Sky Addons  ·  Elementor Widget
INTRODUCING

Reveal Gallery

A reveal gallery for Elementor: images appear as the visitor hovers a list of titles — for projects, posts and products.

Selected work — 2021 / 2026

Six rooms we finished this year

Point at a line and its room appears under the cursor. Nothing loads, nothing jumps — the photograph simply follows you down the list.

How it reads

Nothing moves until

A row of names sits still until the pointer crosses it. Then one picture rides along under the cursor and leaves again the moment you go.

One picture at a time

The list stays a list. Only the row under the pointer brings its photograph with it.

Type that inverts

Names flip against whatever passes behind them, so they never disappear into a bright frame.

Your own rows, or your posts

Write the lines yourself, or let the list build itself from what you have already published.

Project 048

Hiring campaign portraits

Two days in a borrowed office, six people who had never been photographed for work before. The contact sheet is on the right.

Client
Year
Meridian & Co.
2026
Location
Frames kept
Gothenburg
6 of 214
New — spring frames

Six frames, one launch week

Run the pointer down the range. Each name brings its own frame with it, and the price sits at the end of the line where you can read it.

Hand-cut acetate

Milled in Jura, polished for nine days in a barrel of beech chips.

Six weights, one bridge

Every frame in the range shares a nose bridge, so a fitting carries across all six.

Ships 14 March

Reserve now and the pair is held for two weeks after it lands.

Meridian workshop — a bench, start to finish

Before the build, and after

Before

Nine weeks of it: a mill that still runs on belts, a floor nobody has swept since 1974, and four people who know where every clamp lives.

After

Oiled, waxed, and photographed on the same floor it was cut on. The last two frames are the ones the client kept.

Lantern Rooms · Bristol

Six nights in the back room

Doors at seven, music at eight. Run the pointer down the month and the night you are looking at appears behind it.

Doors 7pm

Support on at 7.30, headline at 8.15, out by eleven.

Tickets from £9

Advance only for the Friday nights — they go early.

Standing, 240

One room, one bar, and a step-free entrance off Colston Yard.

Marlow & Byrd · counter menu

Everything is on one board

Six things, changed when the market changes. Hover a line and the plate it turns into comes up behind the writing.

MARLOW & BYRD
Fold Athletic · Clerkenwell

This week on the floor

Six sessions, capped at fourteen people each. Point at a class to see the room it runs in before you book it.

14

The cap on every class, coaches included.

06:30

First door of the day, Monday to Friday.

Field notes — Colca, Peru

Four hours before the light was any good, and worth every one of them.

Sam Oyelaran, on the second morning of a ten-day commission.

FAQ
Frequently asked

Reveal Gallery

Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.

Still stuck?

Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.

Can I make images appear when hovering a list of titles?

Yes — that is precisely what the Reveal Gallery widget in Sky Addons for Elementor does. The page shows a stacked list of titles with a category line on each row, and moving the pointer across a row fades in that item’s picture and lets it trail the cursor. Only one image is ever on screen.

Is the Reveal Gallery a good way to show a whole photo set?

No. It shows one image at a time, tied to whichever row the pointer is on, so visitors cannot scan or compare pictures side by side. It is built for project indexes, case-study lists and post archives where the titles carry the meaning. For browsing dozens of photos, use a grid gallery instead.

Does the Reveal Gallery work on touch screens?

Partly. Sky Addons binds touchmove and touchend alongside the mouse events, so dragging a finger down the list does reveal images and move the preview with it. There is no tap-to-reveal, though — a tap simply follows that row’s link, so treat the effect as a desktop enhancement rather than the main experience.

When does the Reveal Gallery actually download its images?

Only on hover. Each row carries its image URL in a data attribute, and the script assigns it as a background image the instant the pointer enters, so nothing is fetched before that. Initial page weight stays tiny, but on a slow connection the first hover can show an empty frame while the file arrives.

Does the Reveal Gallery need Elementor Pro?

No — the Reveal Gallery is a Sky Addons Pro widget and runs on free Elementor with any theme. It uses GSAP for the easing on the preview, but Sky Addons registers and loads that library itself, only on pages where a widget needs it. You install nothing else.

Can the Reveal Gallery pull posts automatically?

Yes. Switch the content source to Dynamic Posts and every row takes the post title, its first category and the featured image at WordPress’s Large size, linking through to the post. The category label becomes clickable too, opening that category archive in a new tab. The alternative is a hand-built repeater with any image and link.

Do Reveal Gallery images carry alt text for SEO?

No — the preview is a CSS background on a single cursor element rather than an image tag, so it has no alt attribute and will not surface in image search. The titles and categories are real HTML, output in whichever heading tag you pick, so that text indexes normally. Put anything that must rank in the title.

Can I change the size of the image the Reveal Gallery shows?

Yes, and per device. The Width and Height sliders run from 20 to 1000 pixels and ship at 600 by 400 on desktop, dropping to 250 by 200 on phones; em units are available too. The preview also takes its own border and corner radius, independent of the row styling.

Can I use two Reveal Galleries on the same page?

Yes. Each widget scopes its own cursor element, row list and hover state, so two galleries on one page never fight over the preview image. Sky Addons initialises them through Elementor’s element-ready hook, which also means a gallery placed inside a tab or a popup starts working when that container opens.

Can Reveal Gallery titles change colour on hover?

Yes — titles and category chips each get a resting colour and a hover colour, plus their own typography, and rows take a full background in both states. The title also has a text-stroke group, so you can run outlined display type that fills in as the pointer passes over it.