Top 16 Free Wordpress Photo Gallery Plugins To Spice Up Your Blog

let’s not overlook some of the WordPress Plugins which have taken the bare bones of the WordPress gallery feature and turned it into magic.

The following 16 WordPress Plugins display images which you have uploaded to your WordPress blog’s server. Typically, they are in a core folder of your own choice, or one specified by WordPress or the Plugin. Some of these WordPress Plugins allow grouping of images into collections or sub-galleries or sub-albums through the use of sub-folders.

1. Cincopa WordPress Plugin | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

With this plugin you can post beautiful rich videos, photos and music galleries very easily. The big difference between this plugin and many others is the fact that it is coupled with Cincopa Internet platform which means :

2. WordPress Gallery Slideshow | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

The inspiration for this plugin came from NextGEN Gallery which includes a slideshow. As I always wanted small plugins that doesn’t add unnecessary tables and an unnecessary huge amont of codelines I wrote a small plugin which uses the built in gallery of WordPress for slideshows. You can use it with the new shortcut for slideshows

3. Media Library Gallery | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment. Support thickbox. To include the gallery in a page, simply write in the post: [media-library-gallery nb=XX] where XX is the number of pictures for a page.

4. NextGEN Gallery | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

5. DM Albums | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

DM Albums™ is an inline photo album/gallery plugin that displays high quality images and thumbnails perfectly sized to your blog.

6. Yet Another PhotoBlog | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.

7. Picasna | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Picasna for Wordpress is a free plugin that enables you to display your photos in a stylish and easy-to-browse way on your Wordpress Blog. It’s a fullscreen gallery that uses the best tool for editing and managing your photos — Picasa 3 (by Google). You can upload photos directly to Picasa Web Albums and they will appear on your web page in seconds

8. PhotoSmash Galleries | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to.

9. Misiek Photo Album | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Plugin allows you to add photo albums to your site using media library from your wordpress.

10. Flickr Tag | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

When I started using WordPress for webopticon.com, I had a hard time finding a Flickr plugin that didn’t download all the photos onto my server, have them appear in a separate gallery, or otherwise look totally kitsch. I just wanted something simple

11. Flickr + Highslide | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

12. my Picasaweb Album | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

13. FlippingBook Gallery Plugin | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Do you need to show your photos to the best advantage and post them in a speedy manner, don’t you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery?

14. Fotobook | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze.

15. Lightbox Gallery | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org

This plugin changes the view of galleries to the Lightbox view and also displays the associated metadata with the images. The caption for each image is viewed through a tooltip when you hover your mouse on a thumbnail.

16. Inline Gallery | Ahthor Homepage | At Wordpress.org