Category · recomputed daily
gallery plugins
806 plugins in the directory carry the gallery tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
806
plugins
3,163,980+
combined reach
201
released in 90 days
56%
quiet 18 months+
20
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent. Showing the 15 most recent of 20.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Gallery for Social Photo | 300+ | reopened |
| 24 Oct 2026 | Gallery for Social Photo | 300+ | closed |
| 21 Oct 2026 | CT Divi ACF Masonry Gallery | 200+ | released after a long silence |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Gmedia Photo Gallery | 7,000+ | reopened |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Slidr | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Gmedia Photo Gallery | 7,000+ | closed |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Photospace Responsive Gallery | 800+ | released after a long silence |
| 06 Oct 2026 | Lightbox Gallery by Kodefix – Responsive Lightbox Effect for gallery block | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 03 Oct 2026 | Simple Gallery with Filter | 100+ | reopened |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Ms Gallery For Divi Lite | 50+ | changed hands |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Simple Gallery with Filter | 100+ | closed |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Mang Board | 8,000+ | reopened |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Mang Board | 8,000+ | closed |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Pixel Gallery Addons for Elementor | 4,000+ | reopened |
| 03 Sep 2026 | WoowGallery | 1,000+ | reopened |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Slider 3 Responsive slider plugin to create sliders in visual editor easily. Build beautiful image slider, layer slider, video slider, post slider, and more. | 800,000+ | 4.9★ | 10 days ago |
| Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Image Slider, Video Slider Slider, gallery, carousel plugin for WordPress. Build your image slider, video slider, post slider, YouTube slider, or WooCommerce product slider. | 500,000+ | 4.6★ | 11 days ago |
| Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery The most popular gallery plugin that lets you create galleries and albums in seconds. | 300,000+ | 4.3★ | 9 days ago |
| Firelight Lightbox Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups. | 200,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More The fastest drag & drop photo gallery plugin. Create stunning image galleries, albums, video galleries & lightbox displays in minutes — no coding! | 100,000+ | 4.7★ | 15 days ago |
| Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery | 100,000+ | 3.9★ | 26 days ago |
| Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery Photo Gallery is a powerful image gallery plugin with a list of advanced options for creating responsive image galleries with beautiful lightbox. | 100,000+ | 4.5★ | 23 days ago |
| Responsive Lightbox & Gallery The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress. | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 18 days ago |
| Simple Lightbox The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| ACF Photo Gallery Field A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website. | 60,000+ | 4.0★ | 10 months ago |
| Gallery by Visual Portfolio Build photo galleries, image galleries, and portfolio grids with gallery blocks. Masonry, lightbox, sliders, and filters included. | 60,000+ | 4.8★ | 14 days ago |
| AI-Powered Carousel, Slider, Video & Photo Gallery Blocks by WP Carousel Image carousel, slider, and slideshow blocks with AI and ready patterns. Photo gallery, video slider, post and WooCommerce product carousels. | 60,000+ | 4.7★ | 10 days ago |
| WP Show Posts Add posts to your website from any post type using a simple shortcode. | 60,000+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Robo Gallery – Photo & Image Slider Robo Gallery is a powerful image gallery and photo gallery plugin with advanced features to create responsive galleries with a beautiful lightbox | 40,000+ | 4.3★ | 1 month ago |
| SimpLy Gallery Create photo and video galleries with albums, sliders and a lightbox. Includes free Media Library folders to organize your files. | 40,000+ | 4.8★ | 26 days ago |
| LightPress Lightbox Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 7 months ago |
| Premium Portfolio Features for Phlox theme Showcase your projects beautifully in Phlox theme | 30,000+ | 4.3★ | 12 months ago |
| Gallery Custom Links Gallery Custom Links allows you to link images to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others. | 30,000+ | 4.7★ | 8 days ago |
| Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid Image Gallery + Photo Gallery + Portfolio Gallery + Tiled Gallery in 1 plugin. Includes lightbox and hover effects. It supports Pinterest (masonry) ph … | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 30 days ago |
| Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Photo Gallery by Supsystic – Image Gallery, Masonry, Albums & Lightbox Responsive photo and image galleries with masonry, albums and a lightbox. Bulk upload, drag-and-drop ordering, Gutenberg block and Elementor widget. | 20,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 days ago |
| Lightbox with PhotoSwipe Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| Portfolio Filter Gallery – Photo Gallery Create filterable portfolio galleries with photos, videos, category filters in masonry layouts. Supports Gutenberg blocks and Elementor widgets. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 17 days ago |
| WP Lightbox 2 WP Lightbox 2 adds stunning lightbox effects to images and galleries on your WordPress site. | 20,000+ | 4.4★ | 9 months ago |
| WPZOOM Portfolio Lite – Filterable Portfolio Plugin Portfolio plugin for WordPress. Create filterable portfolio grids with masonry layouts and lightbox. Ideal for photographers, designers, agencies. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| Catch Gallery Catch Gallery allows you to add three different types of layouts (in addition to the default layout provided by WordPress – Thumbnail Grid) for your g … | 10,000+ | 4.0★ | 10 days ago |
| Gallery Lightbox Gallery - Display your Wordpress galleries in a lightbox easily | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Video Gallery – YouTube Gallery, Vimeo, Video Portfolio, Image Portfolio and Image Gallery Gallery is a user-friendly plugin to display user or hashtag-based gallery feeds as a responsive customizable gallery. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 8 months ago |
| Photo Gallery – GT3 Image Gallery & Gutenberg Block Gallery GT3 Image Gallery - create photo gallery, video gallery, block gallery, slider and more with ease. All photo galleries are responsive and loading fast | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Meow Gallery Tired of slow, bloated gallery plugins? Here is the answer! ☺️ Polished, beautiful galleries that are blazing fast. No bloat. Enjoy! 💕 | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 8 days ago |
| MetaSlider Gallery – Image Gallery, Lightbox Galleries, Video Galleries MetaSlider Gallery is the ultimate gallery plugin. Build an image or video gallery, or show your images, videos, and slideshows in a beautiful gallery … | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 1 month ago |
| Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others Galleries on steroids! A stylish lightbox & gallery plugin for WP, Flickr, SmugMug and Zenfolio photos and videos. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| PowerFolio – Portfolio & Image Gallery for Elementor A powerful portfolio and gallery plugin for WP, Elementor and Gutenberg. Create portfolio and image galleries in seconds using any page builder! | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 23 days ago |
| Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site Essential components for every WordPress site: share buttons, social links, social media integrations, galleries, lazyload, custom widgets, and more. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 months ago |
| PixTypes Theme-driven post types, taxonomies & custom fields. | 9,000+ | 2.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Mang Board MangBoard is bulletin board for your community website. (Gallery,Calendar,Forum, Form,FAQ) | 8,000+ | 3.7★ | 11 days ago |
| Responsive WordPress Slider – HG Slider A responsive image rotator plugin that easily creates WordPress slideshows. Now 100% Organic! | 7,000+ | 3.8★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Gmedia Photo Gallery Gmedia Gallery - photo gallery with comments, show EXIF & Metadata, gallery with map geolocation (GPS), private galleries. | 7,000+ | 4.3★ | 24 days ago |
| Manual Image Crop Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image). | 7,000+ | 4.1★ | 3 months ago |
| CatFolders – WordPress Media Library Folders & Categories Organize and manage your files with WordPress media folders. Fast, flexible, and professional. | 6,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| Photoswipe Masonry PhotoSwipe Masonry takes advantage of the built in gallery features of WordPress. The gallery is built using PhotoSwipe from Dmitry Semenov. | 6,000+ | 4.5★ | 24 days ago |
| Portfolio, Gallery, Product Catalog – Grid KIT Portfolio Portfolio, gallery, product catalog, teams, logos and more. All-in-one - Grid Kit Portfolio Gallery plugin! | 6,000+ | 4.4★ | 15 months ago |
| Vimeography: Vimeo Video Gallery WordPress Plugin The easiest way to create beautiful Vimeo video galleries on your WordPress site. | 5,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Colorbox View image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site. | 5,000+ | 4.3★ | 15 months ago |
| Gallery Carousel Without JetPack Transform your standard galleries into an immersive full-screen experience without requiring you to connect to WordPress.com | 4,000+ | 3.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Image Gallery Easily create an image gallery on your posts, pages or any custom post type | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 13 days ago |
| Image Gallery Block Impress your audience with beautiful image gallery with lightbox. | 4,000+ | 4.2★ | 12 days ago |
| jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. | 4,000+ | 4.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Lightbox Images for Divi Enhanced Extends Divi's native lightbox effect to all auto-linked images. Requires Divi Theme or Divi Builder Plugin. Compatible with Divi 4.10+ and Divi 5. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Pixel Gallery Addons for Elementor Pixel Gallery is an Elementor gallery plugin for creating responsive image and portfolio grids with customizable layouts and effects. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 days ago |
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