Best Gallery WordPress Plugins (Free) 2023

This is a list of some of the best gallery WordPress plugins (all free)

WordPress Responsive Gallery Plugin – FooGallery

Why choose FooGallery? Stunning image gallery layouts, responsive, retina-ready, lightning fast, easy to use. Gutenberg Ready! Built to be highly configurable and extensible for developers or freelancers.

Features

• 6 Beautiful Image Gallery templates
  • Responsive Image Gallery
  • Image Viewer Gallery
  • Masonry Gallery
  • Simple Portfolio
  • Justified Gallery
  • Single Thumbnail Gallery
• Albums built-in! (Activate the albums extension)
  • Responsive Album Layout
  • All-in-one Stack Album
• Gutenberg ready (Gallery previews inside the new editor!)
• Lazy loading
• Simple Pagination (dots)
• Live previews in admin
• Retina thumbnail support
• Gallery Widget
• Use built-in media library to manage images
• Drag n Drop reordering of images and galleries
• Custom CSS for both galleries and albums
• Copy to clipboard shortcodes
• Visual shortcodes in rich text editor
• Gallery picker to insert shortcodes
• Page usage metabox with one-click gallery page creation
• NextGen importer tool (albums and galleries and shortcodes)
• Multisite Support

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Gallery Plugin for WordPress – Envira Photo Gallery

Full Envira Feature List

• Guttenberg Blocks for WordPress 5.0
• Drag & Drop Photo Gallery Builder
• 100% Responsive – Mobile Friendly
• Beautiful WordPress Templates for Customization
• Albums – Easily organize your photo galleries, choose cover photos, and more.
• Social Sharing – Share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+
• Video Galleries – Not just for photos! You can add YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, and other videos in your video gallery.
• Watermarking – Protect your images from theft with watermarking.
• Slideshow – Add beautiful slideshow with autoplay, manual controls, and more.
• Deeplinking – Make your gallery and images SEO friendly and easily link to individual images with deeplinking.
• Pagination – Split your large galleries into multiple pages to improve page speed, user experience, and pageviews.
• Image Proofing – We made client image proofing easy for your photography business.
• WooCommerce Integration – Instantly display and sell your photos with the most popular eCommerce software on the web.
• Image Tags – Organize your WordPress photos with tags for easy search and display that also filtrable.
• Password Protection – Prevent unauthorized access to your WordPress galleries.
• Standalone Galleries – Create independent galleries that are not tied to your posts or pages.
• EXIF Meta Data – Display your EXIF data including camera model, aperture, shutter speed, and more.
• Pinterest – Add the Pinterest Pin It button to improve your reach.
• Instagram – Import Instagram images.
• FullScreen Display – Take advantage of the native fullscreen and Lightbox display.
• Supersized Images – Don’t want to crop or resize your images? Supersize allows you to do just that.
• Dynamic Galleries – Easily create galleries on the fly from various different sources.
• Gallery Defaults – Speed up the creation process by saving your default settings.
• CSS Styles – Customize your portfolio by adding custom CSS and styles.
• Adobe Lightroom to WordPress – Do you love Adobe Lightroom? We do too. You can automatically create and sync photo galleries from your Adobe Lightroom Collections. We made Lightroom to WordPress import easy!
• Zip Importer – Nobody likes uploading images individually. Now you can build a gallery from a .zip file.
• Dropbox Importer – You can easily import photos from your Dropbox account.
• NextGen Importer – Not a fan of NextGen? You can import your files in few simple clicks.

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Modula Image Gallery

With Modula, it’s easier than ever to build stunning lightbox galleries, masonry grids, custom grids and more in no more than a few clicks right from the WordPress dashboard.
Modula is the best WordPress gallery plugin for adding custom, unique and responsive galleries to your website. There is a free version of Modula available (Modula Lite) and a premium version (Modula Pro) both of which will allow you to add amazing, fast-loading galleries to your website.

What is Modula good for?
Modula is also the best WordPress portfolio plugin as it allows you to easily showcase your amazing work in a stunning gallery.
* Custom Grid
With Modula’s custom grid functionality you can freely resize images within your gallery’s container, controlling their heights, widths and aspect ratio. You can create beautiful and unique grids to highlight your work.
* Video Gallery
Create stunning video galleries with both self-hosted videos and videos from sources like YouTube and Vimeo. Let your videos speak for themselves.
* GIF Gallery
Let your website’s visitors explore your work and share with them the best GIF galleries and most popular animated GIFs using Modula. Create funny an entertaining GIF galleries with Modula.
* Social Sharing
Allow visitors to share your images using various hover effects. You can add Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Whatsapp icons.
* Filterable Gallery
With Modula, you can easily add filters to your galleries to make it easier for your website’s visitors to quickly sort through a larger collection of images.
* Password Protected Gallery
Don’t want your galleries to be public? Protect private galleries with passwords using the Modula gallery plugin.
* Albums
Using Modula Albums you can easily organize galleries in Albums, select featured images, grid type, hover effect and much more.
* Slider Gallery
Display your Modula galleries in a unique way using the Slider addon. You can switch it up by adding different elements to the slider: dots, arrows, a fade effect, infinite loop, center mode and more.
* Modula Slideshow
Modula Slideshow allows you to turn your gallery’s lightbox into a stunning slideshow. Allow visitors to easily view the entire gallery in a calm and relaxed manner.

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WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery

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 for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals.

On the back end, NextGEN offers a complete WordPress gallery management system with the ability to batch upload photos, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort photos, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more.

On the front end, the free version of NextGEN 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.

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Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

Photo Gallery is the leading plugin for building beautiful mobile-friendly galleries in a few minutes.

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 in use yet packed with powerful functionality, allowing you to create anything from simple photo galleries to selling digital content right from your website (Premium version). 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

• Increased visitor engagement – Images and photos grab attention and make websites more engaging. Using images in your posts and pages will result in increased visitor engagement and can give a boost on your posts’ pageviews.
• Enhanced SEO – Adding relevant tags and metadata to the images can enhance your SEO and provide more visibility in relevant search results in Google.
• Better page navigation – Organized galleries and albums will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience.
• Modern web design – Relevant high-resolution photos displayed in beautiful layouts are an integral part of a well-designed website that gets results.
• Full Control – Plugin gives you flexibility in terms of the design and customization of your galleries. You’ll get full control over the style, optimization and display of visual content on your website.

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Image Gallery by Robo – Responsive Photo Gallery

Gallery on your website it’s really attractive and very important part of your pages. If you looking for fast, easy plugin with simple and very beautiful, highly customizable design here is it… With thia plugin even newbie in WordPress will be able to create your first gallery in few minutes and at the same time WordPress professionals get advanced tools and freedom of creativity. Just download this plugin and you’ll not look for any other plugin any more!

Key Features

• Gutenberg block – implemented Gutenberg gallery block for simple and fast configuration of the plugin in Gutenberg editor.
• Fully responsive and Mobile features – plugin implemented with advanced settings for different devices screen size.
• Fade effects – one of the hover animation it’s classic fade effect.
• Batch images upload – advanced media manager which allow to upload batch of the images by one click. Just drag and drop set of the gallery images and it’s upload automatically to the server.
• Auto-resizing for thumbnails and images – media manager allow you make additional customization of the images, like: rotation, flip, crop, manual resize.
• Customizable 15 hover effects – all hover effects working in cooperation with interface configuration options. You can easily change style and colors of the hover animation elements.
• Implemented to avoid AJAX libs conflicts – code implemented in native WordPress style as result our plugin don’t have any conflicts and work really stable.
• Polaroid gallery – with our plugin you can create Polaroid layout just with few clicks.
• Advanced Polaroid Styles – Polaroid styles implemented with advanced functionality. Implemented left, right and centre images titles alignment. Polaroid description panel of the images background color selector.
• Build in colors selector – you can easily change color of any interface element.
• Social sharing – gallery lightbox support social sharing in twitter, facebook, google plus and pinterest.
• Build in borders and shadows settings – borders and shadows have advanced options for configuration design and style of this gallery interface elements.
• Font settings – build in advanced text style editor options. With this options you can fully customize title, caption, description of the every image
• Different resolutions – implemented advanced size control options where you can define layout or fixed size for the interface elements on different screen resolutions
• Implemented in native WordPress style using native classes – native for WordPress implemented without any hacks and tricks
• Multi Categories – multi categories albums support. You can create your own galleries tree, depend of your needs
• Classic layout – layout could have classic style or grid layout, every item on page could have own styles and settings
• Advanced pagination function – pagination function implemented in google load more style
• Work in IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome – work properly in all latest versions of the popular browsers
• Lazy loading option – implemented advanced lazy loading options, for the case when you have big sets of the images you can define amount of the galleries images for the first load and for the next steps of the load more option
• Advanced cache options – implemented advanced images caching options
• Overlay effects – all hover effects of the thumbnails are highly customizable and have full set of options
• Backend text settings preview – all images titles, captions, descriptions are highly customizable also we have life preview of the changes in backend
• Resizing crop function – in media managed you’ll find great set of very useful features for example images crop, and manual resizing
• Optional mobile touch support – our plugin support mobile devices and you can customize responsive gallery layout settings for different screen sizes
• Custom ordering of the images – ordering for all images could be easily changed manually in media manager or you can find order by options in general settings
• Ability to insert plugin to the WordPress post, page, widget – every item could be insert in to post, page or widget with build in shortcode tag or using wizard button – shortcode generator in post or page editor
• Lightbox social buttons – in plugin settings you can turn on/off social buttons
• Lightbox background color – in lightbox settings you can change color of the background with comfortable color selector
• Lightbox background transparency – in lightbox settings you can change transparency of the background with comfortable color selector
• Lightbox font color – in lightbox settings you can change color of the font with comfortable color selector
• Lightbox font transparency – in lightbox settings you can change transparency of the font with comfortable color selector
• Advanced Compatibility – implement advanced compatibility options to avoid conflict with libraries of another plugins and theme. You can switch between modes to find properly value for your case.
• Advanced Social Sharing – advanced social sharing functionality in lightbox. Implemented deep linking functionality for the images social sharing services Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, VK
• Click Thumbnails – advanced click functionality. You can use click on buttons or on the gallery thumbnails to enlarge image or open image link. With new functionality you can combine absolutely different features of the clicking functionality.
• Alignment – alignment of the photo gallery in post or page depend of your needs. You don’t need to use HTML tags or some CSS tricks this function gonna help you to align your images gallery the way you need. Possible to select one from implemented alignment modes: left, right, center for images alignment inside post or page content.
• Padding – new padding options. Define custom values in pixels for padding thumbnails block in post or page content. Is it possible to define padding from left, right, top and bottom side.
• Post Generator – new function for the automatically post creation with gallery tag inside it. Advanced post manager implemented with additional functions for customization and management all your posts in one place.
• Description Panel – new image description panel in lightbox, few different themes. Settings section make you able to change content panel theme styles. In description panel you can define few content source. Image title, image caption or image description.
• Swipe in Lightbox – lightbox support swipe effect on multiply mobile devices. Swipe properly work in lightbox for all images. Tested for Android and iOS.
• Advanced Link Button Design – front end interface have link button. This button provide linking functionality on every thumbnail.
  This interface button have wide range of the front end interface customization options. You can easily change this button color, border and icon.
• Hover Description Template – every image contain description field. In additional parameters of the image hover you can define some HTML or tags or build-in tags for customization of the image description.
• Plugin Compatibility Settings – in plugin settings you can customize general plugin settings to avoid conflicts with another plugins or wordpress theme.
• Admin Interface Modes – in pluign settings you can customize plugin interface settings to avoid conflicts with another plugins.
• Video Links – in media manager every image have separate option for video link. Video links could be specified to to the youtube or vimeo.
• Images Custom Ratio – in plugin settings you can define custom ratio for every picture. Every gallery could have personal settings for this option.
• Thumbnails Fade Effect – implemented Fade effect for the hover of the photo thumbnails. With such hover animation effect become more attractive and eye catching.
• Advanced Load more function – implemented very attractive navigation mode. Auto pre loading images like endless list of the images. Load more function have alot of customization options to make it work the way you need.
• SEO code optimization – implemented few front end code output modes. One simplified mode with all core front end code elements another mode with additional not visible elements. This option have additional modes. This SEO output modes give you default output mode, thumbnail, thumnails+links mode.
• Template – in our plugin we have advanced templating engine for images description. Every hover text of image could be edit and customized with built-in templating options.
• Cache – incredible new super cache option make your page load ten time faster. This function use absolutely new model of the images load. When you enable cache for big size gallery it’s gonna be much faster and effective to use our plugin. Your visitors will be really surprised by the speed of the page load.

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