12 Best WordPress Gallery Plugins
Create stunning image galleries on your WordPress site with professional gallery plugins. Feature responsive layouts, lightbox effects, and advanced image management.
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
Active Installations: 400,000+
4,292 ratings
Updated: 1/29/2025
The most popular gallery plugin that lets you create galleries and albums in seconds.
Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Image Slider, Video Slider
Active Installations: 600,000+
716 ratings
Updated: 3/20/2025
Slider, gallery, carousel plugin for WordPress. Build your image slider, video slider, post slider, YouTube slider, or WooCommerce product slider.
Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery
Active Installations: 200,000+
1,562 ratings
Updated: 3/29/2025
Photo Gallery is a powerful image gallery plugin with a list of advanced options for creating responsive image galleries with beautiful lightbox.
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
Active Installations: 100,000+
1,965 ratings
Updated: 2/18/2025
The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.
Firelight Lightbox
Active Installations: 200,000+
280 ratings
Updated: 12/8/2024
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
Gallery Plugin for WordPress – Envira Photo Gallery
Active Installations: 100,000+
1,564 ratings
Updated: 3/5/2025
Envira Gallery is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful WordPress image gallery. Lightbox with Drag & Drop builder that helps you create beautif …
FooGallery – Responsive Photo Gallery, Image Viewer, Justified, Masonry & Carousel
Active Installations: 100,000+
928 ratings
Updated: 3/4/2025
Create stunning, SEO optimized galleries using beautiful pre-built templates or advanced settings for complete customization and control.
Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid
Active Installations: 70,000+
298 ratings
Updated: 3/25/2025
Modern photo gallery and portfolio plugin with advanced layouts editor. Clean gallery styles with powerful settings in the Gutenberg block.
Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel with Lightbox & Photo Gallery, Video Slider, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid
Active Installations: 60,000+
398 ratings
Updated: 1/14/2025
The most powerful carousel, slider, and gallery plugin. Responsive carousel and gallery with images, posts, products, videos, content, and more.
Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block
Active Installations: 20,000+
83 ratings
Updated: 3/24/2025
Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies.
Portfolio Gallery – Image Gallery Plugin
Active Installations: 30,000+
327 ratings
Updated: 11/22/2024
Portfolio gallery comes with a separate category page and user-friendly interface. Showcase portfolio, images, video, gallery.
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
Active Installations: 20,000+
110 ratings
Updated: 12/27/2024
Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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