MetaSlider Gallery – Image Gallery, Lightbox Galleries, Modal Windows
MetaSlider Gallery is the ultimate WordPress gallery plugin. You can build an image gallery. You can also show your images, videos, and slideshows in a beautiful lightbox. Plus, MetaSlider Gallery is deeply integrated with the MetaSlider Slideshow plugin so you can create stylish sliders. The MetaSlider Gallery plugin allows you to create beautiful image galleries that can be placed anywhere on your WordPress site. You can also show a wide variety of media inside a lightbox, including these: Images Image galleries Videos hosted on WordPress sites Vimeo videos YouTube Videos Featured images MetaSlider slideshows Create stylish image galleries MetaSlider Gallery allows you to create stylish image galleries that work with the block editor, the Classic Editor, and any page-builder. To create a new gallery, find the “Galleries” screen. There are five layouts available for your image gallery: Grid, Masonry, Justified, Carousel, and Showcase. Grid: Show your images in rows and columns. Each row and column will be the same size. Masonry: Show the images in a grid-like layout, but this approach has a flexible placement that fills gaps left by shorter items. Justified: This allows each image to keep its original aspect ratio, so it won’t always be possible to fill each row edge-to-edge. Carousel: Show one main image at the time. The visitor can use arrows or the thumbnail navigation to browse to the next image. Showcase: Shows one image at a time. In this layout, the arrows and the thumbnail navigation are both underneath the image. Every layout is responsive, so the gallery reflows to fit phones and tablets without a separate mobile setting. Galleries can be placed with a block, a shortcode, or your page-builder’s widget, which means the same gallery can be reused in several places rather than rebuilt each time. Grid and Justified galleries have their own Height setting, Carousel galleries can show a Frame Border so the carousel edge stays visible against a matching page background, and thumbnail navigation is available for browsing between images. Responsive column controls let you set how many columns appear at each screen size. See how to create WordPress image galleries. Import images from wherever they already are Building a gallery does not have to mean uploading files one at a time. MetaSlider Gallery takes images from four sources: Upload: add new image files directly while building the gallery. Media Library: choose images already in WordPress. Server folder import: pull in images that already exist on your server. ZIP import: bring in a batch of images from a single ZIP file. The last two matter most when you are migrating an existing image collection into WordPress rather than starting from nothing. Style every image in a gallery at once The Image Styles panel applies one visual treatment to every image in a gallery, so a portfolio, product gallery or event gallery shares the same look without editing images individually. Filters: 14 presets including Noir, Silver, Vintage, Golden Hour, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Dramatic and Negative. Shape and framing: rounded corners and borders, to match your theme. Depth: shadow and opacity controls. Transform: rotate or flip images for more stylized layouts. Preview the gallery while you build it The gallery editor has “Preview” and “Arrange” toggles. Preview shows the gallery as a visitor will see it, with Desktop and Mobile views for checking responsive layouts; Arrange is where you reorder images and edit them. You can adjust layout, lightbox behavior, button styles, colors and captions and see the result immediately, instead of saving and reloading a separate page each time. Load large galleries in batches Grid, Masonry and Justified galleries can reveal images in batches with a “Load More” button, and you choose how many appear at a time. A gallery with hundreds of images does not have to load all of them before the page is usable. Order images without dragging them As well as drag-and-drop, images can be sorted automatically: newest first, oldest first, filename A to Z, filename Z to A, or random. Use different image sizes in the gallery and the lightbox Gallery thumbnails and the lightbox can use different image sizes, with their own width, height and crop settings. Thumbnails stay small and quick to load while the lightbox still opens a high-resolution version. Edit captions quickly Each image has its own caption editing window. A caption can be typed directly, or taken from the image’s existing WordPress media caption or description, so captions you have already written are reused rather than retyped. Turn a slideshow into a gallery An existing MetaSlider slideshow can be converted into a gallery, so images you have already arranged once do not have to be collected again. Show your single images in a lightbox You can really enhance your WordPress media with lightboxes. Visitors can view your images or videos and then open them inside a modal. This can make the image or video larger and also darken the background so it’s easier to focus on the media. MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add lightboxes to images in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the lightbox to all images, or you can do it manually via the “Enlarge on click” setting. This works with both the block editor and the Classic Editor. You can also use this lightbox with page-builders such as Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder, thanks to the CSS feature. Click here to see more lightboxes with images. Show your image galleries in a lightbox MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add lightboxes to image galleries in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the lightbox to all images, or you can do it manually via the “Enlarge on click” setting. Each image in your gallery can get its own lightbox setting. Because the setting is per-image, a gallery can mix the two: product shots that open full-size, and decorative images that do nothing when clicked. Click here to see more lightboxes with image galleries. Show your videos in a lightbox You can use the MetaSlider Gallery plugin to show videos inside a lightbox modal window. The MetaSlider Gallery plugin supports videos hosted inside your WordPress media library. You can use MetaSlider Gallery to showcase your .MP4, .WebM, and .MOV videos. Videos in a lightbox play at full size against a darkened background, which suits demos and interviews better than a small inline player. Because the file is served from your own media library, playback does not depend on a third-party service and there is no external branding on the player. Click here to see more lightboxes with local videos. Show your YouTube videos in a lightbox MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add lightboxes to YouTube videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the lightbox to all YouTube images. You can use many different YouTube URL formats. There’s a list of formats here. Click here to see more lightboxes with YouTube videos. Show your Vimeo videos in a lightbox MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add lightboxes to Vimeo videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the lightbox to all Vimeo videos, or enable it one video at a time. As with YouTube, the video only loads when a visitor opens the lightbox, so a page with several videos on it is not loading all of them up front. Click here to see more lightboxes with Vimeo videos. Add a lightbox to your MetaSlider Slideshows The MetaSlider Gallery plugin connects deeply with the MetaSlider Slideshow plugin. A slideshow allows you to create a beautiful showcase of images or videos for your visitors. You can enhance your slideshow with a lightbox. Visitors can view your slideshow and then click on an image and see a larger, higher-resolution version of the image. Often the background is darkened so that the viewer’s eyes can focus on the image alone. Click here to see more lightboxes with MetaSlider slideshows. Design Options for MetaSlider Gallery The MetaSlider Gallery plugin has a wide range of design options to allow to customize the lightbox effect. You can customize the lightbox background and overlay appearance. You can choose the navigation icons (close, previous, next arrows) that appear in all lightboxes. You can modify the “Open in lightbox window” option that can be added to media. These settings are global, so the lightbox looks the same wherever it appears — in a gallery, on a single image, or over a MetaSlider slideshow — and you set it once rather than per gallery. Click here to see lightbox design options. MetaSlider Gallery Pro MetaSlider Gallery Pro adds features for galleries that are doing a job beyond decoration: Selectable download sizes: visitors choose which image size to download. Image likes: visitors can favorite images from the lightbox toolbar. Image protection: discourage casual copying of your images. Social sharing controls: choose which networks appear in the share options. Autoplay styling: set the color of the autoplay progress bar. Per-gallery Pro settings: apply Pro settings to individual galleries and slideshows. Find out more about MetaSlider Gallery Pro.
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
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.
