Best photography plugins for WordPress
The most popular photography plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Lightbox leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Meow Lightbox (10K+) and Easy Photography Portfolio (2K+). All 67 plugins tagged “photography” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 photography plugins
- 1.
Simple LightboxThe most installed photography plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 239 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Meow Lightbox10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 191 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Easy Photography Portfolio2K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 30 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 4.
picu2K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 55 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Ultimate Watermark1K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 11 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 6.
Bulk Images to Posts1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 18 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Visual Bible Verse of the Day Widget1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Fullscreen Galleria800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 15 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.
Village Client Area200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 10.
Unlimited Photos200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
All 67 plugins tagged “photography”
Simple Lightbox
#331by Archetyped2 months ago
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(239)
- Downloads
- 396/day
Meow Lightbox
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,979by Jordy Meow12 days ago
The elegant lightbox built for photographers. Fast, responsive, and displays your photos beautifully with EXIF data and maps. You'll love it! 💕
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(191)
- Downloads
- 272/day
Easy Photography Portfolio
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,321by justnorris5 years ago
Easy Photography Portfolio is an elegant portfolio gallery plugin designed for Photographers. Install the plugin, add portfolio entries and galleries …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.6(30)
- Downloads
- 17/day
picu
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,934by picu1 month ago
Photo proofing for professional photographers: Send a collection of photographs to your clients for approval.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.7(55)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Ultimate Watermark
Up in the last 7 days:22#6,418by MantraBrain24 days ago
Watermark images with text or a logo: automatic, bulk or tiled. WooCommerce & Dokan ready, with backups and one-click restore of every original.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.3(11)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Bulk Images to Posts
Down in the last 7 days:32#6,665by mezzaninegold1 month ago
Bulk upload images and automatically create one WordPress post per image, with featured images, titles and categories ready to go.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(18)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Visual Bible Verse of the Day Widget
Up in the last 7 days:19#6,913by karl.kranich2 months ago
Six days a week a new photo and scripture reference will appear from The Visual Bible Verse of the Day at visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Fullscreen Galleria
Down in the last 7 days:6#7,394by pdamsten3 months ago
A simple fullscreen gallery to Wordpress
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(15)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Village Client Area
Up in the last 7 days:2#11,697by justnorris10 years ago
A client area plugin for Photographers
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Unlimited Photos
Down in the last 7 days:41#12,200by Kevin Batdorf2 months ago
Search from millions of stock photos, textures, wallpapers, and more.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LC Lightbox Lite
Up in the last 7 days:28#13,514by LCweb8 days ago
Give your website a modern image viewer in just one click. Responsive, customizable and free.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
CTCL Image Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:108#14,325by UjW0L1 month ago
A responsive image gallery block with thumbnail navigation, refined captions, and a fullscreen CTC overlay viewer.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
ShutterPress Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:126#14,356by ShutterPress29 days ago
WordPress gallery plugin for photographers. Create fast, responsive image galleries with Masonry, Justified, Grid, Lightbox, and Infinite Scroll.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Selective Image Guard
Up in the last 7 days:99#15,698by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
Protect your images from unauthorized downloads and scraping.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Gravity Forms Light Blue API Add-On
Down in the last 7 days:22#16,594by TomCatchesides3 months ago
Send information directly from your Gravity Forms forms to your Light Blue account.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FCP Lightest Lightbox
Up in the last 7 days:10#16,705by FirmCatalyst2 years ago
Super lightweight Lighbox for WordPress
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bannerspace Slideshow
Down in the last 7 days:104#17,538by THRIVE - Web Design Gold Coast11 years ago
A banner plugin for WordPress powered by the jQuery Cycle Plugin.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Simple lightGallery
Down in the last 7 days:241#18,314by Savvas1 month ago
An integration of lightGallery JavaScript v1 and v2 to WordPress
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Copytrack
Down in the last 7 days:379#18,940by Jordy Meow4 years ago
Copytrack detects where your images has been used on the web and assist you in the legal process, for free. This plugin will upload your Media Library …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customer Cloud Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:1,030#21,248by smartsteve7 days ago
Connect Dropbox or Google Drive and create beautiful photo and video galleries — fast downloads, favorites, password protection. Sell prints with Pro.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Essential Foto Just for JetPack
Down in the last 7 days:276#21,390by Creative Graphic Solutions.BIZ9 years ago
Simplify JetPack's Gallery Carousel and display photos in full screen, (desktop or mobile). Works with JetPack, Gallery Carousel Without JetPack, or similar plugin.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP iSell Photo
Down in the last 7 days:89#21,591by wpecommerce10 years ago
Easily Sell photos, images, digital print etc. using the built-in WordPress gallery feature. Convert your WordPress gallery into a photo store.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Photography Core
Down in the last 7 days:15#23,943by Jordy Meow7 years ago
Photography Core is the heart of the themes made for image lovers. Features are the API, helpers, Gutenberg blocks, Lightroom, etc.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ATR Global Price Options for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:83#25,993by yehudaT1 year ago
Add global price options by category to Woocommerce products.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
IG Portfolio
Down in the last 7 days:120#27,852by iografica10 years ago
IG Portfolio is a clean and easy-to-use portfolio plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fidgetr
Down in the last 7 days:72#28,067by reaperhulk16 years ago
A simple and beautiful Flickr widget that supports themes.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Zone Marker
#32,813by Andy1 year ago
Enables a user to highlight on a map a given area for submission via email to the website admin. Useful for aerial photography or boundary knowledge.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Simple Portfolio
Up in the last 7 days:265#32,917by Michael Gakuran11 years ago
Adds a portfolio custom post type to any WordPress website, with support for the Genesis framework.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PhotoProof
Down in the last 7 days:1,817#33,277by stoeck5 months ago
Self-hosted gallery proofing for photographers. Share galleries with your clients, let them pick their favorite photos, get the selection back as CSV …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PhotoPress
Up in the last 7 days:85#34,252by padams12 years ago
Adds a shortcode to display a gallery of the latest images uploaded to the Media Library.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cleio Toolbox
#36,255by Cleio&Co12 years ago
Cleio ToolBox is packed with nifty widgets and shortcodes that will cover all the basics of blogging... and more!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Light Blue API for ProPhoto Plug-in
Up in the last 7 days:3,245#36,696by TomCatchesides7 years ago
Send information directly from your ProPhoto 5 contact form to your Light Blue account.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Basic Protected Lightbox
#36,860by justincardoza6 years ago
A lightweight, simple lightbox with basic image protection capabilities.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dynamic-Photo-Album
Down in the last 7 days:2,838#38,447dynamic-photo-album16 years ago
This plugin creates a small photo album in the sidebar of your weblog and shows thumbnails of your photos using visual effects (javascript).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
htaccess Watermark
#40,932by ip436812 years ago
This plugin allows to add a watermark on your images uploaded.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
iLoveIMG Watermark
#41,751by iLovePDF6 months ago
Protect your images with automatic, easy-to-use watermarking.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.8(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SmugBuy
#42,195by chrismartino15 years ago
A plugin to automatically insert SmugMug "buy" links into wordpress posts and pages using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ShootQ for Contact Form 7
#42,221by wakeless15 years ago
This adds ShootQ integration to all Contact Form 7 forms on a blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Queensberry Workspace Blog Interface
Down in the last 7 days:1,044#44,491by stephenbaugh13 years ago
This plugin allows content (Slideshows and Story Boards) hosted on Queensberry Workspace to be integrated into your blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vetrogram
Down in the last 7 days:1,583#46,521by vetrotheme10 years ago
Vetrogram is a plugin for presenting your latest instagram posts in Wordpress. No need for your login details, API key, etc. Only by Username!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Merging Image Boxes
Down in the last 7 days:8,049#46,629by GraphicEdit8 years ago
Merging Image Boxes
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Portrait-Archiv Photostore
Up in the last 7 days:527#46,955by Thomas Schiffler1 month ago
Sell your photos from WordPress: create client galleries, set your own prices, and let customers order prints, wall art and downloads.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Media Tagz Gallery
#47,487by Murphy10 years ago
Media Tagz Gallery extends the Media Tags plugin to provide a simple, lightweight image gallery
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rado's Native Lightbox
Down in the last 7 days:9,399#47,624by radogado5 months ago
Transforms WordPress galleries into lightweight lightbox carousels. Works with any theme — only ~13 KB.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Photos Flickr
Down in the last 7 days:3,267#48,448by dannyman18 years ago
Photos Flickr provides for basic browsing of a Flickr photo stream from within a WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Photo Competition Manager
#49,105by Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)8 months ago
Complete photography club competition platform. Handle submissions, member voting, public voting, email notifications, and beautiful results displays.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SunnyTracker Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:16,016#50,997by SunnyTracker1 month ago
Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour for photographers, moon phase and eclipse countdowns for 175,000 cities – as blocks, shortcodes and widgets.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lichtbild Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:1,896#55,525by tstone19 days ago
Photo galleries that look composed and load quickly. Free, with no account, no tracking and nothing held back for a paid tier.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
My WP Photos
#56,203by mdburnette8 months ago
Display your WordPress Photo Directory photos as a shortcode or Gutenberg block gallery.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PhotoEZ Lite
Up in the last 7 days:13,736#56,523by ejstech2 months ago
Free client photo proofing for photographers. Create watermarked proof galleries and let clients submit their favorite selections.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day