25 Most Downloaded Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins

7th Jul 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 62 Comments

Photo Gallery, picture gallery, or slideshow are the best way to showcase your images/photos to your readers. There are a lot of different methods to create them, and the alternative you’re most likely to be using Flash or JavaScript.
With flash you can create very nice and impressive animations, however the downside is that Flash isn’t really Search Engine Friendly. And the javaScript enables us to create a great deal of nice effects which are Search Engine Friendly and only need the javascript to be enabled in your browser (which most browsers have by default).

Below is the most downloaded image gallery plugins that we have choosen directly from the wordpress plugin directory. To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every image plugin! All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.

But before you got ahead here are our other WordPress Image Gallery and Slideshow related posts:

• 20+ Beautiful WordPress Slideshow Plugins
• Top 20+ jQuery Slideshow and Image Gallery Tutorials

Premium Plugin

Using Lightbox, Thickbox, and Fancybox Effect

Using Flip Effect

Simple Image Gallery

Flickr Gallery

Image Tools

Using Flash

Slideshow

Conclusion

I hope you all love this collection If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!
Thanks…

51 Comments to “25 Most Downloaded Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins”

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1. dwidrg says:

   July 8, 2010 at 02:36

   Pertamaxxxxxxxxxx……..lum ada yang komen

   Reply
2. Jay Philips says:

   July 11, 2010 at 18:02

   Awesome list. I use Shadowbox JS the most.

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   • Eko S. says:

     July 12, 2010 at 00:09

     Thanks Jay, we glad you like it

     Reply
3. Deon Blaauw says:

   July 17, 2010 at 12:50

   AMAZING galleries! thank you!!! for the designers, this is surely a job very well done!

   Reply
4. nehpetS says:

   August 13, 2010 at 07:35

   page flip image gallery Demo link lead back to this page ..

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5. WalkFront says:

   August 22, 2010 at 20:12

   Very nice collections, thanks for share….

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6. sosexpert says:

   September 13, 2010 at 07:02

   thanks for this article… very nice!!!

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7. Paradise Beach Hotel says:

   November 6, 2010 at 04:48

   Great list, but i would add Fotobook and Facebook Photo Fetcher Plugins which are great for sharing your profile facebook or Fan Page photos on your wordpress enabled website…

   Reply
   • Ron says:

     April 24, 2011 at 22:34

     Thanks for the tip! One of the drawbacks to a lot of these photo galleries is the inability to easily rearrange the order of pictures once they’re uploaded. In Facebook, it’s a simple drag & drop process.

     Reply
8. Abhishek says:

   November 25, 2010 at 06:33

   Great compilation!! It really helped.

   -Abhi

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9. Araceli says:

   January 20, 2011 at 18:27

   wow, thanks, it’s all that I needed

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10. giga says:

    January 30, 2011 at 06:50

    These articles are fantastic; the information you show us is interesting for everybody and is really good written. It’s just great!

    Reply
11. irawsinvader says:

    February 12, 2011 at 02:13

    thank you ….
    very useful info,,,,
    very helpful at all ….

    Reply
12. Designer Renji says:

    March 6, 2011 at 22:29

    Nice……………useful…………….Thanks

    Reply
13. Elliot Condon says:

    March 15, 2011 at 23:14

    Hey, nice collection

    You should have a look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-matrix/
    It lets you create a custom image gallery and much more!

    Perfect for php developers or anyone who can understand code.

    Reply
    • Eko S. says:

      March 20, 2011 at 21:37

      Hi Elliot, thanks for share the plugin. yes that plugin is great for developers but not for newbie.

      Reply
14. gaurav says:

    March 26, 2011 at 00:54

    nice post
    thanks for sharing.
    but i want header image slideshow wordpress plugin
    please help

    Reply
    • Eko S. says:

      May 18, 2011 at 00:26

      Hi gaurav,

      we’ve a free wordpress theme that features your wish, here: Lempong theme with header image slider.

      Hope you’ll like it

      Thanks

      Reply
15. Hendrik says:

    April 12, 2011 at 01:49

    Hey,

    great list you put together!

    We just had a similar thing done. We selected the best five gallery plugins and wrote detailed reviews about them. So if anybody is interested is welcome to visit us: Best Gallery Plugins.

    Thanks for you post and see you soon

    Greetings from Germany

    Hendrik

    Reply
16. nanda says:

    April 29, 2011 at 18:47

    nice post … good job

    Reply
17. Frey says:

    May 13, 2011 at 22:26

    Thank you for share this slideshow plugin….
    I want to try install the plugin on my site http://designsxtra.com

    -Thank you dynamicwp-

    Reply
18. omar aviles says:

    May 17, 2011 at 20:53

    Nice list! Do you know which one works well with all browsers and can be uploaded by post and category?

    Reply
    • Eko S. says:

      May 18, 2011 at 00:23

      Hi omar,
      I apologize, I’ve never tried it all. But you can choose which one is the best for you. And if you’ve a problem, their author will answer your problem I think.

      Thanks.

      Reply
      • omar aviles says:

        May 18, 2011 at 09:07

        Thank you Eko for your rapid response. I appreciate the response.
      • Eko S. says:

        May 18, 2011 at 22:11

        You’re welcome

        Hope it helpful…
19. Marian says:

    May 24, 2011 at 11:22

    Thanks for the article! A lot of great tools.
    Among them, is there one that allows users to download the pictures?

    Reply
    • Eko S. says:

      May 25, 2011 at 01:08

      Hi Marian,
      You’re welcome
      Em…I see, the above tools are to display the image only.

      Reply
20. mark says:

    May 30, 2011 at 10:27

    Great list. I will recommend http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-gallery-plugin/ great plugin created using Jquery Nivo Slider.

    Reply
21. Football highglights says:

    May 31, 2011 at 08:58

    Awesome plugins, thanks for all

    Reply
22. Wordpress Themes says:

    June 9, 2011 at 00:36

    I’ve not found a better platform for building and managing a website. Doesn’t matter whether you’re blogging, have a store front, create a massive business site or need a basic, static website to promote your services and products – WordPress can manage it all.
    And te themes are not only good for personal use, but also for your clients, makes it easier to customize to there style.

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23. NancyL says:

    June 25, 2011 at 15:13

    The NextGEN Gallery picture shows a thumbnail bar over an image, but I don’t see a way to make NextGEN Gallery generate a thumbnail bar.

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24. darek says:

    July 14, 2011 at 13:03

    I found funny plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/funny-demotivators/ – demotivational pictures in wordpress

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25. Seth Ridley says:

    August 11, 2011 at 04:21

    Here’s a new free gallery plugin that we’ve just released. The thumbnails sit in the sidebar, and when clicked you get the main image loaded into the centre column.

    You can find out more at http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/plugins and there’s a support forum at http://www.support.kinocreative.co.uk.

    All feedback is welcome on this one.

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26. steven says:

    August 16, 2011 at 13:05

    I’m looking for a gallery/thumbnail viewer that also lets the user download the full-sized image I have stored (I’m using this so that magazine editors can find and get photos of our products).

    I don’t want them to have to right-click, but I want a “download” or “save” link that will give them the full-sized image.

    Suggestions?

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    • steven says:

      August 16, 2011 at 13:17

      Oh, and ideally, I’d like to have some specs about the photo in a description area (e.g. actual size in pixels and KB)

      Reply
27. David says:

    August 17, 2011 at 07:05

    Dear Friends,

    I just saw your post it was really and i saw few more post about wordpress image gallery mac doc effect. what do you guys think about this product. Here is the source i found http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Wordpress/Mac-Photo-Gallery

    Reply
28. Henry says:

    August 25, 2011 at 01:33

    When I view your wordpress plugins its really amazing and nice to see… click through this link and find more updates http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Wordpress/Apptha-Banner

    Reply
29. Cino says:

    August 31, 2011 at 13:39

    Thanks a lot for this great list.

    We were just looking for a facebook style gallery (for our event and photo site http://www.evefo.ch) and found more useful plugins!

    Cheers

    Reply
30. Adam says:

    September 12, 2011 at 11:25

    NextGen gallery has been brilliant for me, great plugin and with the java addons its a pretty sleek gallery

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31. Tasder says:

    September 15, 2011 at 13:06

    Check this one worpdress photo gallery plugin: http://1plugin.com
    Great effects, fast and easy to use

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32. jam says:

    September 21, 2011 at 11:17

    hey guys im looking for a thumbnail plug in in which i can assign each image to a specific url please if anyone knows please help thank you

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33. Mladen says:

    October 18, 2011 at 17:56

    Hi, great list. List with demos, finally. Thanks. You are #4 on google for “wordpress image gallery plugin”, when I am singed in G8 job! Well, I have to notice that it will be much better to know key features of each gallery, or at least is there a paid ver. of gallery witch indicate that you dont wanna use that one, since it is crippled quit badly

    G8 job, thanks again, regards – I have to get back to work now

    Sincelery,
    Mladen

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34. Wedding Photography Colchester says:

    October 20, 2011 at 13:16

    Fantastic collection, many many thanks

    Reply
35. just wondering says:

    October 24, 2011 at 22:57

    How do you get your images on wordpress to work in all browsers?

    Reply
36. Glenn says:

    November 1, 2011 at 12:02

    Fantastic list. I have tried several of the flash galleries in the past and found that most of them use a lot of server resources. I use “Just Host” and they flip out and close your account if you hit 90% resource use. I had to just remove all galleries due to worry of losing my account after such an incident.

    Does anyone have a suggestion for a gallery that uses very little resources? Perhaps just one you are using without problems on a host with the same 90% restriction.

    Thanks for the great list.

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37. dheeraj yadav says:

    November 13, 2011 at 18:15

    these are the really most needed plugins for everyone it helps to choose the right gallery plugin for my site.

    Reply
38. Marc says:

    November 26, 2011 at 15:37

    How is it that TN3 Gallery is a “WordPress Plugin”. There is no WP plugin for TN3 Gallery on their website. Please, if you can, provide a link to a TN3 Gallery based WP Plugin. TIA

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39. Allyson says:

    December 5, 2011 at 20:59

    I agree with Marc – kind of misleading to have a non-wordpress product on this page. I bought the darned thing and now can’t use it! According to TN3 they are working on a WP version but it is not out yet and no timeline mentioned…

    Reply
40. kalpana says:

    January 5, 2012 at 22:38

    It is simply superb and very interesting too……..

    Reply
41. Casey says:

    January 11, 2012 at 21:30

    what about gallery that shows a full image? all of these are just square, landscape or portrait.. what about having a gallery with all options? I don’t just photograph or design in all landscape or all portrait anyone know of anything good i can use for this?

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42. sergio says:

    February 1, 2012 at 07:25

    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

    Reply

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