Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery vs PhotoPress

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.

PHOTOPRESS is an integrated suite of image management and gallery presentation features that photographers can use to build photography centric websites. The plugin allows you to create beautiful designed image galleries as well as extract, store and publish any EXIF/IPTC/XMP meta-data embedded in your images. The broader goal of PHOTOPRESS is to make WordPress easy to use for photographers by bringing critical image management and presentation features together into a single, modern, and free plugin. Features currently include: GALLERY BLOCK Native Gutenberg live editing Grid style Masonry style Justified style Mosaic Style Adjustable gutter spacing Uniform image cropping option Hide captions option Adjustable image heights/column widths Inline image reordering Dynamic responsive images Link to PhotoPress slideshow CHILD PAGES BLOCK Dynamic Gutenberg block Create a gallery of child pages (useful as an index of gallery pages) IMAGE META-DATA MANAGEMENT Define unlimited custom image taxonomies Extract embedded EXIF, IPTC, and XMP meta-data from image files and store in taxonomies Create and extract “child taxonomies” from embedded meta-data fields Display Exif Widget Display Image Taxonomy Terms Widget Generate custom image ALT text using meta-data templates Embed Licensing info (Licensor, Licensor URL, Web Statement of Rights) into images files during upload SLIDESHOWS Light-boxed full page slideshows Thumbnail navigation option configurable caption display (can use image title, caption, and/or description) Two caption layouts to choose from Development Our development motto is “do no harm” which means that we leverage the patterns outlined in WordPress Core and the Gutenberg editor as opposed to creating proprietary features that impede the overall usability of WordPress. PHOTOPRESS is actively developed on Github. Please file any bugs, feature, or support requests on Github! Donate or Purchase Premium Support! PHOTOPRESS core is free. However, we ask that you purchase a support membership. Even if you don’t need the support, this purchase helps fund the development of this project. Donations to the project are also appreciated.