sandywp / plugins / foogallery

Gallery : FooGallery

4.8 out of 5 stars. 4.8 986 reviews

FooGallery is a fast, responsive photo gallery and image gallery plugin with 7 gallery layouts, built-in lightbox, albums, and SEO optimization.

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v3.2.6 100,000+ installs WP 5.3+ PHP 7.0+

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Gallery : FooGallery running inside a SandyWP sandbox

What you get inside

8 screens
  • Gallery edit page

  • Frontend example with responsive layout

  • Frontend example with image viewer layout

  • Frontend example with justified layout

  • Frontend example with masonry layout

  • Frontend example with portfolio layout

  • Frontend example with single thumbnail layout

  • Frontend example with carousel layout

About this plugin

Photo & Image Gallery

FooGallery makes it easy to create stunning photo and image galleries using drag and drop in minutes. It’s responsive, retina-ready, SEO-friendly, and optimized for performance. With beautiful gallery layouts, live gallery previews, a built-in lightbox, and deep customization options, FooGallery is a complete gallery solution for modern WordPress websites.

Launch Your Own FooGallery Demo (Backend included)

FooGallery gives you live previews as you design your galleries, includes a visual gallery layout selector, and integrates seamlessly with the WordPress block editor and shortcodes. It’s developer-friendly, performance-focused, and fully extendable.

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All FooGallery Demos

Key Features

  • 7 Beautiful Free Gallery layouts:
    • Responsive Gallery – demo
    • Image Viewer Gallery – demo
    • Masonry Gallery – demo
    • Portfolio Gallery – demo
    • Justified Gallery – demo
    • Single Thumbnail Gallery – demo
    • Carousel – demo
  • Built-in Lightbox:
    Adjust colors, transitions, captions, and controls with fullscreen, thumb strip, auto progress, prev/next, and download button support.
  • Advanced Customization:
    Control thumbnail sizes, spacing, hover effects, caption line limits, mobile columns, background fill, custom attributes, and more.
  • Visual Gallery Builder:
    Use the gallery layout selector, live preview device switcher, drag-and-drop uploads, advanced attachment modal, and shortcode helpers to build galleries faster.
  • Block Editor & Shortcodes:
    Add galleries with the WordPress block editor, preview them live while editing, and fine-tune output with shortcode arguments and page/offset controls.
  • Performance Optimized:
    Lazy loading, pagination, reduced layout shifts, fingerprinted assets, and broad compatibility with image optimization and caching plugins for fast loading times.
  • SEO-Ready:
    ALT and title attributes, attachment descriptions, and full integration with Yoast, Rank Math, and AIOSEO.
  • Albums built-in:
    • Responsive album layout – demo
    • All-in-one Stack album – demo
    • (just activate the albums feature)
  • Import / Export galleries between WP installs, with progress and resume support for large imports – docs
  • Drag n Drop reordering of images and galleries
  • Drag n Drop images into gallery to upload into gallery (and media library)
  • Custom CSS for both galleries and albums
  • One-click gallery page creation
  • FooGallery Migrator – easily migrate from Envira / NextGen / Modula
  • Multisite Support
  • Password protected image galleries

PRO Features

FooGallery PRO adds professional-level features and integrations for photographers, agencies, and eCommerce users.

PRO Starter Plan

Our PRO Starter plan is our most affordable plan and includes features that take your WordPress galleries to the next level! PRO Starter is mostly for photographers or website owners that want better-looking galleries and lightboxes.

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  • 4 additional gallery layouts:
  • 11 hover effect presets – demo
  • 12 CSS thumbnail effects (Instagram-style) – demo
  • Colors and color sorting:
    Extract dominant colors from images, sort galleries by color, and apply opaque or tinted backgrounds for a more art-directed look.

PRO Expert Plan

Our PRO Expert plan unlocks exactly what you would expect – expert-level features! Our most popular plan is for professional photographers and website owners who want to invest in how their galleries look and work.

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  • Video Galleries:
    Import from YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Vimeo, or self-hosted sources demos
  • Filtering & Tagging:
    Filter by Media Tags or Categories with multi-level filtering, search, dropdown filter styles, and advanced selection modes demos
  • Dynamic Galleries:
    Load images from folders, Lightroom, Real Media Library, Infinite Uploads, or posts, with support for ACF fields and richer post query controls. demos
  • Advanced Pagination:
    Load More, Infinite Scroll, and Numbered pagination demos
  • Advanced Custom Captions
    Create captions using placeholders & custom HTML demos
  • EXIF metadata
    Showcase your photo metadata in the Lightbox demo
  • Media Category Folders
    Browse and work with media category folders directly inside the attachment modal.
  • Bulk Copy
    Easily copy gallery settings to other galleries more info
  • ImageGallery SEO Schema
    Output opt-in ImageGallery JSON-LD schema for pages that use FooGallery, with per-gallery schema overrides for richer image discovery.

PRO Commerce Features

Our PRO Commerce plan is for the photographers who make a living from selling their photos online. We have integrated with WooCommerce, to bring you innovative tools to help you sell more with hardly any effort.

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  • WooCommerce integration:
    Sell your photos or create dynamic product galleries with sorting, filtering, ratings, stock status controls, and deeper WooCommerce integration. more info
  • Image Protection:
    Watermarking and no right-click options demo
  • Master Product Setup:
    No more separate products for each image – link all your photos to a single master product.
    Supports variations, file downloads, WooCommerce blocks, and guided product setup tools.
  • Buttons and Ribbons
    Add custom buttons, download buttons, styled call-to-actions, and attention-grabbing ribbons to your images. demo
  • Product Info in Lightbox
    Show product details, price, stock messaging, add-to-cart, checkout, view product, and download actions directly in the lightbox.
  • Gallery Blueprints
    Create Gallery Templates that share settings across galleries for faster gallery management – docs

PRO Addons

We also have a collection of powerful add-ons available to enhance your gallery experience. All the Addons work with the FREE version too!

  • User Uploads Addon:
    Allow visitors to upload images & videos into galleries. Includes image moderation, form field customization, email notifications and more. more info
  • Social Addon:
    Increase visitor engagement by allowing them to like, comment and share images in your galleries. more info
  • Whitelabel:
    Allow power users to rename or rebrand “FooGallery”, modify the shortcode, menu, and disable features. more info
  • Client Proofing:
    Create a private proofing page where your clients can select or reject images in the galleries. (Coming soon!)
  • 3D Splat Viewer:
    Create emmersive 3D walk-throughs for showcasing products or real-estate. (Coming soon!)

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How to Create a Photo Gallery in WordPress

  1. Install and activate FooGallery from the Plugins menu.
  2. Click Add Gallery and choose your layout.
  3. Upload or select images from your Media Library.
  4. Customize captions, hover effects, and lightbox settings.
  5. Publish and embed your gallery using a block or shortcode.

Integrations and Compatibility

  • Works seamlessly in the Block Editor / Gutenberg.
  • WooCommerce integration to sell photos online.
  • Lightbox plugins : FooBox, dFactory.
  • Page builders : Elementor.
  • SEO Plugins: Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO.
  • Caching Plugins: WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, Autoptimize, WPOptimize.
  • Media Tools: ShortPixel, Imagify, Real Media Library, and Infinite Uploads.
  • Others : Jetpack, Polylang.

Documentation

Questions

Is FooGallery The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin?

FooGallery has been optimized for performance and has a ton of features in the free version. Read our blog post where we compare FooGallery to other WordPress gallery plugins:

Best WordPress Gallery Plugins Compared

Can I add videos to my galleries?

Yes, video galleries are supported in FooGallery PRO Expert. You can import from YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Vimeo or use self-hosted videos.

Can I sell my photography online?

Yes, that is why we built FooGallery PRO Commerce – it integrates deeply with WooCommerce.
You can build galleries from WooCommerce products, or link every image to a master product. Sell with variations, ribbons, custom buttons, lightbox product info, checkout flows, and image file downloads.

My galleries are not working. Thumbnails are greyed out and not loading when I scroll down the page.

Lazy loading is not working on your gallery. This could be due to a conflict between our plugin and your theme.
You can test this theory by testing a different theme (if possible).
We can help you get it working, by contacting our support.

I have created a gallery in the backend, but when I look at it on the frontend, it does not show correctly.

Sometimes, there are issues when the theme does not follow WordPress best practices.
In order for FooGallery to function properly, the theme needs to have:
* A call to wp_head(); in the header.php file.
* A call to wp_footer(); in the footer.php file.

One way to check if the theme is the problem, is by switching to one of the built-in WordPress themes, and then see if the gallery loads.

I am getting a 503 server error whenever I try to edit galleries from the admin

Some versions of PHP have issues with the Imagick Image library, which FooGallery uses to generate thumbnails.
To fix this problem, goto FooGallery Settings -> Images, and ensure “Force GD Library” is checked and save settings.
This will force your server to rather use the GD image library to avoid the 503 errors.

After updating, my galleries no longer work! What should I do?

Do you have any WordPress caching or optimization plugins? If so, then clear/purge your caches.
Do you have any caching setup at your website host? If so, clear/purge those caches.

After installing the plugin, my site is broken! Help!

First thing to do is restore your site to it’s previous working state.
1. Get access to your site via FTP, or SFTP.
2. Navigate to the wp-content/plugins folder.
3. Rename the foogallery folder to foogallery1 in order to deactivate the plugin.
4. At this point, your site should be working again.
5. Please contact our support and provide the following info:
* What version of WordPress you are running.
* What version of PHP you are using.
* What version of FooGallery you installed.
* What error was shown when your site was broken?
* What plugins and theme are you using?

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