Wordpress Development : Best Photo and Image Gallery WordPress Plugins
if you are looking to add a few images to your blog, WordPress has more than a few plugins ready to help you get it done. From image enhancements to full photo blogging power, here are the ten best photo and image related plugins for WordPress.
NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
Flickr Photo Album – This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.
Shutter Reloaded – Darkens the current page and displays an image on top (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.
Random Image Selector – Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides.
Yet Another Photoblog – Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.
Lightbox 2 – Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.
Thumbnail Viewer – A minimalist image viewer with an effect similar to Lightbox JS, only much faster with a whole lot less Javascript.
PhotoXhibit – PhotoXhibit provides an interface to set up gallery widgets using Picasa / Flickr / SmugMug / Wordpress Uploads and jQuery.
Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.
Cincopa WordPress Plugin – Cincopa Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable image gallery, slideshows, video and music playlists anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your videos, images and music and display skin, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a rotating thumbnail belts. It supports iPhone/iPod and smart phones.
WP Photo Album – This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your Wordpress site. It gives you the option to setup albums and categories – and upload photos via the Wordpress backend.
Picasna Wordpress Plugin-Picasna enables you to present your photos in a stylish and easy-to-browse way on your Wordpress Blog. You can upload photos unswervingly to Picasa Web Albums and they will emerge on your web page in seconds.
SuperSlider-Show-SuperSlider-Show is your Animated show plugin that uses Mootools 1.2 javascript to replace your gallery with a Slideshow. Highly configurable, theme based design, css based animations, auto minithumbnail creation. Shortcode system on post and page screens to make each slideshow unique. Degrades gracefully with javascript turned off, or plugin removed / disabled.
Lightbox Gallery Plugin-This plugin changes the view of galleries to the Lightbox view and also displays the associated metadata with the images. The caption for each image is viewed through a tooltip when you hover your mouse on a thumbnail.
Media Library Gallery-Media Library Gallery automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment. It supports thickbox as well.
PhotoSmash Galleries-PhotoSmash Galleries plugin allows you to create user contributable photo galleries in WordPress posts and pages with extensive options. It lets you control who can upload images: Admin only, Authors & Contributors or registered users and higher. You can receive email alerts for new images that need to be moderated.