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INTRODUCING

Scrolling Gallery

A scrolling image gallery for Elementor that moves sideways as the page scrolls — portfolios, products and photo sets.

Sky Addons for Elementor

Scrolling Gallery

Rows of images that drift as the page scrolls, and can be dragged either way. Everything below is a working surface built with it — a studio wall, a reading list, a project page, a lookbook, a team page, a field guide, an agency strip and a menu.

Aperture Studio

Selected Work

Portraiture and editorial, shot in studio and on location. Drag a row to browse it, or keep scrolling and let it move.

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Paper & Thread

A shelf that
with the page

The spring list, cover out. Three shelves, each one browsable on its own — grab a shelf and pull, or let the page carry it.

Nordwell Interiors

Ashgrove House

A 1930s semi opened up at the back and re-lined in warm, quiet materials. The rail beside this column runs the full set of rooms — pull it either way to move through the house.

Year
2025

Location
Hillside, north slope

Materials
Oak, lime plaster, brushed steel

Season 04

Lookbook

New in:

Two rails, running against each other. Shoes up top, the ready-to-wear below — drag either one on its own.

The Studio

One long table, a shared kitchen, and a policy of answering the phone.

Everyone who works here, in no particular order. Three rows, moving at their own pace.

Field Notes

Everywhere we went last year

The photograph behind this band sits deeper than the page and drifts as you pass it. Hover any frame for where it was taken.

Currently taking work

We build the thing, then we keep it running.

A small studio for brand, web and the awkward bit in between. The strip along the bottom is the studio itself — that is where the work happens.

Brand

Naming, identity, and the rules that keep it steady after we leave.

Web

Design and build, shipped in weeks rather than quarters.

Care

A retainer that covers the small changes nobody budgets for.

Table Nine

What is on this week

The kitchen writes the menu on the morning it is cooked, so this changes. Two rows of plates, drifting past — drag one back if something goes by too fast.

Lunch  12–3, Tuesday to Sunday
Dinner  6–10, Thursday to Saturday

FAQ
Frequently asked

Scrolling 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 drift sideways as the page scrolls?

Yes — the Scrolling Gallery widget in Sky Addons for Elementor is built for exactly that. Neighbouring rows start offset 300 pixels in opposite directions and glide to rest as the section crosses the viewport, scrubbed to scroll position, so the movement follows the visitor rather than a timer.

How do I split images across rows in the Scrolling Gallery?

Every item in the repeater carries a Level of 1, 2 or 3, and Sky Addons groups items by level into that many carousel rows. One item can also hold a whole gallery instead of a single picture, in which case each image becomes its own slide sharing that item’s link and caption.

Can visitors drag the Scrolling Gallery rows themselves?

Yes. Each row is also a looping carousel in free mode, with slides sized to their own content, so a flick or a drag spins it with momentum quite independently of the page scroll. Both work on the same row at once, which is what makes the effect feel alive on a long landing page.

Do Scrolling Gallery images keep their alt text and srcset?

Yes — unlike canvas-based galleries, this one outputs genuine WordPress image tags, so media-library alt text, the responsive srcset and the browser’s native lazy loading all survive. The Image Size control ships at Medium Large rather than Full, so you are not serving original uploads by accident.

Does the Scrolling Gallery need Elementor Pro?

No. It is a Sky Addons Pro widget and works on free Elementor with any theme. It leans on Swiper for the rows and GSAP with ScrollTrigger for the scroll-linked movement, all three bundled with Sky Addons and enqueued only on pages where the widget is actually placed.

Can each image show a caption on hover?

Yes — switch the tooltip on and each item’s title and text appear in a small panel that tracks the cursor, fading in over about three-quarters of a second. The panel takes its own padding, border, corner radius, shadow, background and a backdrop blur, so it can sit over busy photography.

Do the Scrolling Gallery tooltips work on phones?

No — the caption panel is bound to mouse enter, leave and move events with no touch equivalent, so it never appears on a phone or tablet. The rows themselves still scroll and still swipe. Keep anything essential in the link target or in text beside the gallery, and treat the tooltip as a desktop garnish.

Can I set a different image size on mobile?

Yes. Item Height and Item Width are both per-device sliders running from 200 to 500 pixels, and em units are available if you want the tiles to track your type scale. The gap between slides is per-device too, defaulting to 20 pixels on desktop, tablet and phone, adjustable from 0 to 100.

Is a scrolling image gallery bad for page performance?

Not inherently. The rows move using GSAP transforms rather than layout properties, and the widget flips will-change on for the animation then releases it, which is the pattern browsers optimise for. The real cost is picture count — three long rows adds up, so keep the Image Size at a registered size.

How is this different from a marquee or logo carousel?

A marquee runs at constant speed on a timer, whereas the Scrolling Gallery ties each row’s position to how far the visitor has scrolled, so it stops when they stop and reverses when they scroll back. If you want continuous autoplay instead, Sky Addons ships separate logo carousel and news ticker widgets.