can I display my WordPress archives in a grid format?” That’s a question I see asked over and over in various forums. Usually, our first impulse is to start scoping the WordPress plugin repository for a ready-made solution. We may even get lucky and actually find a plugin to help us get the job done. Here are a few examples I found on a quick search…
Grid Archives
Featured Posts Grid
Category Grid View Gallery
Post Tiles
… and probably more still
After you’ve seen enough WordPress blogs, you might start to think that they all look alike with similar displays of posts, categories, and archives.
Want to do something a little more creative with your content? Check out the Category Grid View Gallery plugin. It offers you a visual way to display categories on your WordPress site. The plugin generates a grid view of the categories by grabbing the first images from posts within those categories.
Here’s a screenshot of Category Grid View Gallery in action, taken from the live demo:
Highly configurable shortcode makes it easy to customize the gallery display
