Enhancing Drupal Image Galleries with Gridstack for a More Immersive UX

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Drupal developer Gilles Bailleux explains how the Gridstack module can be used to create more immersive, gap-free image galleries in Drupal. Drawing on museum website projects, he outlines why Gridstack was chosen over PhotoSwipe and how its masonry-style layout handles images of varying sizes without leaving visual gaps.

Bailleux describes how Gridstack works with Drupal core’s Layout Builder alongside modules such as Blazy and Colorbox, and why he opted for a custom image field to ensure image titles and alternative text are included in XML sitemaps. The setup was implemented on a Drupal 11 site and is aimed at content-heavy environments where visual consistency, accessibility, and SEO matter.

Read the full technical walkthrough at www.linkedin.com .

Reference: Creating an immersive user experience image gallery with Drupal's Gridstack module by Gilles Bailleux (2 February 2026)

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