Top 11 Impressive jQuery Album Gallery Plugins

1. 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.Control placement, position and spacing of the flying out images in the album using our “Box Icon Position” feature

Control dimensions (height and width) of album boxes and its images icons.Manage spacing among album boxes in the gallery.

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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. Media Grid - Wordpress Responsive Portfolio

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The plugin uses the latest CSS3 and jQuery tecnologies to adapt each portfolio to its container.An image gallery

They could simply refer to the author of a photo or display the track’s album or release date.

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4. JackBox - Responsive Lightbox

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Updated to jQuery 1.Updated to jQuery 1.Updated to jQuery 1.If you’ve recently upgraded to jQuery 1.Source Folder: jackbox/js/libs/jquery.If you aren’t using jQuery 1.9 yet that’s ok as JackBox is still backwards compatible to jQuery 1.Optional gallery-style thumbnails

Support is not provided for older versions of jQuery and there is no guarantee that this item will work in older versions of jQuery.VIDEOPhoto And Typo Opener by MukoApp/Service/Product Promotion by JakubVejmolaWedding Album by muratozSliding Presentation by WebarteoCompany Timeline by DEM-G

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5. Nova Gallery - Multimedia Gallery Wordpress Plugin

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The standalone gallery has a 5 star rating.Nova flickr gallery wordpress 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 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 lightbox 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. 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 mobile phones 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 wordpress flickr gallery 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. You can even pull photos from a specific user or an album, or a collection of albums. Can mention a youtube custom thumbnail image for the gallery sets.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 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

Suitable jQuery based fallbacks have been provided for all CSS based animated effects for older browsers. The image gallery script has been tested and is fully compatible with jQuery 1. and jQuery 2. Improved the closing/opening of the gallery menu in touch-screen devices.Fixed problem with positioning of the gallery overlay/lightbox when there were other content in the page along with the gallery. Updated the jQuery masonry plugin so that it is compatible with jquery v1. The gallery now is fully compatible with jquery 1.9+ including jquery 2.Fixed a bug regarding the displaying of gallery set names.

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6. Youtube Vimeo Gallery Background

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Gallery supports Youtube and Vimeo video playback with multiple layout configurations.Optional deeplinking with jquery address for improved SEO. Optional deeplinking with jquery address

Multiple layouts with optional playlist, clean video with no other screen elements, mini gallery and widget posibilities. Optional gallery thumbnail orientation switch (vertical / horizontal)

Album video requests

Responsive Video Gallery HTML5 Youtube Vimeo

JQuery Thumbnail Gallery With Lightbox

HTML5 Video Gallery with Live Playlist

JQuery AutoSlide Image Gallery Slideshow with Music

JQuery Stack Banner Slideshow with Captions

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7. Nova Gallery - Responsive HTML5 Multimedia Gallery

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Nova Gallery is a HTML5 multimedia gallery enabling you to showcase your photos/audio/video in a beautiful and sleek interface. 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 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. All gallery data is passed in a simple XML file. 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 mobile phones 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

You can even pull photos from a specific user or an album, or a collection of albums. Can mention a jQuery thumbnail slider image for the gallery sets.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 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.Suitable jQuery based fallbacks have been provided for all CSS based animated effects for older browsers. The flickr photo gallery script has been tested and is fully compatible with jQuery 1. and also jquery 2. Improved the closing/opening of the gallery menu in touch-screen devices.Fixed problem with positioning of the gallery overlay/lightbox when there were other content in the page along with the gallery. Updated the jquery masonry plugin so that it is compatible with jquery v1. The gallery now is fully compatible with jquery 1.9+ including jquery 2.

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8. jQuery Flickr Gallery

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The jQuery lightbox gallery script allows you to show all your Flickr albums (images) on your website. This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.Either pull all albums (but exclude the ones you don’t want), predefine the albums you want to be shown or show one single album directly

Automatically include or exclude the Profile album and so called “Buzz” albums

) album sorting feature (name / number of images / date album created / date album last updated)

Option for floating control bar that follows the user while scrolling through the album selection

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 option to toggle Album Information Section and show or hide Section as default

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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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 reverse google image search 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

Facebook compatibility: use the Facebook authorization manager tool and the shortcode editor to visually select your Facebook album to load (page and user albums as well).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. Features simply the best mouse enter/leave animation solution, hoverFlow for jQuery to solve the animation queue buildup

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 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. NG2 only allows you to reverse your custom order by default, but JIG extends this to be able to sort album contents (galleries and subalbums combined) by Title or ID. 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)

Improved: jQuery source setting is more aggressive, more compatible and has more options with exact version numbers. Bugfix: Facebook overview mode would crash if the album cover’s resolution is smaller than max height (row height + deviation), now allowing upscale

Bugfix: Facebook overview only albums feature included Mobile Uploads album where it’s not a normal album, now they are filtered by type ‘normal’ of the Facebook API

Checked: for jQuery v1.Added: Take over NextGEN shortcodes: Optional ability to act in place of: nggallery, nggalbum, album, nggtags, random, recent, singlepic – they are selectable individually

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: 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.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.Added: Jquery source option: added 5th setting to only change jQuery settings on pages where JIG is used (old themes support)

Bugfix: The Social Gallery’s latest version is recognized in the shortcode editor properly

Bugfix: NextGEN breadcrumb included the overview album in the breadcrumb when permalinks were not used

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.Added: If all images have failed to load (likely because of TimThumb permissions), an error is displayed about what to do (It’s a red text like the old jQuery version error)

Added: A setting for jQuery mobile gallery to add link rel external when on mobile device and link rel is auto – this helps images open properly

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.Bugfix: Nextgen overview album (using ‘all’ as ID) now works properly

5 – February 12, 2013 – User suggested new features, NextGEN core changes, browser and jQuery compatibility bugfixes for the shortcode editor, mobile experience improvements…

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 album thumbnails now show the number of child albums and/or galleries (can be turned off with a new setting)

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)

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

Improved: The NextGEN feature now respects every kind of order settings NG offers including overview album and global sorting (instead of only respecting custom sorting)

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

Bugfix: Shortcode Editor: IE: The jQuery .Bugfix: Customized prettyPhoto to be jQuery 1.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

Updated: jQuery 1.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 widget shortcode

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 flickr gallery wordpress recent posts, not a slider

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

Improved: jQuery 1.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. Google Plus Photo Gallery Plugin

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This javascript plugin allows you to include your own Google Plus Photo Gallery into your own site.· jQuery tecnology

· You can display multiple albums or just one single album

· Configurable thumbnail size for albums overview and album content

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11. jQuery Facebook Gallery

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The jQuery Facebook Gallery script allows you to show all your Facebook albums (images) on your website. This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.Either pull all albums (but exclude the ones you don’t want), predefine the albums you want to be shown or show one single album directly

Automatically include or exclude the Timeline album

) album sorting feature (name / number of images / date album created / date album last updated)

Option for floating control bar that follows the user while scrolling through the album selection

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 option to toggle Album Information Section and show or hide Section as default

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)

Added option to automatically shorten album names to prevent line breaks

Added option to show album name either above or below thumbnail

Added lazy-load feature for all album and photo thumbnails

Added Option to match album thumbnail look with photo thumbnail look

Floating Control Bar now available for album and photo thumbnails

Added optional second back button below album detail view for albums with many pictures

Fixed error where controlbar reappears after first album call even if it’s set to be disabled

Option for floating control bar that follows the user while scrolling through the album selection

Added option to predefine album ID’s so that only these albums will be shown

Fixed error where script occasionally doesn’t load all images in album (up to specified limit in settings)

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12. jQuery Google+/Picasa Gallery

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The jQuery Google+/Picasa flickr api gallery script allows you to show all your Google+/Picasa albums (images) on your website. This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.Either pull all albums (but exclude the ones you don’t want), predefine the albums you want to be shown or show one single album directly

Automatically include or exclude the Profile album and so called “Buzz” albums

) album sorting feature (name / number of images / date album created / date album last updated)

Option for floating control bar that follows the user while scrolling through the album selection

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 option to toggle Album Information Section and show or hide Section as default

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)

Added option to automatically shorten album names to prevent line breaks

Added option to show album name either above or below thumbnail

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