10 Beautiful WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
21st Jul 2011 | Posted by Eko S. | 15 CommentsImage galleries or photo galleries are very common and the best method to any other site to showcase their images/photos to the readers. Fortunately, now with WordPress gallery plugin you can add image gallery features in your wordpress site does not have to be difficult, even if you don’t have much experience with JavaScript and jQuery.
In this article we have collected 10 best and beautiful wordpress image gallery plugins, to help you get an image gallery features on your site.
TN3 Gallery – jQuery Image Gallery
A jQuery slideshow plugin, TN3 Gallery is a full fledged HTML based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options. Compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers. Powered by jQuery.
Features:
- Multiple transitions/effects
- Slideshow options
- CSS Skinning
- Full-screen option
Simple WordPress Gallery
by epicera
The Simple WordPress Gallery plugin overrides the standard WordPress gallery with a film-strip style one. Our goal here is to finally present a version of the WordPress gallery that’s useful and not a pain in the butt. This plugin installs in a minute and is a breeze to use; it’s as simple as it it awesome!
Features:
- A jQuery/AJAX Gallery for WP
- Only Use the Images You Want (which means you can remove/omit images from the WP gallery!)
- Custom Image Sizes
- Custom Image Order
- Post Galleries from other Posts
- Completely skinnable!
Premium Gallery Manager
by wptitans
Create galleries with just a few clicks, as many as you need, in any size you need and this together with it’s custom option panel and gallery submission panel you don’t need anything else anymore.
Features:
- Supports multiple uploads in backend, very easy to use.
- Smart crop option to show crop image in gallery or full image.
- Lightbox enabled.
- Full screen slideshow.
- 5 effects transition effects available.
- 5 styles available.
- Embed galleries via short-codes through WP editor.
- Create unlimited galleries with their own dimensions and settings.
- Drag en drop your uploaded images.
- Delete unwanted images with one click.
jGallery
by valendesigns
This WordPress Gallery Plugin gives you a simple and extremely customizable way to create a gallery on any post or page. You have the option to use widgets or shortcodes to insert your custom gallery into your web site. As well, the look of your gallery is fully customizable through the WordPress admin interface.
This plugin will help make your website standout. You can use it to create all kinds of different galleries. Version 1.0 is a fully stable release that can be used on any site that is using WP 2 .8 and above (including 3.0).
TS Display – Portfolio and Gallery Plugin
by templatesquare
TS Display is a wordpress plugin for display portfolio and gallery. You can use this plugin to manage portfolio post and show photo gallery in your website.
Features:
- Flexible layout that fit to any content width (940px, 800px, 400ox, etc.)
- Flexible Column: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and more
- Unlimited frame color
- 3 Frame style: square, rounded and plain (no frame)
- Cross Browser Compatible
- Well Documented
WordPress Media Gallery – Ken Burns Effect
by ZoomIt
WordPress Media Gallery is the ultimate gallery for your WordPress site. It supports any kind of content from simple images to advanced inline content to videos. Because of this, it can be used not only as a gallery, but also as a slider, banner rotator, video gallery and more! This is the only gallery you will ever need!
Features:
- supports images, videos and inline content
- supports unlimited items – rotate as many items as you wish
- 7 transitions
- intuitive admin panel
- slideshow mode – with independent time for each item that you can define in the DZS Admin Panel provided
- values you can set up for each item – description (the description from the top), initialZoom(any value you wish), finalZoom, slideshowTime ( the time the banner rotator stays focused on the specific item ), burn effect time ( the time you wish the effect to take ), url (if no url is set the item will just be a image with no link on click ), transitionType(easeInSine,linear etc.) , initialposition, final position (choose from topleft,topcenter,topright,middleleft,middlecenter,middleright,bottomleft,bottomcenter,bottomright ) and more!
- autoresize option – no more resizing with photoshop, there is an options panel option to enable autoresize
- More…
PhotoMosaic for WordPress
by makfak
PhotoMosaic creates a shortcode ([photomosaic]) that transforms a WordPress photo gallery into a visually-striking design piece by giving it a fresh mansonry layout worthy of your favorite design blog.
Features:
- Plugin Options Page to easily configure all of your PhotoMosaic galleries
- Supports inline shortcode params (ie: [photomosaic width=”500” height=”300”])
- Template Tag support
- Widget support
- Mansonry Layout
- Customizable columns, width, & padding
- Randomizer!
- Works with your favorite Lightbox plugin (or use the packaged PrettyPhoto)
Jigowatt Gallery for WordPress
by jigowatt
The Jigowatt Gallery for WordPress allows you to create customisable galleries and insert them into posts and pages. Its built upon WordPress 3.0’s Custom Post Types and Taxonomies making it easy to use and extend if you want to.
Features:
- Upload images from WordPress admin (AJAX Uploader), give gallery items titles and descriptions, and assign to galleries.
- Create as many galleries as you wish – they act just like categories.
- Give a gallery an image if you wish, or just let it show a slideshow of images contained within.
- Show galleries on the frontend using the [jigowatt_gallery] shortcode.
The Wall – Media Gallery – WordPress Plugin
by ZoomIt
“The Wall” is the ultimate interactive media gallery for your site presentation. Now for WordPress!
Features:
- neat effects for your presentations
- powered by cross-browser js library jQuery
- works with all media, not only images- inline content, videos, audios, divs with text -all are supported
- lightbox support
- DZS Admin Panel included
Thumbnail Gallery (WordPress Plugin)
by MariusCristianDonea
This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.
Features:
- You can customize each gallery individually.
- You can use an unlimited number of galleries into your WordPress website.
- You can display in a gallery an unlimited amount of images.
- Browse the gallery on touchscreen devices using one finger.
- Completely resizable.
- You can change thumbnails position.
- AJAX admin.
- You can change background color, image and transparency in the gallery from admin.
- More…
Minimy – Premium WordPress Gallery
by RubenBristian
Minimy is a premium jQuery plugin delivered both as a standalone plugin and as a WordPress shortcode.
It has a minimalistic design but it’s loaded with tons of features that allow you to spice up your website in a matter of minutes. The admin panel from the WP version allows you to easily create and manage all of your galleries and also change the skins in a really easy way.
Gallery features:
- unlimited pictures
- smooth transitions
- two sets of minimalist thumbnails
- slideshow option
- photo captions
- navigation controls
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13 Comments to “10 Beautiful WordPress Image Gallery Plugins”
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Very Good. Thank you!
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I like the wall – thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for shared, The Gallery is Amazing. I will use this gallery for my website.
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Very awesome set of plugins. I’ve been searching online high and low for some good ones I could use for a new project I’m working on! Thanks!!
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Great list, but here’ another wordpress gallery plugin
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thanks for sharing this premium plugin.. really awesome.. like TN3Gallery & Thumbnail Gallery
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Anyone using NextGen gallery? It’s free but i’m having support issues
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which jquery is used by gagful.com ???
it is very important for me to know it..
can you suggest any thing similar to that??
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Hi
I use Next Gen Gallery, anyone use this? Any idea why it didn’t make it to this list?
I noticed most of these are buy galleries. I must admit they do look awesome, esp TN3.
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Next Gen is used by many as you can see by the many downloads (last I checked it was close to 10 million) but many people including me find it too buggy.
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Superb Gallery’s
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Thanks, The Wall worked fantastic!! There’s some great options there, the mosaics look great too!
Here’s a great collection of colorful wordpress images. I have found here my favorite one. I hope it’s universal for images. Anyone can find here one’s favorite image for site.