Best WordPress Theme & Plugin For Photographers
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The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin for Photographers

Imagely gives you everything you need for a beautiful photography website and business. Design, customize, launch, and sell in only a few minutes. Trusted by over 500,000 websites.

Themes & Layouts

eCommerce Built-in

Image Watermarking

SEO Friendly

Print Fulfillment

Finally, a WordPress Gallery Plugin That’s Both Easy and Powerful

Imagely includes everything you’ll need to create an amazing photography website. Here are just some of the features that make Imagely the BEST photography plugin for WordPress.

Gallery Management

Albums

Effortlessly organize your galleries into albums with custom cover photos and breadcrumbs for easy navigation. Create a clear structure that allows visitors to explore your collections by category or theme.

Easy Management

Streamline your workflow by uploading, organizing, and editing galleries all in one place. Manage your images like a pro with tools designed specifically for photographers.

Frontend Search

Enable visitors to quickly find what they need with a powerful search bar and smart filtering by tags - perfect for large image libraries.

Image Tags

Add keywords to your images for easy sorting and filtering. Custom tags make managing your galleries and albums a breeze.

Dynamic Galleries

Create smart, auto-generated galleries by pulling in tagged images from across your site. Exclude any images you don’t want shown - no manual sorting needed.

Pro Support

Get expert help fast! Our dedicated support team is here to assist professional photographers with quick response times.

Flexible Upload Options

Upload images individually, in bulk, via ZIP files, or import entire folders - whatever works best for your workflow.

eCommerce & Pro Tools

Client Proofing

Easily add a photo proofing process to your galleries. Streamline your workflow by allowing clients to review and approve photos with ease.

Print Fulfillment

Sell photos directly from your WordPress site with automatic print fulfillment. Our partnership with White House Custom Colour handles printing and shipping with no extra work or fees.

Auto Tax Calculations

Automatically calculate accurate sales tax worldwide with the TaxJar integration – no more manual calculations required.

eCommerce

Sell your images directly from WordPress and accept payments via PayPal, Stripe, or even checks – no extra plugins required.

Payment Gateways

Accept secure payments through Stripe or PayPal, giving your clients trusted and flexible options for making seamless purchases directly on your WordPress site.

Coupons

Give your clients exclusive discounts with flexible coupon options. Set conditions and create promotions that add value to your offerings.

Pricelists

Simplify your image sales by applying pricelists to entire galleries - no more setting prices for each individual image. Streamline your pricing process the easy way.

Digital Downloads

Offer digital downloads of your images, either for free or paid, with full control over pricing and sizes through the Ecommerce system - helping you increase revenue effortlessly.

Adobe Lightroom Integration

Sync your Adobe Lightroom collections directly with WordPress galleries. Automatically create and update galleries, saving you valuable time.

Original Backups

Preserve full-size, uncompressed versions of your images for future use, such as eCommerce or print sales. Keep your work safe while displaying optimized images on your website.

Image Protection & Security

Image Protection

Protect your images from unauthorized downloads by disabling right-click and drag to save. Secure your entire site or just specific galleries to keep your work safe.

Watermarking

Add a watermark to your images using a logo, custom graphic, or text to protect your work and keep your name or brand visible. Customize the font and text, adjust size and placement, and fine-tune the opacity to match your style.

Automatic Backups & Recovery

We’ve got your back. A local copy of your images is saved automatically, so you can easily recover your work anytime - no stress, no data loss.

User Roles & Permissions

Take control of who can access and manage your galleries. From uploading images to editing galleries, set permissions for each WordPress user role so your team can work efficiently and securely.

Gallery Layouts

20+ Beautiful Gallery Displays

Showcase your photos in stunning styles like Mosaic, Masonry, Tiled, Thumbnail, Filmstrip, and more - giving your site a professional, polished look.

Thumbnail Grid

Take your image grid to the next level with extra customization options, giving you more control over how your thumbnails are displayed.

Masonry Gallery

Showcase your images in a stylish, Pinterest-style layout that keeps their original proportions - perfect for professional portfolios.

Mosaic Gallery

Create a seamless, collage-like gallery where images fit together without gaps for a modern and dynamic look.

Tiled Gallery

Display your photos in a structured grid layout, keeping your site clean, organized, and visually appealing.

Film Gallery

Give your gallery a cinematic edge with elegant frames around each image in a structured grid, adding a refined, timeless feel to your photos.

Filmstrip Gallery

Let visitors browse images in a sleek, scrolling carousel format, styled like a filmstrip - ideal for storytelling and showcasing collections.

Sidescroll Gallery

Offer an interactive experience with a smooth, horizontal scrolling gallery that makes image browsing effortless.

Slideshow Gallery

Engage your audience with a classic slideshow format - perfect for portfolios, presentations, and showcasing your best shots.

Blog Style Gallery

Display your images in a single vertical column, encouraging visitors to scroll and engage naturally with your content.

ImageBrowser Gallery

Showcase large images one at a time with smooth navigation - perfect for highlighting details while ensuring a great experience on any device.

Grid Album

Showcase multiple galleries and sub-albums in a clean, organized grid layout - perfect for easy browsing.

List Album

Display your galleries and sub-albums in a simple list format, making navigation effortless for your visitors.

Advanced Lightbox

Give visitors a stunning fullscreen view of your images with a fully customizable lightbox. Enable social sharing, deep linking, image comments, and even autoplay slideshows for an immersive experience.

Theme Design & Customization

No Coding Needed

Easily customize your site’s layout, fonts, colors, and more with the Imagely theme - no coding required. Create a unique design that matches your style and brand in just a few clicks.

96+ Themes & Designs

Choose from over 96 stunning photography templates to get your site up and running in no time, with layouts that ensure your photos shine and capture attention.

Flexible Menus

Take full control of your site's navigation with the drag-and-drop WordPress menu builder. Customize hover effects, sizing, transparency, and mobile-specific settings.

Mobile-Responsive Design

Make sure your photography site looks great and works flawlessly on any device. Easily customize the design for phones and tablets to provide a smooth experience.

Page Layouts

Design your site your way. Use the WordPress block editor or your favorite page builder for easy drag-and-drop customization.

Save & Share Designs

Personalize your photography theme, then save, export, and share or even sell your custom designs. Import designs from others effortlessly!

Painless Typography

Customize your site’s typography with hundreds of Google Fonts, offering full control over your font choices – no coding, no hassle.

One Click Conversion

Easily switch your existing WordPress site to the Imagely theme with a single click. Preserve your content while upgrading to a sleek, photography-optimized design - no technical setup required.

Importers

Quickly import images from your WordPress Media Library into galleries. Search, select, and add multiple images with ease - no need to navigate server folders.

Performance & SEO Optimization

Breadcrumbs

Guide users through galleries and albums with breadcrumbs, improving navigation and boosting SEO by helping search engines understand your content.

Deep Linking

Link directly to any image on your site, making it easier for visitors to share and drive traffic to specific content. Deep linking makes images more indexable by search engines, boosting visibility.

Smart Image Resizing

Automatically resize images upon upload to ensure faster load times on your site. The original high-quality versions are safely backed up, giving you the flexibility to revert at any time.

Pagination

Enhance your gallery's performance by splitting large galleries into multiple pages, loading only the images on the current page for faster browsing.

Lazy Loading

Improve user experience by loading images only when they’re visible on screen, reducing initial load time and keeping your galleries smooth and fast.

Compression Integration

Easily integrate with popular compression plugins like Imagify and Optimole to automatically optimize image sizes without compromising quality.

Alt Tags & Captions

Effortlessly add descriptive alt tags and captions to enhance accessibility and boost your site's SEO.

Metadata Preservation

Preserve crucial image metadata for improved search visibility and better SEO performance.

Social Sharing & Engagement

Social Sharing

Make sharing a breeze! Visitors can instantly share your images to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter - fully optimized for each platform right from the lightbox.

Commenting

Boost engagement by letting visitors leave comments on individual photos - perfect for gathering feedback or starting conversations.

Open Graph & X Cards

Ensure your images display perfectly on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter), with automatic previews and captions that boost visibility and drive more clicks.

Hover Captions

Enhance your galleries with interactive hover effects, including social sharing, titles, and descriptions. Choose from multiple effects like fade and slide-up for a dynamic user experience.

Animations

Add subtle animations and effects to your site to enhance visual appeal and engagement. Make your galleries and content come alive - no code needed.

Top 5 reasons why 500,000 + photographers Imagely

Imagely is the perfect plugin for anyone who wants to build a beautiful photography website. Here’s why thousands of freelance, hobbyists, and professionals all love Imagely.

WORDPRESS PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE

Create a full website in only a few minutes

Imagely provides everything you need to build a photography website from the ground up - no matter your skills. Use our Imagely WordPress theme to level-up your site’s design to make your photos shine with 80+ designs. 

Our popular NextGen Gallery plugin by Imagely plugin lets you create, organize, customize, and share your galleries and images easily, with our over 20+ years of experience helping photographers display their work.

BEST WORDPRESS GALLERY PLUGIN

Easily create, customized, and publish galleries

Uploading your images to Imagely is incredibly easy - no matter your workflow. You can  drag and drop photos from your computer, select folders on your web server, select images from the WordPress Media library, or even upload an entire zip file to be automatically exported. 

Once your images are uploaded, Imagely provides endless customizations to make your galleries look and feel just the way you want right inside the page editor or through our plugin. 

We make it easy to add a gallery to any page on your website, with our native block editor or shortcodes.

ECOMMERCE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Built in eCommerce, built specifically for photographers

Our powerful eCommerce features lets you sell your images - your way. You can easily set the price for an individual image or gallery, create customized price lists, provide discounts for bulk orders, offer image proofing, and even send full size digital downloads automatically.

Imagely also offers built in sales-tax calculations, and white-labled print order fulfillment services to expand your revenue opportunities, with no markup or additional fees. 

All of this is built specifically with our optimized eCommerce checkout that puts more money in your pocket.

Good platform for photographers to have an online presence. Imagely makes it easy to create a professional-looking photography website. You don't need to hire a designer or developer thanks to the templates

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PROTECT YOUR PHOTOS

Show Off Your Work to clients, on YOUR Terms

Imagely includes powerful features to protect your work and give you more credit (and money). Our password protection feature lets only authorized people view your galleries if they know the secret. 

Automatic watermarking is easy, with the ability to add a custom image or add your custom text with complete font, color, and position controls.

Imagely also includes right-click and image dragging protection, to make copying your work more difficult.

TOOLS FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Features to Help Your Workflow, and save time

Imagely was designed to help you manage and grow your photography business, no matter how big or small. 

Imagely integrates with Adobe Lightroom which lets you upload, sync, and delete images, galleries, or entire albums without ever logging into your website. 

Our default settings feature lets you set-up a gallery once, and apply those settings everywhere, saving you repetitive work. 

Other powerful features from Imagely like Dynamic Galleries let you automatically build galleries from tags, which are also searchable by your users. Automatic image backup and recovery helps provide you peace of mind. We’re always adding features based on customer feedback and requests.

Latest Tips and Tricks

We’re always keeping on top of the latest trends and resources so that you can focus on what you do best.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have a question about Imagely? See our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed below, please contact us.

Who should use Imagely?Imagely is perfect for photographers, designers, bloggers, and creative professionals who want more than just a gallery. If you're looking to build a full photography website with powerful gallery tools, client proofing, ecommerce, and even Lightroom integration - Imagely is for you.

What’s required to use Imagely?Imagely is a WordPress plugin, so you’ll need a self-hosted WordPress website. That’s all!

Do I need coding skills to use Imagely?Not at all. You can create and customize your galleries and photo pages without any coding. It’s designed to be beginner-friendly with drag-and-drop tools, built-in templates, and a visual interface.

Will Imagely slow down my website?Never. Imagely is optimized for performance with features like lazy loading, image compression, responsive design, and more to ensure your site loads fast -  even with large photo collections.

Does Imagely work on non‑WordPress sites?No. Imagely is built exclusively for WordPress and won’t work on non‑WordPress platforms. You can use it on WordPress.com if you’re on a Business plan that allows plugin installs.

Can I sell photos with Imagely?Yes! Imagely includes built-in ecommerce tools so you can sell digital downloads or prints using Stripe or PayPal. You can also set pricing, offer coupons, and use automated print fulfillment.

Are my images protected?Yes. Imagely includes watermarking, right-click protection, automatic backups, and other tools to help safeguard your photos from unauthorized use.