20 Super Useful Image Gallery Software Plugins

1. jQuery Flickr Gallery

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The jQuery gallery plugin script allows you to show all your Flickr albums (images) on your website.No need for PHP unless internal image scaler is utilized; an external (web based) image scaling service is utilized by default

While the JS and CSS files can be hosted outside of your website, the JavaScript lines that are necessary to initialize the gallery and the HTML line which defines where in your page the gallery will be shown must be part of your website.Added 2nd Cloud based Image Scaling Service to create Thumbnails

Added option to disable Automatic iFrame Detection and Height Adjustment if gallery is embedded with cross-domain iFrames (not recommended to embed this way, but sometimes there are no alternatives)

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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. Spectrum Gallery Plugin

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Spectrum is a superb JavaScript gallery plugin, which will work with jQuery, as an AMD Module or a browser global. It has support for image cropping, true to proportion flickr api image sizes and perfect image alignment.It is perfect for portfolio and website image gallery design along with its smooth transitions. Is there an image animation style that is missing? No problem. You could extend the image method library by adding your own methods, which could, lets say, rotate an image as it slides into position. Setting up straight away is ridiculously easy, almost every option has a default, the only thing you would need to do is supply the images, and the parent element to which the gallery is appended to. And i mean minimal, the only piece of video embed HTML code required to make spectrum work is a single tag, that being the element on which to create the gallery. All the little things like gallery and image creation is handled by the plugin, you only have to specify the url for each image. What you will be left with is a beautiful gallery which fits perfectly all its images. Spectrum can handle multiple tags being searched at the same time, it can also do other magic with tags, such as add an “all” tag, which can also be any text you desire, you can also tell Spectrum which tag to start the gallery on. Also Spectrum can map to the size of its parent element, so if you have implemented responsive design, whenever a different device views the page, the gallery will change size if its parent element changes size. Be it using new curves, image specific animation, or entire compositions that orchestrate the moment of the gallery.Gallery Cover –

Spectrum has cool gallery cover option, which allows you to use a single image, as the cover of the gallery. This can be useful when used as a loading screen whilst your gallery images load in the background, and can be set to swipe away as soon as they have loaded.Image Binding

Spectrum has an api which allows you to bind to any kind of event that may happen on any of the gallery images.

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4. JLV 3D Gallery

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JLV 3D Gallery is a userful module made for Joomla 2. Allow to set which image folder to be used

See video How to install and using JLV 3D Gallery module here: http://www.

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5. Final Tiles Gallery for Wordpress

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Finally say STOP to the boring multi-column layouts! Keep images aspect ractio, create gorgeous grids with Final Tiles Gallery!

No crop: unlike many other tiled galleries, it doesn’t crop images, unless you decide to use the snapping to a grid, in that case a small part of the image could be cut;

Responsive: the gallery is responsive by default, when it’s container changes width each tile will move with an animation;

Social sharing: each image can be shared using Twitter.Gallery management: each gallery is saved in jQuery slider download so you can edit them whenever you want: you can add, rename, delete and edit the galleries;

Custom links: each image can be linked to a custom URL;

Zoom: each image can be shown in a bigger format;

Shuffle: Enable or disable image shuffle;

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6. FullScreen Background / Gallery - Image and Video

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In this manner you’ll not have to modify each image to add the texture. It is recommended when the plugin is used as full screen gallery.

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7. SimpleSliders.Net - jQuery Sliders In ASP.NET

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3D Gallery

ItemTitle (Displays the image caption)

ItemMediaUrl (The src/url of image)

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8. Multipurpose Before After Slider

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new image? This product can help you do that easily and effectively. new” image sets in slider as you want

Integrate slider gallery on pages, posts or in widgets as well.

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9. Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

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Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

This is a HTML | CSS | JQuery Grid with a Lightbox, you can specify thumbnails for the grid and when you click on it to open the lightbox it will load the normal image, you can specify the text for the captions and for the lightbox.

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10. TableLite Wordpress Post Media Gallery

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Popout Table Style Post Gallery Plugin For Wordpress.Wordpress Table Style Post Gallery

Custom Content – Easily add custom content in place of the wordpress recent posts widget featured image or to the excerpt area – Add embed content easily.Shortcode Enabled – Add shortocde to any page to add a gallery.Responsive – Gallery items are automatically adjusted for the amount of posts per page set.Lightboxed Images – All images added to the post(gallery images) are linked to the prettyPhoto lightbox.

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11. jQuery Multiple Scroll Portfolio Gallery

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A download jQuery slider help you to display portfolio, which support multiple gallery.Support multiple gallery. Support different size of image. Option caption and gallery information block.

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12. PHP Graphic Works

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If you want to apply multiple efects or filters at once, create image reflections, create image thumbnails, create image watermarks, apply image masks, do text rendering, do image blending, do batch image processing, and you don’t want to use expensive image manipulation software like Photoshop, then PHP Graphic Works is the perfect tool for you. You can can choose from a very large image effects and filters library, apply them as “in-line” or “on the fly” style improving your site design and overall image.Other WiseLoop top software products:

You can use Blend if you want to overlay a watermark or other image that contains transparency information.WiseLoop PHP Graphic Works is a set of PHP classes designed for online image manipulation on the server side.This package allows complex image processing in a flexible manner, by using only a few lines of code. Thus, the image slideshow jQuery commands can be specified in an Fx Chain which is then parsed by the effects processor to be applied over the source image.The caching feature, prevents useless processing by storing the resulting images for a given set of effects, improving the processed image output speed.By using live-type characteristics of this package the Fx Chains can be applied to images on the fly, thus, the resulting image can be displayed directly in a tooltip HTML img tag.There is also a batch processor that enables applying an Fx Chain over an entire image directory. (see demo application Image Editor)The choosen programming model allows the extension library of effects and permits using this package in a flexible and intuitive manner.In conclusion, this package is not just a way to apply effects on images, it is a powerful image framework tool that due to its dynamic characteristics can significantly improve the overall image of web sites and helps developing JavaScript applications that do image processing on the server side (image editors, galleries, etc.complete collection of image manipulators: rotate, crop, resize, scale, stretch, flip;

large collection of image filters: blur, sepia, grayscale, negative, contrast, brightness, gamma, saturation, hue, smooth, sharpen, channel, colorize;

drawing primitives: text or image blending, so image watermarks can be applied;

applying effects on selection or entire image;

image folder batch processor;

Image Editor

Image Gallery (included in package)

Tags: image, photo, image manipulation, image blending, image filters, image effects, reflection, thumb, effects library, drawing primitives, json service, watermark, image batch processing, chained image effects, image mask

This software product is sold exclusively on codecanyon.

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13. MooFolio Portfolio Gallery Plugin

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MooFolio Gallery Plugin

Wordpress Dynamic Post Gallery

Shortcode Enabled – Add shortocde to any page to add a gallery.Lightboxed Slideout Gallery – All images added to the post are show as a slideout lightboxed image gallery on the content panel.Customizable widths – Set gallery item widths.

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14. Distinctive Portfolio - 4 in 1 WordPress Portfolio

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Easy to use shortcode generator Responsive DTPanel options panel Specify custom slug for your projects Lightbox included Supports gallery, video and external URLs Easy to use

01 - Bug Fix for best image slider & CSS Stregthening

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15. Scroller Gallery 2 - Recent Posts Teaser WordPress

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DZS Scroller Gallery is the ultimate media gallery that you can use for showcasing your portfolio, photographs or even video shots. The gallery consists of thumbs layed out in a grid format that can have a description and link set on them.supports any image size, layout will be made automatically via Masonry

lightbox galleries separate items in the same gallery by lightbox galleries

extensive admin paneladmin panel with lots of options to make the gallery as customizable as possible, yet easy to use. to make your life easier while editing the gallery.Scroller Gallery 2 WordPress plugin – get creative!

free updates – even if the value of this gallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them for free

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16. 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 JavaScript hover image search. Make your galleries stand out in an eye-catching and unique new way! Replace the standard wp shortcodes galleries [gallery] as [justified_image_grid] with lots of new features and options. Or alternatively you can load images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram or use NextGEN as an image manager/source. Unleash the power of best image slider and pull videos from Youtube, Vimeo and images from 500px, Pinterest, deviantART, Stumbleupon, Imgur, Tumblr, WordPress. 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.Limit image count or maximum rows

Hidden limit – limit the number of thumbs but cycle all gallery images in the lightbox

Ability randomize image width (without skewing image of course), this is the opposite of the previous feature, the fixed aspect ratio

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.Download link with browser pop-up to save the image

You can choose any of the wordpress image gallery slider fields (such as Title, Alternate Text, Caption, Description from Media Libray) to appear at any location as captions and in the lightboxes

“The Justified Image Grid plugin for Wordpress installed easily, and works fantastic. I’d recommend this for anyone who wants their image galleries to stand out. This is one of wordpress image 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…. It takes true vision to develop such a piece of software and I applaud you for that! It solved a big problem for us and opened up some great new possibilities which we are using to extend our website design way beyond the norm.This is the #1 top selling WordPress gallery plugin on CodeCanyon since July 28, 2013!

6 – August 26, 2013 – RSS Feeds (any image source), NextGEN 2 compatibility, larger Facebook images, animated gifs, settings import/export and uninstall, custom taxonomy filter for gallery plugin wordpress

New image source: RSS/Atom feeds:

Semi-dedicated support for the following image sources, using RSS:

Any site can become an image source if it has a feed with images in it!

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

It takes into account the EXIF date of the image. If you have just uploaded an image, but it has an old EXIF date, it won’t be the most recent image – this may not be the desired result! So you have the ability to choose to wordpress display recent posts plugin images just by their upload date (NG 1. The ng_pics shortcode attribute was checked for NG2 compatibility and got improved to actually display the images in the order they are entered (as comma separated multiple ids) – the single (one) image feature is unaffected by this. The ng_random_images now accepts a comma separated list of scrolling image gallery ids to allow random images from multiple galleries. This is useful for sorting by shortcode 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. NG2 copies the image to the WP media library so it works well. 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: Ability to show larger image in the lightbox from Facebook (normal: 720px max, larger: the new default, maximum: up to 4MP – 2048px)

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

Improved: PrettyPhoto is now able to properly re-open with advanced deeplinking with any website (iframe) or image URL in the deeplinking path

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

Bugfix: All other image sources’ limits have also been improved. Previously it generated a template tag no matter what, while it needs an image source selected.New image source: Instagram, available options:

Examples: Post and wp image gallery tags and categories; NextGEN, Instagram and Flickr tags, Custom post types’ custom taxonomies e. WooCommerce; Media Library Assistant custom image taxonomies… Buttons and the Tag cloud are well styleable.New feature: Facebook overview: Allows you to select the entire collection of albums of a profile or page automatically and explore those albums on a different page – all using Justified Image Grid

Like an image on Facebook and see its own thumbnail

They only work with Justified Image Grid as there are server-side components to the new feature

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

Added: Option to shortcode to display nextgen gallery 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: Error checking wasn’t working on IE8 in some cases, resulting false positives and not loading any image, this is now fixed.Bugfix: Error checking for JavaScript slideshow images weren’t working properly, resulting in duplicate images and a broken grid if one image failed to load.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: When using Jetpack and CURL is required to get remote image dimensions, check for CURL is added to not generate an error

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)

center one image with JIG, in a post. All in all this means you can tag WP images, just like NextGEN, and display a gallery based on the tag.Improved: Recent post images can link to the custom url of the image! (toggleable new setting)

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

Improved: Custom link target VIDEO is now called “Lightbox: video / iframe / another image”

Bugfix: SocialGallery bugs – update to at least Social Gallery version 2.Bugfix: The image for Facebook crawler (the first image, resized to 300×300) had no width and height attributes when Jetpack Photon was enabled

Also when using NextGEN as an image source even though the original NextGEN doesn’t support Jetpack Photon

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 new page for them (can be toggled with a new setting)

Added: HTML is now allowed for all lightboxes (image alt and link title attributes now have esc_attr-ed stripslashed HTML values instead of tags stripped)

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

Improved: Image can be linked to the attachment page (new lightbox and recents_link_to setting)

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

Improved: Class name justified-image-grid added for all instances of the plugin

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 nextgen gallery shortcodes slideshow

Bugfix: Shortcode editor no longer generates ng_pics undefined when NextGEN gallery is not installed.Added: Magnifier icon in the middle of the overlay (optional) with settings (on/off, image URL, opacity)

Added: Recent posts can link to the images (lightbox) instead of posts – create a image gallery jQuery recent posts, not a slider

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

Added: Ability to use random image order with: NextGEN, Facebook, Flickr

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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17. Behance Project Feed Gallery

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A very light-weight Wordpress Plugin that will allow you to display a responsive image gallery plugin wordpress of your Behance projects on any page or post using a simple shortcode.Image Color (Full Color or Grayscale)

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18. WordPress Responsive Posts Gallery with Captions

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NW PostsCaptions is a multi-purpose widget for listing posts, whether you want to create a gallery of photos or want to display the gallery wordpress plugin from your blog, with NW PostsCaptions you can do this very easily.Being responsive your gallery is easily viewed on mobile devices and tablets.if a wordpress featured image gallery isn’t set, first image from the content will be displayed

great for creating image galleries

+ featured image isn't mandatory

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19. Social Gallery Shortcodes WordPress Plugin

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Social Gallery [shortcodes] is the latest plugin available from Epic Plugins. It has been written to be a hand in hand fit with the Social Gallery Photo Viewer and the Social Gallery add-ons.What is Social Gallery [shortcodes]?

Social Gallery [shortcodes] is an image display plugin, this means it seamlessly links in with image management plugins such as the slider wordpress Media Library or NextGen. The plugin can then be used with any image viewer plugin, such as the awesome Social Gallery, or more standard viewers such as fancybox, or other lightboxes. The following image shows the three main areas of how you can use images on your site and where each of the plugins fit in.Gallery Display (greyscale)

If a user marks an image as favourite it is shown larger and in colour to them. Click the image for the example.where id is the id of your nextgen gallery

WordPress Gallery (colour)

If a user marks an image as favourite it is shown larger to them. Click the image for the example.where id is the id of your nextgen gallery

Image effect on hover

On hover the images display the name of the image and the social stats (how many likes and comments the image has had).Live social stats per image

Image title displayed

Link to the image page

User favourites gallery

It displays you live social stats for each of your images and lets you easily like and comment on images in each gallery. It is also built with the Social Gallery Photo Viewer plugin in mind to enable even greater sharing and liking of your images.Facebook Comments without leaving the gallery

Click the like or comment icon and have the ability to make comments on the images right there on the gallery, simple and easy. Make comments without leaving the gallery

Seamless integration with Social Gallery Photo Viewer

The plugin is built with the Social Gallery Lightbox in mind, a user can click on your image and the likes and comments are displayed to them to allow them to easily make further comments and have extra Social feautures like tweeting and pinning images

Social Gallery [shortcodes] links in with the Lightbox

Requires Social Gallery Lightbox plugin

Compatible with nextgen gallery wp shortcode

The plugin is designed to work with the popular NextGen gallery plugin. Display your nextgen galleries using a simple shortcode based on your NextGen gallery ID.Allowing your users to mark their favourites also gives you the ability to track via the joomla slideshow which images they like along with links to the photo gallery page wordpress they like the image on. Link to gallery

Live social stats on each image

Facebook comments on the gallery without leaving the page

Social Gallery Lightbox compatible

WordPress Gallery compatible

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20. Wordpress Wobble Gallery

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Hide/show gallery images based on if the images are in view.Change images perspective based on position of mouse over image.Create a masonry isotope gallery by using a single class.Customize the JavaScript image crop easily by using a data parameter.

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21. eAlbum PHP Gallery

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eAlbum is a very simple photo gallery management system written in PHP and having an admin backend. Masonry image layout

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