WordPress Gallery Plugins
An Open Discussion
April 20th, 2017 | Fort Worth WordPress User Group Meetup
WordPress Built in Gallery Feature
- Lack of functionality out of the box
- Not the prettiest layout ever.
- Meant for theme developers to make it prettier.
Jetpack
- A variety of styles
- Image Mosaics
- Carousel extension
- Fast loading with Photon
- Can be frustrating to make changes beyond CSS
Foo Gallery
- 80k+ Downloads
- Many Addons
- Developer Focused
- Built in Display Templates
- Very Light Weight
- Premium Upgrade Available
- Small Team, Support is great but not always the fastest.
Envira Gallery
- 80k+ Downloads
- Many Addons
- Gallery Templates
- Fastest Loading*
- Premium Upgrade Available
- Lots of upsells
NextGen Gallery
- 1M+ Downloads
- Many Addons
- Uses custom folder structure
- Premium Upgrades Available
- Most inexpensive*
- Slowest in load times, uses custom folder structure.