Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More vs Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others

The Best Photo Gallery Plugin for Beautiful Image Galleries We believe creating a photo gallery should be simple! Envira Gallery makes it easy to create beautiful, responsive image galleries that look great on any device. Drag, drop, publish — and your photo gallery is live in minutes with zero coding required. More importantly, over 150,000 website owners choose Envira Gallery because it is the fastest loading gallery plugin on the market. Your image gallery will never slow down your site. Whether you need a portfolio gallery, a client proofing gallery, or a video gallery for your brand – Envira Gallery does it all. Envira Gallery Pro This plugin is the lite version of Envira Gallery Pro, which comes with albums, video galleries, watermarking, WooCommerce integration, client proofing, social sharing, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium photo gallery plugin now! See what WordPress developer Chris Lema has to say about Envira Gallery: I’ve suspended flavor-of-the-week gallery plugins in favor of Envira Gallery. It’s developer-friendly — a photo gallery solution that works great and won’t slow down your site. Chris Lema – WordPress Developer & Blogger Drag & Drop Gallery Builder Create a stunning image gallery in minutes, not hours. Our drag & drop gallery builder lets you upload photos, reorder images, and publish with just a few clicks. No coding. No confusing settings. Just drag, drop, and your photo gallery is live. Envira Gallery works perfectly with the Block Editor, Classic Editor, and shortcodes. Embed your image gallery on any page or post instantly. Lightning-Fast Photo Gallery Performance Speed matters. A slow gallery plugin will hurt your search rankings and frustrate your visitors. That’s why Envira Gallery is built for speed from the ground up. Testing by WPBeginner confirmed Envira Gallery loads faster than any other photo gallery plugin. Your image gallery will load fast on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Responsive Lightbox Display Every photo gallery includes a built-in responsive lightbox that works beautifully on all devices. Visitors browse images in a gorgeous fullscreen overlay without leaving the page. The lightbox includes: Multiple lightbox themes to match your site’s design Touch and swipe support for mobile galleries Keyboard navigation for desktop browsing Fullscreen mode for immersive gallery viewing Zoom capability for full-resolution images Slideshow autoplay with manual controls Photo Albums to Organize Your Galleries Got a lot of images? Use albums to group your photo galleries into organized collections. Choose cover photos for each album and let visitors browse your galleries their way. Albums are perfect for: Wedding and event photographers with multiple shoots Real estate agents with property photo galleries Travel bloggers organizing galleries by destination Businesses showcasing products by category Schools organizing event photo galleries by year Video Gallery Support Go beyond photos. With the Video Gallery addon, embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, DailyMotion, Twitch, and self-hosted video directly in your gallery. Mix photos and videos in the same gallery, or create dedicated video galleries. Every video plays inside the same beautiful lightbox your visitors already love. Sell Your Photos with WooCommerce Turn your photo gallery into a revenue stream. The WooCommerce integration lets you sell prints, digital downloads, and licensed images directly from your image gallery. Visitors browse your gallery, click a photo they love, and purchase — all without leaving your site. Protect Your Images Your photos deserve protection. Envira Gallery gives you the tools to keep your gallery images safe: [Watermarking] — Add text or image watermarks to protect gallery photos (originals are preserved) Right-click protection — Prevent visitors from downloading your images Password protection — Restrict gallery access to authorized users only Gallery permissions — Control who can view each photo gallery by user role Image licensing — Display Creative Commons and custom license info to protect your work Client Proofing for Photographers Running a photography business? The client proofing addon streamlines your workflow. Clients browse their photo gallery, select favorites, add feedback, and submit — all from your site. No more emailing zip files back and forth. Your gallery becomes a professional client experience. Beautiful Gallery Layouts Every photo gallery deserves the right layout. Envira Gallery includes: Masonry — Pinterest-style image gallery layout Grid — Clean, uniform photo gallery grid Justified — Edge-to-edge image gallery rows Square — Uniform square thumbnails Mosaic — Dynamic, eye-catching gallery pattern Blogroll — Full-width image gallery layout for blogs Social Sharing & Engagement Help your gallery go viral. The social sharing addon lets visitors share photos to Facebook, Twitter/X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and email. Add a Pinterest “Pin It” button to every image in your gallery for maximum exposure. SEO-Friendly Photo Gallery Envira Gallery is built to help your image gallery rank. Every gallery includes: Deeplinking — SEO-friendly URLs for individual gallery images EXIF metadata display — Camera model, aperture, shutter speed with schema markup Alt text and caption support — Properly structured image gallery data Lazy loading — Faster initial page loads for better Core Web Vitals Image compression — Reduce file sizes without losing quality Adobe Lightroom Integration Professional photographers love our Lightroom addon. Create and sync image galleries directly from your Lightroom collections. Edit in Lightroom, and your photo gallery updates automatically. Full Envira Gallery Feature List Drag & drop gallery builder — Create a photo gallery in minutes without code 100% responsive and mobile-friendly image galleries Built-in responsive lightbox with fullscreen mode Albums — Organize galleries into collections with cover photos Video galleries — YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, self-hosted video support Slideshow — Autoplay gallery with manual controls Social sharing— Share gallery images to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Watermarking — Protect photo gallery images with watermarks WooCommerce /eCommerce Galleries — Sell photos directly from your image gallery Client proofing — Photography business client workflow Deeplinking — SEO-friendly individual image gallery URLs Paginatio — Split large galleries across pages Image tagging — Filterable photo gallery with tag-based navigation Password protection — Restrict gallery access EXIF data display — Show camera details with schema markup Fullscreen mode — Immersive gallery viewing experience Image compression — Optimize gallery performance to load fast on every device Gallery animations — Beautiful transition effects Gallery themes — Professionally designed gallery templates Standalone galleries — Galleries with unique, shareable URLs Downloads — Allow visitors to download gallery images Printing — Add print buttons to gallery images Image / Gallery commenting — Let visitors comment on gallery photos Gallery Zoom — Lightbox zoom for full-resolution viewing Scheduled galleries — Time-based gallery visibility Lazy loading — Faster page loads for large image galleries Block Editor (Gutenberg) support Shortcode embed support Custom CSS support Page Builder Integrations Elementor Gallery— Native image gallery addon for Elementor Beaver Builder Gallery — Native photo gallery addon for Beaver Builder Divi Gallery — Full gallery compatibility Block Editor — Dedicated and easy to use gallery block Import & Migration Adobe Lightroom — Sync image galleries with Lightroom collections Instagram importer — Import Instagram photos into your gallery automatically Dropbox importer — Import photos from Dropbox Zip file importer — Build galleries from zip files NextGEN / Imagely importer — Migrate from NextGEN Gallery After reading this feature list, you can see why over 150,000 websites trust Envira Gallery as their go-to photo gallery plugin. Give Envira Gallery a try. Credits This plugin is created by Syed Balkhi and the Envira Gallery Team. Branding Guidelines Envira Gallery® is a registered trademark of Envira Gallery LLC. When writing about the photo gallery plugin by Envira Gallery, please use the full name “Envira Gallery.” Envira Gallery (correct) Envira gallery (incorrect) envira gallery (incorrect) Envira (incorrect)

Photonic takes the WordPress gallery and super-charges it with a lot of added functionality. It adds support for several new sources and parameters to enhance the content and look-and-feel of your galleries. It supports Flickr photos, Albums (Photosets), Galleries and Collections, along with SmugMug folders, albums and images, and Zenfolio photos, Photosets and Groups. You can also set up authentication so that visitors can see private and protected photos from each provider. When used without the Gutenberg editor Photonic by default overrides the gallery shortcode. In case you happen to be using a theme or plugin that already overrides the gallery shortcode, Photonic provides you with the option to use your own shortcode for Photonic galleries. This lets your plugins coexist. Bear in mind that if you deactivate Photonic you will have to remove all instances of this custom shortcode, something that is not required if you stick to the gallery shortcode. When used with Gutenberg Photonic creates no shortcodes, rather it creates blocks. If some of your posts were written with Gutenberg and some without, Photonic supports both scenarios. Lightboxes Of all plugins free or paid, Photonic has support built in for the highest number of lightbox scripts. This includes scripts that run on pure JavaScript without relying on external libraries, or those that require jQuery. Pure JS Libraries BaguetteBox BigPicture “Gie” Lightbox (GLightbox) LightGallery PhotoSwipe v4 PhotoSwipe v5 Spotlight VenoBox jQuery Based Libraries Colorbox Fancybox2 – not GPL, so the script is not included with the plugin. See the Lightboxes page for details Fancybox3 Featherlight Image Lightbox Lightcase Strip Swipebox Thickbox Obsolete Libraries Fancybox 1 – no update since November 2010 Magnific Popup – no update since February 2016 PrettyPhoto – no update since May 2015 For the non-GPL alternatives like Fancybox2 and the obsolete libraries, Photonic has code to work with them, but you have to install the scripts yourself or rely on them from your theme or another plugin. With the exception of Thickbox the lightboxes have been adapted to become touch and gesture-friendly. See the Lightboxes page for details. Support for Multiple Platforms Flickr The following Flickr concepts are supported in Photonic: Photos PhotoSets (Albums) Galleries Collections Single Photo Authentication For demos of Flickr support visit the Flickr page. Google Photos Google API Change: With effect from 31st March 2025, Google’s Photos API is discontinued (see here for Google’s official announcement). Consequently, Photonic no longer works for Google Photos. For more details, see this thread. Note that while Google’s official announcement says otherwise, as of 20th April 2025 the API is still working, so older versions of Photonic will seem to work. However, there is no guarantee about when Google will truly shut it off. SmugMug The following SmugMug concepts are supported in Photonic: User Tree Photos Albums Folders For demos of SmugMug support visit the SmugMug page. Zenfolio The following Zenfolio concepts are supported in Photonic: Photos PhotoSets (Galleries and Collections) Groups Group Hierarchies For demos of Zenfolio support visit the Zenfolio page. Instagram In mid-September 2022 Meta / Facebook / Instagram changed its rules to disallow individual developers (i.e. developers not operating as a business) from meaningfully using its API. As a result, Photonic no longer works for Instagram photos. The code is still in place though, and can be used by someone with a business wishing to adopt it. Native WordPress Galleries Your existing galleries are left intact. However you can add a style parameter to a native gallery to open it up to Photonic. The style parameter can take any of the values documented on the Layouts page. Other Photonic Goodies Gallery Wizard The WordPress Classic editor shows up with a button that says “Add / Edit Photonic Gallery”. Clicking on it launches a wizard that helps you interactively build out a gallery with just a few clicks. Gutenberg Support The Gallery Wizard can be accessed via Gutenberg / the Block Editor as well. While creating a block, just look for Photonic. Please refer to the documentation. Video Support Photonic provides gallery and lightbox support for videos as well. Videos of the following sorts are supported: External videos from YouTube or Vimeo can be opened in any of the lightboxes apart from Image Lightbox, Thickbox or BaguetteBox Self-hosted or external videos in MP4 formats can be opened in any of the lightboxes apart from Image Lightbox, PrettyPhoto, Strip or Thickbox Videos hosted by external service providers (Flickr, SmugMug etc.) can be opened as a part of a gallery in any of the lightboxes apart from Image Lightbox, PrettyPhoto, Strip or Thickbox. Some lightboxes have issues with specific features. Please refer to the Lightboxes documentation for more. Deep-Linking and Social Sharing Photonic provides deep-linking support for non-WP images, and by extension, supports social sharing to Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Beautiful Layouts Photonic displays your galleries in multiple forms: A grid of square thumbnails (the default) A grid of circular thumbnails (like Jetpack) A neat justified grid A masonry layout A “horizontal” masonry layout, for those who prefer having their masonry layouts sorted horizontally A tiled, random mosaic (a much improved variant of the Jetpack Tiled Gallery layout) A slideshow, using the Splide script See the Layouts documentation page for details and examples. Obsessively Comprehensive Documentation (OCD) Photonic’s documentation is comprehensive to the point of obsession. And yet, if you find something missing, please feel free to get in touch via the support forum.