Akash Ahmed

<p>Soft Photo Gallery is a powerful and flexible WordPress plugin that allows you to create stunning photo galleries with ease. Whether you’re a photographer, artist, or business owner, this plugin provides everything you need to showcase your images professionally.</p>
<p>With multiple gallery styles, advanced customization options, and user-friendly features, Soft Photo Gallery helps you create beautiful, responsive galleries that work perfectly on any device and with any WordPress theme.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>🎨 <strong>Multiple Gallery Styles</strong>: Choose from 6 different display styles including Grid, Masonry, List, Slider, Justified, and Spotlight views</li>
<li>🔍 <strong>Search & Filtering</strong>: Enable frontend search to help visitors find specific images quickly</li>
<li>📝 <strong>Image Captions</strong>: Add descriptive captions that display on hover or in slideshow mode</li>
<li>📱 <strong>Fully Responsive</strong>: Galleries automatically adapt to different screen sizes and devices</li>
<li>🎯 <strong>Social Sharing</strong>: Allow visitors to share images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest</li>
<li>⚡ <strong>Fast & Lightweight</strong>: Optimized for performance without slowing down your website</li>
<li>🛠️ <strong>Easy Management</strong>: Simple interface for adding and organizing gallery images</li>
<li>🔄 <strong>Auto-Save</strong>: Optional auto-save feature for your gallery settings</li>
<li>📤 <strong>Import/Export</strong>: Backup and transfer your gallery settings between sites</li>
<li>🎛️ <strong>Customizable Settings</strong>: Extensive options to match your website’s design</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Photographers showcasing portfolios</li>
<li>Artists displaying their work</li>
<li>Businesses showing product images</li>
<li>Bloggers creating image-rich content</li>
<li>Anyone needing a professional image gallery</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔥 Features</h3>
<h4>Gallery Styles</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Grid View</strong>: Clean, organized grid layout</li>
<li><strong>Masonry View</strong>: Pinterest-style cascading layout</li>
<li><strong>List View</strong>: Sequential list with image descriptions</li>
<li><strong>Slider Carousel</strong>: Interactive slideshow with navigation</li>
<li><strong>Justified View</strong>: Balanced rows with varying image heights</li>
<li><strong>Spotlight View</strong>: Featured image with supporting thumbnails</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customization Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show/hide search functionality</li>
<li>Enable/disable image captions</li>
<li>Social sharing buttons</li>
<li>Slideshow auto-rotation</li>
<li>Customizable slideshow intervals</li>
<li>Hover effects and animations</li>
</ul>
<h4>Management Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-save settings</li>
<li>Export settings to JSON file</li>
<li>Import settings from backup</li>
<li>Reset to default settings</li>
<li>SweetAlert confirmations for actions</li>
</ul>
<h3>📚 Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>soft-photo-gallery</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Navigate to ‘Photo Galleries’ in your WordPress admin to create your first gallery</li>
<li>Use the provided shortcode to display galleries on any page or post</li>
</ol>
<h3>📖 How to Use</h3>
<h4>Creating a Gallery</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Photo Galleries <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Add New</strong> in your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Give your gallery a title</li>
<li>Click <strong>Add Images</strong> to upload or select images from your media library</li>
<li>Add descriptions for each image (optional)</li>
<li>Configure gallery settings:
<ul>
<li>Choose your preferred gallery style</li>
<li>Enable/disable slideshow for slider view</li>
<li>Set slideshow interval (if enabled)</li>
<li>Show/hide search functionality</li>
<li>Enable/disable image captions</li>
<li>Add social sharing buttons</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Publish your gallery</li>
</ol>
<h4>Displaying Galleries</h4>
<p>Use the shortcode provided in the gallery editor or use:</p>
<pre><code>[photo_gallery id="123"]
</code></pre>
<p>Replace “123” with your actual gallery ID. You can also add additional parameters:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>style</code> – Override the default gallery style</li>
<li><code>search</code> – Enable/disable search (true/false)</li>
<li><code>slideshow</code> – Enable/disable slideshow (true/false)</li>
</ul>
<p>Example: <code>[photo_gallery id="123" style="masonry" search="true"]</code></p>
<h4>Managing Settings</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Photo Galleries <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Tools</strong> to access plugin settings</li>
<li>Configure default gallery style and global options</li>
<li>Use the Tools section to:
<ul>
<li>Enable auto-save for settings</li>
<li>Export your current settings</li>
<li>Import settings from another site</li>
<li>Reset all settings to defaults</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Additional Information</h3>
<p><strong>Contributions:</strong><br />
We welcome contributions! If you’d like to contribute to the development of Soft Photo Gallery, please check out the <a href="https://github.com/mdakashahmed/soft-photo-gallery" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Privacy:</strong><br />
This plugin does not collect any user data or personal information. All gallery data is stored locally on your WordPress site.</p>
<p><strong>Credits:</strong><br />
Thanks to all contributors and users who have helped improve Soft Photo Gallery through their feedback and suggestions.</p>


Soft Photo Gallery

Advanced photo gallery with multiple display styles, search functionality, and extensive customization options.

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Imagely

<h4>WordPress Gallery Plugin</h4>
<p>NextGEN Gallery has been the industry’s standard <strong>WordPress gallery plugin</strong> since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It’s easy to use for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals who need a comprehensive photo gallery solution.</p>
<p>NextGEN Gallery offers complete WordPress gallery management with the ability to batch upload photos, import metadata, easily add, delete, rearrange photos and create an unlimited number of galleries. You can even simply provide a zip file or choose a folder to upload photos.</p>
<p>But our photo gallery plugin doesn’t stop there!</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NextGEN Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the lite version of the NextGEN Gallery plugin, which offers all the gallery features you’ll need like photo albums, lightboxes, backups, search, sharing, filtering, print fulfillment, eCommerce, animations,  and tons more. <a href="https://www.imagely.com?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The free version of NextGEN gallery provides three main gallery styles (slideshow, thumbnail, and imagebrowser galleries) and two album styles (compact and extended), all of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more. Learn more about <a href="https://www.imagely.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">NextGEN WordPress Gallery Plugin features.</a></p>
<p>The best gets better with full support for the Gutenberg block editor. Now you can add a photo gallery or album anywhere on your site, with a page builder type feel directly in the WordPress editor. We truly make creating, building, and editing galleries easy.</p>
<h4>Feature List</h4>
<p>We’ve built NextGEN Gallery to be extremely powerful and full of features.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Albums</strong> Organize multiple photo galleries into albums for easy sorting and viewing</li>
<li><strong>Tags</strong> Group multiple images together with tags, with easy-to-update renaming and management</li>
<li><strong>eCommerce</strong> Sell images from your photo gallery, or sell entire galleries with our built in payment processing. Works with Stripe and PayPal.</li>
<li><strong>Slideshows</strong> Make your galleries automatically rotate through a series of images</li>
<li><strong>Themes</strong> Access 84+ different types of themes to showcase your galleries</li>
<li><strong>Animations</strong> Create visual interest with 25+ different types of animations for each gallery</li>
<li><strong>Watermarks</strong> Protect your work with image and text-based watermarks.</li>
<li><strong>Capabilities</strong> Customize who can read, edit, and publish galleries with refined permsisions controls</li>
<li><strong>Image Proofing</strong> Let your customers choose which photos to purchase and improve your workflow.</li>
<li><strong>Print Fulfillment</strong> Sell your photos and ship prints directly to customers with automated print lab fulfillment and zero commissions</li>
<li><strong>Auto Tax calculations</strong> Automatically calculate sales tax when required for your customers.</li>
<li><strong>Coupons</strong> Offer discounts and incentives to increase your gallery sales</li>
<li><strong>Lightroom Integration</strong> Automatically sync and create photo galleries from Adobe Lightroom into NextGEN Gallery without any need to update your website.</li>
<li><strong>Social Sharing</strong> Create viral social media opportunities when your images are optimized for Open Graph and X</li>
<li><strong>Image Commenting</strong> * Add deep engagement to your images within the lightbox to increase gallery engagement</li>
<li><strong>Deep Linking</strong> Link directly to a specific image from one of your galleries</li>
<li><strong>Frontend Search</strong> * Add powerful filtering for your gallery based on tags</li>
<li><strong>Hover Captions</strong> * Add social sharing, tiles, and descriptions for each image</li>
<li><strong>Digital Downloads</strong> Offer digital downloads of your images for free, or chage for them with our eCommerce gallery plugin</li>
<li><strong>Right Click Disable</strong> prevent images in your galleries from being downloaded with easy right click and drag/drop protection.</li>
<li><strong>Customization</strong> * We’ve built in lots of individual customizations for each of our features so that you can make NextGEN Gallery perfect for you</li>
</ul>
<p>As you can see, we’ve built a photo gallery plugin that is suitable for everyone! Want a specific or missing feature? Just let us know.</p>
<p><strong>NEXTGEN GALLERY DEMOS</strong><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/basic-thumbnail-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic Thumbnail Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/basic-slideshow-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic Slideshow Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/basic-imagebrowser-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic Imagebrowser Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/basic-compact-album/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic Compact Album</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/basic-extended-album/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic List Album</a></p>
<p><strong>NEXTGEN PRO DEMOS</strong><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-ecommerce-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Photo Print Sales</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-proofing-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Photo Proofing</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/digital-download-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Downloads</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-mosaic-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Mosaic Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-masonry-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Masonry Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-tiled-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Tile Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-filmstrip-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Filmstrip Gallery</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/pro-lightbox-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox</a></p>
<h4>About Imagely</h4>
<p>NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin maintained by Imagely. We’re the WordPress photography experts. In addition to NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Plus, and NextGEN Pro, we also make WordPress themes for photographers, providing beautiful turnkey websites for photographers.</p>
<p>Learn more or connect with us:<br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Imagely Website</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-photography-themes?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes for Photographers</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/sites?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Turnkey Photography Sites</a><br />
*<a href="https://www.imagely.com/docs/nextgen-gallery?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">NextGEN Gallery Documentation</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Copyright: Imagely 2016-2024</p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>NextGEN Gallery offers an easy-to-use Insert Gallery Window, which means you never need to work with shortcodes again when inserting and manageing galleries – if you would prefer not too.</p>
<p>If you do want to work with shortcodes, there is a powerful shortcode system as you’d expect of a popular WordPress gallery plugin. <a href="https://www.imagely.com/docs/nextgen-gallery-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn About NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes</a>.</p>
<p>For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery <a href="https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Gallery Plugin</a>.</p>


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We recently had a plugin conflict with Rank Math, but we were able to get a prompt response from support letting us know that our issue has been identified and will be fixed in the following update.


Support is responsive


Great plugin, except for one part.The "Manage Album" page gets really slow with many albums. We have 612 albums and 2491 galleries. And it takes a few minutes to load.But luckily the functions are quite accessible within our own plugin, therefore we don't use the official backend anymore. 



The support is helpful and fast.


Great plugin and easy to customize

The most popular gallery plugin that lets you create galleries and albums in seconds.

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