We recommend the NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin for your image and photography needs. This plugin has been the industry standard for WordPress galleries since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year.
The plugin offers complete WordPress gallery management, allowing you to easily batch upload photos, import metadata, add, delete, and rearrange photos, and create an unlimited number of galleries. The free version 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.
The plugin’s features include:
– Albums to organize multiple photo galleries into albums
– Tags to group multiple images together
– eCommerce capabilities to sell images or entire galleries
– Slideshows to automatically rotate through a series of images
– 84+ different themes to showcase your galleries
– 25+ different types of animations for each gallery
– Watermarks to protect your work
– Customizable permissions to control who can read, edit, and publish galleries
– Image proofing to let your customers choose which photos to purchase
– Print fulfillment to sell and ship prints directly to customers
– Automatic tax calculations
– Coupons to offer discounts and incentives
– Lightroom integration to sync and create galleries from Adobe Lightroom
– Social sharing options
– Image commenting
– Deep linking to specific images
– Frontend search and filtering
– Hover captions
– Digital downloads
– Right-click and drag/drop protection
With its extensive feature set and easy-to-use interface, the NextGEN Gallery plugin is an excellent choice for any WordPress site that needs a powerful and customizable image gallery solution.