Image gallery speaks its own story; a website with a beautiful image gallery not only draws visitor attention but also gives professional touch to it. There are number of WordPress image gallery plugins out there which enable you to showcase your images and videos in different layouts like grid, masonry, responsive and fluid.
With these image gallery plugins you can create portfolios, sell products online, open eCommerce stores and do number of things to make your website fully functional. These plugins can easily manage your images and videos as they provide unlimited image uploading and publishing.
Following WordPress photo gallery plugins are loaded with numerous features and functions to take your website one step further and make your website unique and distinctive.
You can choose the plugin which suits best to you from the list below and let us know your experience with these plugins by posting a comment below.
1. NextGen Gallery
It is one of the most popular and widely used image gallery plugin which has been downloaded more than 14+ million times around the world. NexGen Gallery is a complete package which provides easy gallery management along with batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/sort images and you can also edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums and more.
This plugin comes with two main display versions, one is slideshows and other is thumbnail gallery, this plugin includes myriad of options like lightbox effects, style, timing, transitions and you can also control size of images.
The pro version enables you to do few more other things effectively with the images; it enables you to create masonry galleries or full screen responsive light box which will make your images visually stunning.
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2. Gallery Images
Gallery Image is fully responsive and easy to use image gallery plugin which allows you to display your images in elegant style. This plugin bundled with images manager which allows you to upload bunch of images in a quick time. There are drag and drop option to change the order of images in the gallery. Gallery images plugin comes with 7 beautiful gallery views for giving your gallery a stunning and beautiful look.
This plugin provides several other features as well like pagination, pre-built templates, lightbox/popup, rating button and much more. Overall a must have image gallery plugin if you are not looking to buy a premium one.
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3. Fancy Gallery
On third spot we have premium image gallery plugin; this plugin has tremendous potential for showcasing your images to make your website more beautiful and adorable.
Fancy Gallery comes with Ajax driven administration which allows you to create galleries easily and quickly. With Fancy Gallery you can display gallery in a post, page, and widget area where ever you want.
There is thousand of layout and hover effects variations to choose from, different color themes, multiple image upload, unlimited galleries, and many other customizing options for your galleries. You can have this plugin for just $25.
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4. Portfolio Gallery
Portfolio gallery plugin will enable you to make your site look modern, creative and well designed, with this pluign you can showcase your images as portfolios and you can add images, videos (YouTube, Vimeo), description and titles for each to make your galleries beautiful.
Portfolio Gallery enables you to test 7 gallery views, slider gallery options and includes lightbox tool to make your image gallery beautiful and wonderful.
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5. Thumbnail Gallery
If you want to add a thumbnail gallery to your website or blog then you should give a try to this plugin. This plugin is fully responsive and comes with number of customizable options to take your website to another level.
Thumbnail Gallery comes with short code generator which enables you to create gallery for any page or post you want. You can upload your YouTube and Vimeo videos to the gallery and can create unlimited number of galleries into your WordPress websites.
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6. Gallery Bank
Gallery Bank is designed to create beautiful and eye catching gallery albums in different layouts (masonry, list, grid, thumbnails etc.). Gallery Bank plugin is loaded with more than 200+ features and a powerful engine for uploading managing photo galleries and allows you to upload, delete sort images in no time.
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7. Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery is a useful plugin with a list of bunch of tools and customizing options to create beautiful image galleries for your websites. Photo Gallery is fully responsive plugin and loaded with number of features to make your gallery distinctive and unique from others.
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8. Social Gallery
Social Gallery is another great image gallery plugin which works as lightbox to display your images. Social Gallery is loaded with several jaw dropping features, such as 40+ css3 animations, Facebook style image viewing, full screen mod, better media navigation, lightweight JavaScript and overall you don’t need to write a single line of code.
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9. Envira Gallery Lite
Envira allows you to create beautiful responsive photo and video galleries for your site in minutes, not hours! Envira Gallery is the fastest WordPress gallery plugin in the market which is highly optimized for and server performance.
Envira has been downloaded over 300,000 times and comes with drag & drop gallery builder, gallery templates, social sharing, video galleries, slideshows, image proofing, pagination, image tags, password protection and much more.
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10. Unite Gallery
Unite Gallery gives you power to create beautiful image and video galleries for your WordPress websites. This plugin has more than 120+ gallery options, and it plays 4 types of videos (YouTube, Vimeo, html5 video and wistia), comes with media lightbox, zoom effect, special video gallery theme with 3 skins and much more which you ever imagined in a gallery plugin.
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11. Easy Media Gallery
This plugin allows you to create various types of image galleries such as photo albums, portfolio, image carousel, video gallery and much more.
This gallery plugin is very customizable and eanbles you to adjust colors, positions, grid, media sizes, hover effect and much more with one easy control panel. That easy control panel for experts it would save your time, and for you who do not have more knowledge about web programming.
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12. Fast Gallery
As name suggests Fast Gallery is really fast and lets you create image gallery for your website in 1 minute. This plugin allows you to create gallery in masonry/grid and responsive/ fluid layouts, and includes 5 type galleries, video tutorial, widget support, and much more.
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13. Foo Gallery
Foo Gallery is a simple and flexible image gallery plugin which allows better image and video gallery management for WordPress users. Foo Gallery includes built in templates, extension store, shortcodes, drag and drop reordering of images and galleries, gallery custom post type and many other handy features.
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14. Final Tiles Grid Gallery
Final Tiles Grid Gallery uses a brand new algorithm to make much more interesting grids by keeping the actual size of images. The gallery is fully responsive and it adapts to the browser using a nice and smooth animation, even on mobile devices. With this plugin you can create a wedding album, designer portfolio, product showcase to serve your purpose.
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15. Gallerix
Gallerix is a WordPress plugin that allows you easy and fast to create image galleries. With Gallerix you can easily create beautiful grid layout image galleries for your websites. Installation of this plugin is quite easy all you have to do is –
Add New -> Upload -> Browse and pick the Gallerix archive file. Click “Install Now” button. Click “Active Now” after the plugin has been installed. A new menu should now appear in your Admin Menu called “Gallerix”.
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16. Photo Gallery by Supsystic
This plugin comes with number of layouts to create quality image galleries and portfolios for users. It has unlimited photo gallery options, designs and styles, to make your image gallery unique and distinctive. The grid gallery plugin utilizes the WordPress media uploader for images and import images from Instagram, Facebook and other social networks.
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17. Plus Gallery
Plus Gallery grabs all your albums and images from your WordPress gallery or from an online source like Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or Google Plus and display them on your site. It allows you to browse albums and galleries, or display just one Gallery at a time. Take a photo with your iphone, post to Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or Google Plus and it is automatically added to your site as well.
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18. Nimble Portfolio
This free plugin can transform a humble WordPress website into a feature rich media gallery where you can proudly showcase your projects, client logos, photography, or any other pictures or videos of your choice.
It comes with built-in PrettyPhoto lighbox but can also be customized easily by using other add-ons. This plugin is also responsive which means it would work perfectly on desktop, tablet and mobile screen sizes.
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19. DV Gallery
DV Gallery is a responsive gallery plugin which includes 3 gallery styles – blog style, carousel style and grid style to display your images and videos. This plugin comes with 6 custom gallery widget, 6 gallery shortcodes, bulk image upload, RTL support, cross browser compatible and much more.
You can have this plugin for just $18.
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20. Isotope Gallery
And finally our last pick for this edition is Isotope Gallery plugin which allows you to create beautiful and animated photo galleries for your websites.
This plugin is loaded with unlimited number of galleries, drag and drop feature, and many other useful and customizable options.
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Final Words
So, this was the list of WordPress image gallery plugins by which you can easily create modern, responsive and beautiful image galleries for your websites. Each plugin has its own features, but surely can solve your purpose, so before choosing the right one dig deep and assess each plugin and then make the right choice.
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