Featured Galleries is the #89 ranked admin app on WordPress, with a 4.7 average rating from 20 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Featured Galleries is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Andy Mercer. With a rating of 4.7★ from 20 reviews, it currently ranks #89 in the Admin category.
AppRanks data: Featured Galleries ranks #89 in Admin on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 14% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Featured Galleries is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Admin category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 20 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.7★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Andy Mercer — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (20) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Featured Galleries works
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Hello Theme Developers! Have you ever added a Featured Image to a post and thought to yourself, “I wish I could add more than one image this way”? Well, now you can. Featured Galleries mirrors the Featured Images functionality of WordPress. The only difference is that posts get an entire gallery rather than just a single image. These galleries behave almost exactly like Featured Images, and make use of WordPress’s built in Media Manager. Users can select images, define the order, and save the gallery, all through a simple drag-n-drop interface.
Note: This plugin DOES NOT HANDLE THE FRONTEND HTML CREATION. That is left for themes to handle, to allow for maximum flexibility. Featured Galleries just handles the backend/admin interface for creating featured galleries and storing them as metadata. You will need to integrate this into your theme, or use a theme with prebuilt integration.
Quick Start Guide to Integrate Into Themes For more information, see GitHub Wiki.
I’ve tried to make this as intuitive as possible. Themes can integrate Featured Galleries in the same way they integrate Featured Images. Inside any template file where the gallery should appear, the theme will call the get_post_gallery_ids() function. As long as it is used inside the loop, the function doesn’t need any parameters. By default, it will return an array of image IDs.
Example Set inside the Loop. This returns all images in the Featured Gallery, as an array, then loops through to display each using an HTML <img> tag.
$galleryArray = get_post_gallery_ids();
foreach ( $galleryArray as $id ) {
echo '<img src="' . wp_get_attachment_url( $id ) .'">';
}
You can also customize the returned value from the function to suit your needs. See the full function documentation page for details.
Custom Post Types The plugin comes with a filter to easily add Featured Galleries to custom post types. See the fg_post_types documentation page for details.
Customizing the Media Manager The media manager can be customized in sevearl ways. See the fg_show_sidebar and fg_use_legacy_selection filter documentation pages for details.
Want to Help? I’d love some help with internationalization. It was working at one point, but drivingralle did that code because I don’t really understand it, and I’m not sure it’s still working.
Category rankings
As of Sep 4, 2026- Admin#89of 669Top 14%
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Where Featured Galleries stands in the Admin category
Featured Galleries ranks #89 of 669 apps in the Admin category, placing it in the top 14% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Featured Galleries?
Featured Galleries is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.7-star rating from 20 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Admin category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Andy Mercer.
Who uses Featured Galleries?
Currently around 3,000 active stores have installed Featured Galleries. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Admin category on WordPress.
Where does Featured Galleries rank on WordPress?
Featured Galleries currently sits at position #89 in the Admin category on WordPress. That places it in the top 13% of 669 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.