ACF Masonry Left to right ordered Gallery in Oxygen Builder /w Colcade

Would you like to use ACF masonry gallery with left to right flow of images? Good, let's do that! But at first, why not to use standard Gallery module in Oxygen Builder?

The problem with Oxygen Masonry gallery

The main problem is ordering of images. Standard masonry layout is made by Flexbox columns. So Your image flow is in the columns where images are loaded beneath themselves.

Standard Oxygen Gallery

Today I will show you how to use external JS library called Colcade for creation of ACF Masonry gallery which will enable creation of masonry grids.

Colcade Masonry Grid

1. Import Colcade script

I am using Advanced Scripts for it. You can grab the CDN link on Colcade Site on GitHub I am using this one:

https://unpkg.com/colcade@0/colcade.js

2. Create the gallery in Oxygen

Create custom ACF gallery in Oxygen Builder's code block.

<div class="colcade-grid">
<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--1"></div>
<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--2"></div>
<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--3"></div>
<!--
If you want more columns - uncomment or add them here 

<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--4"></div>
<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--5"></div>
<div class="colcade-col colcade-col--6"></div>
-->

<?php 
$images = get_field('your-acf-gallery-slug');
if( $images ): ?>
        <?php foreach( $images as $image ): ?>
            <div class="colcade-item">
                <a href="<?php echo esc_url($image['url']); ?>">
                     <img src="<?php echo esc_url($image['url']); ?>" alt="<?php echo esc_attr($image['alt']); ?>" />
                </a>
                <p><?php echo esc_html($image['caption']); ?></p>
            </div>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

3. Add Colcade settings

Open JavaScript section of Code block and add settings:

window.onload = function(){
  var colc = new Colcade( '.colcade-grid', {
  columns: '.colcade-col',
  items: '.colcade-item'
});
}

#TIP: You can create the config script in Advanced scripts and insert it to the page as a shortcode.

4. Add Colcade CSS

/* with flexbox */
.colcade-grid {
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: flex;
  gap: 20px;
}

.colcade-col {
  -webkit-box-flex: 1;
  -webkit-flex-grow: 1;
  -ms-flex-positive: 1;
  flex-grow: 1;
}

.colcade-item {
	line-height: 0px;
}

/* 2 columns by default, hide columns 2 & 3 */
.colcade-col--2, .colcade-col--3 { display: none }

/* 3 columns at medium size */
@media ( min-width: 768px ) {
  .colcade-col--2 { display: block;} /* show column 2 */
}

/* 4 columns at large size */
@media ( min-width: 1080px ) {
  .colcade-col--3 { display: block; } /* show column 3 */
}

.colcade-grid img {
	width:100%;
	height:100%;
	object-fit:cover;
}

5. Test it!

You can see it in action here: https://www.great-tit.com/colcade-grid/. I am currently experiencing some bugs with mobile responsiveness. Script do not realize that columns are hidden and only display images from first column. After resizing window to all columns and back to the mobile version, it loads all images. I will update article ASAP as I find solution. If you have any ideas, let me know in comments.