If you’re looking for the best WordPress gallery plugin to help you display your images for maximum effect on your blog or website, the premium and free options below have you covered NextGEN Gallery is hands down the most widely used gallery plugin. With more than 16.5 million downloads and an average star rating of 3.3/5 it is a great choice for just about all use cases. The thing I really like about NextGEN is that it is under active development. Because the Pro version is so popular the developers are able to afford to invest in ongoing development so the free version also gets regular updates and new features like: • • Watermarking • Slideshows • • And much more UPDATE: pricing options, including gallery, lightbox and eCommerce extensions so photographers can easily sell their work directly from their WordPress powered site. This is a massive step forward for Nextgen, positioning them well out in front as the ultimate premium gallery plugin.

Even if you don't want to sell your images right now, if you think you might want to in the future then the Nextgen Plus plugin would be an excellent option so you have the upgrade path later on should you decide you do want eCommerce. The free version of Nextgen is available. Envira Gallery is a new premium WordPress gallery plugin which is fast gaining a following for it's good looks and really well thought out workflow which makes it super easy to manage and deploy galleries across your site. We've not seen anything ground breaking in terms of gallery layout or UX, but there is a lot to be said for modern, clean code which runs fast, is very compatible across browsers and devices (it is of course fully responsive). We also like their modular approach to ‘addon' features which extend the functions of the core plugin application. You can add PinIt! Buttons, enable protection against downloaders, enable full screen mode and deep linking to specific images in the lightbox mode.

To get the most out of we recommend the at a minimum which includes all the basic addon features. Social Gallery If social sharing and community engagement is an important part of your promotional strategy, should go straight to the top of your plugin wishlist. With a focus on making it easy for visitors to like and comment on your photos – and share them across their social networks – this fast and responsive lightbox plugin offers a vast array of quality features, including: • An easy-install wizard • NextGen support and compatibility • 40+ CSS 3 animations and transitions • Custom URLs and descriptions for SEO • Color, link, margin and image size customization • Facebook and Disqus integration for comments supports multiple browsers and works with 90% of WordPress themes. The plugin’s compressed jQuery and CSS ensures fast loading times, and is Google AdSense compatible for those looking to create additional revenue through their images. Social Gallery is available via CodeCanyon for $24 for a regular license. Fancy Gallery Looking for a WordPress gallery plugin that offers thousands of layout and hover –effect variations, and tons of options for customization control? Enables you to create your own image galley with ease via a user-friendly AJAX-driven admin system, or simple drag and drop interface.

Create unlimited galleries and albums to display in posts, pages and widget areas, and save yourself time with the plugin’s auto-thumbnail feature. Available for just $25 with a regular license, also offers: • Multiple navigation and theme color options • Compatibility with a range of media • An HTML Generator to use galleries on external websites • The ability to upload multiple images at a time • A variety of hover effects, including fades, slides, scales and overlays Thumbnail Gallery For a responsive and customizable gallery plugin that offers great value for money, check out, which is just $18 for a regular license via CodeCanyon. Compatible with all browsers and devices, this AJAX admin-powered plugin allows you to insert unlimited galleries to pages and posts with a simple-to-use, inbuilt short code generator. Key feature include a responsive layout, social sharing integration, lightbox customization, HTML and Flash compatibility, and the option to add YouTube and Vimeo video embeds. Additional features include: • Custom navigation button support • Unlimited images • Slideshow integration • Background color, image and transparency customization • Thumbnail and image size, border, spacing, and transparency options • Drag and drop sorting Justified Image Grid Want to pull the images you have scattered throughout the web into sleek galleries on your own website or blog? Enables you to create beautiful, responsive photo grids from sources you already use, while allowing you complete control over row height, appearance, special effects like desaturation, color overlay with magnifier icon, borders, multiple captions, mouse activated animation and more.

Designed to make your galleries eye-catching and tidy, this cleverly developed gallery plugin aligns your thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, while pulling images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, 500px, Pinterest, deviantART, Stumbleupon, Imgur, Tumblr and more. You can even include videos from YouTube and Vimeo, and use or use NextGEN as an image manager or source. Justified Image Grid features include: • Super-simple setup and installation • Incredible customization with no coding required • Automatic alignment, while retaining each image’s original aspect ratio • Recent posts homepage banner support • Tag cloud or button filtering • Infinite scroll and load more paginations • Special effects such as cross-browser desaturation, glow, blur, sepia, and edge detection effects You’ll also have access to 87 pages of PDF documentation with full settings reference, troubleshooting guide and clickable bookmarks to guide you through every step of the process. As the number-one selling gallery plugins available via CodeCanyon, is a steal at just $29 for a regular license. It is regularly maintained, and was last updated in February 2017. Final Tiles Grid Gallery This is a relatively new plugin to me.

[Learn more here]('Demo Plugin') ### Photo Albums With Lite Version you can create up to 3 **photo album** or **gallery** ( max 15 images per album ). You can upgrade to Pro Version to be able to create unlimited galleries and photo albums. WordPress.org Plugin Mirror. Contribute to easy-media-gallery development by creating an account on GitHub.

The developer reached out to let me know about it and I'm really glad he did. The thing that grabbed my attention right away is the neat approach to more sophisticated masonry style galleries with support for different sized thumbnails. This allows for more variety in your layoutsplus they look really cool. Definitely worth checking out.. Essential Grid is Codecanyon's top selling grid gallery plugin, featuring more than 30 example skins, and limitless opportunities for customized skins, to display images, YouTube and Vimeo videos, HTML5 self-hosted video, and iFrame content.

Key features include: • Boxed, full-width, and full-screen layouts • Adjustable row, column and spacings options • Various animation types and preloaders • WooCommerce integration has been purchased by more than 23,000 users and has an average user rating of 4.76/5 stars. It is available to purchase for just $26 for a regular license from Codecanyon and was last updated in August 2016. Gallery Want to create a 100 percent responsive photo gallery in minutes? Gallery is an advanced free plugin that’s optimized for responsive viewing on different devices. Featuring unlimited galleries and albums, a simple lightbox, five different views, and social media embed and more, it supports a range of photo types and allows for tons of customization.

Has 300,000+ active installs, an average user rating of 4.6/5 stars, and is regularly maintained, having been updated this month. WP Photo Album Plus Designed to easily manage and display your photo albums and slideshows, offers a wide array of features, including unlimited photos and albums, sub albums, order specification and display customisation, and much more.

This plugin has an average user rating of 4.6/5 stars, has 40,000+ active installs, and was last updated this month. Gallery Bank Gallery Bank is designed to assist WordPress users in creating visually striking grid albums, list albums, masonry layouts, thumbnail layouts and more. Available in 36 languages and designed to be responsive, it offers unlimited images in each album, bulk photo uploading, special effects and animations, social sharing and much more. Has 30,000+ active installs, an average user rating of 4.5/5 stars, and is regularly maintained, having last been updated this month. Simplest Gallery Plugin Simple by name and nature this is a very popular free option with excellent reviews on the plugin directory. The beauty of the is in the way it works so seamlessly with the regular core gallery functionality. Just install and activate and you will see the benefits with a really nice jQuery fancy box effect on your existing galleries.

The plugin also offers a range of other gallery styles such as lightboxes, coverflow style (as above) and side scrolling thumbnails. Definitely worth a look. Simplest Gallery has 6000+ active installs, an average user rating of 4.1/5 stars, and is reasonably well maintained having been last updated in December 2016. Gmedia Gallery Designed to be the ultimate responsive photo-managing tool, Gmedia Gallery offers loads of features and flexible options for creating slideshow galleries, including drag and drop sorting, tag and category sorting, and image editing and filters. Has 20,000+ active installs, an average user rating of 4.6/5 stars, and is regularly maintained, having last been updated this month. Awesome Flickr Gallery This Flickr-focused gallery tool is a simple, fast and effective plugin to create a gallery using your Flickr photos, providing a simple yet customisable way to create clean and professional looking Flickr galleries.

Featuring support for both public and private photos, multiple sorting options, intuitive menus, SEO capabilities and more. Has an average user rating of 4/5 stars, and has 10,000+ active installs.

It was last updated in June 2016. Responsive Photo Gallery Based on a bootstrap framework and designed to allow you to add unlimited images to photo galleries optimized for responsive viewing, Responsive Photo Gallery features fade animations, light box previews, shortcode integrations, and more. Has 10,000+ active installs, an average user rating of 4.1/5 stars, and is regularly maintained, having last been updated this month.

WP Easy Gallery is an easy to use gallery plugin, allowing users to create and manage multiple image galleries through a simple admin interface. Features include enhanced social sharing capabilities for images, WordPress ShortCodes for easy content integration and more. WP Easy Gallery has an average user rating of 3.6/5 stars, has 10,000+ active installs, and was last updated in December 2016. Unite Gallery Lite is a responsive, all in one image and video gallery for WordPress, based on the Unite Gallery javscript version. Choose from columns, justified, nested and grid tile displays, or a range of slider and carousel views. Unite Gallery Lite has 10,000+ active installs and an average user rating of 4.6/5 stars. It is regularly maintained, having been last updated in January.

Check out the to get a feel for this free plugin for yourself. Huge-IT Gallery Create a beautiful gallery in minutes with Huge-IT Gallery – a fully responsive and mobile-friendly plugin that even allows your visitors to rate and ‘like' your images with a built in heart button. Simply copy and paste the shortcode of the gallery directly into any WordPress post or page.

Is compatible with YouTube and Vimeo, has more than 80,000 active installs, and an average user rating of 4.4/5. It was updated this month. Gallery Grand Flagallery Looking for a powerful media and image gallery plugin to handle everything from photos to audio and video? With, you'll not only be able to create attractive image galleries – you'll also have the power to add music and video playlists that will display perfectly on any device. One of Gallery Grand Flagaller's key points of difference is its own – allowing you to upload and manager your photos from anywhere.

This plugin has 30,000+ active installs and an average user rating of 4.1/5 stars. It was last updated in November 2016. Instagram Feed Do you use Instagram as much as your fancy DSLR? Want to encourage your website visitors to follow and engage with you on the world's biggest photo-sharing social platform? Instagram Feed is a user-friendly tool for displaying user or hashtag-based feeds and galleries on your website in only few clicks. The plugin has 60,000 active installs, an average user rating of 4.8/5 stars, and is regularly maintained, with a recent update in January 2017.

View the to see if Instagram Feed is right for you. *This post was updated February 2017. Ratings, active install stats and last update information correct at the time of publishing. I think Shareprints is close to being the best gallery plugin I’ve tried. The visual shortcodes are great and once used, make everything else seem clunky.

It is fast and easy to use but Shareprints does not have good handling of image captions. Only 1 of the 7 gallery types supports captions (Blog). And the lightbox does not show image captions by default. And when you turn click to show captions/descriptions, the image in the lightbox gets tiny. On mobile, you cannot show the image and caption at the same time. Also, the developers have not responded to support requests for the past month.

I sent half a dozen requests via their support form or directly via email and nothing but silence. Eset Nod32 Antivirus 4 Gratis Per Sempre Restoran. I am concerned that something is wrong with their company or they are going out of business. I am very disappointed in the open source community.

I contributed for years and did it as academic advancement. Now it has become just another PBS where the commercials are longer than the ones on network/cable tv. This is not a community anymore, this is a bunch of fishermen giving you bait so that you will buy something that may or may not work.

I am appalled and deeply saddened to the group I helped form and spent so much of my shared time and experience. Zero stars to all these supposedly free programs. Hi John, I’m interested in your comments.

I’ve heard similar things from others who been round long enough to remember things back in the day. I’m curious though what specifically you don’t like about people making more advanced commercial versions of plugins? Personally I think I’d rather that than not have many of the free versions of great plugins available at all. Take Nextgen for instance.

Many many happy users of the free version, myself included, but for some projects I have been happy to pay for the commercial version with more features. Doesn’t that seem like a fair way for the developer to make a living? I should point out that we currently make $0 from any of our themes which we’ve spent a considerable amount of time developing. We’ve release more than a dozen to date and they are used on 10’s of 1000’s of sites around the world, all open source and free (as-in-beer). People ask us all the time when there will be a Pro version available with more features and we have been considering this as a way to keep doing what we are doing. Yeh, I kinda know what he means. You have to endlessly plough through plugins, install them, start using them, and then discover that some necessary functionality (such as CAPTCHA in a form plugin) is only available in the premium version.

The sheer amount of time it takes to actually find a free plugin that isn’t gimped in some way means you just give in and fork out cash. It is imo completely against the spirit of open source, as yeh, these freebies are just adverts for the sold versions. Nothing wrong with devs making premium plugins, but tbh I would rather see the official plugin repository free of these types of bait and switch plugins to make it easier for people to find useful actual free stuff. Hey Nikki, definitely a great collection of gallery plugins here, but I’ve always found the available gallery plugins to be more than I’ve required for my clients. For this reason, I’ve actually gone and launched my own, which is available for free. It’s extremely simple – it provides an admin panel for creating & managing your galleries. Then, display them using a shortcode (as usual).

The CSS is minimal, and I’ve included a template loader so theme’s can override the front-end with their own gallery templates. Essentially, I’ve designed it to fit into WordPress and the theme like a glove! It’s only new, so be nice, haha!

However, I’m excited for it’s future and it’d be awesome if people could check it out 🙂. I used to be a big fan of NextGen Gallery until their 2.0 release. They made a huge change which broke many existing galleries.

Check the comments on WordPress plugins directory and you’ll discover a large # of “1” ratings most of which happened after the 2.0 release. It broke my existing site in multiple ways including: (1) leaking database entries which slowly caused the site to use more and more memory (2) having shortcodes that never quite worked again (3) rapid fire releases which fixed some things and then broke others. The support forum tried to be helpful but eventually I had enough issues that I gave up and went back to the 1.9.13 version (last one before 2.0). Since then, I also found “Nextcellent Gallery” which is based on the earlier 1.9.x functionality for NextGen gallery. I still recommend them over the newer NextGen gallery editions. I would like to share with you and your readers 1 other tool you may find useful. It’s called Enjoy Instagram, and we let you display any instagram photos into your wordpress website.

You will be able to autoreload and moderate photos to publish. You will see: NEW Polaroid View NEW Album View NEW Badge View Autoreload Stream of Photos Moderation Control: you can choose which photos show. Autoplay Loop Possibility to choose what link on the photo: Lightbox, Instagram, Custom URL or nothing. Custom CSS: edit CSS, set border, margin, background and much more Custom Transition Effect Custom JS: set time to autoplay and speed, set name of prev and next buttons and much more. Possibility to choose if show photo’s author, caption and likes number.

Feel free to check it out for more information: Thanks. I cannot believe people are still recommending NextGen Gallery, which is a lesson in bad coding.

Just go to their support page to see how many people are having problems with this plugin, and the lack of support from the developers. Unfortunately, I have this plugin for more than 100+ galleries on my website, and most galleries are now unviewable due to various errors regarding the scripts. Anyone who knows anything about coding can look at NextGen and see just how poorly it was written. When I started using it, it was a dream, but since being taken over by Photocrati it has become an albatross to my website. I wish websites would stop recommending them!!

For someone basically stuck with NextGEN 1.9.x who cannot upgrade to 2.x for reasons of add-on incompatibility but also doesn’t want to have to try to port the galleries to something new (since NextGEN didn’t do things “the WordPress way” and instead stores its gallery images in its own subfolders and its data in its own database tables, you’re pretty much locked in barring something like Envira or Foo which have NGG importers), may I recommend the free “NextCellent Gallery (NextGEN Legacy)”? It’s actually the legacy NextGEN 1.9.x code from before Photocrati took it over, being maintained and kept reasonably up-to-date.

While NextGEN 1.x ended updates with 1.9.13, NextCellent is at 1.9.31 as I write this, and tested compatible with WP 4.4.4 (should work okay with 4.5.x and the new 4.6). Any add-ons, themes, styles, etc. You had for NextGEN 1.9.x should work as-is with NextCellent — simply move them into the appropriate subfolder under NextCellent’s plugin folder from NextGEN’s. It’s smart enough to disable itself if any version of NextGEN is active, so you can keep NextGEN installed while you set up NextCellent and copy over any extras needed, then activate NextCellent, then de-activate NextGEN, and no downtime. The existing albums and galleries and shortcodes and thus pages and widgets will keep right on working just as they did before. Hello, I love this blog post.

I’ve read each one and have looked into each one but haven’t worked with them as much as you have. I currently have a site I designed for a client but it is so slow because it loads all the images at once that it makes the experience miserable. I’m using currently GoPortfolio. All I need is a gallery that displays all the images with infinite scroll not to bog down load time, a filter to sort each category of photos, and a Lightbox.

It just needs to be simple as possible, tiled gallery or masonry gallery (preferred) Any recommendations? Hi all, I came across this post doing a little research on people linking to our plugins (FooBox listed above) and wanted to chime in to make a small correction and also invite you to try our free gallery plugin named FooGallery. FooBox is listed as a gallery plugin above, but it’s actually not a gallery plugin, it’s a responsive lightbox plugin that works with several galleries including WP galleries, NextGen, Envira, Justified Image Grid, etc. FooBox has been around for more than three years and we still actively develop and support it, but I also wanted you to know that we developed FooGallery as free plugin (found on the.org repo and also here: ) FooBox works with FooGallery of course and FooGallery was built to be extensible by developers so there are several extensions to choose from if you need them.

I hope you all will take some time to check out FooGallery and see how it works for you. Our goal was to build it with tight integration into the Media Library and to keep it light and fast while still providing some great built-in features. Seems I always have to buy the paid version to figure out whether it can do what I need, and I waste money. Download File Grldr Mbr. I need a plugin that will show a single preview image, around which text can wrap like a regular JPG, then only when clicked does the single image open to a lightbox or image viewer.

I can’t see whether this is possible for anything until I install it, configure it, plow through all the settings, then MAYBE guess as to whether the paid version will work, and wait 24-48 hours for response to a pre-sales question. Meanwhile, client is waiting waiting. Thanks Charles, I guess I should have added that detail. Yes, I am using WordPress, with Ultimate Member instead of Buddypress. But, basically both are similar, but the UM has out of the box the features I wanted. I looked many times at the gallery plugins, but none indicated the ability to allow each registered user of the site to have the ability to create their own library. I was thinking that Nextgen would do this, but playing with the setup, it too seems to only support the galleries for the owner of the site.

This is where I am stuck. I’m just starting to learn WordPress in order to create a website to showcase 2,000+ photos and videos aimed at international film location managers. The images are in a variety of aspect ratios, which must be retained. I’m seeking a program that will a) not change the aspect ratio and b) offer a simple interface that will allow a user to hover/click on a “main image” to reveal its sub-images. There seem to be so many products out there and I am totally confused.

Justified Image? Photo Gallery? Awesome Gallery?