WordPress Gallery Plugin
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, and one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time, with over 6 million downloads.
It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.
The NextGEN Gallery WordPress gallery plugin is now proudly maintained by Photocrati Media. Special thanks to Alex Rabe who created and maintained NextGEN from 2007 through 2011.
NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin Features
Upload Galleries
- Our WordPress gallery plugin offers diverse and powerful functionality for getting images from your desktop to your website. You can easily upload batches of images via a standard WordPress-style uploader, or upload images via zip file or FTP. NextGEN will automatically import your images meta data.
Manage Galleries
- Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries.
- Edit galleries. Add or exclude images, change gallery title and description, reorder of images, resize thumbnails.
- Thumbnail Management. Turn thumbnail cropping on and off, customize how individual thumbnails are cropped, and bulk resize thumbnails across one or more galleries.
- Edit Individual Images. Edit meta data and image tags, rotate images, and exclude images.
- Watermarks. Quickly add watermarks to batches or galleries of images.
- Albums. Create and organize collections of galleries, and display them in either compact or extended format.
Display Galleries
- Two Gallery Types. Choose between two main display styles: Slideshow and Thumbnail, and allow visitors to toggle between the two.
- Slideshow Galleries. Choose from a vast array of options for slideshows, including slideshow size, transition style, speed, image order, and optional navigation bar.
- Thumbnail Galleries. Choose from a wide range of options to customize thumbnail galleries, including 5 different lightboxes for individual images, optional thumbnail cropping and editing, thumbnail styles, captions, and more.
- Single Image Displays. Display and format single images.
- Work with Options Panel or Shortcodes.
NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin Community & Extensions
NextGEN has been the dominant WordPress gallery plugin for years. As a result, there is large and great community of users and developers, as well as a large number of dedicated extension plugins. For a list of extension plugins, just search for NextGEN in the WordPress.org plugin repository, or visit our Complete List of NextGEN Extension Plugins.
INSTALLATION
- Download, upload and install .zip under Plugins >> Add New > Upload, and activate the NextGEN Gallery WordPress gallery plugin.
- From your WordPress Dashboard, go to Gallery > Add Gallery/Images > Follow the on-screen cues.
- Go to a post/page, and select the NextGEN Gallery button from the Kitchen Sink. Follow the on-screen cues to select, adjust, and publish your gallery.
FAQ
Will NextGEN Gallery work with my theme?
Part of what makes the NextGEN Gallery WordPress gallery plugin so popular is its flexibility – it works with the vast majority of premium and free themes, without requiring any coding.
Are the galleries flash based?
No, NextGEN Gallery uses Javascript (J-Query) based displays to ensure compatibility across the widest range of displays possible.
Are the galleries mobile friendly?
Yes, since we use Javascript rather than flash, NextGEN Gallery is compatible with Android, iOS, and Blackberry.
What is the difference between a gallery and an album?
In the simplest of terms, Galleries contain your images and Albums contain your Galleries. Albums act as links and placeholders to quickly and easily navigate your galleries – Galleries will actually display your images.
Can I upload multiple images at once?
Yes, you can batch upload entire galleries at a time.
Can I password protect galleries?
Yes, WordPress allows you to password protect pages by default – which includes all galleries and content for the entire page. Password protection of pages can be turned on and off at any time, with just a few clicks.
Can I add a watermark to the images/slideshows?
Yes, you can add text or image watermarks to your gallery images.
Can I crop thumbnails?
Yes, each thumbnail image can be individually adjusted to suit your needs.
Is there pagination for galleries?
Yes, and you can adjust the amount of images to be shown on a page at any time.
Can I customize the lightbox?
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.
Can I add HTML to the captions?
Yes, caption areas are fully HMTL capable.
Can I add an external links to galleries?
Since the captions are fully HTML capable, you can add external links and any other type of mark up you wish.
Is NextGEN Gallery available in foreign languages?
Yes, the NextGEN Gallery WordPress gallery plugin has been translated into dozens of languages – click here to find out more.
More Information
For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.
SCREENSHOT
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Screenshot Admin Area![nextgen-gallery screenshot 2]()
Screenshot Album Selection![nextgen-gallery screenshot 3]()
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Screenshot Watermark function![nextgen-gallery screenshot 5]()
Screenshot Flexible template layout![nextgen-gallery screenshot 6]()
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