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This premium plugin that is sold through <a href=\"https:\/\/codecanyon.net\/\">CodeCanyon.net<\/a> by Envato seemed to have the respective functionality aboard \u2013 among many more features.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I missed this in the item description and I didn&#8217;t search through the comments before buying (like <a href=\"https:\/\/codecanyon.net\/item\/media-grid-wordpress-responsive-portfolio\/2218545\/comments?page=120&amp;filter=all#comment_15839615\">this one<\/a>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, as I found out after buying and installing the plugin and working my way through the rather unusual user interface \u2013 the grid created by &#8220;Media Grid&#8221; can <strong>not<\/strong> be automatically populated. As far as I can see, all grid items must be created one by one, manually. Which makes sense if you are building a non-dynamic portfolio-type grid with many different item types. <\/p>\n<p>In my case thought the plugin is useless as I need my grid to filled up dynamically with around 35 items the least. By the way, I could not get my custom fields to be displayed in the lightbox, too. But that might be another story.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin functionality seems pretty far reaching and well thought through but documentation needs an update as I could only find a few narrated videos that show an outdated UI. The plugin does not have a free version in the WordPress repository I wasn&#8217;t able to test it out beforehand. 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