If you don’t want to link each grid item to a single gallery page but only want to show images in a grid you can follow these steps.

1. Creating a gallery grid

1. Go to the “Essential Grid” admin tab
2. Edit the “Gallery Lightbox” by clicking the Settings button
3. Click on the “Source” horizontal tab
4. Select “Custom Grid” at the first option
5. Scroll to the last option and click the “Images” button
6. Choose “Add Bulk Images” to select multiple images at once
7. Save the settings with the green floppy disk button in the top right corner of the screen

2. Adding gallery filters

1. Go to the “Essential Grid” admin tab
2. Edit the “Gallery Lightbox” by clicking the Settings button
3. Click on the “Source” horizontal tab
4. Scroll to the grid at the bottom and click on the cog icon of a grid item
5. Click the “Item Settings” horizontal tab inside the modal
6. Click on the “Add New Filter” button
7. Enter a name for the filter for this specific item and click on “Add Category”
8. Click on “Update without refresh”
9. Save the settings

You can repeat these steps for every item in the grid

Show grid on a page

1. Go to the “Pages” admin tab and edit a page
2. Add the “Essential Grid” widget to the page builder
3. Edit the widget and from the select field choose the “Gallery Lightbox” grid
4. Save the page