Gallery Control

Elementor Core Basic

Elementor gallery control displays a media select area based on WordPress Galleries. The control allows to select multiple images from the WordPress Media Library.

The control is defined in Control_Gallery class which extends Base_Data_Control class.

When using this control, the type should be set to \Elementor\Controls_Manager::GALLERY constant.

Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Description
type	string	gallery	The type of the control.
label	string		The label that appears above of the field.
description	string		The description that appears below the field.
show_label	bool	true	Whether to display the label.
label_block	bool	true	Whether to display the label in a separate line.
separator	string	default	Set the position of the control separator. Available values are default, before and after. default will hide the separator, unless the control type has specific separator settings. before / after will position the separator before/after the control.
default	array		Default gallery images. An array of images containing the image ID and URL.

Return Value

[
	[
		'id' => 0,
		'url' => ''
	],
	[
		'id' => 0,
		'url' => ''
	],
]

(array) An array of single image arrays, containing the ID and URL of each image:

• $id (int) Media id.
• $url (string) Media url.

Usage

<?php
class Elementor_Test_Widget extends \Elementor\Widget_Base {

	protected function register_controls(): void {

		$this->start_controls_section(
			'content_section',
			[
				'label' => esc_html__( 'Content', 'textdomain' ),
				'tab' => \Elementor\Controls_Manager::TAB_CONTENT,
			]
		);

		$this->add_control(
			'gallery',
			[
				'label' => esc_html__( 'Add Images', 'textdomain' ),
				'type' => \Elementor\Controls_Manager::GALLERY,
				'show_label' => false,
				'default' => [],
			]
		);

		$this->end_controls_section();

	}

	protected function render(): void {
		$settings = $this->get_settings_for_display();
		foreach ( $settings['gallery'] as $image ) {
			echo '<img src="' . esc_attr( $image['url'] ) . '">';
		}
	}

	protected function content_template(): void {
		?>
		<# _.each( settings.gallery, function( image ) { #>
			<img src="{{ image.url }}">
		<# }); #>
		<?php
	}

}