20 Best Free Gallery Plugins for WordPress

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Beautiful visual graphics are essential for a good website. Images play a very important role in attracting new readers, so having beautiful photo galleries on your website is a must especially if you have a portfolio website!

Today we selected 20 best free gallery plugins for WordPress. These awesome plugins are not only free but also have lots of useful features you can use to create gorgeous galleries.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin. It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more.

NextGEN Gallery

Grand Flagallery 

Grand Flagallery is a powerful media and image gallery plugin. It has an easy interface for handling photos, image galleries, audio and video galleries. With this gallery plugin you can easy upload images, create music and video playlists, create photo galleries and more.

Grand Flagallery - Photo Gallery Plugin

Portfolio Gallery

Portfolio Gallery is perfect for using for creating various portfolios or gallery within various views. The product allows adding descriptions and titles for each portfolio gallery. It is rather useful whenever using with various pages and posts, as well as within custom location.

Portfolio Gallery

Easy Media Gallery 

Easy Media Gallery is a free gallery plugin for WordPress designed to display various media such as grid gallery, photo albums, multiple photo albums, photo gallery with pagination, image slider, image carousel, portfolio, and more!

Easy Media Gallery - The Best Gallery & Photo Album Plugin

NextCellent Gallery 

This WordPress gallery plugin offers diverse and powerful functionality for getting images from your desktop to your website. You can easily upload batches of images via a standard WordPress-style uploader, or upload images via zip file or FTP.

NextCellent Gallery - NextGEN Legacy

Gallery

This plugin makes it possible to implement as many galleries as you want into your website. You can add multiple pictures and description for each gallery, show them all at one page, view each one separately.

Gallery

Gmedia Gallery 

Manage files, show image galleries and photo slideshows, play music on your site with the Gmedia Gallery plugin. Gmedia Library provides a comprehensive interface for handling galleries, image and audio files.

Gmedia Gallery - Photo Gallery, Image Slider, Music Player, Video Player, Media Library

wp responsive photo gallery

WordPress responsive photo gallery is beautiful photo thumbnail gallery with main image.Admin can manages any number of images into the photo gallery slider.

wp responsive photo gallery

Google Maps Photo Gallery

The plugin displays a gallery on Google Maps with geotagged photos that has been uploaded to post. When clicked the photo on the gallery, zoom in image with lightbox.

Google Maps Photo Gallery

Artificial Photo Gallery

This plugin will enable photo gallery slider in your WordPress theme. In this plugin you can find some awesome features and you can control it from the options page.

Artificial Photo Gallery

WP Photo Album Plus

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums and slideshows within your WordPress site. You can create various albums that contain photos as well as sub albums at the same time.

WP Photo Album Plus

WP Easy Gallery 

WP Easy Gallery is the best free WordPress gallery plugin. WP Easy Gallery allows you to easily create and manage multiple photo galleries through a simple admin interface.

WP Easy Gallery » WordPress Gallery Plugin

Flickr Justified Plugin

This plugin that allows you to show your Flickr photo stream, photo sets, galleries, group pools, or tags in your blog, with a very elegant and awesome layout.

flickr plugin

Eazyest Gallery

Eazyest Gallery extends WordPress media featuring folders, sub-folders, comments, slideshows, ftp-upload, and many more features. The plugin stores your all your folder information in the WordPress database as custom post types.

Eazyest Gallery

OmniGallery 

Enhance your WordPress website with the OmniGallery Photo Gallery. You can easily add your photo from Instagram, Pinterest, Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, and Dribble into your WordPress Gallery.

OmniGallery by ColorLabs & Company

Image Gallery

Image Gallery was specially made to allow its users to create a lot of ways to showcase images, videos and information. Just add image or video descriptions and titles for each view of the Image Gallery and choose one of the 6 layouts.

Image Gallery

WooCommerce Dynamic Gallery

WooCommerce Dynamic Gallery  brings your store to life with a beautifully stylish sliding image gallery on every product page.

WooCommerce Dynamic Gallery

Responsive Photo Gallery

Responsive Photo Gallery is based on the Bootstrap framework. You can add unlimited images on your website. It has fade animation, light box image preview and two gallery layouts with various fonts.

Responsive Photo Gallery

Fancy Gallery

Fancy Gallery enables you to organize image galleries easily in your WordPress back-end. Furthermore this gallery plugin adds a JavaScript lightbox effect (touch-enabled, responsive, optimized for both mobile and desktop web browsers) to all links pointing to an image anywhere on your website.

Fancy Gallery

WP Gallery Bank 

Gallery Bank is a WordPress plugin designed to create beautiful photo gallery albums with images and videos using: Grid Albums, List Albums, Individual Albums, Masonry Layouts and Thumbnail Layouts.

WP Gallery Bank - Best Gallery Albums Plugin

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4 thoughts on “20 Best Free Gallery Plugins for WordPress”

  1. I believe you’re missing the best one, Envira! Not a fan of NextGEN. It started to mess up my blog just after installation. Post went blank and couldn’t uninstall the plugin properly.

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  2. The plugins are free or premium, This is no fact.
    The fact is that how much these plugins are effective for the purposes.
    In this case the plugins shared here are very much effective and tonic. Thank you author for sharing such nice post on the best free gallery plugins for WordPress.
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  3. Thanks for the interesting review. I have tried some different gallery plugins, and stopped on Gmedia Gallery so far. It’s updated to version 1.7.4, great plugin for image/photo/video galleries.

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  4. Thanks for the list, but I’m looking for a Gallery Plugin that does what Gallery3 did. Display a list of images in a grid form where each image links to a post., not open a lightbox.
    If anyone knows of a plugin that has that function I’d love to hear about it.

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