Envira Gallery Fullscreen Addon

Description

The Fullscreen addon expands Envira Gallery galleries with a fullscreen display mode, opening images in a lightbox layer that occupies the entire browser viewport. Designed for photographers, creative portfolios, and editorial sites, it allows each photo to be showcased with maximum emphasis, maintaining thumbnail navigation and slideshow controls within the fullscreen experience.

Main Features

• Native fullscreen mode
  Enables fullscreen display directly from the gallery’s lightbox, occupying the entire browser screen.
• Integrated trigger button
  Adds an expand icon to the lightbox controls for visitors to toggle between standard and fullscreen mode.
• Keyboard navigation
  Supports arrow keys and the ESC key to advance, go back, and exit fullscreen mode without using the mouse.
• Per-gallery configuration
  Allows enabling or disabling fullscreen mode individually for each gallery created in Envira.
• Slideshow compatibility
  Keeps autoplay, transitions, and thumbnails active during fullscreen display.

Benefits of the Fullscreen Addon

• Immersive presentation
  Places each image in full prominence, eliminating distractions from the site interface around it.
• Enhancement of visual portfolios
  Highlights the quality of photographic work by displaying photos at the largest possible size on the visitor’s screen.
• Smoother experience
  Reduces clicks and friction for the user to explore entire collections of high-resolution images.
• Quick setup per gallery
  No coding or theme adjustments needed, just check the option in the corresponding gallery editor.

Who Is It For?

• Professional photographers who need to showcase high-resolution shoots and portfolios.
• Designers, illustrators, and visual artists with galleries of work on their sites.
• Creative studios, agencies, and editorial outlets that rely on strong visual impact.

For those who work with images as the main product, the Fullscreen addon adds an immersive viewing layer to Envira Gallery without requiring technical customization. The configuration is done directly in the gallery editor, allowing the function to be activated on specific collections while keeping others with the standard lightbox, adapting the experience to the type of content presented on each page.

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