Photo Gallery is a powerful image gallery plugin with a list of advanced options for creating responsive image galleries with beautiful lightbox.
| Last updated | October 15, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 6.6.11Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.6 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | January 30, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | 9 of 29 threads resolved (31%) |
4.5 / 5 from 1,581 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,288 |
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| 4 stars | 110 |
| 3 stars | 37 |
| 2 stars | 24 |
| 1 star | 122 |
Photo Gallery is the leading plugin for building beautiful mobile-friendly galleries in a few minutes.
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If you’re looking for a user friendly and feature rich plugin to add responsive galleries and albums to your website, Photo Gallery plugin can be the best option for you. It’s simple to use yet packed with powerful functionality, allowing you to create anything from simple to complex photo galleries. Photo Gallery comes packed with stunning layout options, gallery and album views, multiple widgets and a number of extensions that take its functionality even further. WordPress Photo Gallery is a great choice for photography websites and blogs, as well as sites that want to have robust image galleries with easy navigation.
Check the extensive feature list of the plugin bellow, have a look at the plugin demo and give it a try.
Benefits
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Adding images to photo gallery is pretty straight forward. On the left menu select Photo Gallery > Add Galleries/Images > Add new.
The standard gallery is designed for including both regular images, as well as media from social networking websites, such as Flickr, Instagram and etc.
Name. Specify the name of the gallery.
Slug. Specify the alias in your website for the gallery.
Type. Choose the Mixed type.
The problem might be due to the large number of pictures in the main directory of Photo Gallery image uploader. If you already have heavy amount of uploaded images, please try to group them in separate folders.
Take a note, that importing images with WordPress default Media Library can get into a conflict.
Photo Gallery plugin has fully responsive design and layout. It is designed to display all of its views nicely regardless of the device dimensions.
We recommend to use images with the width of 1200px to 1600px. In order to speed up the load time of one’s site, please use images with size of 500-700 KB or less in gallery.
Open the post/page you want to display the gallery. Press the button named Photo Gallery. A camera icon will be inserted into the page/post. Click on the image and select the gallery/album display you want to use for that specific page/post.
This feature is available in Premium version.There, if you want to add/remove Social Sharing button(s), go to Photo Gallery > Options > Lightbox and search for the following options:
Enable Facebook button
Enable Twitter button
Enable Google+ button
Enable Pinterest button
Enable Tumblr button
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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.
