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How to Create and Publish Native Product Gallery

Written by Mikaela Lasig

Native Product Gallery replaces the default Shopify product gallery with a Tolstoy gallery. It helps merchants control media order, add video and image content, and assign media to specific variants.

How to Set Up

  1. In Tolstoy, Widgets ➜ All templates ➜ Shoppable videos ➜ Native Product Gallery

2. Click Create my own

3. You have the option to customize the look and feel of your product gallery by choosing customization options provided by agent. You can upload a reference screenshot of what you'd like to copy or create or let the agent suggest design changes for you.


How to Publish

  1. Once you're all set, click the Publish button

2. Copy the embed code ➜ Click the Add block button ➜ Paste the embed code inside the Tolstoy Builder block

That's it. 💪

Best Practices

  • Put the strongest product media first.

  • Use variant-specific media only when the shopper needs a clear difference between variants.

  • Hide duplicate or low-value assets.

  • Test the gallery on mobile and desktop before you publish.

  • Check at least one live product page after every update.

Troubleshooting / FAQs

Why is the gallery not showing on the live product page?

Make sure Gallery Visibility is turned on for that product. Then make sure the widget is published.

Why are my changes not visible yet?

Make sure you saved the changes and then published the latest update.


How to Pause and Remove?

For Native Product Gallery, use Pause. This widget uses Pause, not an Unpublish button.

To unpublish the whole gallery widget:

  1. Open the Native Product Gallery widget.

  2. Go to the top-right status button.
    If the widget is live, it will show Live.

  3. Open the dropdown.

  4. Click Pause.

This changes the widget from published to draft state.

If you want to remove the gallery only for one product:

  1. Open the Gallery tab.

  2. Select the product.

  3. Turn off Gallery Visibility to exclude that product from the gallery.

If you want to remove all custom media settings for one product and go back to the normal Shopify media order:

  1. Open the same product in Gallery.

  2. Click Reset.

Reset clears the custom gallery data for that product and returns it to the default Shopify product media order.

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