Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More vs Random Gallery

Gallery Plugin Helpful Links: Gallery Demo Gallery Documentation Gallery Support We believe that you shouldn’t have to hire a developer to create a great WordPress gallery. That’s why we built Envira, a drag & drop photo gallery plugin that’s both EASY, FAST and POWERFUL. Envira Gallery is highly optimized for web and server performance because we understand the importance of speed when it comes to SEO and conversion. Our free photo gallery plugin works great with the top page builders including: Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, as well as the block editor. Envira Pro Photo Gallery by Envira is the lite version of the popular Envira Pro plugin that comes with all the features you will ever need including albums, tags, social media integration, gallery templates / gallery layouts, deeplinking, pagination, e-commerce, image proofing, and tons more. Click here to purchase Envira Pro now! Envira Gallery has been downloaded over 5,000,000+ times. Here’s why smart photographers, designers, and developers love Envira, and you will too! Drag & Drop Photo Gallery Builder We were tired with the bloated and buggy gallery widgets and plugins. That’s why we built Envira to adapt to your workflow and allow you to create an amazing gallery in minutes. By using our easy to use drag and drop builder, you can upload your photos, rearrange them, and create an image gallery in 5 minutes or less. You can also add gallery blocks built for the block editor with only a few clicks. The trick to making difficult things easy is to keep the easy things still easy. Envira makes everything easy. If you’ve struggled with WordPress gallery plugins that take video tutorials to learn, you’re going to love Envira. Chris Lema – WordPress Blogger and Speaker Mobile Ready, SEO Friendly and Optimized for Speed Envira Gallery is 100% responsive and mobile-friendly by default. We optimized every query on the front-end and the back-end to ensure maximum speed for your website visitors. Plus, you have the ability for meta data, deeplinks, standalone galleries, and pagination. Sharing and Selling Photos Made EASY Social media integrations, image proofing, and WooCommerce store integration. Not only is Envira exceptionally well built behind the scenes, it’s also exceptionally easy to use. It’s perfect for those who really want to get things done. Pippin Williamson – WordPress Core Contributor and founder of EasyDigitalDownloads Easy to Customize and Extend You can easily customize with our built-in WordPress templates and layouts or create your own. But we also knew that our developer friends may want to extend it further. That’s why Envira comes with tons of hooks and filters (and yes it’s all very-well documented). Most WordPress gallery options are either too basic or require a PhD to figure out. For my clients, I need something that is easy to use yet powerful. Envira is the answer. Its straight forward approach means it is a breeze for my clients to quickly create galleries. Nevertheless, with the API and documentation available, it also allows developers to make customizations and extend functionality when necessary. Simply put, Envira is a great tool for everyone’s tool chest. Jared Atchison – Top Notch Engineer and WordPress Developer Full Envira Feature List Drag & Drop Photo Gallery Builder 100% Responsive – Mobile Friendly Beautiful Layouts / Templates for Customization Albums – Easily organize your photo galleries, choose cover photos, and more. Social Sharing – Share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Video Galleries – Not just for photos! You can add YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, and other videos in your video gallery. Watermarking – Protect your images from theft with watermarking. Slideshow – Add beautiful slideshow with autoplay, manual controls, and more. Deeplinking – Make your gallery and images SEO friendly and easily link to individual images with deeplinking. Pagination – Split your large galleries into multiple pages to improve page speed, user experience, and pageviews. Elementor – Quickly and easily create, edit, and sync your image and video galleries directly inside the Elementor page builder. Image Proofing – We made client image proofing easy for your photography business. WooCommerce Integration – Instantly display and sell your photos with the most popular eCommerce software on the web. Image Tags – Organize your WordPress photos with tags for easy search and display that also filtrable. Password Protection – Prevent unauthorized access to your WordPress galleries. Standalone Galleries – Create independent galleries that are not tied to your posts or pages. EXIF Meta Data – Display your EXIF data including camera model, aperture, shutter speed, and more. Pinterest – Add the Pinterest Pin It button to improve your reach. Instagram – Import Instagram images. FullScreen Display – Take advantage of the native fullscreen and Lightbox display. Supersized Images – Don’t want to crop or resize your images? Supersize allows you to do just that. Dynamic Galleries – Easily create galleries on the fly from various different sources. Gallery Defaults – Speed up the creation process by saving your default settings. CSS Styles – Customize your portfolio by adding custom CSS and styles. Adobe Lightroom to WordPress – Do you love Adobe Lightroom? We do too. You can automatically create and sync photo galleries from your Adobe Lightroom Collections. We made Lightroom to WordPress import easy! Zip Importer – Nobody likes uploading images individually. Now you can build a gallery from a .zip file. Dropbox Importer – You can easily import photos from your Dropbox account. NextGen Importer – Not a fan of NextGen? You can import your files in few simple clicks. Auto Image Compression – Reduce the file size of your images and make your site run fast. Want us to add something else? Suggest a feature and we’ll get it added! When it comes to WordPress gallery plugins, Envira has no equal. Solid enough to do the job right, while flexible enough to handle any situation you can throw at it. Andrew Norcross – Expert WordPress Consultant and Core Contributer Demos While Envira offers tons of features, below are some of the most requested demos. WordPress Lightbox Photo Display Demo WordPress Masonry Display Demo WordPress Photo Albums Demo WordPress Polaroid Photo Display Demo WordPress Video Display Demo See the full list of Envira Demos Popular Envira Tutorials We share tons of photography tutorials at the Envira blog. Below are some of the most popular Envira tutorials: How to Add a Polaroid Gallery in WordPress How to Create a Masonry Image Gallery in WordPress How to Create a Photo Album in WordPress How to Create an Image Slider for Your WordPress Galleries How to Add Pagination in WordPress Image Galleries Credits Branding Guidelines When writing about the photo gallery plugin by Envira Gallery, please make sure to seperate the two words, and capitalize. 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Random Gallery lets you display a different subset of your images every time your page is refreshed. Just tell it which ones you want it to pick from and how many you want to show at a time. The Basics Random Gallery works with an old fashioned shortcode. You specify the pool of images with the ids or category parameter. Then you specify how many you want to show with the shownum parameter. Here’s an example of the ids method: [random-gallery ids='101,102,103,104,105' shownum='3'] Note there are five images in the list but only three will be shown at a time. And here is an example of the category method: [random-gallery category='myCategory' shownum='3'] Random Gallery can handle the ordinary Gallery shortcode parameters columns, size, and link: [random-gallery category='myCategory' shownum='3' columns='1' size='medium' link='none'] You can put shortcodes in all kinds of blocks, but it’s best to use the shortcode widget. ids method details The ids parameter is the list of images you want to draw from. To build up the list, you need the numbers that WordPress assigns to each of your images. There are plugins that let you see these numbers directly in the Media Library. Try searching the plugins directory for “reveal ids”. Otherwise, you can find them manually: open up your Media Library click on a photo the Attachment Details will pop up the URL in your address bar will look like this: https://www.example.com/wp-admin/upload.php?item=101 take the number at the end of the URL (in this case 101) and add that number to ids repeat this process for each photo you want to include category method By default, categories are not available in the Media Library. However, there are plugins that will enable them. Try searching the plugins directory for “media library categories”. Once you have categories enabled, you can create a category, add images to it, and specify it in the shortcode by name. Curly Quotes Issue One tricky thing to watch out for is curly quotation marks. WordPress likes to replace straight quotes (') with curly quotes (‘). This is usually a good thing, but Random Gallery can only handle straight quotes. The easiest and best way to make sure you’re only using straight quotes is to put your shortcode in a shortcode widget, then re-type all the quotes directly in the widget. Thanks I hope Random Gallery works for you. If you have any trouble, just shoot me an email. Thanks!