With over 21 points of comparison, you’ll be able to make an informed decision on which theme is best suited for your website.
What is Nexter?
There are hundreds of pre-designed templates that you can choose from to easily build and launch your site. When it comes to performance, Nexter is incredibly fast. The theme’s core files are less than 20 KB, allowing load times of less than 0.5 seconds.
Nexter is also compatible with all major page builders, including Gutenberg, Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Brizy.
What is Astra?
Astra offers a wide range of pre-designed templates and layout options, making it easy to customize the appearance of your website. It is also optimized for speed and performance, ensuring fast loading times and a smooth user experience.
Comparison Table Between Nexter vs Astra: 21+ Feature Comparisons
Why We Recommend Using Nexter Theme?
Make your WordPress image gallery more user-friendly and organised by adding a category filter. With a category filter, visitors can easily browse through specific image categories, making it easy to find the images they're looking for.
With the Media Listing block from The Plus Blocks for Gutenberg, you can easily create a WordPress image gallery with a category filter.
To check the complete feature overview documentation of The Plus Blocks for Gutenberg Media Listing block, click here.
Requirement - This block is a part of The Plus Blocks for Gutenberg, make sure its installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.
To do this, add the Media Listing block on the page, select Images from the Type dropdown, then select the appropriate listing style and layout from the Layout tab, go to the Content tab, and choose Repeater from the Select Option dropdown.
Note: The Category option is only available for Repeater.
Make sure you’ve added and assigned categories to your images while adding content to each repeater item.
Then go to the Filters tab, and turn on the Category Wise Filter toggle.
Note: Category filter is not available for the Carousel layout.
Now you’ll see filter options in your image gallery that you can use to filter images by category.
Note: Similarly, you can add a category filter to a video gallery by selecting Videos from the Type dropdown.
You can edit the ‘All’ filter label from the All Category Text field.
From the Filter Style and Filter Hover Style, you can choose different styles for the category filter labels for normal and hover states.
From the Filter Alignment section, you can align the filter label.
Also, check How to Create a Video Carousel in WordPress.
