Plugin URL:https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Plugin Author: Syed Balkhi
WordPress profile: Syed Balkhi
Last updated: January 29, 2025 (1 month ago)
Tested up to (WP version): WP 6.7.2
Downloaded: 0
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Description
WordPress Gallery Plugin
NextGEN Gallery has been the industry’s standard WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It’s easy to use for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals who need a comprehensive photo gallery solution.
NextGEN Gallery offers complete WordPress gallery management with the ability to batch upload photos, import metadata, easily add, delete, rearrange photos and create an unlimited number of galleries. You can even simply provide a zip file or choose a folder to upload photos.
But our photo gallery plugin doesn’t stop there!
NextGEN Pro
This plugin is the lite version of the NextGEN Gallery plugin, which offers all the gallery features you’ll need like photo albums, lightboxes, backups, search, sharing, filtering, print fulfillment, eCommerce, animations, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress now!
The free version of NextGEN gallery provides three main gallery styles (slideshow, thumbnail, and imagebrowser galleries) and two album styles (compact and extended), all of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more. Learn more about NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin features.
The best gets better with full support for the Gutenberg block editor. Now you can add a photo gallery or album anywhere on your site, with a page builder type feel directly in the WordPress editor. We truly make creating, building, and editing galleries easy.
Feature List
We’ve built NextGEN Gallery to be extremely powerful and full of features.
- Albums Organize multiple photo galleries into albums for easy sorting and viewing
- Tags Group multiple images together with tags, with easy-to-update renaming and management
- eCommerce Sell images from your photo gallery, or sell entire galleries with our built in payment processing. Works with Stripe and PayPal.
- Slideshows Make your galleries automatically rotate through a series of images
- Themes Access 84+ different types of themes to showcase your galleries
- Animations Create visual interest with 25+ different types of animations for each gallery
- Watermarks Protect your work with image and text-based watermarks.
- Capabilities Customize who can read, edit, and publish galleries with refined permsisions controls
- Image Proofing Let your customers choose which photos to purchase and improve your workflow.
- Print Fulfillment Sell your photos and ship prints directly to customers with automated print lab fulfillment and zero commissions
- Auto Tax calculations Automatically calculate sales tax when required for your customers.
- Coupons Offer discounts and incentives to increase your gallery sales
- Lightroom Integration Automatically sync and create photo galleries from Adobe Lightroom into NextGEN Gallery without any need to update your website.
- Social Sharing Create viral social media opportunities when your images are optimized for Open Graph and X
- Image Commenting * Add deep engagement to your images within the lightbox to increase gallery engagement
- Deep Linking Link directly to a specific image from one of your galleries
- Frontend Search * Add powerful filtering for your gallery based on tags
- Hover Captions * Add social sharing, tiles, and descriptions for each image
- Digital Downloads Offer digital downloads of your images for free, or chage for them with our eCommerce gallery plugin
- Right Click Disable prevent images in your galleries from being downloaded with easy right click and drag/drop protection.
- Customization * We’ve built in lots of individual customizations for each of our features so that you can make NextGEN Gallery perfect for you
As you can see, we’ve built a photo gallery plugin that is suitable for everyone! Want a specific or missing feature? Just let us know.
NEXTGEN GALLERY DEMOS
*Basic Thumbnail Gallery
*Basic Slideshow Gallery
*Basic Imagebrowser Gallery
*Basic Compact Album
*Basic List Album
NEXTGEN PRO DEMOS
*Photo Print Sales
*Photo Proofing
*Digital Downloads
*Pro Mosaic Gallery
*Pro Masonry Gallery
*Pro Tile Gallery
*Pro Filmstrip Gallery
*Pro Lightbox
About Imagely
NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin maintained by Imagely. We’re the WordPress photography experts. In addition to NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Plus, and NextGEN Pro, we also make WordPress themes for photographers, providing beautiful turnkey websites for photographers.
Learn more or connect with us:
*Imagely Website
*WordPress Themes for Photographers
*Turnkey Photography Sites
*NextGEN Gallery Documentation
Credits
Copyright: Imagely 2016-2024
Shortcodes
NextGEN Gallery offers an easy-to-use Insert Gallery Window, which means you never need to work with shortcodes again when inserting and manageing galleries – if you would prefer not too.
If you do want to work with shortcodes, there is a powerful shortcode system as you’d expect of a popular WordPress gallery plugin. Learn About NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes.
For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.
FAQ
This is often due to the URL paths to the CSS and JavaScript files used by the Lightbox Effects not being changed to relevant addresses based on the new site. This article will help sort out this issue if that is the case: Why are my galleries not opening up in a lightbox?.
Yes. See NextGEN Gallery Documentation.
Yup, NextGEN is a popular and well-established WordPress gallery plugin, and has been for a long time. It will work well with most other themes and plugins in the WordPress ecosystem.
Nope, we do not use flash elements.
Yes, we’ve put a lot of work into this and, NextGEN Galleries are compatible with phones and tablets, inluding Android and iOS operating systems. All photo galleries are also responsive, so galleries look good on diverse screen sizes. NextGEN Pro also includes a fullscreen, responsive Pro Lightbox with mobile gesture support. It’s great for viewing photos on mobile devices.
In simple terms, Albums are collections of galleries. So Galleries contain your photos and Albums contain your Galleries. Albums act as links and placeholders to quickly and easily navigate your galleries. Galleries will actually display your images.
Yes, you can batch upload entire photo galleries at one time or even include zip folders.
Yes, WordPress allows you to password protect pages by default – which includes all photo galleries and content for the entire page. Password protection pages can be turned on and off at any time, with just a few clicks.
Yes, you can add text or image watermarks to your gallery images.
Yes, each thumbnail image can be individually adjusted to suit your needs.
Yes, you can use pagination when displaying thumbnail galleries. You can adjust the amount of photos to be shown on a page at any time.
Yes, the lightbox can be configured with multiple options directly from the Dashboard, and there are multiple CSS styles, which can be applied and modified as well. If you want even more options, consider upgrading to NextGEN Pro and using the NextGEN Pro lightbox.
Yes, caption areas are fully HMTL capable.
Since the captions are fully HTML capable, you can add external links and any other type of markup you wish.
Yes, our WordPress gallery plugin has been translated into dozens of languages – click here to find out more.
For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.
Screenshots:
Thumbnail Gallery
Slideshow Gallery
Imagebrowser Gallery
Manage Gallery Page
Insert Gallery Window
Gallery Settings Page
Other notes:
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Tags:
gallery, image gallery, photo gallery, slideshow, wordpress gallery plugin
+ Jason's Comments
A couple of things to be aware about:
1. NextGEN plugin uploads gallery images to it’s own directory, the images are not available from the WordPress image library.
2. The free version has a limited lightbox popup to show larger size of the thumb images. I found the premium upgrade for the responsive mobile friendly lightbox was a better option than rebuilding from scratch with an alternative gallery.