SwapGridGallery — Dynamic CMS Grid for Framer

Designed for creators who want visual control and production-ready interactions without building custom logic from scratch.

Why it stands out

• Dynamic Hero Swap interaction with smooth layout transitions

• Works with Framer CMS through a practical adapter flow

• Multiple layout systems: classic, checker, masonry-mix

• Advanced hover styles (card scale or image zoom)

• Click behavior modes for different product goals:

  • Make hero

  • Open link

  • Open lightbox

• Full responsive control for desktop, tablet, and mobile

• Built for real projects: fast setup, strong defaults, deep customization

Key features

• CMS-ready architecture

  • Native CMS workflow via CMSItemAdapter

  • Auto-mapping for common CMS field structures

  • Manual field mapping fallback for custom schemas

• Flexible grid engine

  • Configurable column/row system

  • Hero placement presets

  • Secondary card presets:

    • Uniform

    • Checker 2x2

    • Masonry Mix with random span range + seed

• Interaction modes

  • Make hero: swap selected card into hero position

  • Open link: card acts as semantic link with optional new-tab behavior

  • Open lightbox: fullscreen preview with keyboard support

• Lightbox UX

  • Overlay viewer with previous/next arrows

  • Keyboard navigation (Left/Right, Escape)

  • Focus trap and focus restore

  • Click-outside close

  • Icon-based close button (×)

• Visual controls

  • Hero/thumbnail fill modes (cover, contain, fill, scale-down)

  • Optional title overlays

  • Hover mode:

    • Card Scale

    • Image Zoom inside card

  • Hover drop shadow controls (offset, blur, spread, opacity)

  • Hover z-index lift for clean overlap behavior

• Motion controls

  • Spring/Tween transition modes

  • Entrance animation (Fade Up) with duration, stagger, offset

  • Edit-mode friendly rendering (no blank canvas issue)

  

Included components

• SwapGridGallery — main gallery component

• CMSItemAdapter — CMS item mapper for CMS List item context

• CMSBridge — internal data bridge module (used automatically)

Perfect for

• Portfolio grids

• Product showcases

• Editorial image collections

• Campaign landing pages

• CMS-driven galleries that need both design freedom and conversion behavior

Quick setup

1. Add SwapGridGallery to page.

2. Add CMS List and place CMSItemAdapter inside each item.

3. Set same Collection ID in both components.

4. Bind ID, Title, Slug, Image, Link in adapter.

5. Choose Click Action in GridGallery (Make hero, Open link, Open lightbox).Also you get Remix link to my project with all correct connections and settings.