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.

rbplugins

<p>Photo Gallery for WordPress – plugin with easy to customize interface. Very attractive hover animation effects. Out photo gallery is fully responsive and support all mobile touch screen devices. With our plugin you can create photo gallery with classical square thumbnail or thumbnails grid. In our plugin implemented modern, very stylish lightbox with dark and light themes.<br />
Photo grid have advanced media manager where you can easily upload photo. Main features of the photo manager: ordering, scaling, upload. Also it’s have and additional parameters for every photo gallery. With our plugin you can publish photo gallery on the front end widget or in post/page with plugin shortcode.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Photo grid with multiply layouts;</li>
<li>Build-in lightbox functionality;</li>
<li>Thumbnails view configuration;</li>
<li>Simple and stylable interface;</li>
<li>Possible to publish gallery in widget;</li>
<li>Publish your gallery on post/page with shortcode;</li>
<li>Responsive photo layout;</li>
<li>Hover animation effect;</li>
<li>Mobile devices support;</li>
</ul>
<p>Build-in ligthbox provide very effective and stylish photo gallery interface. In lightbox  we have implemented stylish interface with additional navigation elements. You can use left/right arrow to change current photo from the album list.</p>
<p>Support of the categories implemented in our photo gallery. With multiply categories is it possible to create menu on top of the thumbnails on the photo gallery front end.<br />
All images have additional parameters like title, description and link.</p>
<p>With media manager it’s possible to manually sort photo gallery images. When you edit resources in media manager it’s possible to change title, description. Make linked images in lightbox with photo gallery option.</p>
<p>Photo gallery modes: photo gallery with lightbox, photo gallery with video, photo gallery with linked images, photo gallery grid, photo gallery portfolio, photo gallery matrix, mansory photo gallery, animated photo gallery.</p>
<p>If you have some questions or problems with our photo gallery feel free to contact our support team. We also really appreciate if you send some features requests which you need in our photo gallery. Post your request in our support section or you can send email with your request.</p>
<h3>WordPress Photo Gallery Guide</h3>
<p>Photo gallery grid layouts</p>
<p>Our photo gallery have different thumbnails layout modes for the page. In photo gallery settings you can easily change layout of the images on front end with images mode option. This function switch between classical layout of the images and some photo gallery grid modifications. Images of the photo galley could have masonry layout or classic thumbnails with the same spacing and size between images. For the spacing between photo gallery thumbnails implemented different offset options. We have horizontal and vertical offset for general thumbnails block of the photo gallery. Also we have horizontal and vertical spacing between thumbnals of the photo gallery.</p>
<p>Photo gallery navigation</p>
<p>Navigation in our plugin implemented with multi level menu. All photo gallery categories could have unlimited amount of the child category. In photo gallery settings you can select parent category for every item. Every photo gallery have main, title image. When you open some photo gallery with some sub categories inside you can see list of the sub categories with title photos and list of the images of the current photo gallery. Top nagiation menu of the photo gallery show buttons linked to current category and to the sub categories, configured in back end. Navigation have tree and list view modes. Size of the photo gallery navigation buttons could be selected between extra small, small, normal and large size buttons. By default photo gallery menu have seven configured colors: gray, blue, dark blue, green, orange, red, link. Link options in photo gallery menu colors turn on mode where menu buttons show in styles implemented in selected wordpress theme. Position of the navigation menu could be changed with navigation offset option which help change position of the menu buttons on top of the photo gallery.</p>
<p>Photo gallery images manager</p>
<p>Our plugin have very comfortable tool for photo gallery resources management. When you open photo gallery settings on right side you can find images manager button. With this tool you can easily upload, configure or remove photo gallery images. Images manager have differnt modes for upload of the photo gallery resources. Every images have panel with additional parameters on right side of the manager interface. On this section is it possible to define link for every image, link to the video resources. Resources manager make you able to sort photo gallery images in drag and drop modes.</p>
<p>Photo gallery setup view</p>
<p>View of the photo gallery is highly customizable. Front end photo gallery view consist of few main elements: thumbnails block, top navigation menu, breadcrumbs menu, move up button. Every photo gallery interface menu have set of the configuration settings. Style of the all photo gallery interface elements created with the same view. When you switch colors fo the interface of hte photo gallery all this changes apply for all parts at once. Colors of the backgrounds could be changed in photo gallery settings. Hovered animation design also could be easily changed in photo gallery settings.</p>
<p>Photo gallery links/videos</p>
<p>All photo gallery images have link and video link options. Link option could be find in images manager of the photo gallery.  When you open image manager of the photo gallery and select some image on the right side you can see additional parameters. In additional parameters fields you can find link option where possible to define different, custom link for every image of the photo gallery. Additional parameter for the link option it’s target blank field. With enabled target blank option link of the photo gallery image open up in new window. Below link option we have video link option. In video link option of the photo gallery possible to define link to the vimeo video or youtube video.</p>


Photo Gallery RB

Photo gallery plugin with clean interface. Wide range of the photo gallery settings. Easy photo upload and sorting tools.

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