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Gallery by BestWebSoft

Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress

4.0 out of 5 stars. 4.0 158 reviews

Add beautiful, fully responsive galleries, albums, images, and categories to your WordPress website quickly and easily. Showcase your portfolio, photo …

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Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress running inside a SandyWP sandbox

What you get inside

8 screens
  • Gallery albums page in the front-end.

  • Single Gallery page in the front-end.

  • The pop-up window containing the album images.

  • Displaying Gallery Categories Widget in the Sidebar on your WordPress website.

  • "Latest Galleries" widget displaying in the footer.

  • Edit Gallery page.

  • Edit Gallery Image Info.

  • Gallery Categories page.

About this plugin

Gallery by BestWebSoft is the best responsive gallery plugin for WordPress, designed to help you create unlimited image galleries with albums and categories in just a few clicks. Customize your gallery’s appearance, add comments, and organize images effortlessly.

Perfect for photographers, artists, bloggers, and businesses who want to present their images professionally, boost engagement, and improve user experience.

Key benefits:
* Fully responsive galleries that look great on any device
* Unlimited albums, images, and categories
* Multiple sorting and layout options
* Easy-to-use interface with no coding required
* Supports all popular image formats and WordPress media library
* Multilingual and RTL ready
* Detailed documentation and tutorial videos available

Experience the power and flexibility of Gallery by BestWebSoft today!

View Demo
YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aydaTdOpaRM

Free Features

  • Fully Responsive Design for all devices
  • Add unlimited number of:
    • Albums to galleries
    • Images to albums
    • Gallery categories
  • Latest galleries widget with customizable:
    • Title
    • Button text and link
    • Number of galleries displayed
    • Hover color effect
  • Integration with Slider Plugin
  • Choose album layouts:
    • Columns
    • Rows
  • Customize album cover image and dimensions
  • Disable image opening from thumbnail in single gallery view
  • Default sorting options for images by:
    • Attachment ID, Image Name, Date, Gallery order, Random
    • Ascending (ASC) or Descending (DESC) order
  • Sorting options for galleries by:
    • Gallery ID, Title, Date, Last modified date, Comment count, Author, Random, ASC, DESC
  • Sort galleries within categories
  • Gallery categories widget with options:
    • Display as dropdown
    • Show galleries count
    • Show hierarchy
  • Demo data installation and deletion
  • Slideshow with full-size image display
  • Customize border width and color
  • Support for any image file format
  • Add comments to galleries
  • Use images from WordPress media library
  • Add descriptions for each album
  • Insert custom code via plugin settings page
  • Compatible with latest WordPress versions
  • Simple and fast setup without coding
  • Step-by-step documentation and tutorial videos
  • Multilingual and RTL support
  • Download button for Gallery

Pro Features

All free features included plus:

  • Additional gallery layouts:
    • Grid (default)
    • Masonry
  • Display image text:
    • Under images
    • On mouse hover
  • Configure lightbox:
    • Image size
    • Background color and transparency
    • Gallery item slug customization
  • Image crop position control:
    • Horizontal and vertical alignment
  • Social Like buttons integration:
    • Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
  • Lightbox helper options:
    • Buttons and thumbnails
  • Enable watermark for gallery image:
    • Text
    • Image
  • Image optimization [NEW]
  • Select target attribute (self/blank) for external URLs
  • Add descriptions and buttons with URLs inside lightbox
  • Single gallery pagination support
  • Configure galleries individually or globally
  • Network multisite support and configuration
  • Priority support with response within one business day (Support Policy)

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Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

For questions or assistance, visit our Help Center: https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Affiliate Program

Earn 20% commission by promoting BestWebSoft premium WordPress plugins and themes — https://bestwebsoft.com/affiliate/

Translation

  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) (thanks to DJIO, www.djio.com.br)
  • Bulgarian (bg_BG) (thanks to Petya)
  • Chinese (zh_CN) (thanks to Xiaobo Chen)
  • Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to Michal Kučera, www.n0lim.it)
  • Dutch (nl_NL) (thanks to J Goessens)
  • French (fr_FR) (thanks to Didier, L Capronnier)
  • German (de_DE) (thanks to Thomas Bludau, Jonas Seemann)
  • Indonesian (id_ID) (thanks to Jordan Silaen, www.chameleonjohn.com)
  • Russian (ru_RU)
  • Serbian (sr_RS) (thanks to Andrijana Nikolic, www.webhostinggeeks.com)
  • Slovak (sk_SK) (thanks to Michal Kralik)
  • Slovenian (sl_SI) (thanks to Tilen)
  • Spanish (es_ES) (thanks to Carlos Limia)
  • Turkish (tr) (thanks to Ismail Demirbilek)
  • Ukrainian (uk)

If you want to contribute or update a translation, send PO and MO files to BestWebSoft Support.
Use Poedit to work with translation files.

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Questions

How do I use the plugin?

  1. Go to ‘Galleries’ > ‘Add New’ in WordPress admin.
  2. Add or upload images via the ‘Add Media’ button.
  3. Save your gallery.

See detailed instructions here: How to Use Gallery Plugin

How to override plugin templates safely?

Template files are located in /wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/templates/.
To customize without losing changes during updates, copy templates to your theme folder:
/wp-content/themes/your-theme/bws-templates/

Example:
Copy /wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/templates/gallery-single-template.php to
/wp-content/themes/your-theme/bws-templates/gallery-single-template.php

Do NOT edit plugin core files directly.

I’m getting “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_post_thumbnail_id()” – what to do?

Your theme likely lacks thumbnail support. Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘theme_setup’ );
function theme_setup() {
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
}

This will enable thumbnails and fix the error.

How to change image order in a single gallery?

In the WordPress admin menu, go to “Galleries”, select your gallery, and reorder images via drag-and-drop.
Make sure the plugin setting Sort images by is set to Sorting order in the Gallery.

Problems with RTL languages and lightbox on iPad/iPhone?

  1. Replace <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>> with <html> in your header.php.
  2. Remove direction: rtl; from body CSS and apply it to the main wrapper element instead.

Example for Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten themes:
`css
body {
/* remove this /
/
direction: rtl; */
}
.hfeed {
direction: rtl;
}

4.0

158 reviews

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