#1 wordpress gallery plugin
The Official Home of NextGEN Gallery
The most popular photo gallery plugin ever built for WordPress.
Manage, display, proof, and sell photos like a pro.
NOW INCLUDING AUTOMATED PRINT FULFILLMENT!
Over 32 million downloads!
4.3/5 FROM 4300+ USERS
NextGEN Gallery Extensions
NextGEN Gallery is already the most powerful WordPress gallery plugin ever made with many included gallery layouts and an incredible lightbox gallery.
Make it even more powerful with dozens of Pro gallery extensions.
These are the extensions & features included with the NextGEN Pro WordPress photo gallery plugin. These make NextGEN Gallery the best choice for a portfolio plugin.
Ecommerce
Want to sell your images directly in your WordPress site? NextGEN Pro adds a true image ecommerce system to help you do just that. Accept PayPal, Stripe, and Checks with ease!
Proofing
Want to add a photo proofing process in your WordPress photo galleries? NextGEN Pro adds photo proofing into WordPress to help with your client workflow. The proofing option makes it easy for you and your clients from start to finish.
Print Fulfillment
Sell Photos on WordPress with Automated Print Fulfillment! NextGEN Pro is the only WordPress plugin with automatic print lab fulfillment. Ship prints direct to customers with industry-leading professional print labs with zero commissions off the top.
Auto Tax Calculations
We have integrated NextGEN Pro with TaxJar to calculate accurate sales tax no matter where you and your clients are in the world.
Stripe Gateway
Accept credit card payments, securely, with Stripe.
PayPal Gateway
Accept payments, securely, with PayPal.
Pricelists
When selling images, the only way to do it is with pricelists. No more applying individual products to individual images. Do it the right way, and the easy way, by connecting pricelists to your galleries.
Coupons
NextGEN Pro makes it easy to offer exclusive discounts to your clients with a variety of conditions.
Lightroom Plugin
The Lightroom plugin for NextGEN Gallery allows you to automatically create and sync photo galleries from your Adobe Lightroom collections in WordPress.
Digital Downloads
Offer digital downloads of your images for free, or with payment using the Ecommerce system. You have complete control over sizes and pricing for every image.
Mosaic Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images in a flexible grid. Choose the maximum height for your rows, and their margins, or use the default settings. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Masonry Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images in a flexible grid. Choose the maximum width for your images, and their padding, or use the default settings. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Filmstrip Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images in a flexible grid. Choose the maximum height for your rows, and their margins, or use the default settings. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Film Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images in a flexible grid. Choose the maximum width for your images, and their padding, or use the default settings. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Blog Style Gallery
An entire gallery in a single vertical column. that requires scrolling vertically for engagement.
Sidescroll Gallery
An entire gallery in a single horizontal row, that requires scrolling sideways for engagement.
Tiled Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images large with no trouble. Choose the maximum width of the gallery, or let it automate. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Image Browser Gallery
With these gallery layouts, you can present your images large with no trouble. Choose the maximum width of the gallery, or let it automate. It will adjust incredibly on all devices.
Pro Grid Album
Display a collection of galleries and even child-albums inside of a grid design.
Pro List Album
Display a collection of galleries and even child-albums inside of a list design.
Pro Lightbox
The Pro Lightbox allows you to display images at full scale when opened. Your visitors will enjoy breathtaking views of your photos on any device. It’s customizable, from colors to padding and more. Offer social sharing, deep linking, and individual image commenting. Turn your gallery lightbox view into a slideshow for your visitors. You can customize settings such as auto-playing and slideshow speed.
Image Protection
Image protection disables the ability for visitors to right-click or drag to download your images in both the gallery display and Pro Lightbox views. It gives you complete freedom to display your work without worry. You can also choose to protect all images sitewide, even outside of NextGEN Gallery.
Deep Linking
Link directly to any image on your site with deep linking. Available exclusively in the Pro Lightbox.
Image Commenting
Deep engagement for your images through individual image commenting within the Pro Lightbox
Open Graph
Social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, will automatically display your images information and preview.
Twitter (X) Cards
Twitter will automatically display your images information and preview.
Hover Captions
Gain the ability to add hover capability to galleries. The hover feature includes social sharing, titles, and descriptions. Each can be controlled individually. The hover feature also includes multiple effects, like fade and slide up.
Social Sharing
Your images automatically optimized for Open Graph and Twitter Cards and individually shareable from within the Pro Lightbox.
Frontend Search
With this stunning display type, you can offer image searching capabilities with smart, powerful filtering based on the tags specified for images in your galleries.
Pro Support
Fast turnaround times from our dedicated superheroes. Pro support for professional photographers, because we understand!
Make Galleries Your Own
NextGEN Gallery offers hundreds of options to customize your gallery displays, captions, lightboxes, and more.
Engage Your Audience
With hover icons and our Pro Lightbox, visitors can comment on individual images, share them on social platforms, and deep-link to images within galleries. Let your images be an engine for your site, brand, and SEO.
Create Stunning Displays
Choose from 20+ gorgeous gallery styles, including Mosaic and Masonry, with hundreds of customization options. Choose from multiple lightboxes.
Proof and Sell like a Pro
True Photo Gallery Management
Most ‘gallery’ plugins are really ‘display’ plugins. They display some images from your media library. NextGEN Gallery is a true photo gallery management plugin. Upload, organize, edit, and manage galleries like a boss.
Manage Where and How You Images are Stored
Multiple Upload Options (Image, Zip, Folder Import)
Automatic Image Backups and Recovery
Resize Images with Option to Automatically Resize on Upload
Sort, Exclude, or Combine Images within Galleries
Import and Edit Metadata, Titles, Tags, Descriptions
Rotate Images and Custom Crop Thumbnails
Watermark Images with Text or Images
WordPress Gallery Plugin Reviews
NextGEN Gallery was one of the first WordPress gallery plugins available and has continued to be the most popular, by far, every year since. Take a look below at some kind words from our real users from WordPress.org.
Pair our WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin with our WordPress theme for the ultimate combination.
- How do you use NextGEN Gallery?
- How do you create a photo gallery in NextGEN Gallery?
- What is the difference between NextGEN Gallery and NextGEN Pro?
- What are the requirements to run NextGEN Gallery?
- How do you import images into NextGEN Gallery?
- How do you add photos to NextGEN Gallery?
- How do I generate a NextGEN Gallery shortcode?
- How does the NextGEN image gallery plugin compare to Envira?
- How does automated print fulfillment work?
- What does the free version offer?
- Do you offer a basic slideshow gallery?
If you are curious about any of these questions, we recommend heading over to our documentation or blog to learn more.