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Circular Portals - Shape Morphing Gallery

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Add a touch of geometric elegance to your site with the Circular Portals Gallery. This widget moves away from standard rectangular thumbnails, presenting your images initially as a row of perfect circles. It is an excellent choice for showcasing team members, product details, or feature highlights where a soft, modern aesthetic is desired.

The defining feature of this widget is the Shape-Morphing Animation. Upon hovering, the active circle fluidly expands horizontally and transforms its border radius, morphing into a wide, rounded rectangle (or "pill" shape). This expansion reveals more of the image content that was previously clipped, creating a "portal" effect that invites the user to look closer. The transition is governed by a custom cubic-bezier curve, ensuring the morph feels liquid and premium.

Key Features:

  • Shape-Morphing Transition: Smoothly animates from a perfect circle to a rounded rectangle on hover.
  • Fluid Width Expansion: The active item takes up more horizontal space, compressing siblings to focus attention.
  • Geometric Aesthetic: Breaks the monotony of square grids with soft curves and circular masking.
  • Zoom Reveal: Images slightly scale down as the container expands, creating a sense of widening perspective.
  • Focus State: Inactive items dim and shrink slightly, ensuring the user's focus remains on the active "portal."
  • Touch-Friendly Mobile View: Adapts to smaller circles on mobile, maintaining the playful morphing interaction on tap.

 

How to install Circular Portals - Shape Morphing Gallery to your website

Bring this layout to life on your website in just a few clicks.

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Install on Squarespace

Edit visually using the extension or native blocks

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First, ensure you have pasted the global Redesignee connector script into your site's Code Injection settings. Once connected, you have two easy ways to build:

  1. Native Block: Simply add the native Redesignee Widget Block directly from the fluid engine editor menu inside Squarespace.

  2. Manual Markdown: Add a standard Markdown Block, paste your widget’s code snippet, and the Redesignee floating "Customize" button will automatically appear right over the block.

Both methods let you tweak settings, copy items, and design visually in real time. Saving your changes syncs the updates instantly to your live page.

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Install on WordPress

Connect natively via Gutenberg or Elementor

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Make sure you have the free Redesignee WordPress Plugin installed. If you are using Elementor, simply drag and drop the Redesignee widget from your sidebar. If you are using the Gutenberg Block Editor, click the " + " icon and select the Redesignee Block. Launch the Cloud Library directly inside your workspace, choose your customized template, and import it with a single click. It automatically inherits your theme fonts and styles!

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Install on Other CMS as Code

Quick copy-and-paste for custom setups

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If you are using Webflow, Shopify, Wix, or a custom HTML site, click the "Export Widget" button on this page and ensure the platform selector is set to"HTML". Click "Copy" to copy the clean, un-nested source code snippet directly to your clipboard. Paste this code into any HTML component, Code Block, or Embed tool inside your website builder. All styles, animations, and scripts are self-contained and ready to run.