Top 11 Stunning Free HTML Gallery Tools You Shouldn't Miss

1. ZoomFolio - WordPress Portfolio Plugin

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You can use it to show the wordpress gallery 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

SEO friendly – built with search engine optimization on mind from the ground up, the Testimonial Rotator uses non hidden valid html markup to build the widget

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. So any html can be placed there

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

free support – for installation via our support board -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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2. WOW Slider

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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. 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 google image editor 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. Filter the thumbnails by tags or any taxonomy!Control every aspect: row height, appearance, special effects like desaturation, color overlay with magnifier icon, borders, multiple captions, free and premium lightboxes, mouse activated animation… It’s easy to install and comes with 18 presets out of the box. 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. Multiple free lightbox options bundled: a customized prettyPhoto with social sharing, ColorBox, PhotoSwipe – which is optimized for mobiles and features a touch swipe navigation between the images. Compatible with Jetpack’s Carousel, a full screen free lightbox. HTML tags support in lightbox captions

This is one of best jQuery 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!

html files to every folder of the plugin to disallow directory browsing

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)

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.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.Added: Uses Jetpack Photon, a CDN-like free service by WordPress.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)

Customized photoswipe to accept HTML

HTML on thumbnails remain disabled (tags are stripped except line break)

Only title,desc,caption attributes allow HTML, as WP strips them from ‘Alt’

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 wordpress gallery 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 jQuery gallery using 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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4. iLightBox · Revolutionary Lightbox for WordPress

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Compatible with the regular wordpress gallery shortcode.Shortcode parser for HTML content.Extended HTML documentation

“Great work on this plugin! It’s quite fantastic! It’s definitely the jQuery 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. Most likely that it will became a free package update. * Optimized: Creating new gallery. * Optimized: Native gallery shortcode. * Added: Native support for Gallery Shortcode. * Added: Enable on nextgen image gallery shortcode option. * Fixed: Gallery in feed page.

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5. Complete Gallery Manager for WordPress

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Easier Gallery Management

There is a lot of flickr gallery wordpress available for WordPress, some are really good, but we feel that they often lack an easy interface to create and manage multiple galleries.Using Complete Gallery Manager will make it fun and fast to manage and create galleries for your website.Select the Add Gallery menu and enter a name for your gallery and click Publish. Immediately preview your gallery and start tweaking the many different settings. The Isotype Gallery has 188 different settings you can tweak and the touch slider has 146 different settings.Gallery Settings

With Complete Gallery Manager version 3.1 we have introduced a new “Gallery Type”. You can now choose between Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider.With Complete Gallery Manager version 3.You can save templates for both the Isotype Gallery and the Touch Slider.General Settings (Isotype Gallery)

We have added a new feature under General Settings in Complete Gallery Manager 3.0, which lets you easily hide the menu when using the Isotype gallery.Layout Settings (Isotype Gallery)

Choose between 8 different layout modes; Masonry, Fit Rows, Cell by Row, Straight Down, Masonry Horizontal, Fit Columns Layout, Cells by Columns, Straight Across when you select the Isotype Gallery. Different slider modes like Normal, Free mode and floating.Gallery Preview (Isotype Gallery)

You have live preview of the gallery while you create it.Gallery Preview (Touch Slider)

Sort Settings (Isotype Gallery)

Filter Settings (Isotype Gallery)

0 of Complete Gallery Manager and added a new feature called “Combination Filters”.If you enable prettyPhoto (lightbox) for your gallery you can also enable popular social media sharing icons like Facebook, Tweet and Pinterest. This feature is available in both Isotype Gallery and in the Touch Slider.With Complete Gallery Manager version 3.This feature is available in both the Isotype Gallery and in the Touch Slider.With Complete Gallery Manager version 3.We have added 1 new caption styles in Complete Gallery Manager version 3. You now have 22 different styles of captions to choose from when select the Isotype Gallery.Universal Scroll Settings (Isotype Gallery)

You can set how many images you want to load in your Isotype Gallery when it initially loads.0 of Complete Gallery Manager. This feature is available in both the Isotype Gallery and in the Touch Slider.Item Style Settings (Isotype Gallery)

Background Settings (Isotype Gallery)

Change the colors and border of your gallery easily in the Background Settings and make it match the style of your website.Menu Style Settings (Isotype Gallery)

Isotype Gallery with Default Settings

Isotype Gallery with Universal Scroll and PrettyPhoto Image Effect

Isotype Gallery with Flip Captions and PrettyPhoto Image Effect

Isotype Gallery with Push from Top Captions and Click to Next Size Image Effects

Isotype Gallery with Border and Image Radius Effect

Insert Galleries easily with Shortcodes or by using the Add Gallery Icon

Duplicate Galleries in List Gallery view

100% responsive layout in Isotype Gallery (Masonry, Fit Rows, Cells by Row, Straight Down, Masonry Horizontal, Fit Columns, Cells by Column and Straight Across)

Live Preview of Gallery while you create them

Support for Overlay Icons by action in both Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider

Support for Fullscreen (full browser) Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider

Support for Captions in Isotype Gallery (22 different styles)

Support for Social Media buttons (Facebook like, Tweet, Google+ and Pintetest) in both Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider

Support for PrettyPhoto (Lightbox) in both Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider

Support for Combination Filters (multiple categories) in Isotype Gallery

Support for Menu styling, alignment and location in Isotype Gallery

New Feature: Added support for basic HTML in description

Bug Fixed: Gallery doesn’t show when you insert it on a page using https

Bug Fixed: Apply fix to reset users if they have problems inserting images in gallery (Options Panel)

New Feature: Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider Gallery to Full Screen.New Feature: Fullscreen (Full Browser) option added for Isotype Gallery and Touch Slider

Bug Fixed: Customers installing Complete Gallery Manager without having a version prior to 3.New Feature: Insert Gallery into other Galleries. When clicking on a cover picture the gallery will open in a new tab

New Feature: It is now possible to “View Gallery” immediately after publishing a gallery.New Feature: Create and Save templates in Complete Gallery Manager.New Feature: Overlay Icons added for each action (prettyPhoto, Link, Pages, Posts, Video, Gallery)

Bug Fixed: Gallery no longer crashes if the gallery is open in the wp-admin and at the same time viewed on the public website (auto save created this problem). The Gallery will now load, but please notice that IE8 has limited support for menu HTML5 CSS3

Bug Fixed: Problem with Pinterest not “pinning” the individual picture, but the entire gallery.Bug Fixed: Gallery Settings not loading when the server is Windows based

This has significantly improved the speed of the gallery.

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6. Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin

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Social Gallery is The Ultimate Social Lightbox for WordPress.Social Gallery Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate lightbox featuring social media buttons (Facebook like, Facebook Send, Pinterests ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’ and now Linked In, Stumble Upon & Tumblr) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!

Your blog visitors already click your images, at best perhaps you have a lightbox feature (or maybe you don’t even have that!) – but once they click your images (and if they clicked it, they probably like it!) then what? With Social Gallery Plugin your users can “like”, “tweet” and “pin” the images on your page!

Social Gallery [shortcodes] released

Perfect compliment for the Social Gallery Lightbox

Social Gallery Features:

Image Library & Social Gallery Pages

Works with WordPress Galleries like NextGen, WordPress Gallery Plugin and Justified Imaged Grid

Add custom HTML descriptions New: Now “Per Image”!

Facebook’s 1 Billion+ users will be familiar with Social Gallery

The Ultimate WordPress Facebook Plugin for Photo Viewing – Easily integrated just by installing the plugin! Once installed you can view your very own Facebook style gallery – on your own blog!

Social Gallery really is now the most Kick Ass lightbox/gallery sharing plugin!

Integrates directly with WordPress – you get an extra menu item for Social Gallery where you can manage everything including settings, image library and update engine

Tweak your Social Gallery easily from the options screen

Faster than the original Lightbox, and now even faster than older Social Gallery Versions!

Social Gallery Technology

Choice of Social Gallery Pages framework or other fallbacks, including HashBang solution to distinct image comments

CSS3 Animations can be chosen for the opening & closing of Social Gallery!

Support: Please note that support from Envato authors is optional but I typically provide it for free as follows: 1st responses via Forums, emails & comments will also be answered thereafter.Theme compatiblity: Social Gallery will work with 99. Themes which have lightboxes, or plugins which add lightboxes will need to have these removed for Social Gallery to work (because it’s a lightbox.Free updates for life! All users who buy Social Gallery here get free version updates for life.» Added functionality: Delete images from Social Gallery Library via "Image Library"

1 – 15th March 2013 – Many stability improvements & Fixes, Mobile detecting, On/Off for Social Gallery Per-Post & Per-Page, Escaped HTML now allowed for title & Descriptions, Settings Backup and much more!, also pre-cursor update to Social Gallery Mobile & Stat’s Add-ons and Justified Image Grid Improvement

» Fixed a bug with Social Gallery Pages "title" attribute

» Fixed bug where tweet links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)

» Fixed bug where g+ links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)

» Fixed Bug in single-social-gallery-image template

» Fixed options in single-social-gallery-image template

» Added Social Gallery Page awareness to viewer + Social Gallery Page template

» Added "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" meta boxes to posts/pages

» Added esc_attr ready titles - you can now include encoded html in your titles [Thanks Firsh]

» Added capacity to specify HTML Descriptions PER IMAGE via HTML5 data attributes

» Added esc_attr HTML ready descriptions:

You can now include encoded html in your description overrides to be output

HTML per images [Thanks Firsh]

» Added On/Off for "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" feature to Settings

» Added capacity to properly save "custom-social-gallery-image.» Implemented Total disabling of Social Gallery per post/page, including includes

0 – 13th December 2012 – Added Google Adsense compatibility, Social Gallery Pages, CSS3 Animations, Super Easy Install Wizard, Tumblr, Linked In, Google+ & Stumble Upon Sharing, Full Screen Mode, Theme Engine, Enhanced Management Area & Admin, Improved code efficiency & robustness and many more tweaks

» Fixed 4 bugs related to image proportion, gallery margin and scaling

» Improvement: Added capacity to enable/disable Social Gallery Pages function

» Improvement: Refined "Social Gallery Pages"

» Improvement: Made it easier to share Social Gallery and Earn a commision

» Improvement: Redeveloped Social Gallery Plugin Homepage

» Improvement: Built specific social gallery encoder to ultimately minify code

» Added Social Gallery Pages functionality

» Added Social Gallery Pages customisation

» Added CSS3 Animation's for opening & closing Social Gallery [v2 easter egg]

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» Added Pretty Urls for Unique Social Gallery Pages

» Added "As seen on" to unique Social Gallery Pages

» Added Social Gallery News to homepage

» Added functionality: Image Gallery Margin Setting

» Added functionality: Image Gallery Enlarging via Setting

» Added Stronger CSS rules to Social Gallery

» Added NextGen Gallery Overview Mode

» Added Gallery Compatability Mode

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7. WordPress Gravity Gallery DZS

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Display your portfolio or media albums in a unique way with Gravity Gallery. Cusomise the gallery size, items size and their parameters. With these options, the possibilities with what you can do this gallery are endless. It can be customized by users with basic HTML skills.This gallery is compatible with all the major HTML5 browsers – Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE9, Safari.HTML5 technology - this gallery uses the latest html5 tehniques to deliver a never seen before experience to your clients

IE7 / IE8 backup – ie7 and ie8 do not support html5, but those users are not forgetten, a centered gallery appears for them so you won’t miss a single visitor

iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android optimized – iOS and Android work great with this gallery

extensive admin panel – admin 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.Gravity Gallery WordPress plugin – get creative!

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

free support – for installation via my forum -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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8. Platinum3D Content Animator - Standalone Version

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The revolution has been arrived, you can now turn your website HTML elements to 3D.You can create for example animated, Google Map supported Contact Us block, fancy gallery with sliding effect, product info box with flip animation (to display additional information about the item), book-styled testimonials section with auto-open effect and whatever you like!

Currently supported HTML elements are:

turn HTML elements to 3D

unlimited usability, everything is depends on your fantasy, create gallery, testimonials, download box, product info box, logo animation, contact info with google maps, etc.you can set background color, font color, font size, any custom HTML, vertical- and horizontal align

usable html elements in data-content attribute, like data-content=”[br]text[br]”

If you have any question or feedback, please feel free to email via my user page contact form.

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9. 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.lightbox galleries separate items in the same gallery by lightbox galleries

inline content support – you can have videos or any other html content on the thumb or the description

extensive admin panel – admin 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

free support – for installation via our forum -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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10. Fancy Gallery - Wordpress plugin

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I am glad to introduce you Fancy Gallery as wordpress plugin. You can create unlimited of galleries and every gallery can hold unlimited of albums.HTML Generator to use galleries on external websites

Extend Fancy Gallery with new functionalities and useful tools.Use the [gallery] shortcode with Fancy Gallery

Use NextGen Gallery as images source for Fancy Gallery

I created this free mobile App to upload and delete images from your wordpress media library easily.- New gallery layout: The inline gallery, that supports images, youtube, vimeo and mp4 videos

- Now you can write a custom description for every album and using HTML tags in the description

- Special characters for gallery and album titles allowed, like cyrillic letters

- Gallery and album titles editable

- Move an album from a gallery into another gallery via Drag&Drop

- Display a single album from a gallery in a page or post

- Now you can use HTML tags in the description

- Now you can set different options for each gallery

- Widget that allows to select a gallery and then the albums of the gallery will be listed.

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11. WordPress Cool Banner Rotator jQuery Plugin

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Nice ad elegant Banner Rotator for your Gallery, SlideShow or Website, with that you can view to your customer the images with style.jQuery Conflict free plugin

CSS and HTML formated

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12. Gravity Gallery - HTML5 jQuery Plugin

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Display your portfolio or media albums in a unique way with Gravity Gallery. Cusomise the gallery size, items size and their parameters. With these options, the possibilities with what you can do this gallery are endless. It can be customized by users with basic HTML skills. This gallery is compatible with all the major HTML5 browsers – Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE9, Safari.gravity gallery – get creative!

You will get all these updates for free even if the price of the gallery increases.free support – for installation via my forum -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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