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Hi Sayontan,

Thanks for a response.
Yes I did asked a question about this on more than one support webapages.
In the end I figured it out myself with some help from Media Libraray Assistant documentation.
If anyone in the future would need it, here it goes:
1. Install MLA, fill in some media files into the library and categorize media files
2. Create a MLA shortcode which will make a desired selection of media files out of library. E.g. [mla_gallery attachment_category=’fruits’ orderby=date order=DESC]
3. Install Photonic plugin and define Custom shortcode for Photonih gallery e.g. great_gallery
4. Create a Gutenberg Photonic gallery with desired media files, settings and other. You get a shortcode e.g. [great_gallery ids=’30391,30390,30389,30388,30387,30386,30385,30384,13,11,10,30351,30350,30348,39,38,37,36,35,34,33,32,31,30,29,28,26,24,23,22,20,18,17,16,15,12,14,30353,30394,30393,30392,30702,30701,30700,30619′ columns=’auto’ more=’More’ main_size=’full’ tile_size=’full’ style=’masonry’ fx=’fade’ strip-style=’thumbs’ controls=’hide’]
5. Then you merge take Photonic shortcodes and change it this way:
– Remove great_gallery from Photonic shortcode and replace it with mla_shortcode
– Remove ids=’…’ part and replace it with attachment_category=’fruits’ orderby=date order=DESC
– Right after this you add mla_alt_shortcode=great_gallery This parameter shift control from MLA to Photonic which then process the rest of parameters.
The final shortcode looks like:
[mla_gallery attachment_category=’fruits’ orderby=date order=DESC mla_alt_shortcode=great_gallery columns=’auto’ more=’More’ main_size=’full’ tile_size=’full’ style=’masonry’ fx=’fade’ strip-style=’thumbs’ controls=’hide’]
When you use this, you get (I got) beautiful mix of MLA and Photonic functionality.
What we actually did here is we used MLA for categorizing and querying function and Photonic for presentation function.
Hope it will help someone.