Photo Gallery – Image Gallery & Portfolio

by A WP Life

Description

New Photo Gallery helps you build a beautiful Photo Gallery and responsive Image Gallery. It is also perfect for showcasing a professional Portfolio on your WordPress site.

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The plugin displays your Photo Gallery or Image Gallery in a clean grid. When users click an image, it opens in a modern popup window. This window is called a lightbox. It lets users view your images in full size.

You can also add videos from YouTube and Vimeo. This is great for a video gallery, business portfolio, and team pages. You can upload media and get shortcodes in seconds. No complex settings are needed.

Create a Stunning Photo Gallery

Display your photography in a beautiful grid. You can organize files in columns from two to six. This is great for event albums, travel blogs, or design archives. Visitors can browse your photos without any distractions. The responsive layout keeps everything perfectly aligned on every single screen size.

Organize an Advanced Image Gallery

Create unlimited galleries with zero restrictions. You can add titles, descriptions, and custom hover styles to each thumbnail. A built-in grayscale feature allows for a vintage look. With our optimized scripts, your image lists load very quickly. This ensures your visitors stay engaged.

Showcase a Professional Portfolio

Highlight your best creative projects cleanly. This layout is perfect for web designers, artists, and architects. You can easily merge images with YouTube and Vimeo video thumbnails. This creates a modern, mixed-media portfolio showcase. Users can copy shortcodes and publish pages in seconds.

Key Features (Free Version)

Responsive grid system that adapts to any screen size.
Lightbox functionality for viewing images and videos without leaving the page.
Create unlimited galleries with no restriction on the number of images.
Support for YouTube and Vimeo video embedding.
Image protection for gallery
Grayscale effect for images.
Options to add titles and descriptions to your media.
Multiple column configurations (ranging from 2 to 6 columns).
Hover effects for gallery thumbnails.
Shortcode system for easy insertion into posts and pages.
Translation support for multilingual websites.

Premium Features

Upgrade to the premium version for additional capabilities:

Masonry Layout – Utilize a dynamic Pinterest-style grid for varied image aspect ratios.
Advanced Hover Effects – Choose from 30 distinct animation styles for thumbnails.
Load More Pagination – Implement a “Load More” button for large collections.
Map Integration – Associate images with location data on a map.
Custom Links – Attach specific URLs to individual gallery items.
Fixed Dimension Lightbox – maintain consistent sizing for the lightbox viewer.
Transition Effects – Smooth 2D animations when enhanced gallery navigation.
Visual Enhancements – Apply shadow and glow effects to thumbnails.
Interface Customization – Adjust colors for the lightbox tool and background.
Custom CSS – Apply your own style rules for precise control.
Priority Support – Receive direct assistance for technical inquiries.

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How to Use

Navigate to Photo Gallery > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
Provide a title for your new gallery.
Upload your desired images using the standard media uploader.
Adjust the gallery settings, such as column count and spacing.
Copy the shortcode generated by the plugin.
Paste this shortcode into any page or post editor.
Publish the page to view your live gallery.

Installation

Automatic Installation

Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
Search for “Photo Gallery Starter”.
Click Install Now and then Activate.

Manual Installation

Download the plugin zip file.
Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
Choose the zip file and click Install Now.
Activate the plugin.

After Activation

Navigate to Photo Gallery in your admin menu.
Click Add New to create your first gallery.
Upload images and configure settings.
Use the shortcode in your pages or posts.

Screenshots

Photo Gallery With Spacing
Photo Gallery Without Spacing
Photo Gallery With Thumbnail
Photo Gallery Without Thumbnail
Photo Gallery Tool Settings Option
Video Gallery With Spacing
Video Gallery Without Spacing
YouTube Thumbnail Video gallery
Vimeo Thumbnail Video gallery
Column Layout Settings
Full Width Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery Settings

Faq

How do I create a Photo Gallery?

Go to Photo Gallery > Add New in your dashboard. Enter a title, upload your images, configure the display settings, and copy the shortcode. Paste this shortcode into any page or post to display your gallery.

Can I use this plugin to build an Image Gallery?

Yes, this plugin is an advanced Image Gallery builder. You can organize your images in grids with beautiful lightbox views.

How do I showcase a professional Portfolio?

You can create a custom Portfolio by selecting our responsive grid templates and choosing a multi-column layout.

Can I add multiple galleries to one page?

Yes, you can add multiple galleries to a single page. Simply paste the respective shortcodes into your page content where you want them to appear.

Is the gallery responsive on mobile devices?

Yes, the galleries are designed to be responsive. The grid layout automatically adjusts to fit the screen size, ensuring compatibility with desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

How do I add videos to my gallery?

When adding items to your gallery, you can input a YouTube or Vimeo URL instead of uploading an image. The plugin will fetch the thumbnail and play the video within the lightbox.

Can I customize the lightbox appearance?

The free version provides a standard lightbox style. The premium version allows for further customization, including color options for tools and background events.

What image formats are supported?

The plugin supports standard web image formats such as JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP.

How do I change the number of columns?

You can adjust the column layout in the gallery settings. Options range from 2 to 6 columns to suit your layout needs.

Can I use the gallery in widget areas?

Yes, the shortcode can be placed in any widget area that accepts shortcodes, allowing you to display galleries in sidebars or footers.

Does the plugin affect website loading speed?

The plugin is designed for efficiency, loading scripts only when necessary. For optimal performance with large galleries, we recommend using properly optimized images.

How do I get support for this plugin?

For users of the free version, please use the plugin support forum. Premium users have access to priority support through our website.

Can I translate the plugin to my language?

Yes, the plugin is translation-ready. You can use translation tools or create your own language files to localize the interface.

How do I display only specific images?

The shortcode currently displays all images contained within that specific gallery. To show different sets of images, you should create separate galleries for each set.

Reviews

support

By centexcrane on May 24, 2022

The support is 2nd to none. They were quick to respond and fixed the problem right away. Best support yet on WordPress.

Best Plugin

By ollifdg on June 7, 2021

What a great plugin. I tried all kind of gallary plugins. This is the only one whit a good full screen functionality on mobile. Service was excelent. Answer on question within a day. Works great with Elementor. All functions can be adjust easily. One thing to improve is to make the share function adjustable without CSS. For now the support will give you the code straight to set it your way. Great plugin.

plugin needs some adjustments and leaks of security

By Ketil Ervik (ketil) on November 27, 2020

This plugin leaks of security, as you can not block the download of images. 1. hide the download button in popup does not work, even if you have clicked off for this in setup. And 2. If you right-click on an image, you can download the images. Otherwise, there is nothing to say about this plugin, it works as it should, apart from the inability to write more comprehensive text below the images. But you have the option to add text below the image in the popup, but something small and no option to adjust the text size! If you are looking for a simple photo gallery without taking into account the security of your own photos! is this plugin something for you. It's easy, fast and looks good, based on the price of 15 dollars you can not demand too much. The plugin needs some adjustments, better security and a little more options for me to think that it is an excellent plugin. For my part, I found another plugin that had this security needs and with significantly more options.

The best wordpress gallery plugin

By am45 on January 22, 2019

Need I say more? I've tried them all and New Photo Gallery takes the cake when it comes to ease of use and customer service

Great Plugin a must have

By catharina1 on July 16, 2018

a lovely easy to use pluging, and whel worth to upgrade for 10 dollar, the support is fantastish

very nice

By wkreiner on April 16, 2018

best integration and easy to handle. nice design . thank you

best plugin i found

By riverandy on January 29, 2018

this is a very useful plugin, easy to use multiple shortcode into same page also video feature is perfectly playing. Thanks

responsive gallery

By sammycurl on December 15, 2017

Very good plugin and great support! Thank you for your work!

Portfolio filter gallery

By jaesin74 on September 15, 2017

Great plug in...Support answered back on a timely basis

Best support

By Dekybg on May 15, 2017

Good gallery, and fast support, even for non premium users

Changelog

1.5.5

2026-05-6
Security: Implemented secure Vimeo thumbnail API parsing and meta caching.
Compliance: Updated Custom Post Type slug to ‘npg_gallery’ with seamless auto-migration.
Compliance: Upgraded menu and post save capabilities from ‘administrator’ to ‘manage_options’/’edit_post’.
Modernization: Replaced deprecated copy commands with navigator.clipboard API.
Housekeeping: Purged dead/unused assets (go-to-top, toggle-button, duplicate bootstrap, fontawesome fonts, old promotional assets).
Housekeeping: Excised TGMPA (TGM Plugin Activation) library to eliminate intrusive admin nags and reduce plugin weight by 126KB.
Feature: Added fully dynamic, cached, and translation-ready “Our Plugins” and “Our Themes” submenus matching WP.org standards.

1.5.4

Tested with WordPress 6.9
New: Redesigned Settings Page with modern Card-based UI.
Fixed: Typos in function names and shortcode logic.
Fixed: Deprecated jQuery load event.
Improvement: Removed unused code and variables.
Improvement: Standardized code structure (removed closing PHP tag).

1.5.3

Fixed translation loading warning for WordPress 6.7+
Updated default gallery settings (3 column layout, full size thumbnails)
Default thumbnails spacing set to No

1.5.2

Tested with WordPress 6.8.3

1.5.1

Tested with WordPress 6.8.1

1.5.0

Bug fixes and improvements

1.4.9

Fixed Twenty Twenty-Five theme compatibility issue
Bug fixes

1.4.8

Removed deprecated docs menu
Bug fixes

1.4.7

Added Vimeo video poster fetch functionality
Tested with WordPress 6.7.1
Bug fixes

1.4.6

Tested with WordPress 6.6.2
Bug fixes

1.4.5

Tested with WordPress 6.6.1

1.4.4

Tested with WordPress 6.5.4

1.4.3

Security improvements
Tested with WordPress 6.5.3
Bug fixes

1.4.2

Security improvements
Tested with WordPress 6.5.2
Bug fixes

1.4.1

Tested with WordPress 6.4.3
Bug fixes

1.4.0

Tested with WordPress 6.4.2
Bug fixes