zallery

Gallery theme for zola

Author: Morgan Creekmore

This theme requires Zola version 0.19.0 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/gamingrobot/zallery

Live Demo: https://gamingrobot.github.io/zallery-demo

Last updated: 2025-07-14T19:59:26-05:00

Zallery theme for Zola

Gallery and portfolio theme for Zola.

Demo Site: gamingrobot.github.io/zallery-demo
Personal Portfolio: gamingrobot.art

Screenshots

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Features

Installation

Clone the theme into the themes folder:

git clone https://github.com/gamingrobot/zallery.git themes/zallery

Note: It is recommended that you copy the config.toml from the themes/zallery folder to the root folder of your site.

Then set your theme setting in config.toml to zallery:

theme = "zallery"

Customization

To customize the theme's colors you will need to copy the _variables.scss into your sites sass folder and create a zallery.scss file with:

@import 'variables';
@import '../themes/zallery/sass/imports';

See the demo site for an example: github.com/gamingrobot/zallery-demo/tree/master/sass

Options

Customize the header navigation links

[extra]
menu = [
    {url = "atom.xml", name = "Feed"},
    {url = "https://github.com/gamingrobot/zallery", name = "Github"},
]

Browser Bar Theme Color

Customize color to set the browser's url bar on mobile

[extra]
theme_color = "#313131"

Author Url

Url used for the name in the copyright

[extra]
author_url = "https://example.com"

Cover Image

Cover image to use on the main gallery pages for opengraph and twitter embeds

[extra]
cover_image = "img/cover.webp"

To hide the copyright set this to true

[extra]
hide_copyright = false

To hide the "Powered by Zola & Zallery" set this to true

[extra]
hide_poweredby = false

Settings for the gallery view's thumbnails

[extra]
thumbnail_size = 400 # size in pixels, you may need to adjust the media queries in _gallery.scss
thumbnail_format = "webp" # auto, jpg, png, webp
thumbnail_quality = 100 # value in percentage, only for webp and jpg

img shortcode settings

Settings for the img shortcode, allowing for automatic conversion and creating mobile friendly images

[extra]
covert_images = false # set to true to convert images to to the format in the image_format setting
create_mobile_images = false # set to true to create mobile friendly versions of the image
image_format = "webp" # auto, jpg, png, webp
image_quality = 90 # value in percentage, only for webp and jpg

Frontmatter settings

These settings are for the frontmatter on each artwork

[extra]
thumbnail = "image.jpg" # image to resize into a thumbnail and cover image
modelviewer = true # enable modelviewer javascript for this artwork

Javascript libraries

ModelViewer

Set to true to enable modelviewer support. This can also be set in the artwork frontmatter or in config.toml

[extra]
modelviewer = true

JSZoom

Set to true to enable javascript zoom support.

[extra]
jszoom = true

GoatCounter

Set to the goatcounter tag to enable goatcounter support

[extra]
goatcounter = ""

Shortcodes

img

{{ img(src="image.jpg", mobile_src="image-mobile.jpg", alt="alt text", text="text", fit="") }}

video

{{ video(src="image.jpg", autoplay=false) }}

youtube / vimeo

{{ youtube(id="", autoplay=false) }}
{{ vimeo(id="", autoplay=false) }}

model

Note: Requires modelviewer to be enabled in config.toml

{{ model(src="image.jpg", skybox="", poster="") }}

sketchfab

{{ sketchfab(id="") }}