A Gallery Plugin is a main part of many websites today, it allows you to showcase your photographs, screenshots, videos and many more. A portfolio website is incomplete without image gallery. There are lots of gallery plugins in WordPress repository, so i have chosen the best plugins which will satisfy your needs.
All of these below plugins you can download free from the official WordPress plugin repository.
1> NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin and it’s all time most popular plugin with over 10 million downloads. This plugin gives you two front-end display styles like slideshows and thumbnail galleries, both style comes with the options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Title and Description
- Add/ Delete/ Rearrange/ Sort Images
- Edit Thumbnails
- Group Galleries into Albums
- Quickly add watermarks to batches or galleries of images
- and Much More.
2> Gallery Photo
Photo Gallery is an advanced plugin with fully responsive. It gives you a list of tools and options to add and edit images for different views. You can add an image gallery and albums to posts and pages, as well as multiple widgets. You can add images, providing detailed descriptions and tags, organize the galleries into different albums.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Thumbnails for image thumbnails
- Masonry for multi-size thumbnails (commercial version)
- Slideshow
- Extended Album for displaying images with descriptions
- Blog Style (commercial version)
- and Much More.
3> WP Photo Album Plus
WP Photo Album Plus you can use and manage it easily and display your photo albums and slideshows within your WordPress site. This plugin supports unlimited number of albums and photos, also you can control over the display sizes of the photos. This plugin gives you Sidebar Widgets like: Photo of the day, rating system, comment system, recently uploaded photos and more.
Some of the highlighted features:
- you can add a Sidebar Widget that displays a mini slideshow
- It support Dutch, Japanese, French(outdated), Spanish and German languages
- You can add watermarks to the photos
- and Much More.
4> Gallery
Gallery plugin makes it possible to implement unlimited galleries on your website. You can add multiple images and description for each gallery, also you can show them all at one page and view galleries separately.
If you like this plugin and you want more useful features, so you can upgrade to the premium version.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Create any amount of albums in the gallery
- Set a featured image as an album cover
- Change the size of album cover thumbnails and photos in the album
- Choose a number of pictures to display in one row in the gallery album
- View pictures as a slide show and in a full size
- and Much More.
5> Simple Lightbox
Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox to add to your WordPress website. In this plugin mobile-optimized responsive theme is included. You can customize lightbox themes and animations. It displays metadata, caption, description, etc in the lightbox. You can enable Lightbox depending on Page Type like Home, Pages, Archive, etc.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Automatically activate links (no manual coding required)
- Automatically resize lightbox to fit in window
- Infinitely customizable with add-ons
- Supports WordPress image attachment links
- and Much More.
6> WordPress Gallery Plugin
WordPress Gallery Plugin is the best free gallery plugin. You can easily create and manage multiple photo galleries through a simple admin interface.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Enhanced social sharing for images in your gallery
- Upload unique thumbnail image for galleries and set custom dimensions
- Include multiple galleries on a page or post
- Set the ‘sort order’ of images in the galleries
- and Much More.
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