Freemius

FolioBlocks

Michael

FolioBlocks is a native WordPress gallery plugin for building responsive image galleries, video galleries, portfolio layouts, and comparison blocks directly in the Block Editor. It is designed for photographers, designers, artists, agencies, creative businesses, and WooCommerce stores that need flexible visual layouts without shortcodes or external gallery managers.
Create Grid, Masonry, Justified, Carousel, Filmstrip, Modular, and Video galleries using familiar Gutenberg controls. FolioBlocks keeps your workflow inside WordPress while giving you tools for lightboxes, hover overlays, gallery filtering, image downloads, WooCommerce product links, EXIF display, and content protection.
The free version includes the core gallery and media blocks. FolioBlocks Pro unlocks advanced creative and commerce features, including Modular Gallery, gallery filtering, WooCommerce integration, image downloads, lazy loading, advanced styling controls, Pro List View thumbnails, and more.
Included blocks: 
* Background Video Block – Add an autoplaying, responsive background video with overlay content on top 
* Before & After Block – Compare two images with an interactive slider 
* Loupe Block – Highlight fine details with an elegant magnifying zoom effect 
* Carousel Gallery Block – Smooth, swipe-friendly horizontal image slider 
* Filmstrip Gallery Block – Scroll through large images with thumbnail navigation below 
* Grid Gallery Block – Classic evenly-spaced grid layout 
* Image Block – Display a single image with lightbox, hover overlay, optional downloads, and WooCommerce linking 
* Justified Gallery Block – Professional row-based gallery with balanced heights 
* Masonry Gallery Block – Pinterest-style vertical gallery layout 
* Modular Gallery Block (Pro Only) – Build custom, magazine-style image layouts 
* Video Block – Display a single video with custom thumbnail, lightbox playback, captions, and optional WooCommerce linking 
* Video Gallery Block – Showcase YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted videos
Core gallery features include: 
* Fully responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile 
* Built-in lightbox support 
* Caption support and accessibility-friendly interactions 
* Drag-and-drop image ordering 
* 100% native Gutenberg block editing (no shortcodes, no separate gallery manager) 
* Block transforms to convert galleries in one click 
* WordPress 7.0 List View inspector support for gallery children
Pro features include: 
* Custom image click actions for media files, custom URLs, Page/Post links, downloads, lightbox, and WooCommerce products 
* Gallery image filtering with per-image category assignment 
* WooCommerce product integration for images and videos 
* Download full-resolution images 
* Randomize image order 
* Disable right-click / content protection 
* Lazy load images for faster performance 
* Hover effects, image overlays, and overlay content controls 
* EXIF metadata display in lightboxes and hover overlays 
* Pro List View thumbnails for easier gallery reordering 
* Advanced gallery styling controls for borders, shadows, radius, filter bars, icons, and overlays
Why FolioBlocks?
FolioBlocks is built for users who want fast, native, block-based galleries without the complexity of third-party gallery builders or shortcode-based plugins. If you want a clean way to display photography, client work, products, portfolios, or case studies, FolioBlocks gives you those tools directly inside the editor.
<h3>Source Code</h3>
Public repository: 
https://github.com/folioblocks/folioblocks


Gallery plugins historically have been annoying for me to use, and block-based ones, especially so. But FolioBlocks was fun to use. I love that so many different types of galleries can be chosen (masonry, grid, etc), it has the option to use its built-in lightbox, and just the simplicity of it all was sweet. And responsive on top of it! I'm definitely a fan now.


Easy to use with good number of features

Create fast, responsive photo and video galleries with grid, masonry, justified, modular, and carousel layouts—ideal for photographers and creatives.

BuddyDev

Brajesh Singh

Ravi Sharma

Press Programmer

MediaPress is a modern media gallery solution for WordPress & BuddyPress. At the moment, MediaPress is almost(We need you to decide) the best option available for BuddyPress photo gallery, BuddyPress video gallery, BuddyPress audio and BuddyPress documents gallery.
If you are looking for a lightweight, feature rich BuddyPress Media Gallery solution that provides pleasant experience for your users, Please give a try to MediaPress.
MediaPress has modular architecture, that makes it easier for developers to extend while keeping the code simple to maintain.
It is built to be reliable, scalable, secure and flexible. We have worked hard to make it easy to use and we will love your feedback in making it better.
MediaPress core comes packed with powerful features, some of which are listed below:-
<h4>For WordPress:-</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Sitewide Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Audio Gallery, Document Gallery</li>
<li>Front End Gallery Creation and upload</li>
<li>Allows adding videos from youtube, vimeo facebook etc to BuddyPress Activity and Gallery.</li>
<li>Add remote media using link(oembed or direct link to remote file).</li>
<li>Most awesome Gallery creation & Management via Dashboard(try and you will love it) </li>
<li>Flexible Privacy for photo, video, audio and other media types</li>
<li>Easily extensible Gallery/Media Views</li>
<li>If you are a theme designer, you can rewrite whole layout using your own templates</li>
<li>Extensive admin options</li>
<li>We will improve it a lot more for WordPress in future</li>
</ul>
MediaPress gives full control to the site admins while making it easier for them/their users to upload media.
<h4>For BuddyPress, MediaPress provides following features:-</h4>
<ul>
<li>BuddyPress activity wall upload for videos/audio/photos/documents</li>
<li>BuddyPress Photo Gallery, BuddyPress Video Gallery, BuddyPress Audio Gallery and Document Gallery for users and groups</li>
<li>Add youtube video, facebook video, photo etc to BuddyPress/WordPress(using oembed).</li>
<li>Add video, photos from another server using link.</li>
<li>Highly flexible privacy system (Inbuilt support for public, private, logged in, friends only, groups only, following only, followers only privacy)</li>
<li>Drag and Drop Uploader</li>
<li>Easy to extend API for other components</li>
<li>Easy to extend API to support <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/media-type/mpp_register_type/" title="Registering new media type " rel="nofollow ugc">new media types</a></li>
<li>Multiple Layout for media(Grid, playlist, list)</li>
<li>Playlist view support for audio/Video Galleries</li>
<li>Shortcode for everything you want(almost).</li>
<li>Widgets to help you list galleries, media, playlist , audio etc.</li>
<li>Extensive <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/getting-started/settings-options/configuring-mediapress/" title="Configuring MediaPress" rel="nofollow ugc">admin options</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Are you a developer?</h4>
Here is a short list of things you can do with few lines of code:-
<ul>
<li>Use a different storage manager( we support local uploads in core, you can write one for the cloud, check core/storage/storage-manager.php for details)</li>
<li>Add support for a new <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/media-type/mpp_register_type/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Type</a>.</li>
<li>Write a custom media loop using <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/mpp_media_query/" rel="nofollow ugc">MPP_Media_Query</a></li>
<li>Write your own custom Gallery loop/list using <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/mpp_gallery_query/" rel="nofollow ugc">MPP_Gallery_Query</a></li>
</ul>
We have also got some nice developer documentation ready for you and more will keep coming in future.
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/" title="MediaPress site" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://demos.buddydev.com/mediapress/" title="MediaPress demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/support/forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Development Repo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-guides/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Guides</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/getting-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Admin Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-reference/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a> – progressing</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-reference/template-tags/" rel="nofollow ugc">Template Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-guides/mediapress-uploader-events-lifecycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">Uploader Javascript Event Lifecycle</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-guides/lightbox/mediapress-lightbox-javascript-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lighbox Javascript API</a></li>
<li>More to come soon.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Let us build MediaPress together</h4>
We are working on the next version of MediaPress that uses a different uploader and allows adding media with the activity comments too. 
Our expectation is to have it by the end of the year. 
Please help us create it better by testing the plugin from <a href="https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress</a> and providing your suggestions at BuddyDev support forum or our github repo.
If you are looking to extend MediaPress further, we have some free and paid addons for you
<h4>Extending with Addons</h4>
Here are some of our available addons for MediaPress.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/media-moderator-for-mediapress/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media Moderator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-media-view-counter/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media View Counter</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-media-rating/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media Rating</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mpp-featured-content/" rel="ugc">MediaPress Featured Content</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-set-profile-photo/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Set Profile Photo</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mediapress-mycred-addon/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress myCRED Addon</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-downloadable-media/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Downloadable Media</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-upload-tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Upload Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-s2member-storage-limit/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress S2Member Storage Limit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-flexible-storage-limit/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Flexible Storage Limit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mediamark/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaMark:- Watermarking solution for MediaPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/paid-memberships-pro-restrictions-for-mediapress/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Paid Memberships Pro Restrictions</a></li>
<li>more coming soon</li>
</ul>
Looking for more powerful BuddyPress plugins? Check out our list of amazing <a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress plugins</a>.
We are here to help with everything you need with MediaPress. 
Please use BuddyDev community forum or premium forums for support(We support both free & paid members without any differentiation ).
MediaPress is young, If there is a feature that you need, please let us know at our forums. We will be happy to have it if it is going to help the community. 
MediaPress is a community project and we welcome all contributions, be it with Ideas, technical or anything you deem fit.
If you are a developer, let us work together. Please use github repo for development.
<h4>BuddyPress & MediaPress Maintenance & Custom development</h4>
If you need any assistance with setting up or adding new features to BuddyPress or MediaPress, Our team is available for hire. 
Please use our <a href="https://buddydev.com/buddypress-custom-plugin-development-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress Development Services</a> for any custom development needs.

MediaPress

I absolutely love this plugin!
It works great for all mine and my users media,
This is by far the best media plugin that's available on t WordPress directory,
The support by the developers is also amazing,
Great work on this!

Regards

Ben

Awesome Plugin

MediaPress is the most advanced and feature rich media gallery plugin for BuddyPress & WordPress.

FolioBlocks vs MediaPress