WordPress Gallery Plugin
NextGEN Gallery has been the industry's standard
WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It's easy to use for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals who need a comprehensive photo gallery solution.
NextGEN Gallery offers complete WordPress gallery management with the ability to batch upload photos, import metadata, easily add, delete, rearrange photos and create an unlimited number of galleries. You can even simply provide a zip file or choose a folder to upload photos.
But our photo gallery plugin doesn't stop there!
NextGEN Pro
This plugin is the lite version of the NextGEN Gallery plugin, which offers all the gallery features you'll need like photo albums, lightboxes, backups, search, sharing, filtering, print fulfillment, eCommerce, animations, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress now!
The free version of NextGEN gallery provides three main gallery styles (slideshow, thumbnail, and imagebrowser galleries) and two album styles (compact and extended), all of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more. Learn more about
NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin features.
The best gets better with full support for the Gutenberg block editor. Now you can add a photo gallery or album anywhere on your site, with a page builder type feel directly in the WordPress editor. We truly make creating, building, and editing galleries easy.
Feature List
We've built NextGEN Gallery to be extremely powerful and full of features.
- Albums Organize multiple photo galleries into albums for easy sorting and viewing
- Tags Group multiple images together with tags, with easy-to-update renaming and management
- eCommerce Sell images from your photo gallery, or sell entire galleries with our built in payment processing. Works with Stripe and PayPal.
- Slideshows Make your galleries automatically rotate through a series of images
- Themes Access 84+ different types of themes to showcase your galleries
- Animations Create visual interest with 25+ different types of animations for each gallery
- Watermarks Protect your work with image and text-based watermarks.
- Capabilities Customize who can read, edit, and publish galleries with refined permsisions controls
- Image Proofing Let your customers choose which photos to purchase and improve your workflow.
- Print Fulfillment Sell your photos and ship prints directly to customers with automated print lab fulfillment and zero commissions
- Auto Tax calculations Automatically calculate sales tax when required for your customers.
- Coupons Offer discounts and incentives to increase your gallery sales
- Lightroom Integration Automatically sync and create photo galleries from Adobe Lightroom into NextGEN Gallery without any need to update your website.
- Social Sharing Create viral social media opportunities when your images are optimized for Open Graph and X
- Image Commenting * Add deep engagement to your images within the lightbox to increase gallery engagement
- Deep Linking Link directly to a specific image from one of your galleries
- Frontend Search * Add powerful filtering for your gallery based on tags
- Hover Captions * Add social sharing, tiles, and descriptions for each image
- Digital Downloads Offer digital downloads of your images for free, or chage for them with our eCommerce gallery plugin
- Right Click Disable prevent images in your galleries from being downloaded with easy right click and drag/drop protection.
- Customization * We've built in lots of individual customizations for each of our features so that you can make NextGEN Gallery perfect for you
As you can see, we've built a photo gallery plugin that is suitable for everyone! Want a specific or missing feature? Just let us know.
NEXTGEN GALLERY DEMOS
Basic Thumbnail Gallery
Basic Slideshow Gallery
Basic Imagebrowser Gallery
Basic Compact Album
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Basic List Album
NEXTGEN PRO DEMOS
Photo Print Sales
Photo Proofing
Digital Downloads
Pro Mosaic Gallery
Pro Masonry Gallery
Pro Tile Gallery
Pro Filmstrip Gallery
Pro Lightbox
About Imagely
NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin maintained by Imagely. We're the WordPress photography experts. In addition to NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Plus, and NextGEN Pro, we also make WordPress themes for photographers, providing beautiful turnkey websites for photographers.
Learn more or connect with us:
Imagely Website
WordPress Themes for Photographers
Turnkey Photography Sites
NextGEN Gallery Documentation
INSTALLATION: The easiest way to start uploading your photos is to login to you WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New, search for NextGEN Gallery, and click to install the plugin. You can also download the plugin zip file from this page and upload it from the Plugins > Add New > Upload page.
HOW TO USE: Just go to a page or post and add a NextGEN Gallery block. Within the block, click the Add Gallery button to open our Insert Gallery Window, where you can create, manage, customize, and display your WordPress photo galleries. You can also manage your photo galleries and gallery settings from the central options area under the "Gallery" tab on your dashboard menu.
DOCUMENTATION: See
NextGEN Gallery Documentation.
That's it ... have fun! For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery
WordPress Gallery Plugin.
4.0.5 - 02.12.2025
- Fixed: Unresolved template.
- Added: Convert WordPress galleries to Imagely — convert a single gallery from the block editor ("Convert to Imagely Gallery" in the sidebar) or bulk convert from Imagely → Settings → Convert Galleries; supports classic [gallery] shortcodes and Gutenberg Gallery blocks; preserves image metadata and backs up original content before conversion.
- Fixed: Legacy Template dropdown no longer shows internal template files; only valid legacy templates appear in the list.
- Fixed: Imagely Widget displays correctly again after legacy template dropdown improvements.
- Improved: PHP 8.1+ compatibility; resolved deprecation warnings when previewing galleries or using legacy templates with empty image or gallery descriptions.
v4.0.3 - 12.18.2025
• Added: REST endpoint to scan a gallery folder and import newly added images, and a client hook to trigger it.
• Added: legacy template selector and exposed available legacy templates to the admin app.
• Added: shared Pagination component and applied it across admin list screens (galleries, albums, tags, orders).
• Added: Image ID field to the image metadata modal.
• Added: Digital Downloads section in order details with a direct download link.
• Fixed: 403 rate-limiting issues by debouncing display/settings saves (longer debounce) in gallery/album customize flows.
• Fixed: legacy template loading security by blocking traversal attempts and only allowing templates from approved directories
• Fixed: Upgrade menu item and related admin styles/targeting to show only for Lite installs.
• Fixed: duplicate-column errors when adding DB columns by checking column existence directly
• Fixed: order resubmission-to-lab flow (improved success/error handling) and improved order item file details display.
• Fixed: missing UTM parameters in upgrade links.
V4.0.2 - 12.15.2025
- Fixed: Missing thumbnails on the gallery edit page for some users
- Fixed: Creating galleries from server subfolders
- Fixed: User and capabilities page showing for all users
V4.0.1 - 12.10.2025
- Fixed: Edit gallery user permissions
V4.0.0 - 12.09.2025
- Improved: Admin area user interface
V3.59.12 - 04.23.2025
- Fixed: Lightbox allowed html discrepancy
V3.59.11 - 04.17.2025
- Fixed: SQL formatting error on plugin activation
- Fixed: Translation warning in some admin pages
V3.59.10 - 01.28.2025
- Fixed: Frontend search not working in some cases
V3.59.9 - 01.16.2025
- Fixed: Title and caption allowed html tags.
V3.59.8 - 01.06.2025
- Fixed: Apostrophes not being added to image title
- Improved: Fields sanitization
V3.59.7 - 12.05.2024
- Fixed: Links and styles on about page
- Fixed: Readme update
V3.59.6 - 11.05.2024
- Fixed: Title and captions escaping
- Added: Onboarding wizard
- Added: Optional usage tracking
- Fixed: Blurry images on cropping
V3.59.5 - 09.24.2024
V3.59.4 - 07.18.2024
- Fixed: Warning on WP import file
- Added: Create gallery nudge
- Added: Notifications count to the navbar menu
- Fixed: Duplicated gallery name in the Gutenberg block
- Fixed: Gutenberg block not working when adding into the page template
- Added: Link on the header section logo and make it clickable
- Fixed: Duplicate thumbnail in basic thumbnails carousel
V3.59.3 - 05.29.2024
- Fixed: Improved transient registration.
- Fixed: Rendering shortcodes on rest endpoints.
- Fixed: Album name sanitization.
- Removed: Deprecated admin notices.
- Fixed: PHP 8.2 warnings
V3.59.2 - 04.10.2024
- Fixed: Various bugs and improved UI/UX in various places.
V3.59.1 - 04.03.2024
- Fixed: Warning when saving settings.
- Fixed: Show ordered filenames on order details page.
V3.59 - 03.14.2024
- Fixed: URI too long prevents "Sort or exclude images" from loading images.
- Fixed: Correcting Lightroom clients being unable to sync image .
- Fixed: Prevent PHP warning / error when watermarking.
- Fixed: Sorting images from a Classic Editor launched IGW.
- Fixed: Shutter lightbox randomly failing to load the captions.
- Fixed: PHP notices and warnings.
- Fixed: Addressed a bug reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev of Cleantalk.
V3.58 - 02.08.2024
- Fixed: A potential fatal DivisionByZeroError caused by image files being deleted outside of NextGEN.
- Fixed: A potential fatal error in the XML-RPC controller.
- Fixed: An issue with classic (non-block) themes could break Pro's "Open album children in the Pro Lightbox" feature.
- Fixed: Assorted potential PHP notices and warnings.
- Fixed: Manage Galleries' "Images per Page" feature was not working.
- Fixed: Passing 'gallery_width="auto"' to a Slideshow shortcode could result in a fatal error.
V3.57 - 01.10.2024
- Fixed: Albums were generating an incorrect URL to their child galleries.
- Fixed: Albums could generate a fatal error when viewing a sub-album.
- Fixed: Do not call opcache_reset() if it does not exist.
V3.56 - 01.09.2024
- Fixed: "Open album children in Pro Lightbox" feature was only working with block based themes.
- Fixed: Adding more than one Pro display to one page caused galleries after the first to be unstyled.
- Fixed: Albums with very a large number of children may have broken gallery displays if it relies on the dynamic-css feature.
- Fixed: Continued fixing recently introduced incompatibilies with 3rd party extensions.
- Fixed: Creating a new gallery from the Manage Galleries page was just reloading the page.
- Fixed: Display Type settings could be forced back to their default settings when upgrading.
- Fixed: IIS servers may generate a fatal error searching for an absolute path to template files.
- Fixed: Inserting NextGEN singlepic from the Add Media popup was creating an without a src attribute.
- Fixed: Possible PHP notices, warnings.
- Fixed: Restored the NGG_DISABLE_SHORTCODE_MANAGER constant.
- Fixed: Router->fix_page_parameter() generated a warning if the global $post is not an object.
- Fixed: The button 'Scan folder for new images' was re-importing existing images.
- Fixed: Updating tags via the Manage Tags page did not flush the displayed gallery rendering cache.