Bill Erickson

NOTE: This uses the old media gallery interface, and I have no plans to change this.
I use the WordPress Gallery a lot on websites I build. It’s a wonderful tool, but it’s hard to find. Instead of telling users “Click the first icon next to Upload/Insert, then click the gallery tab”, I created this simple plugin to display all the attached images in a metabox.
It’s also customizable for developers (see documentation).
<a href="https://github.com/billerickson/Gallery-Metabox/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
No support will be provided by the developer

Gallery Metabox

After updating to WP v4.9 this plugin gave me a PHP error until I added an image and then deleted it. Something about an array expected. Needs attention.


Throws a PHP error

Displays all the post's attached images on the Edit screen.

Tahir Yasin

This plugin adds a meta box to upload multiple images for posts and pages. You can enable it for custom post types also, please see installation instructions.
<h3>miu_get_images()</h3>
This function can be called from any template file to get attached images for the page/post being viewed. 
It returns an array of the attached image URL.
It take only one argument:
<ol>
<li>
post_id (integer) to get images linked to a specific post
 http://www.example.com/image-1.png 
 [1] => http://www.example.com/image-2.png 
)
?></li>
</ol>

Multi Image Upload

This plugin adds a meta box to upload multiple images for posts and pages.

Gallery Metabox vs Multi Image Upload