Wordpress is by far the most popular blogging platform and anyone using it would have surely found a need for an effective and working Wordpress Gallery plugin at some point of time. In this post, I will try to analyze and list out some of the best Wordpress Gallery plugins available currently!
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Top 10 Wordpress Gallery Plugins
1. NextGEN Gallery Plugin
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. It allows you to add image effects, custom templates for your theme. You can even move images between galleries. It also provides other useful functions like watermarking and zip upload.
2. Cincopa WordPress Plugin
Cincopa Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable image gallery, slideshows, video and music playlists anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your videos, images and music and display skin, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a rotating thumbnail belts. It supports iPhone/iPod and smart phones.
3. WP Photo Album
This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your Wordpress site. It gives you the option to setup albums and categories – and upload photos via the Wordpress backend.
4. Picasna Wordpress Plugin
Picasna enables you to present your photos in a stylish and easy-to-browse way on your Wordpress Blog. You can upload photos unswervingly to Picasa Web Albums and they will emerge on your web page in seconds.
5. Flickr Photo Album
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided which you can customize to 100% match the look and feel of your own site. There are options to allow you to hook it up with a number of different Lightbox-style popup overlay display libraries. Third party commenting services such as Disqus are also supported, allowing your visitors to comment on your photos without hopping over to Flickr.com.
6. SuperSlider-Show
SuperSlider-Show is your Animated show plugin that uses Mootools 1.2 javascript to replace your gallery with a Slideshow. Highly configurable, theme based design, css based animations, auto minithumbnail creation. Shortcode system on post and page screens to make each slideshow unique. Degrades gracefully with javascript turned off, or plugin removed / disabled.
7. Lightbox Gallery Plugin
This plugin changes the view of galleries to the Lightbox view and also displays the associated metadata with the images. The caption for each image is viewed through a tooltip when you hover your mouse on a thumbnail.
8. Media Library Gallery
Media Library Gallery automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment. It supports thickbox as well.
9. PhotoSmash Galleries
PhotoSmash Galleries plugin allows you to create user contributable photo galleries in WordPress posts and pages with extensive options. It lets you control who can upload images: Admin only, Authors & Contributors or registered users and higher. You can receive email alerts for new images that need to be moderated.
10. Page Flip Image Gallery
Image Gallery with Page Flip effects for your blog where you can upload Images from FTP folder. It has features like zoom, full screen mode etc.
Honorable mentions -
- WordPress Gallery Slideshow
- DM Albums
- Yet Another PhotoBlog
- Misiek Photo Album
- FlippingBook Gallery Plugin
- Fotobook
- G4B Photo Gallery
Which one you use? Which is your favorite?
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June 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Raju, Great share.
Thanks. will try some of them.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
These plugins would be helpful for any photoblog. I might try them in future.
Thanks for sharing. Stumbled.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am
A nice list of plugins, sure to make any blog stand out. Photo blogs normally use them
June 21st, 2009 at 10:21 am
Nice Collection, Raju. These Plugins multiply the possibilities on Wordpress CMS. Thanks for share!
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June 21st, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I liked the LightBox plugin, the effect is really cool. I’m sure many of these plugins use jQuery!
July 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Excellent information. Finding a few such solutions has taken hours in the past.
Thank u.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Lightbox is my favourite but it wouldn’t be to those who want to make money with Ad Impressions. Great post.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Thanks so much for the great summary. I have been looking for a great gallery plug-in for one of my clients and this gives me several good choices to test.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Very good information, thanks a lot.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Useful summary of wordpress gallery plugin. But I’m looking somethink like carousel gallery. Where admin of wordpress only fills the url of images and on main page appears slideshow gallery.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
A nice list of plugins, sure to make any blog stand out.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Thanks, Raju. This should point me in the right direction to find a gallery solution for my site. I’ve also tried some of the sidebar widget galleries, but with modest success. I’d love to hear your thoughts on those, as well.
January 6th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Thanks for the writeup, Raju. One interesting note: picasna requires PHP 5, so those hosts that are stuck on PHP4 will get a really nasty error message if they try to use the plugin. Otherwise, the design looks pretty cool: it filters on a picasa web album link and replaces it with a widget. Nice design!
January 18th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Thanks so much for the great summary. I have been looking for a great gallery plug-in for one of my clients and this gives me several good choices to test.
January 24th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Thank’s for shering this useful info! im going to choose nextgen..
February 9th, 2010 at 6:56 am