8 Effective Thumbnail Image Gallery Examples For Your Inspiration

1. PHP Auto Gallery With Expanding Preview

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PHP Thumbnail Grid With Expanding Preview is a leightweight, easy to use gallery

script inspired by slider image with support for .GIF image

It generates thumbnails for faster loading times and uses thumbnail grid with expanding preview for displaying

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2. WOW Slider

WOW Slider

WOW Slider is a fantastic responsive image slider with

killer animations and tons of professionally made templates. NO Coding - WOW Slider is packed with a drag-n-drop wizard to create beautiful slideshows in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. Wordpress plugin and Joomla module are available.

Also, you can share your slider on Facebook.

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3. ZoomFolio - WordPress Portfolio Plugin

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

iPhone / iPad optimized – thgallery has been optimized 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 photo

[fix] accordistyle gallery fix – now works on the Item Gallery tab

[add] new Portfolio Item type – gallery

[tweak] now thumbnails resemble the whole image

tweaked big image to use the native wordpress media uploader

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

added Overwrite Item Link with Big Image field in each portfolio item meta

fixed do not open Big Image lightbox field

added support for youtube videos in the big image field

added support for not opening image link in a light box

When user click on an image it zoom out.Is it possible to place a link to the image? We would like to navigate user to the page of the course by clilcking on the image.Yes, it’s possible to not use lightbox zoom in on the featured image. You have 2 parts of Portfolio Item, and you can link them to whatever, lightbox image zoom in, custom link ( that you choose ), portfolio item link or nothing at all.Nice plugin – I’m wondering is it possible to link thumbnail to an existing gallery using a link. Rather than clicking on thumbnail to get a bigger image ?

Set any link inside the Big Image and set Open Big Image Lightbox to OFF

carousel is 100% skinable viCSS and the icons are simply image, you can just go ahead replace them, position again is part of css so easily changeable.Another question please, how i can fix gallery at center of my page? it’s always in the left.You just write the link to video in the Big Image field ( ie https://vimeo.free updates – even if the value of thgallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them free

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4. ImagePress

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ImagePress is a multi-purpose fully-featured and WordPress-integrated image gallery plugin.image information stored WordPress database;

allows image moderation direct publishing;

allows image sorting by category, date, title, ID, random, both ASC and DESC;

option to choose maximum width thumbnails (create nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols, masonry-enhanced);

customizable image upload size;

Use the shortcode tag [imagepress-random] in any post or page to display a random image.Use the shortcode tag [imagepress-random category="landscapes"] in any post or page to display a random image in a specific category.

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5. jQuery Google+/Picasa Gallery

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jQuery Google+/Picasa simple PHP gallery script allows you to show all your Google+/Picasa albums (images) on your website.No need PHP internal image scaler is utilized; an external (web based) image scaling service is utilized default

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

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

Added option to show album name either above or below thumbnail

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6. Nova Gallery - Multimedia Gallery Wordpress Plugin

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

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

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

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

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7. Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

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Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

This is HTML | CSS | JQuery Grid with a Lightbox, you can specify thumbnails for grid and when you click on it to open lightbox it will load the normal image, you can specify text for captions and for the lightbox. The filter navigatibar is generated automatically from the categories you specify to each thumbnail

You can link to another page when you click in a thumbnail

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8. Creative Gallery

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Creative Gallery – A must have WordPress Image Gallery is a first of its kind image gallery, built using jQuery and CSS3.A Very Creative and unique style of gallery.Add any number of albums (boxes) in gallery images (icons) in the album.Redirect to a particular Website URL or POP UP a large image on click of icons.Manage spacing among album boxes in the gallery.

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9. YouTube Channel

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Features include choosing thumbnail image and size, autoplay, click, load error event handlers, easy styling and chainability. It only takes a minute to drop in code and with a single line jQuery javascript – your website has video gallery!

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