+ Use on 3 Sites + NextGEN Plus + Pro Thumbnail Gallery + Pro Slideshow Gallery + Pro Filmstrip Gallery + Pro Masonry Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Pro Tiled Gallery + Pro Blogstyle Gallery + Pro Grid Album + Pro ImageBrowser Gallery + Pro Sidescroll Gallery + Pro List Album + Hover Captions + Image Protection + Image Social Sharing + Full Screen Lightbox + Image Commenting + Image Deeplinking + Secure Original Backups + Frontend Image Search + Retina Images + Open Graph + Twitter Cards + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
+ Use on 1 Site + NextGEN Starter + Gallery Layouts + Album Layouts + Fast Uploader + Lightboxes + Pro Filmstrip Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Retina Images + Infinite Scrolling + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
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+ Use on 3 Sites + NextGEN Plus + Pro Thumbnail Gallery + Pro Slideshow Gallery + Pro Filmstrip Gallery + Pro Masonry Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Pro Tiled Gallery + Pro Blogstyle Gallery + Pro Grid Album + Pro ImageBrowser Gallery + Pro Sidescroll Gallery + Pro List Album + Hover Captions + Image Protection + Image Social Sharing + Full Screen Lightbox + Image Commenting + Image Deeplinking + Secure Original Backups + Frontend Image Search + Retina Images + Open Graph + Twitter Cards + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
+ Use on 1 Site + NextGEN Starter + Gallery Layouts + Album Layouts + Fast Uploader + Lightboxes + Pro Film Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Retina Images + Infinite Scrolling + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
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Customize and Publish in Minutes… What Are You Waiting For?
We’ve been using NextGEN gallery on one site or another for years now. Not only does it have a great feature set, but it is well maintained, always up-to-date, and we’ve had great success with any support inquiries over the years. I recommend it highly!
David G. Johnson
Almost 17 years of Awesome and Easy!!!
My wife and I started a personal WordPress blog back in 2002, before our oldest daughter was born. We settled on NextGEN gallery because it was simple and easy for my wife to use, and it delivered a great experience for our friends and family.
After almost 17 years; countless server, database, WordPress, theme, and plugin updates; and many wonderful family moments shared, NextGen Gallery remains THE plugin of choice for sharing our favorite images with friends and loved ones around the world!
rlwmmw
No other image plugin comes close
I have been using NextGEN Gallery since its first days ... Although there are quite a few other similar plugins for WordPress, their image management back end relies mainly on WordPress’ media management. NGG provides a far better organization of images with great ease. After the new team took over the development, there was a short period of hiccups but since those issues were cleared it continues to provide excellent platform for image management and presentation.
The Imagely team quickly and accurately responds to problem reports and occasional issues are addressed in a timely manner. Search but you will not find a better feature set in any image management plugin.
acekin
This is such a great plugin
This is such a great plugin, everything just works out the box and has many, many features and customizations available. It’s no wonder this is the most popular Gallery plugin available. Great job!
John Bradfield
Great Product, Support and Documentation
This product has it all. Before I bought I read reviews and researched their support. I’ve tried other photo WordPress plugins and services such as Smugmug, Zenfolio, and Squarespace. This is the closest to those services but I have complete control and so many options. Looking forward to many years ahead.
gregsh303
Best Photo Gallery Plugin
The free version is better than other paid photo gallery plugins. I went and purchased the Plus and Pro version of the plugin, and it’s even better. Imagely’s support staff is pretty responsive. I would consider it a must-have plugin if you’re going to have a photo gallery on your site.
mrtechnique
Fantastic gallery plugin
Many times when you download a plugin, it does almost what you want but not quite. NextGEN does everything I want, plus extra useful functions that I hadn’t even thought of but are extremely useful! Top job!
trevorstaats
Tried and True
This is the gallery plug-in I keep coming back to. I’ve tried others, but this one is my favorite. I like the interface. I did need to search for a tutorial to really hone some of the settings. But now that I have that, I have used this on several sites.
k6designs
Best photo gallery plugin I’ve used
I’ve used a handful of equivalent plugins and this one has been the nicest to work with in terms of usability and what it does.
scrollinondubs
Take NextGEN Gallery To The Next Level of Function and Style!
With over 30,000,000+ downloads, NextGEN Gallery is the perfect solution for YOU. Here’s why smart photographers love NextGEN Pro, and you will too!
Create Unlimited Galleries
Unlock the ability to create thousands upon thousands of WordPress galleries with endless possibilities with NextGEN Pro. Create an innumerable amount of the most stunning portfolios, awe-inspiring memoirs, and beautiful galleries without worry or hesitation.
Seamless, No Pain Upgrade
Upgrade without the worry of losing any of your settings or customizations. The process is seamless, and NextGEN Pro is an addon to the free plugin you've already come to know and love. You get all of the same amazing features of NextGEN Gallery plus the new robust features, speed, and flexibility of the premium version of NextGEN Pro.
Enhance Your Galleries With a Single Addon
You can make NextGEN Pro do incredible things at a fraction of the cost of alternative plugins thanks to a single addon. Make NextGEN Gallery go fullscreen, turn the lightbox into a slideshow, give your images deeplinking capabilities, and proof photos. You can even make sell your photos with automated print fulfillment – NextGEN Pro knows no bounds.
Serve Mobile with Style
Deliver mobile versions of your WordPress gallery images without any extra work. NextGEN Gallery and NextGEN Pro take care of it, automatically, so you don't have to. The smart mobile detection engine serves up the smaller images to mobile visitors to keep your site running smooth
Take NextGEN Gallery To The Next Level of Function and Style!
With over 30,000,000+ downloads, NextGEN Gallery is the perfect solution for YOU. Here’s why smart photographers love NextGEN Pro, and you will too!
Easily create beautiful photo galleries with just a few clicks.
Use our pre-built display types to customize the appearance of your gallery.
Build responsive WordPress galleries that work on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
Organize your galleries in Albums, choose cover photos, and more.
Allows site visitors to share photos via email, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
Easily add watermarks to your images to improve protection.
Make your gallery SEO friendly and easily link to images with deeplinking.
Client image proofing made easy for your photography business.
Instantly display and sell your photos with our ecommerce system.
Self fulfill your print orders, or use the automated print fulfillment from pro photo print labs
Tag your images for better organization and gallery display.
View images in a beauty, large, and customizable lightbox on any device.
Dynamically create galleries on the fly from various different sources.
Speed up the gallery creation process by saving your default settings.
Easily import photos from a .zip file, batches of image files, or scan a folder on your server.
Allow users to download images from your galleries for free, or as a paid product.
Add breadcrumb navigation links to your WordPress galleries and albums.
Prevent visitors from downloading your images without permission.
Automatically create & sync photo galleries from your Adobe Lightroom collections.
At Imagely we believe in supplying photographers with everything they need to create a beautiful photography website. We also believe in making your workflow from edit to publishing as simple as possible. That's why we built the Lightroom plugin. Grab the Pro package which includes the Imagely Lightroom plugin.
+ Use on 3 Sites + NextGEN Plus + Pro Thumbnail Gallery + Pro Slideshow Gallery + Pro Filmstrip Gallery + Pro Masonry Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Pro Tiled Gallery + Pro Blogstyle Gallery + Pro Grid Album + Pro ImageBrowser Gallery + Pro Sidescroll Gallery + Pro List Album + Hover Captions + Image Protection + Image Social Sharing + Full Screen Lightbox + Image Commenting + Image Deeplinking + Secure Original Backups + Frontend Image Search + Retina Images + Open Graph + Twitter Cards + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
+ Use on 1 Site + NextGEN Starter + Gallery Layouts + Album Layouts + Fast Uploader + Lightboxes + Pro Filmstrip Gallery + Pro Mosaic Gallery + Retina Images + Infinite Scrolling + 1 Year of Support + 1 Year of Updates
You are fully protected by our 100% No-Risk-Double-Guarantee. If you don’t like the products over the next 14 days, then we will happily refund 100% of your money. No questions asked.
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Frequently Asked Questions.
Still have questions? These are some frequently asked questions, but, if your question is not listed feel free to check our documentation or contact us.
NextGEN Plus is a perfect solution for photographers, designers, bloggers, and small businesses. Or anyone who needs to create, manage, and display a lot of galleries with easy management, adjustments and organization. If you want to create a beautiful WordPress gallery, then you need NextGEN Plus.
NextGEN Pro is for any photographer who wants to run more of their business tasks, like photo proofing, digital downloads, and print sales using our ecommerce system. NextGEN Pro is designed specifically for you!
To use Imagely themes or plugins on your website, all you need is a self-hosted WordPress.org installation. If you are hosting with WordPress.com then their Business Plan is required.
Definitely not! You can easily create and customize beautiful photo galleries without any coding knowledge or experience. We made it extremely user friendly, so you can build and showcase your photos without hiring a developer. However, if you are a developer then you are welcome to use the built-in Custom CSS features or hook into our API to extend capabilities. But we don't recommend modifying. core code, so be sure to make a custom plugin if you plan on coding customizations.
NextGEN Gallery will not slow down your website. We built NextGEN Gallery, Plus, and Pro for performance from the ground up and have thoroughly tested it to ensure that it doesn't adversely affect your website’s performance. Images can slow down a website, but that will happen no matter the gallery system used.
Of course, we do. In fact, we work so hard to provide the absolute best support in the industry for any issues that you have. In the unlikely event that you do run into any issues with Imagely products, simply let us know!
Yes, you can still configure NextGEN Pro ecommerce to manually fulfill orders. This is common if you want to use your own lab, manage the print process, or heavily customize orders.
We have a 14-day refund policy that’s incredible. If for any reason you’re unhappy, get in touch. It's that simple.
Sure, you can use Imagely products on client sites by purchasing an appropriate license for each client site or you can refer them and earn a 25% commission through our affiliate program).
No. Our products are built for WordPress, so they will not work on sites that do not use WordPress. But our themes and plugins are compatible with the WordPress.com platform if you are using the Business plan, which allows WordPress.com users to install plugins and themes of their choosing.
All pricing plan payments renew annually, except for the Imagely Lifetime plan. Your initial payment allows you lifetime use of the Imagely themes and plugins. Annual renewals provide ongoing access to new features, bug fixes, addons, urgent security updates, and technical support. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time. If you cancel, you’ll lose access to all of the above when your membership expires.
The Imagely Lifetime plan is a one-time payment that includes ongoing updates, support, and access to service-based features like automated print fulfillment and automated tax calculations.
Your payment gives you lifetime rights to use Imagely themes, NextGEN Plus and/or NextGEN Pro. You can cancel anytime and continue to use both the themes and plugins forever. Annual renewals provide ongoing access to updates, support, and services like TaxJar and Print Lab. If you cancel, you’ll lose support, updates, and tax/print services when your membership expires.
Yes, it's called NextGEN Gallery and has millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of daily users. You can download the free version of NextGEN Gallery from the WordPress.org plugin repository, here. For a full comparison between NextGEN Gallery, Plus, and Pro, go here.
No problem, head over to our contact form, select pre-sales, and ask us any questions you may have here.
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Huge time saver for photographers
I've been suggesting to photographers for years that they use a customizable readymade template to get their photography websites off the ground quickly - but then transition to WordPress as soon as possible, to be able to get more significant SEO and all the plug-in benefits.
Now Imagely has created the perfect combination for photographers: a gorgeous, customizable turnkey template that is simple for non-coders to set up and manage AND immediately offers the entire WordPress advantage - not to mention dependable hosting, too!
It's a fantastic combination and a huge time saver for photographers looking to create striking-looking websites that also support smart business growth right out of the gate.
Tamara Lackey
Sleek & customization WordPress themes and plugins
When it comes to online digital solutions for photographers, there are a lot of options out there…but few that really have all the right tools under one roof.
Imagely offers website hosting, sleek & customization WordPress themes and plugins that are literally built from the ground up by photographers…for photographers.
I use their products and services throughout my website and couldn't be happier!
Colby Brown
No other image plugin comes close!
I have been using NextGEN Gallery since its first days … Although there are quite a few other similar plugins for WordPress, their image-management back end relies mainly on WordPress’ media management. NGG provides a far better organization of images with great ease. After the new team took over the development, there was a short period of hiccups but since those issues were cleared it continues to provide an excellent platform for image management and presentation. The Imagely team quickly and accurately responds to problem reports and occasional issues are addressed in a timely manner.
Search but you will not find a better feature set in any image management plugin.
Cemal Ekin
Indispensable plugins
NextGEN Gallery and Lightroom: Indispensable plugins! Love NextGEN Gallery with eCommerce options. Very easy to set up. It saves a ton of time getting my photos into their proper galleries at the right resolution. It really speeds up the workflow.
Mark LaRiviere
Innovation
What I look for in any company I use to support my business? Innovation. Easy communication. Willing to take risks. A fun contemporary attitude. Imagely has these in spades! Imagely has the future in their sights and yet does not forget about who they are serving
David Beckstead
Almost 17 years of Awesome and Easy!!!
My wife and I started a personal WordPress blog back in 2002, before our oldest daughter was born. We settled on NextGEN gallery because it was simple and easy for my wife to use, and it delivered a great experience for our friends and family. After almost 17 years; countless server, database, WordPress, theme, and plugin updates; and many wonderful family moments shared, NextGEN Gallery remains THE plugin of choice for sharing our favorite images with friends and loved ones around the world!
Rusty Wilson
Navigate to Appearance > Customize > Body > Blog Layout to select the layout of your blog page. This page will hold all of your blog posts. You can choose from a basic frame of content+sidebar right or left, full-width (padding on the left and right, so the content has a set width in the center of the page), 100% full width (content will reach the entire width of the browser window, you can add some padding), and content + sidebar on the left and right.
Archives & Entries Layout: Select between the available layouts for your blog post: Right sidebar, left sidebar, full width, 100% full width, and both sidebars. These will apply to your archive blog post as well.
Mobile Sidebar Order: Determinate the location of your sidebar on Mobile devices.
Heading tag: Adjust the HTML tag to be used by the blog layout title.
Add Overlay on Image Hover: This option lets you add an overlay effect to the blog Layout's thumbnails.
Blog Style - Large Image: It lets you add one large image as the thumbnail for your blog layout on top, a classic. The available settings are:
Custom Image Width (px).
Custom Image Width (px).
Blog Pagination Style.
Elements Positioning.
Meta.
Large image Blog Style
Blog Style - Grid: The layout emulates a grid. The available settings are:
Images Size: thumbnail, medium, medium large, and large.
Grid Columns (2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Grid Style: Fit rows or Masonry.
Custom Image Width (px).
Custom Image Height (px).
Blog Pagination Style: Standard, Infinite Scroll, Next/Prev.
Elements Positioning.
Meta.
Grid Blog Style
Blog Style - Thumbnail: Divides the layout into a place for the thumbnail and another space for the content and tags. The available settings are:
Default Featured Image: The following default image will be used if a post does not have a featured image set.
Post Columns.
Custom Image Width (px).
Custom Image Height (px).
Blog Pagination Style: Standard, Infinite Scroll, Next/Prev.
Thumbnail Blog Style
Blog Style - Overlay: The thumbnail already has a small overlay on top, and the image gets brighter on hover. The available settings are:
Image Position: Left or right.
Vertical Position: Top, center, or bottom.
Custom Image Width (px).
Custom Image Width (px).
Category Color.
Category Hover Color.
Comments Color.
Comments Hover Color.
Excerpt Length: Add 500 to display full content.
Blog Pagination Style: Standard, Infinite Scroll, Next/Prev.
Overlay Blog Style
Blog date font: Edit the styling of the font used to show the date.
Font Color.
Font Family.
Font Weight: Important: Not all fonts support every font-weight.
Font Style.
Text Transform.
Font Size (You can add: px-em-%).
Line Height.
Letter Spacing (px).
Blog Title Font: change the styling of the font used for the titles.
Font Color.
Font Family.
Font Weight: Important: Not all fonts support every font-weight.
Font Style.
Text Transform.
Font Size (You can add: px-em-%).
Line Height.
Letter Spacing (px).
Frontend Image Search
As of March 2020, NextGEN Gallery now includes front end search functionality for your existing galleries. This new feature is considered a display type, so you must use our Insert Graphic Window to include a search bar inside a page or post - just as you would add any other NextGEN Gallery display.
Here is a video explaining how to use our Front end Image search gallery display
You will find the general settings under Gallery > Gallery Settings > Frontend Image Search. Here are the available settings:
Display results as - Search results will be displayed using the chosen display type.
Enable filtering results by tag - If enabled, it will fetch all of the tags assigned to the images found throughout the search. Note that we use a method that restricts the search results to only images with those tags (and multiple tags can be selected).
Search image alttext - option to include image alttext (title) in the fulltext search.
Search image description - option to include image descriptions in the fulltext search.
Search image tags - whether to include image tags in the search - one of these three "search image ___" fields must be selected and the admin will automatically enable "search image tags" should the admin user try to disable all three.
Database search mode - See the "database search mode" segment below.
Limit search results - You can limit the results in our search display, a setting of zero means no limit.
Order by relevance first - When this is selected, it will place the most relevant search results at the front of the list (based on alttext and description). If more than one image has the same relevance score then the following "Order search results by" setting are used to decide the order. If disabled this relevance is discarded and only the second "Order search results by" field will be used.
Order search results by - This particular setting will have different options that you can choose to order your results.
Order direction of search results - Ascending or Descending.
Filtering results by tag
In this screenshot, the search phrase is "wedding".
If we select only "Couple", it will only display those images tagged with both "Couple". Note: You are free to use the button "Clear Selected tags" to remove any tag filter.
Database search mode
We provide our users with two options: a "natural language search" and a "boolean search".
Natural language search
This search interprets the search string as a phrase in free-flowing text. There are no special operators except quotation marks. To give an example of how this works, we have set up a test gallery of a bunch of French paintings. Several of the images have the words "Venus" and "adonis" in their description, so searching for "adonis venus" will return all of those images in the results. Including quotation marks and searching for "Venus and adonis" will cause mySQL to only return images that have the exact phrase "Venus and adonis" together in that order. The database server will apply limited amounts of altering the search phrase to find results; e.g. a search for "your server" may also include (albeit with a lower relevance score) images whose title/description includes the words "my server".
Stopwords do apply - These are words so common that MySQL fulltext searches basically ignore them. Searching for "adonis and venus" is the same as searching for "adonis venus" or "adonis became venus" or "venus changes different everything everywhere hardly adonis". However, applying the quotation operator will overcome the stopwords list. A search for "Venus changes Adonis" will only produce results if an image title/description has the exact words "Venus changes Adonis" in that order. If more than 50% of the images being searched include the same word or phrase in their title/description, MySQL will treat those as stopwords: for example, if a gallery has the word "painting" used in every image title/description then a search for "painting" will produce no results because the term is so common it loses relevance.
Boolean search
Boolean searches use their own special query language and stopwords are omitted from the search; so a search for "currently" will return no results even if there are images with the word "currently" in their title/description. The 50% threshold forced on natural language searches does not apply.
Also, please be aware that the Boolean Search does not function on tags. It only works on titles and descriptions.
Boolean search special operators
Not using an operator
Implies OR
+
Stands for "AND"
-
Stands for "NOT"
>
Changes the relevance of the following term to a higher level
<
Changes the relevance of the following term to a lower level
~
Changes the relevance of the following term to no level
*
Wildcard -- applied only after a search term
"
Like natural language search, this forces results that match in the exact order presented inside quotes
()
It creates a sub-expression that can be nested.
Examples
apple banana
Will find images with the words apple or banana.
+apple +banana
Will find images that have both words
+apple banana
Will find images that have apple and will rank those with 'banana' higher in relevance.
+apple -banana
Will find images that have apple but not banana.
+apple ~banana
Will find images that have apple but if the image also has banana it will be scored as less relevant than those without the word banana
+apple +(>pie < tart)
Will find images that have "apple pie" or "apple tart" but will give higher relevance to "apple pie"
apple*
Will find images with 'apple', 'apples', 'applesauce', 'applet', or any word that just begins with 'apple'.
"apple and banana"
Will find images that have the exact phrase "apple and banana"
Remember that this is a new feature and we do appreciate any feedback. Feel free to report any bugs using this form: https://www.imagely.com/report-bug/
Here are the available settings:
