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Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
The most popular gallery plugin that lets you create galleries and albums in seconds.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (4.3K)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
FooGallery Photo Gallery : Image, Video & Masonry Galleries
Create responsive photo, image and masonry galleries in WordPress with FooGallery, plus carousel, lightbox, albums, SEO and video gallery support.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #296 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 7M
- 6,961,689
- Downloads, 30 days
- 160.1K
- 17.6K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 995 reviews
- Last updated
- 12 days ago
- Oct 19, 2026
- Version
- 3.3.17
- 16 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 19, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.8 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | July 10, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | 9 of 11 threads resolved (82%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 995 reviews
| 5 stars | 904 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 39 |
| 3 stars | 16 |
| 2 stars | 9 |
| 1 star | 27 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WordPress Gallery Plugin for Photo, Image & Masonry Galleries
FooGallery helps you create fast, responsive WordPress photo galleries, image galleries, masonry galleries, portfolio galleries, albums, and lightbox galleries using a drag-and-drop gallery builder. It is built for site owners, photographers, designers, bloggers, and agencies who need attractive galleries without custom code.
FooGallery Home
Live Gallery Demos
Design galleries with live previews, a visual layout selector, mobile controls, the WordPress block editor, and shortcodes. FooGallery includes seven free gallery layouts including Responsive, Image Viewer, Masonry, Portfolio, Justified, Single Thumbnail, and Carousel. FooGallery Pro adds video galleries, filtering, dynamic galleries, advanced pagination, WooCommerce selling tools, watermarking, mobile settings, and image protection.
Launch Your Own FooGallery Demo (Backend included)
Photo Gallery, Image Gallery, Masonry Gallery and Lightbox Features
- 7 Beautiful Free Gallery layouts:
- Responsive Gallery – demo
- Image Viewer Gallery – demo
- Masonry Gallery – demo
- Portfolio Gallery – demo
- Justified Gallery – demo
- Single Thumbnail Gallery – demo
- Carousel – demo
- Built-in Lightbox:
Adjust colors, transitions, captions, and controls with fullscreen, thumb strip, auto progress, prev/next, and download button support.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Is FooGallery The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin?
FooGallery has been optimized for performance and has a ton of features in the free version. Read our blog post where we compare FooGallery to other WordPress gallery plugins:
Best WordPress Gallery Plugins Compared
Can I add videos to my galleries?
Yes, video galleries are supported in FooGallery PRO Expert. You can import from YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Vimeo or use self-hosted videos.
Can I sell my photography online?
Yes, that is why we built FooGallery PRO Commerce – it integrates deeply with WooCommerce.
You can build galleries from WooCommerce products, or link every image to a master product. Sell with variations, ribbons, custom buttons, lightbox product info, checkout flows, and image file downloads.
My galleries are not working. Thumbnails are greyed out and not loading when I scroll down the page.
Lazy loading is not working on your gallery. This could be due to a conflict between our plugin and your theme.
You can test this theory by testing a different theme (if possible).
We can help you get it working, by contacting our support.
I have created a gallery in the backend, but when I look at it on the frontend, it does not show correctly.
Sometimes, there are issues when the theme does not follow WordPress best practices.
In order for FooGallery to function properly, the theme needs to have:
* A call to wp_head(); in the header.php file.
* A call to wp_footer(); in the footer.php file.
One way to check if the theme is the problem, is by switching to one of the built-in WordPress themes, and then see if the gallery loads.
I am getting a 503 server error whenever I try to edit galleries from the admin
Some versions of PHP have issues with the Imagick Image library, which FooGallery uses to generate thumbnails.
To fix this problem, goto FooGallery Settings -> Images, and ensure “Force GD Library” is checked and save settings.
This will force your server to rather use the GD image library to avoid the 503 errors.
Latest changelog entry
- Date Updated : 18 Oct 2026
- Fix : Prevented stale gallery picker requests from updating removed block editor components.
- Fix : Removed React rendering deprecation warnings from feature-sharing settings and onboarding.
- Update : Resolved Plugin Check naming warnings in gallery management and settings filters.
- Fix : Prevented an unnecessary image-optimization request on the settings screen.
- Fix : Preserved literal backslashes and escaped quotes in gallery titles updated through the gallery API.
- Update : Updated to Freemius SDK v2.13.5 (includes security fixes).
Screenshots
Gallery edit page 
Frontend example with responsive layout 
Frontend example with image viewer layout 
Frontend example with justified layout
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.