Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Syed Balkhi
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress app, with a 4.3 average rating from 4,337 reviews, as of July 8, 2026.
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Syed Balkhi. With a rating of 4.3★ from 4,337 reviews.
AppRanks data: Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery ranks #0 in Image gallery on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
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Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is a well-rated WordPress app with an established review history. It is listed in the Slideshow category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 4,337 reviews show steady adoption but the app hasn't crossed the heavy-volume bar yet. Review accumulation at this stage tends to come from segment-specific use cases rather than universal adoption, so fit-to-stack matters more than category-leader brand recognition. 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
- +4,337 reviews provide statistical reliability for the rating average
- +Published by Syed Balkhi — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery works
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WordPress Gallery Plugin NextGEN Gallery has been the industry’s standard WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It’s easy to use for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals who need a comprehensive photo gallery solution.
NextGEN Gallery offers complete WordPress gallery management with the ability to batch upload photos, import metadata, easily add, delete, rearrange photos and create an unlimited number of galleries. You can even simply provide a zip file or choose a folder to upload photos.
But our photo gallery plugin doesn’t stop there!
NextGEN Pro
This plugin is the lite version of the NextGEN Gallery plugin, which offers all the gallery features you’ll need like photo albums, lightboxes, backups, search, sharing, filtering, print fulfillment, eCommerce, animations, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress now!
The free version of NextGEN gallery provides three main gallery styles (slideshow, thumbnail, and imagebrowser galleries) and two album styles (compact and extended), all of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more. Learn more about NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin features.
The best gets better with full support for the Gutenberg block editor. Now you can add a photo gallery or album anywhere on your site, with a page builder type feel directly in the WordPress editor. We truly make creating, building, and editing galleries easy.
Feature List We’ve built NextGEN Gallery to be extremely powerful and full of features.
Albums Organize multiple photo galleries into albums for easy sorting and viewing
Tags Group multiple images together with tags, with easy-to-update renaming and management
eCommerce Sell images from your photo gallery, or sell entire galleries with our built in payment processing. Works with Stripe and PayPal.
Slideshows Make your galleries automatically rotate through a series of images
Themes Access 84+ different types of themes to showcase your galleries
Animations Create visual interest with 25+ different types of animations for each gallery
Watermarks Protect your work with image and text-based watermarks.
Capabilities Customize who can read, edit, and publish galleries with refined permsisions controls
Image Proofing Let your customers choose which photos to purchase and improve your workflow.
Print Fulfillment Sell your photos and ship prints directly to customers with automated print lab fulfillment and zero commissions
Auto Tax calculations Automatically calculate sales tax when required for your customers.
Coupons Offer discounts and incentives to increase your gallery sales
Lightroom Integration Automatically sync and create photo galleries from Adobe Lightroom into NextGEN Gallery without any need to update your website.
Social Sharing Create viral social media opportunities when your images are optimized for Open Graph and X
Image Commenting * Add deep engagement to your images within the lightbox to increase gallery engagement
Deep Linking Link directly to a specific image from one of your galleries
Frontend Search * Add powerful filtering for your gallery based on tags
Hover Captions * Add social sharing, tiles, and descriptions for each image
Digital Downloads Offer digital downloads of your images for free, or chage for them with our eCommerce gallery plugin
Right Click Disable prevent images in your galleries from being downloaded with easy right click and drag/drop protection.
Customization * We’ve built in lots of individual customizations for each of our features so that you can make NextGEN Gallery perfect for you
As you can see, we’ve built a photo gallery plugin that is suitable for everyone! Want a specific or missing feature? Just let us know.
NEXTGEN GALLERY DEMOS
*Basic Thumbnail Gallery
*Basic Slideshow Gallery
*Basic Imagebrowser Gallery
*Basic Compact Album
*Basic List Album
NEXTGEN PRO DEMOS
*Photo Print Sales
*Photo Proofing
*Digital Downloads
*Pro Mosaic Gallery
*Pro Masonry Gallery
*Pro Tile Gallery
*Pro Filmstrip Gallery
*Pro Lightbox
About Imagely NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin maintained by Imagely. We’re the WordPress photography experts. In addition to NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Plus, and NextGEN Pro, we also make WordPress themes for photographers, providing beautiful turnkey websites for photographers.
Learn more or connect with us:
*Imagely Website
*WordPress Themes for Photographers
*Turnkey Photography Sites
*NextGEN Gallery Documentation
Credits Copyright: Imagely 2016-2024
Shortcodes NextGEN Gallery offers an easy-to-use Insert Gallery Window, which means you never need to work with shortcodes again when inserting and manageing galleries – if you would prefer not too.
If you do want to work with shortcodes, there is a powerful shortcode system as you’d expect of a popular WordPress gallery plugin. Learn About NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes.
For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.
Category rankings
As of Jul 8, 2026- Image gallery#0of 55Top 1%
- Photo gallery#0of 47Top 1%
- Slideshow#0of 80Top 1%
- Wordpress gallery plugin#0of 16Top 1%
- Gallery#3of 586Top 1%
- _browse_blocks#21of 427Top 5%
- _browse_popular#156of 508Top 31%
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Keyword rankings
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
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Frequently asked questions
What is Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery?
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.3-star rating from 4,337 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Slideshow 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 Syed Balkhi.
Who uses Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery?
Currently around 400,000 active stores have installed Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery. Its review base of 4,337 signals a mature user community spanning small, mid-market, and enterprise merchants. It is part of the Slideshow category on WordPress.