SimpLy Gallery
SimpLy Gallery helps you create responsive photo and video galleries, albums, and sliders in the WordPress block editor, with a built-in lightbox for exploring your content. Start by organizing your media into folders and tags with SimpLy Media Assistant. Turn a selection into a gallery, publish it on its own page, or reuse it across your site with blocks and shortcodes. When you need a local copy of a collection, download its original files as a ZIP from the WordPress admin. Bring photos, video, and audio together in the same gallery, whether you are presenting a portfolio, documenting an event, or sharing a collection of tutorials. Group related galleries into albums so visitors can explore them from one starting point. Ready out of the box Mixed media in one gallery: images, HTML5 video, audio, YouTube, Vimeo, and VideoPress. Block editor-first editing with 8 included gallery blocks and visual controls. Responsive layouts with controls for desktop and smaller screens. Lightweight YouTube and Vimeo galleries with one active video embed at a time. Static gallery content by default, similar to native WordPress gallery blocks. Albums and Album Navigator for grouping saved galleries under one visitor-friendly entry point. Page-level lightbox manager for Image blocks, Gallery blocks, linked images, and SimpLy galleries. Saved galleries and shortcodes for reuse across pages, posts, and theme areas. WordPress Media Library folders and tags with SimpLy Media Assistant for organizing, finding, uploading, and reusing media. Download a SimpLy folder’s original files as one ZIP from the Assistant or the Media Library folder sidebar. Quick static gallery creation from SimpLy folders and tags with Import Media from SimpLy Folders/Tags. SEO-friendly media visibility with static fallback HTML output. Uses standard WordPress media sizes without creating extra image copies. Tags Filter for visitors, with bulk tag management in the Items Manager. Video poster generation from a frame of your self-hosted video. Admin-controlled random gallery order without adding extra controls for visitors. Optional Media Library and media picker integration, so site owners can choose how deeply SimpLy Assistant appears in their admin workflow. For more specialized projects, optional PLUS and PRO plans extend these tools: PLUS adds layouts and visual customization, while PRO also adds dynamic galleries built from supported media and content sources. SimpLy Media Assistant – WordPress Media Library folders Use SimpLy Media Assistant to keep photo shoots, events, products, or project materials in virtual folders within your WordPress Media Library. A file can belong to several collections without uploading another copy. Open Media > SimpLy Assistant to browse, upload, and organize your files. You can also enable the folder sidebar in the native WordPress Media Library to work in its familiar grid or list view. Add the same media file to multiple virtual folders without copying originals or changing their URLs. Let authors organize their own files and folders, with built-in permissions to protect other users’ collections. Find and reuse media by filtering with SimpLy folders and tags. Upload files into the active folder and organize existing media into collections. Edit folder names, descriptions with basic HTML formatting, and colors in one dialog. Duplicate a folder’s collection without copying its files, then adjust its membership independently. View folder details, including creation information for new folders and the number and total size of readable originals. Sort folder lists by date added or name, ascending or descending, across the Assistant and gallery source pickers. Turn an organized folder or tag into a static gallery with Import Media from SimpLy Folders/Tags. Download a folder’s original files together as a ZIP archive. Attachment Organization shows a file’s assigned folders and available folders, so you can add or remove memberships with a click. When removing files from multiple folders through Unassigned, choose which folder memberships to remove. Files shared by multiple folders remain the same media items: editing a file or deleting it from the Media Library affects every collection that uses it. Download media folders as ZIP Need a local copy of a photo shoot or a project’s media? Right-click a SimpLy folder in the Assistant or the Media Library sidebar, choose Download, then Create ZIP. Once preparation finishes, choose Download ZIP to save the originals together, without selecting and downloading each file separately. The archive uses the folder’s name and remains available to its creator for repeat downloads for one hour. You can delete it sooner to free disk space; deleting a prepared ZIP does not delete the original media. ZIP Downloads in the plugin settings checks whether your hosting can prepare archives and lets administrators adjust the maximum total file size and number of files per archive. Start with the defaults and increase them to suit your hosting resources. Choose where the Assistant appears Enable SimpLy folders in the Media Library, add the Assistant to native WordPress media pickers, or use the SimpLy Media Picker for SimpLy gallery blocks. You can also use the dedicated Assistant screen without enabling these integrations. PRO users can additionally build dynamic galleries from SimpLy folders, so published collections can reflect folder changes instead of remaining a one-time static import. WordPress media sizes, no extra image copies SimpLy Gallery Blocks does not create additional image copies in the WordPress Media Library. For normal gallery display, the plugin uses standard WordPress image sizes, mainly Medium size for thumbnails and Large size for lightbox viewing. If the Medium size image is too small for a specific frontend layout, SimpLy Gallery can use the Large size image for the thumbnail area when needed. This happens on the frontend with JavaScript and does not create new files in the Media Library. If you want higher quality thumbnails or larger lightbox images, adjust your WordPress media settings in Settings > Media before uploading images. Existing uploads may need thumbnail regeneration after changing these settings. PLUS / PRO options can also display the original image size when maximum image quality is needed. Albums Albums let you combine multiple saved galleries into one collection with a dedicated splash page. This is useful for events, portfolios, projects, travel collections, courses, product collections, or any site where related galleries should be presented together. Each saved gallery can keep its own design and can also be published separately as a public gallery page, inserted with a shortcode, embedded with the Saved SimpLy Gallery block, or displayed with the Elementor widget. Album content can load saved gallery content on demand via AJAX and open it in a modal view, helping large gallery collections stay lighter on the initial page load. Albums and Album Navigator are available in the free plugin. PLUS adds more visual customization options, and PRO allows Album Navigator to use dynamic galleries from supported sources. Tags Filter Tags are managed directly inside the gallery block. In the Items Manager, each gallery item has a Tag menu where you can type tags separated by commas or choose from previously used SimpLy Tags. Items Manager also includes a multi-select mode, so you can select a group of gallery items and add or remove tags for all selected items at once. When Tags Filter is enabled for the block, those tags appear above the gallery so visitors can filter gallery items on the frontend. The basic Tags Filter is available for gallery blocks in the free plugin. PLUS / PRO plans add more control over which tags appear in a specific gallery or block, along with advanced options such as deep linking. Page-level lightbox for WordPress content SimpLy Lightbox is more than a lightbox for SimpLy galleries. It can also work with regular WordPress content, including Image blocks, Gallery blocks, linked images, and Classic Editor gallery content. When WordPress Image or Gallery blocks use the “Link images to media files” option, SimpLy Lightbox can open those images in a lightbox and group images from the same post or page into a browsable lightbox set. This means visitors can open one image and use next / previous navigation to browse other images from the page. Separate Image blocks and native Gallery blocks can also be grouped together, so a post can behave like one photo story instead of many isolated images. Global lightbox defaults are managed from SimpLy Gallery > Lightbox for native WordPress Gallery. Each post or page can also have its own lightbox settings through the SimpLy Lightbox editor sidebar, opened from the lightbox icon in the editor toolbar. Lightbox features include touch gestures, keyboard navigation, mouse wheel controls, zoom, thumbnails, fullscreen mode, slideshow, captions, and social sharing. YouTube Feed and dynamic galleries The YouTube Feed module turns YouTube playlists into a curated gallery workflow inside WordPress. You can build internal playlists, publish them with Quick Gallery Link, or use Dynamic Gallery Builder in the PRO plan for full design control. PRO dynamic gallery sources include: SimpLy folders YouTube playlists Vimeo showcases, albums, user uploads, channels, and categories WooCommerce products, categories, and tags FileBird media folders Media Library Assistant attachment categories and tags SimpLy tags Main demos Gallery blocks demo YouTube Feed Albums Block demo Album Navigator Block demo SimpLy Lightbox and WordPress Native Gallery demo YouTube and Vimeo Gallery demo More layout demos Viewer Gallery Block Slider / Carousel Gallery Tags Filter Advanced Tags Filter Showcase Gallery Block – PLUS layout Diamond Gallery Block – PLUS layout Horizon Gallery Block – PLUS layout Split Carousel Block – PLUS layout TagsBox Gallery Block – PLUS layout Portfolio Gallery Block – PLUS layout Short demo This video shows how to create a photo gallery with a SimpLy Gallery block: You can transform the same gallery content between Masonry, Justified, Grid, and WordPress image gallery layouts without rebuilding the gallery from scratch.
Gallery by Visual Portfolio
Photo gallery and portfolio plugin for WordPress ★★★★★ Visual Portfolio is a WordPress gallery plugin built around gallery and portfolio blocks. Use it for photo galleries, image galleries, video galleries, and albums. Pick masonry, justified, tiles, grid, slider, or carousel layouts. See Live Demo | Documentation | GitHub Keep it simple with a basic image gallery, or go further with nested galleries, filterable portfolio grids, post grids, and taxonomy grids. Add images, choose a layout, then tweak skins and the lightbox. You do not need to write code. 🏆 Visual Gallery Builder Build gallery and portfolio blocks without coding. Customize layouts visually with live preview in the editor. Supported layouts: Masonry, Justified, Tiles, Grid, Slider, and Carousel. You get skins and the usual gallery controls in one place. 🚀 Optimized to be Fast as Native Despite the rich functionality, the Visual Portfolio is optimized as much as possible, to be fast and lightweight. Due to the modular code structure, all scripts and styles are loaded only when they are needed for the current page that displays your gallery. So, your pages will never load unused features. Pictures are not loaded in the main thread due to lazy loading. Moreover, our plugin is compatible with third-party WebP providers and image optimization plugins. Smart adaptive image sizes fully supported in any gallery, created with Visual Portfolio plugin. 📱 Layouts Our gallery plugin shipped with popular layouts such as Masonry and Justified (Flickr). Every feature optimized and works seamlessly with all of these layouts, you just need to set up and go with no headache. See it in action: Masonry Gallery Justified (Flickr) Gallery Tiles Gallery Grid Gallery Slider Gallery (Fade, Carousel, Coverflow) 🎨 Prebuilt Skins Showcase your projects and gallery images with clean and beautiful skins. See it in action: Classic Fade Emerge Fly Caption Move ⚙️ Easy to Customize The gallery block with live preview includes a lot of design settings that are point-and-click, no coding knowledge required. If you’re a bit more adventurous, the custom CSS module and PHP filters are set up to be easily used by developers. 📁 Portfolio Post Type Optional custom post type portfolio will ensure all your portfolios to keep in a single post type. In this way, you can distinguish your portfolios from other post types. Taxonomies are used to categorize your portfolio types, it will help you to group and sort your portfolios. Moreover, you can use these portfolios as a source for your showcase gallery using Visual Portfolio block. Customize and rename Portfolio archive templates using the gallery block and page builders: https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/portfolio-archive/ In case you want to use Visual Portfolio plugin for photo gallery only you can disable custom post type registration. 💎 Posts Query Builder Fine-tune the source of your galleries. Display posts, portfolios, taxonomies, and any other post types, filter by taxonomies, author, and date ranges, include or exclude specific posts, and build post grids or taxonomy grids from the same workflow. 🖼️ Photo Galleries Create galleries from image sets right inside the gallery block: drop your images in and the gallery is ready. You can create unlimited image galleries with different styles, build album galleries with nested galleries in Pro, and combine images with video items for richer visual storytelling. ⚡ Powerful Lightbox Visual Portfolio uses only modern solutions, and lightboxes are not an exception. High performance, mobile optimization, retina-ready, and a wide range of features available in Fancybox and PhotoSwipe plugins, that you can choose for your gallery lightboxes. Mobile Optimized Looks great on every device. Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices. GPU Accelerated Hardware accelerated animations for better performance and seamless user experience. Smart Loading Gallery images are responsive and loaded progressively using lazy loading on demand. Social Sharing You can allow users to share photos on Facebook, X, and Pinterest with social sharing buttons. 📹 Video and 🎵 Audio Support Visual Portfolio plugin allows you to work with audios and videos within a single gallery. You can paste a supported video or audio URL and it will work automatically in the popup gallery. In Pro, you can also add dedicated video items directly to image galleries and post grids, including autoplay on open or playback on hover. The full list with supported vendors see below. Supported Video Vendors: Youtube Vimeo Instagram (Reels, video posts and IGTV links) TikTok Twitch Facebook Video DailyMotion Wistia VideoPress TED Rutube Metacafe Coub Self Hosted Video Supported Audio Vendors: Spotify SoundCloud Mixcloud Beatport Self Hosted Audio 📈 SEO-Friendly Visual Portfolio plugin is built keeping SEO and performance in mind by defining proper structure and tags. Furthermore, due to optimization, it is lightweight and fast when it comes to page load. In addition our plugin add images in the sitemap for All In One SEO, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO plugins 🏳️ Multilingual & Translation Ready Visual Portfolio adds a new layer of compatibility for WPML. All blocks are compatible with it and ready for translation. https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/multilingual/ 🛠 Built For Developers Visual Portfolio gives you a wide range of filters and actions to customize every part of your gallery. Also, it allows you to overwrite templates and change it in the theme directory. Moreover, you can customize separate portfolio lists using custom CSS and CSS Variables. 🔥 Visual Portfolio Pro The Visual Portfolio plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more features and enhanced performance! Learn more about Visual Portfolio Pro In order to maintain the free version of the plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to: Video Items in Galleries and Post Grids Add video items directly into image galleries and post grids, with autoplay on open or play on hover. Gallery Format and Albums Display nested galleries and album-style content in image galleries, posts, and taxonomy grids. Taxonomies as Gallery Source Build galleries directly from taxonomy terms, not only from posts or images. Advanced Skin Settings Image Filters and Blend Mode – apply Instagram-like filters on images for Normal and Hover states Transformations – control the image transformation and border radius for Normal and Hover states Typography – control every text part of gallery captions and overlays Dimensions – controls paddings, margins and border radius of captions and overlays Stylish Interaction Effects Hover Tilt Effect Custom Hover Image – useful for animated GIFs Caption Move Skin Social Feeds Automatically fetch posts from your social networks to display in gallery on your site. Instagram Youtube Vimeo Unsplash X Flickr Dribbble Twitch RSS VK (Vkontakte) Theft Protection Watermarks – add your logo on top of your images to make them harder to steal Password Form – add a password to gallery blocks and send it to your clients Age Gate – Protect visitors from viewing adult content Photos Proofing Communicate with your clients in a modern way: Create Proofing Gallery – Easily create a gallery with photos, as you did before. Change styling, layout, etc. if you want. Send to a Client – Send photos collection to your client for proofing. The client will be able to leave comments on individual photos and communicate with you. Get Approval – Once the client approves the selection, you will be able to see the selected photos and copy filenames for post-production. Advanced Click Actions Manually configure how to open specific item types and filter clicking on title or on image. Responsive Breakpoints Settings Manually control the screen sizes, which used by the automatic responsive function to adapt your gallery layouts. AJAX Improvements Requests properly cached and links preloaded before you click. Advanced Query Settings Filter by Author, Date Range, Ignore Sticky Posts, exclude posts without Featured Image, and much more… Albums, Gallery Format, and Taxonomy Grids Build nested gallery structures, output gallery format content, and create visual taxonomy grids from the same workflow. See the Taxonomies demo. Quick View for Posts and Pages Display posts and pages in popup iframe, not only image and video galleries. It’s like works preview in Dribbble and Behance, but on your own site. Popup Gallery Deep Linking Makes URL automatically change when you open popup and you can easily link to a specific popup image. White Label Possibility to use your brand name and logo instead of our “Visual Portfolio”. Find much more portfolio and gallery features of Visual Portfolio Pro today! 🌟 More Features Lightboxes for Standard WordPress Images Image lightbox available for Visual Portfolio galleries as well as for standard WordPress images and galleries in your content. AJAX Loading and Pagination Every dynamic part of the Visual Portfolio plugin is using AJAX to update the gallery content in live mode. Organized galleries and portfolio lists will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience. We prepared 3 types of paginations for you: Infinite Scroll Load More button Paged pagination Filter Filter your gallery and portfolio by taxonomies (mostly categories and tags). Let users select a category and see the relevant items. Sort gallery items by date and title Users may sort gallery items by date and title. GIFs Support Our plugin automatically displays the animated GIFs in photo galleries. Also, you can show the animated GIFs on mouseover with the Pro plugin. Items Gutters Manually adjust the spacing between gallery images and projects. Images Lazy Loading Images lazy loading boost your page loading speed. You don’t need to worry about it, just use your beautiful images in the gallery, Visual Portfolio will do all the work for you. Images Aspect Ratio All built-in gallery layouts support custom image aspect ratio. You don’t need to crop the image manually. Images Focal Point Sometimes it is very important to specify the focal point so that the custom aspect ratio does not cut off important parts of the photos. For example, people’s faces on the portrait photos. Custom Links for Gallery Images By default, gallery images will contain the links to original images. You can manually set the custom links, for example, to a website or Youtube video. RTL Support Visual Portfolio natively supports RTL languages, proper styles loaded automatically, without user interaction. Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder support There is a helpful widget for Elementor and shortcode for WPBakery Page Builder, which will let you select one of the available Saved Layouts and output it. Responsive and Mobile Ready Visual Portfolio and Galleries are completely responsive and mobile ready – layouts automagically transforms to display perfectly on your screen size. Custom CSS Deeply customize the look of your gallery using custom CSS and CSS Variables. … And Much More All available features you can find on the plugin’s site and documentation.
