Best gallery plugins for WordPress
The most popular gallery plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. FooGallery Photo Gallery leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Modula Image Gallery (100K+) and Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid (20K+). All 13 plugins tagged “Gallery Plugin” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 gallery plugins
- 1.
FooGallery Photo GalleryThe most installed gallery plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 997 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Modula Image Gallery100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 617 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 3.Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 353 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Pixel Gallery Addons for Elementor4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 5 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.Gallery PhotoBlocks
3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 76 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.
MaxGalleria1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 65 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.Responsive Image Gallery
40+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 14 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 8.
WP Fancy Gallery20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago.
- 9.WP Portfolio Gallery
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 10.
Scattered Polaroid Image Gallery10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 13 plugins tagged “Gallery Plugin”

FooGallery Photo Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:3#299by FooPlugins20 days ago
Create responsive photo, image and masonry galleries in WordPress with FooGallery, plus carousel, lightbox, albums, SEO and video gallery support.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(997)
- Downloads
- 1.4K/day

Modula Image Gallery
#382by WP Chill2 days ago
Build photo galleries in a visual editor. Free MCP support lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor create galleries and write your image alt text.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(617)
- Downloads
- 2.7K/day
Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,376by WP Chill1 month ago
Image Gallery + Photo Gallery + Portfolio Gallery + Tiled Gallery in 1 plugin. Includes lightbox and hover effects. It supports Pinterest (masonry) ph …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(353)
- Downloads
- 136/day

Pixel Gallery Addons for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,347by bdthemes12 days ago
Pixel Gallery is an Elementor gallery plugin for creating responsive image and portfolio grids with customizable layouts and effects.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 104/day
Gallery PhotoBlocks
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,936by WP Chill16 days ago
Design your personal image gallery or photo gallery or even a portfolio using a handy builder. Add stunning effects to your grid and always justified …
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(76)
- Downloads
- 67/day

MaxGalleria
Up in the last 7 days:7#5,077by maxfoundry1 month ago
Responsive WordPress Gallery plugin with built in Slider and Lightbox
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(65)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Responsive Image Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:131#22,384by Sajesh Bahing6 years ago
This plugin is the combination of collagePlus jquery image gallery and Photobox image gallery. This plugin is responsive and always fits your screen w …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.4(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Fancy Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:217#25,969by hireukraineco8 years ago
Image Gallery + Photo Gallery + Portfolio Gallery + Title + Description + Tiled Gallery in 1 plugin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Portfolio Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:292#32,718by Liton Arefin3 years ago
WP Portfolio Gallery is Awesome Filterable Portfolio Gallery type WordPress Plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Scattered Polaroid Image Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:2,387#44,099by BlueLevel10 years ago
Scattered Polaroids Image Gallery is free gallery plugin with CSS3 3D transforms which scatters the images as polaroids throughout the given section.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Photo Gallery Plus
Up in the last 7 days:6,908#57,451by thewpgeeks9 years ago
Photo Gallery Plugin can be used to create a gallery widget, media gallery, image gallery, portfolio gallery and photo albums.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ely
#57,937by Sabri6 years ago
Create awesome, elegant and perfect galleries easily in wordpress. Ely Gallery is a super fun and easy to use plugin. you can create your galleries fr …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Nowy Widget for WordPress
#67,631by Nowy Inc3 years ago
The Nowy Widget plugin allows you to create, manage, edit, and customize new Nowy app social content posts gallery layout.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day