Best media gallery plugins for WordPress
The most popular media gallery plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Media Item URL leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of Taghound Media Tagger (60+) and WP Media Size (20+). All 10 plugins tagged “media gallery” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 media gallery plugins
- 1.
Media Item URLThe most installed media gallery plugin, with 100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.0.
- 2.
Taghound Media Tagger60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
WP Media Size20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 4.
Image Gallery Import10+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 5.
Random Post Thumbnail10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 6.
Simple Video Directory10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 7.
WPMK PortfolioFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 8.
Simple SC GalleryFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 9.
PEAL333 Infinite Picture GalleryFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 10.
LazyLoad Post GalleryFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 10 plugins tagged “media gallery”
Media Item URL
Down in the last 7 days:23#14,715by Andrew Norcross10 years ago
Get the full attachment URL from the media row table without opening item.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taghound Media Tagger
Down in the last 7 days:193#19,631by Josh Larson9 years ago
Automatically tag and search images in your media library using Clarifai's object recognition API.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Media Size
Down in the last 7 days:27#28,119by Matt Pritchett9 years ago
This adds a column in the WordPress Media Gallery list page with the filesize.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Image Gallery Import
Down in the last 7 days:284#30,076by wptrack12 years ago
This plugin takes remote page, examines its content and lists all found images for your choice.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Post Thumbnail
#34,532by JohnnyPea15 years ago
Easy way to add random featured images to your posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Video Directory
Down in the last 7 days:1,010#34,705by QuantumCloud1 year ago
Wordpress Video Directory plugin to curate topic based media gallery. Curate gorgeous video Directory, Video List, Video Gallery, Video Portfolio etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMK Portfolio
Up in the last 7 days:16,931#51,811by WPMK5 years ago
This Plugin will provide you to add portfolio, media gallery into your wordpress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple SC Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:9,171#63,294by Sergiy Voloshchenko2 years ago
A simple plugin that uses the shortcode [simple-sc-gallery ids="1,2,3"], where ids are the IDs of the images in your WordPress media library.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PEAL333 Infinite Picture Gallery
#69,898by Panupan Sriautharawong1 month ago
Create image and video collections in WordPress and present them in a configurable, responsive gallery with seamless infinite scrolling.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LazyLoad Post Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:947#72,004by webstartup9 years ago
This plugin adds a lightbox to the native galleries of WordPress articles.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day