11 Brilliant Thumbnail Gallery Samples That You’ll Surely Like

1. iLightBox · Revolutionary Lightbox for WordPress

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Compatible with the regular wordpress gallery shortcode.Option to preview thumbnail over navigation.“Great work on this plugin! It’s quite fantastic! It’s definitely the wordpress image gallery plugin I’ve used for Wordpress. I’ve bought 6 gallery plugins and this is the first one that manages loading images smoothly on slow connections. * Optimized: Creating new gallery. * Optimized: Native gallery shortcode. * Added: Native support for Gallery Shortcode. * Added: Enable on nextgen photo gallery shortcode option. * Fixed: Gallery in feed page.

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2. WOW Slider

WOW Slider

The most strong and popular web design trend over last couple of years is a sliding horizontal panels also known as Sliders or Carousels. Image slider is a very effective method to increase the web site usability and engage the user.

WOW Slider is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects and tons of professionally made templates. NO Coding - WOW Slider is packed with a point-and-click wizard to create fantastic sliders in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. Wordpress slider plugin and Joomla slider module are available.

Also, you can share your slider on Facebook.

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3. SoapBox Gallery For WordPress

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net style gallery in WordPress with Views and Voting Functionality

Sidebar quickview with title, feature image, excerpt content, post gallery, avatar, author name.Pagination is ajax loaded – the user does not leave the page when cycling through all the gallery pages.All gallery images are loaded into prettyPhoto lightbox with gallery option.Dynamically sort gallery items by date(ascending, descending).Dynamically sort gallery items by amount of votes(ascending, descending).Scrolling effect on top and bottom right sidebar elements mouseover and auto scroll of right sidebar when the gallery is above the window.

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4. ImagePress

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ImagePress is a multi-purpose fully-featured and WordPress-integrated image gallery plugin.option to choose maximum width for thumbnails (create nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols, masonry-enhanced);

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5. Global Gallery - Wordpress Responsive Gallery

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Global Gallery comes with three gallery layouts, four lightboxes ready to use and is designed to be visible on each device: whether you are using a retina MacBook or an Android phone.100% multilanguage – Global Gallery now is completely translatable both in front and back-end.Global Gallery has been completely enhanced, almost all the code has been optimized and many new features has beed added.Gallery Collections: Need a smart and clean way to display and categorize multiple galleries galleries? Now you can create gallery collections. Using the “easy-sorting mode” the gallery builder will become compact, allowing you to sort everything seamlessly.Choose if display your images with a classic gallery layout, a masonry one or with the new PhothoString one (see layout examples here). Finally, set the thumbnail center to display images always correctly.With Global Gallery you can make everything in few seconds!

Why using only wordpress images? Global Gallery is ready to catch images from:

Global Gallery albums (created via FTP)

Automatic gallery creation

Don’t want to lose time selecting images one by one? Global gallery allow you to create a gallery only with a click.Set the interval on which the gallery is re-built.Finally, choose if add images randomly and set a maximum images number for the gallery.Why forcing you to use a specific lightbox? Global Gallery comes with four lightboxes ready to use: Fancybox, ColorBox, PrettyPhoto and the brand new LCweb lightbox!

Protect your images disabling the right click and moreover with the Global Gallery watermark system.1 Click fast setup, thumbnail effects and much more

Global Gallery comes also with two premium effects to apply to your thumbnails: grayscale and blur!

Everything is fully custimizable: set the overlays position and visibility, the thumbnail colours, borders, and much more!

To make the plugin easy for everyone, the documentation comes with detailed videos explaining each step necessary to setup and use Global Gallery:

First gallery creation w/ WP library

Galleries with Global Gallery albums

Automatic gallery creation

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6. LBGallery for WordPress

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LBGallery is a wordpress image gallery that allows users to easily create a gallery. You can use it to create a photo gallery, video gallery (support youtube and vimeo) or mixed with rating system. Upload unlimited images/videos for each gallery

Support rating for gallery or image

Easy to layout thumbnail (title, description, author, date, rating blocks)

[New] Lightbox options (theme, show or hide overlay gallery, show or hide social tools, thumbnail dimension)

[New] Thumbnail opacity when mouse hover and leave

[New]Thumbnail border style (width, style, color)

[New] Thumbnail border spacing (distance from border to thumbnail content)

[Fix] Image thumbnail in images list

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7. Canyon Gallery (WP GRAND FlAGallery Skin)

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Canyon Gallery (skin) will help you to easily add gallery to your WordPress website or blog.Insert gallery to your Wordpress site with a widget or with shortcode;

You can display in a gallery an unlimited amount of images without loss of performance;

Gallery supports Multicategories;

Being able to watch the gallery in full screen mode and full window mode;

Easily change all gallery settings within powerful control panel;

Ability to edit thumbnail view;

Role Manager allows for the assigned role to have complete control over the gallery;

Displaying alternative jQuery gallery for browser without flash support;

iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry 6 and Desktop friendly photo gallery;

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8. ZoomFolio - WordPress Portfolio Plugin

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You can use it to show the wordpress default recent posts widget from your blog or a gallery from your vacation.CSS3 technology - this gallery uses cutting-edge css3 definitions to render awesome 3D effects in supporting browsers, the others will degrade gracefully

iPhone / iPad optimized – this gallery has been optimized for Apple touch devices

[ADD] You can have multiple images on a project now ( if the item is of type image and has a “item gallery” attached )

[add] new Features for ZoomBox lightbox like gallery, zoom on photo

[fix] accordion style inside gallery fix – now works on the Item Gallery tab

[add] new Portfolio Item type – gallery

added gallery mode to posts on skins accordion and clean – as shown in the preview

Nice plugin – I’m wondering is it possible to link the thumbnail to an existing gallery using a link. Rather than clicking on the thumbnail to get a bigger image ?

Another question please, how i can fix the gallery at the center of my page? it’s always in the left.free updates – even if the value of this gallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them for free

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9. Justified Image Grid - Premium WordPress Gallery

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The #1 best selling gallery on CodeCanyon

This responsive WordPress gallery plugin aligns your thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, like Flickr and ajax image slider search. Make your galleries stand out in an eye-catching and unique new way! Replace the standard WP galleries [gallery] as [justified_image_grid] with lots of new features and options. The settings are available to change on a per gallery basis, extending the global settings and presets. #2 Settings and creating a gallery

Automatically align images to a justified gallery keeping their original aspect ratio

NextGEN Gallery (both versions 1 and 2) integration, full support for nested albums and galleries, tag gallery, tag album, recent images, random images (all photos or from a gallery), individual photos, permalinks, custom links, limit, load more or hidden limit is used instead of pagination.Hidden limit – limit the number of thumbs but cycle all gallery images in the lightbox

224 unique settings and shortcode attributes that you can change for each gallery

These are FooBox which is social and responsive + the Social Gallery that allows Facebook/Disqus comments for the pictures. prettyPhoto advanced deeplinking: Customized to Like images individually, with the Liked photo’s thumbnail showing up on Facebook, works with random order

This is one of best gallery plugins out there.This is the best gallery plugin for wordpress.What a beautiful gallery plugin! Lovely work. I have been looking for a best media gallery for wordpress with these capabilities for an age! Great work Firsh.Perfect and easy! Best (responsive) gallery plugin by far! Great job.I love this gallery plugin….This is the #1 top selling WordPress gallery plugin on CodeCanyon since July 28, 2013!

Link RSS images to their permalink or the image itself (RSS Reader mode or RSS Gallery mode basically)

The ng_random_images now accepts a comma separated list of multiple gallery ids to allow random images from multiple galleries. This is useful for sorting by gallery Title A-Z when displaying multiple albums together (next changelog entry) or in the Overview album (all galleries) mode. The ID can be used to sort gallery/subalbum creation order. Added: Using Recent Posts feature, when Click on a thumbnail link to an image (lightbox image gallery of posts), a permalink can be placed in the lightbox as a way to go to the parent post (similar to Flickr, Instagram, RSS backlinks in the lightbox)

Added: Custom text to add before & after each gallery (can be disabled on individual instances)

Bugfix: When thumbnail width is not supplied for any reason, the image is now skipped (in JS), this prevents a crash that could stop further script execution

New feature: Randomize thumbnail width to make a grid of same-aspect-ratio images look more interesting by automatically cropping or extending by a random amount in a given range

Like an image on Facebook and see its own thumbnail

Point a thumbnail to open a different picture in the lightbox and still have prev/next arrows

Added: Nextgen random images (display some random images of a gallery or regardless of gallery – the limit is applied after randomization)

Added: Option to display NextGEN gallery/album descriptions between the breadcrumb and the grid

Improved: Thumbnail size calculations are unified for all image sources.Improved: Flickr feature: If some photos are not shown because they are too small, this is noted after the gallery with instructions to resolve the issue. Higher than 1024px pictures are now taken into account when looking for an image to create the thumbnail from.Bugfix: PHP Fatal error when NextGEN is uninstalled and still trying to show NextGEN content, is now replaced with a friendly error message (NextGEN gallery is not installed/inactive!).Bugfix: The class gallery-caption is no longer added to the parent container of JIG when Carousel and Load More features are used together (preventing Carousel when clicking outside a thumbnail is now solved in an other way)

All in all this means you can tag WP images, just like NextGEN, and display a gallery based on the tag.Bugfix: The Social Gallery’s latest version is recognized in the shortcode editor properly

Added: Take over gallery shortcode – choose between hiding the original WordPress gallery shortcode, replacing it automatically or leaving it alone

Bugfix: SocialGallery bugs – update to at least Social Gallery version 2.Bugfix: Jetpack Photon wordpress thumbnail slider calculation is now more precise with NextGEN images

Added: An image is added to the source, resized at 300×300, to show up as selectable thumbnail (only thumbnail in some cases), when liking/sharing

Improved: The setting overlay_gallery_max changed from 30 to 300 in prettyPhoto to make sure the overlay gallery shows up when required

Bugfix: NextGEN breadcrumb was missing gallery name in v1.Bugfix: A chrome bug when using special effects and a horizontally centered gallery would clip 1px randomly from top and left.Added: NextGEN tags: Tag Gallery and Tag Album mode (tag galleries are also openable in a lightbox, breadcrumbs are also implemented for tags)

Added: NextGEN gallery thumbnails now show the number photos (can be turned off with a new setting)

Added: NextGEN gallery thumbnails can now open the photos in a lightbox instead of creating a facebook new page layout for them (can be toggled with a new setting)

Social Gallery doesn’t support HTML (links to the file to download)

Improved: NextGEN album and gallery dropdown selectors now include the ID id the shortcode editor

Improved: PhotoSwipe compatibility – added JIG gallery refresh to the close event and tap x event, so you’ll no longer get ‘Element is too thin’ error when coming back from PhotoSwipe

Bugfix: When not using permalinks with NextGEN, galleries will link to the gallery’s own page properly, like original NextGEN – previously only albums did this correctly

call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback’ is no longer showing up when keeping the ‘hidden’ WP gallery present under JIG gallery on older versions of WordPress.Updated: More documentation has been included for using the plugin with gallery jQuery slideshow

Bugfix: Shortcode editor no longer generates ng_pics undefined when NextGEN gallery is not installed.Added: Recent posts can link to the images (lightbox) instead of posts – create a image gallery using jQuery flickr recent posts, not a slider

Added: Ability to automatically exclude featured image from the gallery (use the word feature in the exclude field)

Improved: Social Gallery V2 compatibility

Bugfix: Fixed a browser crash due to scrollbar appearing and disappearing due to constantly varying gallery height (very rare case but serious)

Bugfix: Sometimes gallery would be invisible when only one row is present and can’t fill the row.Added: Premium lightboxes – FooBox and Social Gallery (purchased separately), dedicated mutual compatibility

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10. Creative Gallery

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Creative Gallery – A must have WordPress Image Gallery is a first of its kind of image gallery, built using jQuery and CSS3.A Very Creative and unique style of gallery.Add any number of albums (boxes) in the gallery and images (icons) in the album.Manage spacing among album boxes in the gallery.

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11. Nova Gallery - Multimedia Gallery Wordpress Plugin

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The standalone gallery has a 5 star rating.Nova wordpress gallery theme makes it easy to embed the Nova Gallery – Responsive HTML5 Multimedia Gallery, in your Wordpress theme. It is a HTML5 multimedia gallery enabling you to showcase your photos/audio/video in a beautiful and sleek interface. You have the option of presenting your items in two different modes, which are a Thumbnail Grid and Full-width view, and you also have the option of switching between the two modes. You can have multiple sets/albums of items and can filter the gallery items based on file type or based on custom categories. The gallery allows you to showcase your Youtube/Vimeo videos and Flickr/Picasa photos from groups/sets/albums/collections. The gallery features a fluid responsive design and can fit in any screen size ranging from simple mobile phones to desktop browsers. The gallery also features touch-screen support and uses hardware accelerated CSS based animations wherever possible which results in smooth animations, that is especially noticeable in mobile devices. Try the gallery demos and resize your browser to see the responsive design of the gallery in action. Two display modes – Thumbnail Grid & Full-width. The Thumbnail Grid mode features a Masonry layout and you can control the spacing between items by applying margins through css,

This slideshow stops whenever the browser tab in which the gallery is displayed, goes out of focus (this feature only works in browsers that supports the HTML5 Page Visibility Api). Supports multiple gallery sets or albums. The gallery features a fluid responsive design to account for various screens sizes ranging from jQuery mobile slideshow to desktop browsers and can also be placed in a container of any width. The gallery is mobile device friendly with touch screen support. Handy keyboard shortcuts have been provided for easier navigation of the gallery. The gallery items can also act as links to external pages

Create multiple galleries and manage them with the Gallery Manager. Can host media files in services like Amazon AWS and then insert those file links in the awesome flickr gallery settings page. The plugin allows you to upload media files through the WP Media Library, so you can use your previously uploaded files in the gallery too. Thumbnails for the gallery are generated automatically if you choose to, or you can upload your own thumbnails. Drag to sort gallery item order. Also shortcode for each gallery created, is visible in the Gallery Manager. Can mention a thumbnail image gallery for the gallery sets. By default the thumbnail for the first item in the set is used to represent the set. Autoplay audio and video when Lightbox opens in Thumbnail Grid mode.e Thumbnail Grid or Full-width, which will be shown when the gallery first loads. Option to show a particular category of items when the gallery first loads. Shrink images in Full-width mode to fit the container when the gallery first loads. Choose to show the thumbnails in Full-width mode when the gallery first loads. Choose the animated effect for the items in Thumbnail Grid mode when it first shows. Choose the animated effect for showing item captions/descriptions in Thumbnail Grid mode. Choose the animated effect for showing/hiding the Gallery Sets screen (home screen). Show the gallery either spanning the entire width of the browser or the width of its parent container. The gallery items can also act as links to external pages. You have the option to shuffle or randomly order the gallery items each time the page is refreshed. The gallery supports preloading of images in Full-width mode for smoother viewing. You can start the slideshow in Full-width mode when the gallery first loads. Option to set the path for the gallery configuration XML file. Option to hide the Gallery Menu

Option hide any of the available view modes – Thumbnail Grid or Fullwidth. The flickr api gallery script has been tested and is fully compatible with jQuery 1.Fixed a bug in the thumbnail grid layout when margins were set on the items. Improved the closing/opening of the gallery menu in touch-screen devices. Fixed a bug where the inclusion of images in the item captions interfered with the thumbnail grid layout.Fixed problem with positioning of the gallery overlay/lightbox when there were other content in the page along with the gallery. The gallery now is fully compatible with jquery 1.Fixed a bug regarding the displaying of jQuery gallery effects names.

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12. Instagram Gallery - Wordpress Plugin

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Instagarm Gallery – A lightbox wordpress gallery plugin

Instagram GalleryWordPress Plugin is the wordpress image slider that will enable you to display your snaps you or another account have uploaded to instagram or images with hashtags. This includes variety of configuration to have control over the gallery.Display Gallery on any page (using Page select dropdown on backend), or via shortcode

All Gallery images are ready to be customized via CSS. All the original content will be displayed after the gallery. So making it easy to display more text about on bottom of gallery show.Can show gallery images any user (media not marked private) or images of desired hash tags

Ability to choose display for jQuery gallery using flickr Direct Page select or shortcode integration

Options to select thumbnail size

Custom CSS option to enter the custom css for the Gallery

Option to integrate gallery using shortcode to display Instagram images from another user account.Ability to flickr gallery wordpress using WordPress Widget (From Version 2.

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