Best WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins
You can turn your wordpress into a photoblog using some wordpress photo gallery themes or using some photo gallery plugins for wordpress. Following are the top wordpress photo gallery plugins to convert your wordpress blog into a photoblog.
NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular and widely used photo gallery plugin for wordpress. It helps to create a full integrated image gallery in wordpress with a flash slideshow option.
Top Features:
- Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
- Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery.
- Role settings : Each gallery has a author.
- AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process.
- Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries.
- Slideshow : Full integrated flash slideshow.
- Sidebar Widget : Show a slideshow, random or recent picture at your sidebar.
- Tag support for images : Append related images to your post, create a image tag-cloud.
Yet Another Photoblog
Yet Another Photoblog is an yet another top wordpress gallery plugin! Using Yet Another Photoblog plugin, you can convert your wordpress blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.
Top Features:
- Easy image upload – All wordpress post-features can be used.
- On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled by the theme.
- EXIF data processing and output.
- Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
- Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
- Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
- Out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget.
Flickr Photo Album
If you are using Flickr, Flickr Photo Album plugin will suit you the best. It allows you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your wordpress blog.
Top Features:
- Display your Flickr photo sets and Flickr videos as albums on your site.
- Search engine friendly URLs.
- Complete control over the look and feel.
- Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’
- Flickr notes and Flickr comments are supported
- Adds a new Flickr icon to your media bar which allows you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post.
- Use WordPress shortcodes to easily insert photos from an album into a post (and also Flickr videos).
- Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar.
- Use a popup overlay to display your photos.
- Allow your visitors to leave comments without leaving your blog (via third party commenting services).
Flickr Gallery
Another Flickr based image gallery plugin which allows you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your wordpress pages and posts.
Top Features:
- A quick gallery of your recent photos, photosets and most popular photos.
- Easy database caching.
- Displays the photos from one photoset.
- Displays all of a user’s photos with given tags.
- Displays the results of a custom search.
- Inserts a single photo into your content.
- Embeds Flickr’s flash movie player for videos.
- Authenticate to display your private photos.
- Lightbox script makes it easy to browse photos without leaving the page.
- WordPress MU Support.
- Pagination in galleries.
PhotoSmash Galleries
PhotoSmash Galleries is another top gallery plugin which makes it easy to create photo galleries in your wordpress posts or pages. It has flexible and simple models for designing custom gallery and form layouts, utilizing your own custom database fields, html, and css.
Top Features:
- User contributable photo galleries – allow your users to upload images to galleries.
- Media RSS is enabled, supports PicLens.
- Link gallery thumbnails to various destinations including full-size image, related post, and WP Attachment Page when using Media Library integration.
- Add images to the WordPress Media Library so you can use them in blog posts and even the Standard WordPress Image Gallery features.
- AJAX photo uploads from within Posts and Pages.
- Star Ratings for images.
- Control who can upload images: admin only, authors & contributors (and higher), or registered users and higher.
- Moderate images uploaded by registered users (Admins and authors are automatically approved).
- Receive email alerts for new images that need to be moderated.
- Integrates with popular image viewing systems like Lightbox and Shadowbox.
- Create Custom Upload forms using simple tags and HTML.
- Create Custom Layouts using simple tags and HTML.
Flash Photo Gallery
It helps to create a Flash Photo Gallery like one provided in Adobe Photoshop CS2 Flash Web Photo Gallery templates.
Top Features:
- Compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU.
- Create and manage multiple Flash Photo Galleries.
- Customize galleries by specifying titles, colors, thumbnail size and a lot more options.
- Uses the wordpress built-in media uploader to add photos to.
- Multiple photo galleries can be added in any page or post using a simple short code.
- Uses SWFObject for embedding swf.
WP Photo Album
A simple wordpress photo gallery plugin designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your wordpress blog.
Top Features:
- Manage and create albums.
- Move photos to and from albums.
- Adjust thumbnail and full view picture sizes (set default max sizes for each).
Enjoy Photo Blogging!
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HI Shafar, I had just read a post about putting a picture with your post when possible, as it gives you a better ranking Google Image. This post of yours will help me out I think, if I get the plug-in installed. You certainly find good resources that you always pass along to all of your readers. I'll speak for myself, but I think I can safely say that we all appreciate your looking and finding all of these resources. Thanks jj
@JJ
Hi JJ, always good to see your encouraging comments.
Best Regards.
Hi! Thanks for this post. I have been searching for good wp plugins for my gallery. I guess i’ll have to try each one of them. thanks again!
I have released a new gallery plugin! See it here http://thriveweb.com.au/blog/photospace-wordpress-gallery-plugin/
@Dean
Great plugin. Thanks for sharing about it here.
I’m looking for a wordpress plugin that will check if a post has multiple images and if it does, display them in a slideshow.
Have you found anything like this?
@JasonB
You can use photo gallery plugins to upload photos and show it together using ALBUM shortcodes inside the posts. NextGEN Gallery can be used for this purpose.
I was hoping for something that didn’t need shortcodes. I some times have things post from posterous and include multiple images. I would be nice if a plugin would detect multiple images in a post and create a slideshow from them.
Maybe its me being lazy
@JasonB
Haha let’s hope these kinda plugins in future! You can give a suggestion to wordpress plugin developers or in their forums!
Thanks for dropping by.
Thnak you very much. this post useful for me
Another amazing flickr plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-photo-post/
The Flickr WordPress Plugin allows you to add flickr images to your wordpress posts.
Hi
I am a photographer and need to upload a lot of photos and automate my alt codes. I used to use an old traditional web site with hundreds of photos in it, and now moving to word press I realise I need to add alt coding to all of my images. Copying and pasting loses its fun factor withing 2 minutes. Do any of these automate the procedure? eg copying and adding automatically my post title to the alt?
Thanks for your help
Thanks for rounding up the photo galleries. Exactly what I needed to know.
@MatthewC
I guess there is no way to automate this procedure so far. However you can go for some good plugins like ‘SEO Friendly Images’ to optimize your images for SEO.
Good luck.
One of the best posts I read lately
I have just set up the Next Gen gallery and it seems to work pretty well. Love the sidebar widgets. Thanks
would be nice to see some snapshots so we can see what each gallery looks like
You might want to add my new jQuery Facebook gallery to the list.
It’s cool but not flash, so google will index your captions (and keywords with them)
You can stop uploading your photos to WordPress and just use your own existing Facebook Albums!
http://socialblogsitewebdesign.com/wordpress_plugins/darkroom-facebook-photo-gallery