Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery vs WP Lightbox 2

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.

WP Lightbox 2 is an WordPress lightbox tool for adding responsive lightbox effect for your website images and also create lightbox effect for album/gallery photos on your WordPress blog. Just install and sit back. This plugin enable image overlay Lightbox effect for all the images in your WordPress website. Also our WP Lightbox 2 plugin allow you to configure the lightbox settings. There are a lot of useful setting for this lightbox, that will help you to display lightbox effect in different ways. This plugin used to add the lightbox (overlay) effect to the current page images on your WordPress blog. WP Lightbox 2 have a lot of useful features. WP Lightbox 2 features: Features of WP Lightbox 2 plugin Fully Responsive WordPress Lightbox Easy install and use Works on all modern browsers WP Lightbox 2 works perfectly with all versions of WordPress Group related images in post and navigate through them with ease Ability to use lightbox in comments Ability to display download link for images Ability to change image info position Ability to reduce large images to fit smaller screens Ability to set Animation duration Ability to to type additional text below image info Ability to change Lightbox Overlay opacity Lightbox effect for WordPress Galleries User friendly back-end for WP Lightbox 2 plugin Tested on popular WordPress themes This plugin was created by Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin. Check out some of our other products, including Soliloquy – the best responsive WordPress slider plugin, Envira Gallery – the best responsive WordPress gallery plugin and OptinMonster. WP Lightbox 2 General Settings Use Lightbox for all image links – Enable or disable the lightbox. Enable lightbox in comments – This feature will enable lightbox for your comments. Show download link – You can display download link. Show image info on top – Choose image info position. Reduce large images to fit smaller screens – We recommend to enable this option, it will reduce large images to fit smaller screens. Minimum margin from top – You can change image position from top. Lightbox Animation duration – Type here animation duration for lightbox. Additional text below image info – Type here text, and it will appear below images. WP Lightbox 2 Design Settings Overlay opacity – Set overlay opacity for lightbox. Overlay color – Choose overlay opacity for lightbox. Overlay close function – This function will close the lightbox when you click on overlay. Lightbox image Border width – Type here Lightbox image Border width. Lightbox image Border color – Choose Border color for Lightbox image. Lightbox image Border radius – Type here Lightbox image Border radius. Show/Hide image numbers(ex. Image 1 of 3) – Choose to show or hide numbers for images. Image info and close button background opacity – Set image info and close button background. Image info and close button background color – Set Image info and close button background color Image info text color(includ download link and other text) – Set Image info text color. Image info text font-size (include download link and other text) – Type Image info text font-size (include download link and other text) Next image title tag – Type here next image title tag. Previous image title tag – Type here previous image title tag. Choose Next/Previous button image – Choose Next/Previous button for lightbox. Maximum Width – Type maximum width for lightbox images. Maximum Height – Type maximum height for lightbox images. Show/Hide close button – Choose to show or hide close buttons for WordPress Lightbox. Close button max height – Type here close button max height for Wp Lightbox 2. Close button image title tag – Type here close button image title tag for Wp Lightbox 2. Lightbox close button image – Choose one, or upload your own image for close button for Wp Lightbox 2. Keyboard navigation – With this feature users also can change images with keyboard. Fix position for lightbox – That’s mean your lightbox shouldn’t change position when users scroll up or down. This plugin was created by Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin. Check out some of our other products, including Soliloquy – the best responsive WordPress slider plugin, Envira Gallery – the best responsive WordPress gallery plugin and OptinMonster.