{"id":77,"date":"2007-06-13T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/image-gallery-plugin-recommendation\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T02:38:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:38:36","slug":"image-gallery-plugin-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/image-gallery-plugin-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Gallery Plugin Recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my previous post <a title=\"Image Gallery Plugin Advice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/wordpress-image-gallery-gotchas\/\">WordPress Image Gallery Gotchas<\/a> I thought I&#8217;d let you know what image gallery software I&#8217;m currently using.  As you may recall, I tried combining Gallery2 (a full featured open source image gallery) with WPG2 (a WordPress plugin to place Gallery2 inside your blog) but I didn&#8217;t have much success so I began reconsidering my options.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a title=\"Official WordPress Plugin Page\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/\">WordPress Plugins<\/a> page, then went to the <a title=\"Official WordPress Image Plugins\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tags\/images\">Images Plugins<\/a> section and browsed through all their offerings.  Here&#8217;s my list of top contenders and my impression of each one:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"LightBox at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/lightbox-2\/\">Lightbox JS<\/a> [<a title=\"LightBox Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.4mj.it\/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress\/\">DEMO<\/a>] : Fairly simple, didn&#8217;t see any gallery management features and the effect took a while to load on demo page.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Inline Gallery at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/inline-gallery\/\">Inline Gallery<\/a> [<a title=\"Inline Gallery Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/m0n5t3r.info\/work\/wordpress-plugins\/inline-gallery\/inline-gallery-demo\/2\">DEMO<\/a>] : It&#8217;s quick, simple and basic, perhaps a little too basic, no thumbnail gallery display.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"NextGEN at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/\">NextGEN Gallery<\/a> [<a title=\"NextGEN Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aychan.com\/gallery\/ginger-on-oct-29-2006\/\">DEMO<\/a>] : The demo pages look good, has paged navigation, image management features (captioning etc.), presentation options various JS effects or SWF, middle click bypasses JS and opens in new window.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PictPress at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/pictpress\/\">PictPress<\/a> [<a title=\"PictPress Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curioso.org\/2004\/08\/29\/treble\">DEMO<\/a>] : Link at WordPress.org is wrong, should go to the <a title=\"More Informative PictPress Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curioso.org\/2005\/12\/09\/pictpress-10\/\">PictPress main page<\/a>, nice solution integrates well with WordPress, no slide show, been in &#8220;beta&#8221; over a year but looks pretty solid.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"AWSOM PixGallery at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/awsom-pixgallery\/\">AWSOM Pixgallery<\/a> [<a title=\"AWSOM PixGallery Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awsom.org\/awsom-pixgallery\/?px=%2Fart%2F\">DEMO<\/a>] : Integrates well with the blog, sort of odd that thumbnails open images in new blog page, then clicking image in blog page pops up a JS\/AJAX image window, allows captioning of images in gallery.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WP HighSlide at WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-highslide-image-viewer\/\">WP Highslide<\/a> [<a title=\"WP HighSlide Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/projects.jesseheap.com\/all-projects\/wordpress-highslide-js-plugin\">DEMO<\/a>] : Pretty slick, images expand in place, no gallery management features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After a fair amount of consideration I decided <a title=\"NextGEN Image Gallery Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/alexrabe.de\/wordpress-plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/\">NextGEN<\/a> would be my &#8220;next&#8221; image gallery of choice.  It does nearly all I want right out of the box plus a little more.  It&#8217;s still being actively developed and judging by the download numbers at WordPress.org it appears to have a rather large user base as well.  The variety of options provided for getting images into your gallery (FTP, ZIP file, etc.) and the plentiful yet refined administration panels make working with galleries a breeze.  You can view my recent <a title=\"Colorful Patterns Drawn with ActionScript Vine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/tendril-gallery\/\">Tendril Gallery<\/a> to see the results.<\/p>\n<p>No one gallery can meet everyone&#8217;s needs, hopefully this post will help you make a more informed decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow up to my previous &#8220;WordPress Image Gallery Gotchas&#8221; article explains what image gallery software I&#8217;m currently using and why.  I tried combining Gallery2 (a full featured open source image gallery) with WPG2 (a WordPress plugin to place Gallery2 inside your blog) but I didn&#8217;t have much success so I began reconsidering my options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38,44,52,20],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-gallery","tag-plugin","tag-review","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}