Gallery for Immich vs Smart Image Gallery

Gallery for Immich is a WordPress plugin that seamlessly integrates your self-hosted Immich photo server with your WordPress site. Display beautiful photo galleries and albums using simple shortcodes. Key Features: Gutenberg Block Editor – Visual block for selecting albums, photos and settings Shortcode Support – Classic [gallery_for_immich] shortcode for any editor Display list of albums from Immich Display entire albums from Immich Beautiful responsive grid layouts Integrated lightbox with GLightbox Video playback modes (shared links, proxy via fopen, or ignore videos) Flexible sorting options (date/name, ascending/descending) Single photo embedding – Display one photo with alignment (left/right/center) and configurable link behavior (lightbox, no link, or custom URL) Full internationalization support (Dutch, German, French translations) Configure Immich server URL and API key in the WordPress admin panel Perfect for: Photography portfolios Family photo sharing Event galleries Travel blogs Any self-hosted photo management with Immich Usage Using the Gutenberg Block Editor: The easiest way to add an Immich gallery is through the Gutenberg block editor: Add a new block and search for “Gallery for Immich” Select your display mode (all albums, single album, multiple albums, or single photo) Configure display options using the sidebar controls Customize thumbnail size and text sizes as needed The preview shows the shortcode that will be used Using Shortcodes: You can also use shortcodes directly in your content: Display all albums: [gallery_for_immich] Display specific albums (comma-separated IDs): [gallery_for_immich albums=”album-id-1,album-id-2″] Display single album: [gallery_for_immich album=”album-id”] Display single photo: [gallery_for_immich asset=”photo-id”] Customize display options: [gallery_for_immich show=”gallery_name,asset_description”] Available show options (no defaults – must be explicitly specified): * gallery_name – Show album/gallery name * gallery_description – Show album description * asset_date – Show photo date * asset_description – Show photo description Note: If the show parameter is not specified, only thumbnails are displayed without any text. Customize sizes: [gallery_for_immich size=”300″ title_size=”18″ description_size=”15″ date_size=”12″] Size options: * size – Thumbnail size for albums (100-500, default: 200); max-width for single photos (100-1200, default: 200) * title_size – Title font size (10-30, default: 16) * description_size – Description font size (10-30, default: 14) * date_size – Date font size (10-30, default: 13) Single photo alignment and link behavior: [gallery_for_immich asset=”photo-id” align=”left” link=”none”] [gallery_for_immich asset=”photo-id” align=”right” link=”https://example.com”] Align options: left, right, center (default: no float) Link options: lightbox (default — opens in overlay), none (no link), or any https://... URL (opens in new tab) Sort order: [gallery_for_immich order=”date_desc”] [gallery_for_immich album=”album-id” order=”description_asc”] Available order options: * date_desc – Newest first (default for albums) * date_asc – Oldest first (default for photos – chronological order) * name_asc – Alphabetically A-Z (albums only) * name_desc – Alphabetically Z-A (albums only) * description_asc – Alphabetically A-Z by description (photos only) * description_desc – Alphabetically Z-A by description (photos only) Note: Name sorting is only available for albums. Photos can be sorted by date or description. Privacy & Security This plugin: * Connects to your self-hosted Immich server via API * Does not collect or transmit any user data to third parties * Requires HTTPS for production security * Validates all user input and API parameters * Uses WordPress security best practices Your Immich server credentials (URL and API key) are stored in your WordPress database. Support For issues, feature requests, or contributions, please visit: https://github.com/vogon1/immich-wordpress-plugin Credits Lightbox powered by GLightbox (https://github.com/biati-digital/glightbox) Integrates with Immich (https://immich.app)

Smart Image Gallery allows to insert images, and pictures, in your blog, directly from the WordPress media library, or eternal images repositories (like: Flickr, Instagram or Google Images ). The images are searched, and inserted, from the article edition, without importing them to the WordPress media library. All you need to do is pick the search criteria, and the plugin will search in all available sources, allowing select the images that most closely match the blog’s subject. Smart Image Gallery allows insert the selected images by separated, or as part of a gallery. It is possible select between different galleries designs, included with the plugin. Features Insert images, or image galleries, in the blog’s articles The easiest way to find images related with the articles Allows search for images in the WordPress media library, or external images repositories Allows to display the images separately or as part of a gallery Reduces the bandwidth consumption of your server using images hosted in external servers Allows insert the gallery in the website’s sidebar. The base plugin, available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory, has all the features needed for search, and insert, images in the website’s articles. Premium Features Includes a wide number of images repositories (like:WordPress media library, Flickr, Instagram and Googel Images) Includes additional galleries designs (like: carousel and Classic Gallery ) Demo of Premium Version of Plugin https://demos.dwbooster.com/smart-image-gallery/wp-login.php https://demos.dwbooster.com/smart-image-gallery/ If you want more information about this plugin, or another one, visits my website: http://wordpress.dwbooster.com Requirements: The requirements depend of the images repository, some repositories require an API Key, or Client ID Using Smart Image Gallery Smart Image Gallery is an easy and intuitive plugin. Before search, and insertion of the images in the articles, will be necessary activate the images repositories. Go to the settings page of plugin ( from the menu option “Settings > Smart Image Gallery” ), and activate the available images repositories (the number of images repositories depends of plugin’s version installed on your WordPress ). Each image sources has its own settings options ( for example: Flickr requires an API Key, and Instagram a Client ID) After activate the images repositories, go to the article, and press the Smart Image Gallery icon over the content’s editor. The action opens an popup window with a search box. Type the search criteria and press the “search” button, or simply press the carriage return key. The plugin displays the images available for each images repository. If the resulting images are not appropriated for the article, the plugin displays an “+” button at right of each repository, to get additional images with the same search criteria. Each image has associated a checkbox to be selected and inserted in the article. One time have decided the images to insert, go to the galleries design tab, and select the gallery to display (the available galleries, and its options, depend of plugin’s version installed in your WordPress ) The plugin inserts a shortcode in the article, doing easy remove an image, or modify the gallery’s settings.