Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery for WordPress
By Syed Balkhi
- Category rank
- #3 in Gallery
- Listing audit
- 53/100
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Syed Balkhi. With a rating of 4.3★ from 4,339 reviews, it currently ranks #3 in the Gallery category.
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is the #3 ranked Gallery app on WordPress, with a 4.3 average rating from 4,339 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Generated from marketplace data as of Sep 11, 2026
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery is a category-leading Gallery app on WordPress, ranked #3 of 595 in the category. It holds a 4.3★ average from 4,339 reviews on WordPress.
Pros
- +#3 of 595 in Gallery
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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
