Zoomable for Wordpress

Display your large photos with interactive zooming and panning easily on WordPress.

Make your images zoomable on WordPress

Photo by Lucas Benjamin on Unsplash

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December 2021: Added macOS support to the Desktop Tool. See Video below for details.

Tip: You could upload your image to our site and embed it to your wordpress site. Check out our guide for details.

Upload your image, add a shortcode and you are done!

With our WordPress plugin, you can make your images zoomable by using the following shortcode:
Single page viewer:
[zoomable id=46]
Multipage viewer:
[zoomable id=46,48,50]

Example:

You can also adjust the width and the height of the viewer:
[zoomable id=46 width=336 height=280]

The id is the attachment id which is shown when you open the file in the media tab.

Screenshot courtesy of Gigapress.

See it in action in this video:

Large images support

Large images can take a while to load on the browser. To improve the loading time, they need to be converted into tiles (think Google Maps but for your images). Included with the plugin, we have a desktop tool (Windows and macOS) that creates the tiles, and have them in one zip file for easy upload back to your Wordpress site. Our plugin will take care the rest.
Supported image format: JPG, TIF, ZIF (Zoomify Image Format)

See it in action in this video:

Instructions (Zip File Creator for Windows)
  1. After purchasing our plugin, download and open the zip file.
  2. Copy the zoomable folder to the desktop.
  3. Place your images into the input folder.
  4. Double click create_files to create the tiles.
  5. Once completed, the zip files are in the output folder.
  6. Upload the zip files to your WordPress site.

Works on macOS too!

Instructions (Zip File Creator for macOS)
  1. After purchasing our plugin, download and open the dmg file.
  2. Copy the zoomable folder to the desktop.
  3. Place your images into the input folder.
  4. Double click zoomable to create the tiles.
    Note: When opening the zoomable program for the first time, you might get a prompt that says "This is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" (see screenshot below). If so, click "Open" to continue.
    Screenshot
  5. Once completed, the zip files are in the output folder.
  6. Upload the zip files to your WordPress site.

Requirements

  • A WordPress site that allows you to install a custom plugin. If you are using WordPress.com, make sure you are using Business or eCommerce plan.
  • Make sure PHP Zip Extension is installed on the hosting servers. Many web hosting providers such as WordPress.com and HostGator have it installed already.
    You can install a WordPress plugin called PHP Info to see if the extension is installed on your site. Once installed, click on PHP Info (WP) link in the admin menu, and find an entry that says zip, as shown in the screenshot. If you see it, that means you have the extension.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Does the desktop tool (Zip File Creator) work on macOS?
    Yes, from the latest version (Monterey) all the way back to High Sierra (version 10.13.6). It also works with Intel processors and Apple silicon (M1). The desktop tool has been signed and notarized. To see it in action, check out our demo video above or the screenshot below.
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